Less is more.

Surprisingly good and tender.

What's not to like?!

I love Christina Ricci, but this movie is utterly idiotic. Utterly!

very very well done. I was impressed on how well it was shot. the angles were very artistic. The makeup and costumes created a great effect on the characters, and the director wasn't afraid to lead the plot into unexpected twists and turns. Great movie and very suspensful

Agree -- for kids this is not a turkey and normal adults shouldn't be watching it. I can't help liking Owen Wilson, doesn't matter what crap he's in.

Very savage and morally heavy duty stuff. But I loved it.

Kind of a quirky European style movie. Those Ukrainians can act!

read the book. Its better, and far more indulgently sociopathic

it really creeps me out that this is based on true stories...

Disappointing pointless dribble.

Thanks Jen! School of Rock was very cool, I'm not fully a fan but School of Rock 2 sounds vomit inducing. Purely based in the knowledge that recreating memories and emotions is not an easy trick to pull. But they want to cash in so go ahead and blow it. Hey! The last Batman was better than the last! God i need Rainer Werner Fassbinder...

I saw the stage play in the UK and it was rather OK but sort of embarrassing. Maybe this flick is the same?

Rather sick inducing.

This barely got a NOT. It was a lot of fun but I think it failed slightly in the follow through. Enjoyable but not as good as it could have been. The Bateman rules.

Loved it is a weird sort of way.

Still great fun! highly recommended.

Great flick to watch again this summer!

You can’t hit a movie site without reading about Hellboy II’s amazing opening weekend at $34.5 Million, yet the big red hero took in only $2 Million more than trash-talkin’ flyboy Hancock in its second weekend. However, it is a great start for a movie NOT starring Will Smith. Amazingly, Brendan Fraser’s Mummy 3 warm-up, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, is in the number 3 spot taking in $21 Mil and the adorable Wall.E is in 4th place with another $18.8 million taking its total up to a whopping $163 Million so far. That’s not even counting merchandise, potential DVD sales and happy meals! Wanted takes out the number 5 slot adding another $12 Mil to its total while elsewhere in the world its star, Angelina Jolie, gave birth to two very lucky twins, a boy and a girl.

Opening this week in the U.S. animated wonder Space Chimps, odd drama Transsiberian and of course, mega blockbuster action film The Dark Knight starring Heath Ledger in his last completed role. I really can’t wait to see this tomorrow and I’ll give you guys a hint about what I thought next week.

In the news, that gossip guy Perez Hilton claims that Vampires are IN. He could be right with the stars of new vamp saga Twilight gracing the cover of Entertainment Weekly. The book series has a large following and if the trailer is anything to go buy, the adaptation won’t be too bad. US television channel HBO will premiere a vamp based series called True Blood, also based on novels, in September where the bloodsuckers have come out into the open thanks to a new technology which allows them to survive on synthetic blood instead of folks like you and me. Oscar winner Anna Paquin (Rogue from X-Men) will star.

Thankfully that ugly rumor about a Friends movie has been thwarted. People close to the show claim it’s just idle talk. I know last week I wrote I wasn’t pleased about the idea but you know, it’s lame, but I kind of miss those guys. So many nights were spent hanging out with Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey and Ross. I even liked Ross. Amazing.

These days my tastes are a bit more on the macabre side with Dexter filling my TV screen the last few weeks. I’m delighted they chose not to make the book, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, into a movie. Not enough time to flesh out all the characters…pardon the pun. However, I do have hopes the final season will culminate in a full length feature film.

Here are some other cool things that happened last week in movies:

· Robert Downy Jr. was announced as Guy Ritchie’s pick for the Sherlock Holmes movie. He kicks A** at being Iron Man but a British accent? Can he do that?
· Speaking of Iron Man, Jon Favreau sorted out his money issues with Marvel studios who reportedly offered a heftier sum. (So they should)
· Joss Whedon has signed on to do A Cabin in the Woods which he describes as “genius”
· Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Inglorious Bastards, reportedly a WWII action tale, is finally moving ahead with shooting due to being this October
· Cult comic Elfquest is set to become a Warner Bros. feature after several reported failed attempts.
· UK’s notorious serial killer The Yorkshire Ripper to be immortalised in film reports Variety

(sources: http://www.darkhorizons.com, http://www.imdb.com)

That’s this week in movies! If you’d like to include any news here please email info@jenreviewsmovies.com . You can check out more from Jenni at her blog: http://www.jenreviewsmovies.com . Jenni assures you her obsession with Dexter will not lead to the sharpening of household cutlery.

Get a divorce.

Pretty cool indy stuff.

Worthless.

I hope they never find her.

"Sometimes what you lose is not as important as what you find".

Directed by Jonathan Levine and starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley and Olivia Thirlby.

Set in New York City, 1994: College-bound pot dealer Luke Shapiro (Peck) trades weed for therapy sessions with Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Kingsley) while developing a crush on his psychiatrist's step-daughter (Thirlby).