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Written and Directed by Guy Ritchie the overall movie follows Ritchie's distinct style and tone, which I can personally never grow tired of. It's witty, hilarious, mind-boggling coincidences and action packed.

ROCKNROLLA starts with the explanation of the booming London real estate market, and a gentleman named Lenny Cole. Lenny will help you speed up the process of approving a building for renovations that should take many years, and make it happen in months.

So, he takes up the offer a Russian developer, Uri Omovich, for 7 million Euros to help him make his stadium go through without any hitches. Unfortunately Uri has an accountant (Thandie Newton) who is interested in making money on the side. So she hires One Two (Gerard Butler) to steal the money from Uri mid-transaction. Now here's the twisted part... One Two works for Lenny.

If you still don't get it, it's like this: One Two owes Lenny money, and he has till such time to get that money. Lenny makes a deal with Uri. Uri is about to courier the money to Lenny, but One Two who has no idea the money is for Lenny, is stealing the money... to give to Lenny. Get it?

If you like Guy Ritchie's style (NOT Swept Away) you'll enjoy this one, but it doesn't beat out Snatch. I feel as though it was lacking in something, but you'll still laugh and cringe at some great jaw dropping twisted moments.

Yup, you read it right. MOVIE. For you fans of Dead Like Me out there you can head on over to your Netflix "Instant View" and check out the movie, right now!

Dead Like Me picks up five years after the 2nd season ended. The group of reapers are standing outside of the burnt down waffle house. A limo driver calls out their names and drives them to a fancy hotel for breakfast. They find out Rube has been called to the light and their new leader is a slick businessman who doesn't care how the job gets done, as long as it's done.

So, out with the signature yellow Post-It's and in with the new palm pilots. For awhile it seems everyone is reaping on the benefits of their flashy new boss, but George. After a glitch in her palm pilot, that gave her the wrong time for the reap, she reconnects with her younger sister. In the end the crew realizes the importance of Rube and his views on how to do their job, while learning the balance of their job and living.

Meh. I liked where it was going with George's storyline, but with everyone else it fell kind of flat, and then completely ridiculous. Didn't feel it was true to the essence of the way the show was. And I HATE the new Daisy Adair (Sarah Wynter). The original Daisy (played by Laura Harris) was really dainty and very romantically dramatic. But the Sarah's version is nowhere close to it. She's loud, and drunk and a big mess and.. you just don't like her.

Again, George's storyline was interesting. I won't get too much into detail about it, but she connects with her younger sister again and helps the sister deal with her death and someone elses. But I am confused about the ending.

SPOILER ALERT!!!
The ending shows George waving to her sister and then asking the open-ended question "Who's going to be our new head reaper?" or something like. Then from the sky she gets rained by Post-It's. Does that mean George is the new leader?

It's worth checking out but dont' expect anything fantastic and jaw-droppingly good.

Two strangers through mutual friends spend the whole night in various unfortunate, hilarious and awkward situations to hunt down the elusive and very popular band, Where's Bunny. Nick (Michael Cera) was dumped by Tris (Alexis Dziena) an egotistical man eater, and to win her back he's been making mixed CD's for her, which her friend Norah (Kat Dennings) has been listening to.

After his performance with his two gay bandmates, he meets Norah and finds out she's friends with his ex. Hoping that Nick would get out of his slump, his loyal friends encourage the two to hang out for the night in search of "Where's Bunny" secret location performance. The two come to discover they have a lot more in common aside from their deep passion for music.

First off, I absolutely LOVE movies that take place in short spans of time (events all take place in one night. Some great examples are Clerks I & II, Can't Hardly Wait, Collateral, Jurassic Park, Superbad... you get the picture.

Back to the movie... How can you NOT love any movie Michael Cera (Arrested Development, Superbad) is in? Although I do wonder how many more movies he can pull off the really innocent, awkward role in? Kat Dannings is fantastic as the bitter yet hopeful Norah who is trying to make her own place, and be her own character while being in her dad's shadow, the owner of a very famous music studio.

What I love besides the main characters are the friends. Caroline (Ari Graynor), Norah's best friend is a comedic genius as the drunk girl who gets lost in the city, while Nick's friends Thom (Aaron Yoo) and Dev (Rafi Gavron) aid this poor drunk girl to get home, so that their friend has a chance to get out of his slump. In one scene Caroline is passed out drunk in the back of their van, on their way to drop her off, and she comes unconscious. She can't remember where she is and immediately assumes she got kidnapped.

It's an absolutely fun movie to watch when you're in the mood for something funny and cute to watch. The soundtrack is absolutely fantastic, but Garden State is still by far my favorite.

Tin Man, originally aired on the SciFi Channel in 2007 as a 3 part mini series. It follows DG (Zooey Deschanel) as she is whisked off to the O.Z. (Outer Zone) by a... you guessed it, a tornado. But the story is not what you think. It's not so much a remake of the original Oz, but more of a spin-off.

The costumes, and overall tone of the movie is so entertaining and just enjoyable to watch. It's a more modern and mature view of things in the O.Z. For example the "Tin Man" is an ex-cop who spent much of his life imprisoned in a metallic suit watching a hologram of his wife and son being captured.

Zooey Deschanel is adorable as D.G., who goes through the O.Z. trying to figure out who the woman with the purple eyes in her dreams is and why the O.Z. looks so familiar. As her memory starts to slowly comes back she learns of her own family secret that could save the strangely familiar world from the grasp of the evil witch, who is looking for the green emerald.

Alan Cumming plays "Glitch", the former advisor to the Queen who had his brain removed when he refused to give up the plans for a very powerful machine. Neal McDonough plays the "Tin Man", an ex-cop out for revenge, who helps the group find their way while he finds the compassion for others again. Raoul Trujillo plays "Raw" a special group of species that is being hunted by the evil sorceress for their mystical powers of reading the emotions of whoever they are in contact with.

This is so entertaining and short. You won't waste any time getting through this series.

Well slap me silly and call me an ass. They actually won. I really really thought that Beat Freaks would win.

Well CONGRATULATIONS to the boys! Totally deserving.

It's down to the final two crews, and if I remember correctly I predicted that Beat Freaks is going to be one of the final teams. It's down to Beat Freaks and Quest. It's an all out boy vs. girls team.

I have been rooting for Beat Freaks since the beginning, only because they have been consistently good and you definitely don't see girls doing headspins in any type of dance performance. But at the same time Quest, the all boys group have been phenomenal throughout the show, and the judges have been giving them a REALLY REALLY hard time. JC (gag!) claims they do too much "posing" and not enough transition. Okay "bubblegum pop" boy... let's see you come up with YOUR OWN moves without using choreography. Anyway, I'd be really surprised if the boys end up winning.

The judges/producers really really want a girl team to win. Don't get me wrong... they would be totally deserving of the first group to be all girl, winning a dance crew contest. But I would hate for them to win because they were a pretty good girl dance crew versus a phenomenal girl dance crew, against Quest. Because to be quite honest, overall I find Quest to be so much more fun to watch, and so creative in their routines.

Last night's performance was.... bleh. The challenge was incorporate different styles of street into their routine. Beat Freaks was a flatliner. I felt they hardly fulfilled the challenge and even without the challenge their routine was just boring. There was no "wow factor" to it. If you were to go on last night's performance they shouldn't win. See for yourself:

Quest on the other hand... WOW! Fell out of my chair a couple of times with the stuff they pulled. It was sharp and absolutely fun watching them have fun doing what they do. Can't say enough about them. They even received a standing ovation from the judges. Check it out:

Burn After Reading starts with Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) who works for the CIA on a non-threatening level. Osbourne Cox quits after they demote his position. When he tells his rigid uptight wife, Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton), she puts together divorce case without his knowledge. During this case she makes a copy of all his financial/personal records onto a disc to give to her attorney. The attorney's secretary loses the disc at a gym.

Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) and Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) are best friends who work at this gym. Frances is a dopey lovable, overly hyper questionably gay guy friend. Linda is an insecure plastic surgery obsessed lonely, chronic Internet dater. When they discover the disc, they find out it belongs to Osbourne and attempt to blackmail him. Things really don't turn out quite as planned, and through a series of miscommunication and unfortunate events help to unfold the story.

I honestly didn't know what to make of this story, except I was left just as confused as the writers were. The movie didn't know what it was. The movie thought it was a dark comedy, then a drama, then a romantic comedy, then a suspense thriller. It was bipolar is what it was.

If the Coen brothers had left it as specifically a drama or a specifically a comedy it would've been really great. But because you confuse the viewers by trying to throw everything into one big pot, it's just a big mesh and you can't distinguish one taste from the next, so you sacrifice a great potential.

And the ending. Oy! Do not even get me started. It was a half-ass ending of "We don't really know how to tie this up, so let's just kill everyone."