Film Screening 5th April, 2008

Poster for Juno

Juno 

8:00 PM, 5th April, 2008
No Guests

  • 96 mins
  • Unknown
  • Jason Reitman
  • Diablo Cody
  • Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman

Juno (Page), a Mid-Western high school student, has casual sex with her friend Bleeker (Cera). She becomes pregnant, rejects the idea of an abortion, and although she likes Bleeker well enough, she doesn't see him in the role of long term partner. Consequently, with her best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby), Juno sets out to find suitable adoptive parents for her baby, looking, of all places, in her local Pennysaver. This film rates 8.5/10 on IMDB, and David and Margaret both gave it 4 stars. With a great cast, excellent screenplay and an interesting script, this film has to be a winner.

Marilyn Edmond

Poster for 27 Dresses

27 Dresses 

9:47 PM, 5th April, 2008

  • 107 mins
  • Unknown
  • Anne Fletcher
  • Aline Brosh McKenna
  • Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Edward Burns, Malin Akerman

Jane (Heigl) is a romantic who thrives on helping her many friends make their wedding day perfect. She is the ideal bridesmaid - and has 27 dresses in her crammed wardrobe to prove it. She is also indispensable to her boss George (Burns), helped, I'm sure, by the fact she has a super-sized crush on him. Meanwhile, Jane's younger, flighty sister Tess (Akerman) arrives from out of town and to Jane's dismay, when Tess meets George, it's love at first sight. To make matters worse, Kevin (Marsden), a cynical newspaper reporter who covers the weddings scene, discovers Jane is a perpetual bridesmaid, and - unbeknownst to her - puts together a story about her. The one thing I found that this movie lacked was a charismatic actor to play the role of the object of Jane's affections. Ed Burns just didn't do it for me. He's boring. I couldn't fathom what she could see in him. Now had it been George Clooney or Christian Bale then that would have been a completely different story, although then I may have questioned why she didn't scratch her sister's eyes out as soon as she seemed remotely interested in the man.

As a prospective bride I went to see this movie with my bridesmaids and I enjoyed every minute of it. Now I have to resist the urge to come up with the most hideous bridesmaids' dress I can find.

Jacinta Nicol