MARLEY & ME

Director: David Frankel
Star rating: 5/5
Release date: March 31st 2009

With:
Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Arkin,
Eric Dane, Haley Bennett, Clarke Peters,
Haley Hudson, Marc Macaulay, Sandy Martin.

The films tells a story about two people John Grogan (Owen Wilson) and Jenny Grogan (Jennifer Aniston) who get married and are ready to follow Jenny’s checklist of things to accomplish within their lives together. This isn’t just a checklist of small things, its BIG things, like, ‘Get married’, ‘Buy a house’ etc. John is very happy to follow jenny’s checklist, apart from the dreaded ‘having a baby’.
John’s single-for-life best friend Sebastian (Eric Dane) tells John that he should get a dog, as this could potentially act as a child. They both have good jobs, Johns a reporter and Jenny’s a journalist, so he thinks getting a dog might be a bit more easier than starting a family as he wants to make his mark in his work place.
They eventually buy a dog, and call it Marley, but what Marley turns in to isn’t what they expected. With another kid on the way after having two, life starts to become a bit more difficult. Jenny has quit her job, but John got promoted, money isn’t the problem, Marley is.

I think this film is a definite must see, I promise you, no one will come out that cinema not crying, it’s the tearjerker of the year.

HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU.

Director: Ken Kwapis
Star rating: 4/5
Release date: 6th February 2009

With:
Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper, Drew Barrymore,
Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly,
Jennifer Connolly, Justin Long, Kevin Connolly,
Kris Kristofferson, Scarlett Johansson.

Set in Baltimore a widely popular bestseller from ‘Sex and the City’ scribes Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, He’s Just Not That Into you, which tells the story of a group of interconnected, Baltimore – based twenty – thirtysomethings that navigate there way through various and interesting ways in how to have/or start a relationship with someone.

Everyone in this film basically has a main role, as it follows about 6 relationships. Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) just wants a man that will call, when he says he will. While Alex (Justin Long) advises her not to wait around the phone for the man to call, as it’s more than likely ‘there not into you’. Beth (Jennifer Aniston) is wondering if it’s normal to be in a relationship with someone for several years but still Neil (Ben Affleck) doesn’t want to get married. Janine (Jennifer Connelly) is wondering whether she should call it off with her childhood sweetheart Ben (Bradley Cooper), as she suspects he is lying to her. Whereas Ben thinks he wants to stay with Janine but can’t quite trust himself with Anna (Scarlett Johansson). Anna can’t decide whether she likes Conor (Kevin Connolly), who is a straightforward no-sparks standby, or the hunky married man who she knows she can’t have. And then there’s Mary (Drew Barrymore) who’s found an entire network of loving men, but she now needs to find one that’s straight.

After watching this film I realised how many problems people encounter when they are either in a relationship or wanting one. I would say this is a definite must see and I am giving it a star rating of 4/5.