Nim (Breslin) lives an isolated life on a remote island with her widowed scientist father (Butler), her animal friends - lizards, sea lions, a pelican - and favourite fictional literary hero Alex Rover. Alex's creator Alexandra Rover (Foster) also leads an isolated life, but a totally different one, having locked herself away in her city apartment. When Nim's father goes missing, she reaches out to her hero for help, forcing the agoraphobic Alexandra to venture nervously into the world.

Based on Wendy Orr's children's novel, Nim's Island is the perfect family film, a congenial, heart-warming story whose endearing characters are a pleasure to join, as they journey to find the hero within. Abigail Breslin must have had a lot of fun filming this (I've read that she had never seen the ocean prior to this film) and is just as lovable as she was in Little Miss Sunshine. It's nice to see Jodie Foster do a movie where it's not all depressing and grim and she is allowed to smile for a change. Gerard Butler provides some eye candy for the women - or maybe just me (love that accent!) - and perhaps redeems himself for P.

S. I Love You. No doubt I will be hearing about it if he doesn't pull it off in the eyes of those that he has previously offended.

Gridiron to me means giant screens, cheerleaders and really expensive half time advertising, so a film about gridiron in the 1920s when all of that stuff didn't exist didn't really appeal to me. But I found that, in addition to the gridiron, this film had some great slapstick laughs, comic action and flirty one liners making it a really enjoyable film.

It's 1925. While gridiron thrives in colleges, there's no future for those who want to play past graduation. Along comes aging player Dodge Connelly (Clooney), who has an idea, and; he approaches sports promoter C.

C. Frazier (Pryce) to recruit star university player Carter Rutherford (Krasinski), a decorated war hero and pin-up boy, to play for the Duluth Bulldogs for a guaranteed $10,000 per game. The deal shifts professional football from the back page of the sports section to front page material. Along with Carter comes newswoman Lexie Littleton (Zellweger), who's digging into Carter's background to uncover the truth about his supposed WWI exploits. To get the story, Lexie must travel with the team, and, in time, both Carter and Dodge fall for her.

The film offers plenty of smiles and warmheartedwarm-hearted chuckles. The dialogue is rich and witty, and echoes the verbal jousting between of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn that lit up the screens more than a half-century ago. So put away your non-sporty alter-ego and "27, 93, 42 hut hut hut" your way to the film group.