AMANDA Peet had to battle a rude passenger as she rode on a Philadelphia-New York Acela train on Mother’s Day with her mom and her 1-year-old daughter, Frances Pen. “Amanda had her baby’s stroller along side of her, when a woman in front of her moved the seat back, crushing the stroller,” a spy said. When Peet asked the passenger to move her seat up, “the woman snapped at her in a rude fashion.” Instead of squabbling, Peet took the high road and simply changed seats.
We’ve been harboring a not so secret crush on John Cusack since he held up that boom box in Say Anything. And now after watching the trailer for his new movie The Martian Child, we are officially in full blown-smitten kitten-puppy love with this man. John plays a sci-fi writer/widower who takes in an orphan that thinks he is from Mars and together with his friend, played by the gorgeous Amanda Peet, they make an unconditional family trying their best to find their place in he world. The unlikely couple ignore parenting advice from the widowers sister (played brilliantly by Joan Cusack) and things get very strange when a series of occurrences lead them to believe the childs claims may be true. This is one of those movies that reminds us that family is really what it’s all about and your family is the one thing that give you sense of belonging, of having a place in the world.
For some more fun time-wasting at work, after you watch the trailer visit Martian Child Project to create your very own time capsule and tell the world what gives you your sense of place. Upload photos and videos of things and people that make up your universe.
Then join us in our very grown up crush on dreamboat John Cusack.
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Georgia Rule- (R) Rebellious teenager Rachel screams, swears, drinks and is, in a word, uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in mom Lilly’s San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take the impulsive and rambunctious girl, Lilly hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she’d never return–her own mother’s Idaho farm. Matriarch Georgia is not your typical sweet and doting grandmother. She lives her life by a number of unbreakable rules, demanding anyone who shares her home do the same–God comes first and hard work comes a very close second. Now saddled with raising the young woman, it will require each patient breath she takes to understand Rachel’s fury. But as Rachel succumbs to her summer of misery and shakes up the tiny Mormon town, Georgia notices something is changing within her granddaughter. Given structure and responsibilities, Rachel is letting her guard down and learning compassion, especially for her mother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that–regardless what happens–the ties that bind can never be broken.
28 Weeks Later- (R) Six months have passed since the rage virus has annihilated the British Isles. The U.S. Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. As the first wave of refugees return, a family is reunited–but one of them unwittingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time–showing no outward symptoms–it is more dangerous than ever.
Delta Force- (PG-13) Down on his luck after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Larry decides to join his neighbor, Bill, and his combat-happy buddy, Everett, for a relaxing weekend of drinking and target practice. But when the three hapless guys are mistaken for Army Reservists by the hard-nosed Sergeant Kilgrove, they’re loaded onto an army plane headed for Fallujah, Iraq–and mistakenly ejected in a Humvee somewhere over Mexico. Convinced they’re actually in the Middle East, the clueless wannabe soldiers save a rural village from a siege of bandits and become local heroes. But when Carlos Santana, a ruthless, karaoke-loving warlord, strikes back, Larry, Bill and Everett have to lay down their beers and take up their arms–and prove they just might be real soldiers after all.
The Ex- (PG-13) Tom Reilly is a bit of an underachiever when it comes to his career (or lack thereof), but his adoring wife Sofia, a formidable lawyer, has always been happy to act as the breadwinner. With the birth of their first child, Sofia decides she wants to be a stay-at-home mom, so Tom needs to step up and take care of his growing family. Unfortunately he gets fired from his job in New York City and is forced to start working with his father-in-law in Sofia’s hometown of Ohio. Tom soon clashes with his work colleagues, especially the outrageous Chip, who still carries a torch for Sofia from their high school days, and Sofia becomes increasingly uncomfortable staying home with their new baby. In doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons, the couple needs to get back to what they’re good at, before their model family goes completely off track.
