Australia movie review

I chose to watch Australia because I consider Nicole Kidman to be a very fine actress, I love the Wolverine and the X-men franchise with Hugh Jackman, and I know so little about Australia. It is a great movie and I truly enjoyed it but I can understand why some people may not like it so much.

It is set against the background of Second World War and the movie runs at an extremely slow pace chronicling the adventures of an English lady on a ranch in the middle of nowhere in Australia. Contrary to what one would expect, Lady Sarah Ashley not only runs the ranch effectively but chooses to live permanently in the country.

I must mention some remarkable acting by Brandon Walters as the young Aboriginal boy Nullah who keeps the whole story together. In summary, if you like a movie with a plot involving a war, romance, group rivalry, and race relations, you will love it.

Stepford Wives movie review

Lorena and I like our morning (good-quality) coffee in bed, but that is possible only once in a while when we are staying at a luxury resort and they can bring it to our room. On most other occasions, one of us has to get out, come down the steps to the kitchen, grind coffee beans, brew it, and then walk back to bed. By this time, the fun is gone for one of us. So we have often fantasized about developing a robot (or even better - an android) to do just that. Since none of us is a robotics guru, we are still dreaming.

That dreams of ours has been realized in ways that we don't morally support, but nonetheless, it is done in a very funny way in "The Stepford Wives." While I wonder how someone thought of declaring Stepford is in Connecticut (as someone who has spent years there, I was not amused), it is a movie that we enjoyed a lot considering that we love Nicole Kidman and she never seems to disappoint - though she is so much better in "The Hours" or "Cold Mountain."

Christopher Walken and Glenn Close decide that we need a place where everything is wonderful, men are gentlemen, women live to please men, and there is love everywhere. So when Joanna Eberhard (Nicole Kidman) loses her job as a media executive, she and her family move to Stepford to work on their marriage and have a more laid back life than they did in Manhattan.

Everything in Stepford is too perfect (and tacky too), women are always cooking, smiling, being nice, while men just have a great time being men. Something is not right, though, it seems. Two of Joanna's best friends in community get transformed into something she cannot believe - what is going on? That is what Joanna finds out.

If you have seen the first version and loved it, don't watch this one - you will spend too much time comparing which one is better. If you have not seen it and want to watch a light, funny movie with a little bit of science fiction and social commentary thrown in, this is a good combination of them all.