Juno

Rated PG13 for teen sexuality, language

Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, and JK Simmons

Juno (Page) is your typical high school teen - she plays guitar, hangs out with her best friends and has a hamburger phone. Bored while hanging out with her best guy pal (Cera) one afternoon, they decide to have sex. A little while later, she finds out shes pregnant. At first she decides she'll just get an abortion and be done with it, but once she gets to the clinic, she freaks out and decides that maybe an adoption would be better, as she's much too young to raise a kid.

It's a sweet light comedy about teenage pregnancy and adoption. Her parents, while shocked at first when she tells them the news (her dad retorts he had hoped the bad news was that she was failing school or on drugs) they are very supportive and understanding about the whole ordeal.

It's directed by Arrested Developement's Jason Bateman and the Oscar-nominated screenplay is a first by former stripper Diablo Cody who's blog was what got her noticed.

Cloverfield

Rated PG13 for violence, language

What would happen if a giant monster started destroying Manhattan out of nowhere?

Well in JJ Abrams' Cloverfield it pretty much gives you an account of what it could be like.

Think Blair Witch meets Godzilla.

We're introduced at the very beginning, a la home video style, to Beth and Rob. Then fast forward the tape to a month later and we learn that Rob is leaving for job in Japan and his brother Jason and Jason's girlfriend Lily are planning a huge surprise going away party for him. Lily tells Jason his job is to spend the night documenting the party and capturing people's goodbyes to Rob on video, sort of like they do at weddings. Jason doesn't want though and suckers Rob's best friend Hud into doing the job all night.

Drama ensues at the party and then all hell breaks lose after midnight. Scrambling to find out what's going on and escape the city together, Hud captures the entire night of chaos on film.

While it's an interesting way to film a godzilla-type movie, it does feel very realistic. The dialogue reminds me of some of my friends and how we would react in that type of situation, as well as it just makes you feel like you're there as it's happening with the first person point of view. Only thing nice is that you're not running out of breath or running for your life.

If you don't like 'shakey cam' or get motion sickness easily I'd suggest skipping this one - first time I saw it i was fine, but then the 2nd time I ate a bunch of nachos at the beginning and started to feel them a bit later on...

27 Dresses

Jane (Katherine Heigl) loves being a bridesmaid. She loves all the wedding planning and assistance that goes with the job of maid of honor and does everything she can to make sure the couple's day is the happiest. Jane is also madly in love with her boss, George. But when kid sister Tess starts seeing George under false pretenses and then they get engaged, it makes things ackward for Jane. Wanting to be there for her sister and fullfill her duties as the happy bridesmaid she's supposed to be, she has a hard time sitting back and watching Tess lie to the man she loves. On top of that, she has the newspaper Commitment's reporter (James Marsden) 'stalking' her.What's a girl to do?

Written by the same crew that did "Devil Wears Prada," it was a cute girly, wedding movie. Predicatible no doubt, but cute nonetheless.

Jumper

Rated PG13 for violence

Starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson

In this one, Hayden Christensen learns in his early jr high/high school years that he can 'jump' from one place to another, so long as he can visual the place he's 'jumping' to. Using this ability, he's able to travel the world. Lunch in Paris, surfing in Fiji, drinking in Ireland, relaxing in the sun in Egypt. And that's not even a full day! Turns out though, he's not the only one of his kind and there are those that don't think his kind should exist.

Apparently, there's an entire backstory/prequel that explains things a bit more in the books/graphic novels, than the movie let's you know. It was a fun action/adventure movie, but only if you take it at face value. Once you start including logic, you'll find a lot of unanswered questions and things that don't quite make sense the more you think about them. But was pretty clever for being just a fun entertaining film.

Definitely, Maybe

Rated PG13 for language, sexuality

Starring Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin, Elizabeth Banks, Isla Fischer

Ryan Reynolds is William Hayes who finds himself being served divorce papers. Every week he spends several days with his pre-teen daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin, who's really starting to look like she's growing up). One night, she inquires as to how her dad and mom ended up together and what went wrong. In the process, we flashback to 1992, as Will relives his 3 serious love interests, although changing the names along the way, so Maya has to guess which one ended up being her mother: his college sweetheart "Emily", the smart seductive writer "Summer", and the loyal best friend through thick and thin "April".

It's the cute clever Valentine's Day movie for 2008. If it were 10-20 years ago, John Cusack would have been playing the main character. Personally, I thought it hit a bit too close to home, especially when it came to Will and April, as she's been the loyal friend wanting to be the girlfriend for so long, etc...