BIG UPS to Sandra Bullock

Big ups to the great producer and leading actress Sandra Bullock. Her last movie, "The Proposal," was a smash hit at the box office, thanks to the help of Ryan Reynolds. "The Proposal" was the highest grossing Sandra Bullock film. Big moments await for Ms. Bullock with more great hits in the works like "The Blind Side" coming out later on this year, and five more features in development. Can she surpass the glory days of "The Proposal" with her new feature, "All About Steve," which just came out this weekend. Bullock and her co-star, Bradley Cooper, have an amazing onscreen chemistry. Both come off very funny, especially with the BIG help of Thomas Haden Church and Ken Jeong. The cast was nothing short than great. I was highly surprised by the performance of Thomas Haden Church. He was the third lead in the movie, following Bullock and Cooper. His comments and facial expressions are priceless. In addition, Ken Jeong, another of my favorites, has sky rocketed in the past year. It seems like Ken Jeong is included in every comedy movie, "All About Steve," "Hangover," "The Goods," "Role Models," "Step Brothers," etc... Talk about having a good agent. Jeong is a formula that gets plugged into EVERY comedy movie.

In short, I highly recommend you guys to go see "All About Steve."

Until next time,

When it rains, it pours

The phrase "whenever it rains, it pours," has definitely been proving itself to me lately. I am not one who complains about the daily sour turns that parallels our life's. Instead, I just always try to find the positive "lesson" from the event and move on. Today, for example, I received a parking ticket in Beverly Hills because my meter expired two minutes over. By the time I noticed that the time has expired, I had already received the generous additional debt of $50. Expensive 2 minutes. "Like I really need another debt right now." What's funny is that I didn't get mad or anything, I quietly peeled the ticket off my dashboard and placed it in my pocket. The woman that I was with, felt so bad about me receiving the ticket that she offered to pay for it. She felt like it was her fault because I was helping her out with certain stuff. Obviously, I declined her offer and moved on with my day. There was no need to get upset, since there was nothing that could have been done about the matter.

As I was driving home, all that was on my mind, was my inner voice hoping for a better day tomorrow. I really need the shiner days to kick in. It has been a little of a slump lately.

Let's hope tomorrow will bring a shiner day.

Julia & Julia

For a person who sees just about every single movie that is released, I must recommend you all to see Julia & Julia. I was a little puzzled when the movie started out by mentioning "based on two true stories." I said to myself, "I wonder how the hell, they are going to pull this one off." And pulled it off, they sure did. The entire movie was spilt into two stories, the life of Julia Child in 1949, and the life of Julia Powell's in modern day 2002. I don't want to give away anything about the film, especially to those who haven't seen it. But I will say that this is by far one of the best feel good and uplifting movies I have seen this year. Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci make an amazing duo. The entire time I had weird flashbacks from seeing them two in "The Devil Wears Prada," which was another great film. However, the role of Amy Adams, even though, I see played great, came off to me as a little masculine, maybe it was just her haircut in the movie. Regardless, go see Julia & Julia. In fact, take your mother, sister, grandma or girlfriend to see it. Anyone who appreciates good food wrapped around a great success story will definitely enjoy it.

Until next time, have a great day