Dan In Real Life
Dan (played by comic actor Steve Carell) is a widowed father of three teen girls aged 9, 14, and 17. He is a newspaper columnist living in New Jersey who writes a relationship advice column for a newspaper. As the family decides to leave home for the weekend and spend it with the extended family at a reunion, things begin to heat up.

Dan, who is still depressed from the death of his wife four years earlier, is sent out to collect the newspapers, as a part of the ritualistic family crossword challenges, and he meets a beautiful stranger, Marie (Juliette Binoche). He falls head over heels for her. From the start she is a character that you can't help but love. He manages to get her number, despite finding out that she is in an awkward relationship situation. He returns home in an upbeat mood, where it is then revealed that the mysterious woman he had just met is none other than his brother Mitch's (Dane Cook) girlfriend. From here on in it is nothing but confusion, embarrassment, naked shower scenes(I lie, there is only one) and absolute side splitting laughter.

BB Rating: 4/5 This movie is great, I'll definitely be buying this one on DVD.

Into The Wild
Based on a true story and the book Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, this is a touching tale of a man who had just graduated from college and lived a materialistic life in what seemed a picture-perfect family.

Fed up with the mundane lifestyle, 22 year old Christopher McCandless sets off into the wild to find a new person and a more raw life searching back to his roots.

Follow the breathtaking journey along the rugged terrain of America meeting at times the almost as rugged nomads who call this place home. They inspire Christopher just as much as he inspires them, shaping his understanding of life as we know it. He in turn leaves them with a mark on their lives.

This dramatic look into life as we know it leaves you asking many questions yourself, whether it be about your lifestyle, your perceptions or any issues in general that you have ever questioned.

Overall an inspiring film, even if I was shedding a few tears.

BB Rating: 4/5