Eat, Pray, Love

Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having -- a husband, a house, a successful career -- yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert --Gilbert’s journey is full of mystical dreams, visions and uncanny coincidences-- steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.This is an intriguing and substantive journey recounted with verve, humor and insight. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali. One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce, and what she discovered during her travels. As of February 2010, the book had remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 158 weeks.The movie rights for the memoir have been purchased by Columbia Pictures, and the film version stars American actress Julia Roberts, and is due for release in the US in August 2010.A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in director Ryan Murphy's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English name of a poem by Goethe, Der Zauberlehrling, written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas. he acclaimed animated dialogue-free 1940 Disney film Fantasia popularized the story from Goethe's poem, and the Paul Dukas symphonic poem based on it, in one of eight animated shorts based on classical music. In the piece, which retains the title "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," Mickey Mouse plays the apprentice, and the story follows Goethe's original closely, The title is also the name of a live action film based on Goethe's poem, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Nicolas Cage. A new live action comedy-adventure loosely based on the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Disney's Fantasia.
In modern day Manhattan , Balthazar Blake (NICOLAS CAGE) is a master sorcerer trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (ALFRED MOLINA). Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler (JAY BARUCHEL) , who might be described as the nerd's nerd (or, to put it a shade more charitably, lord of the dweebs). He plays Dave, a wayward NYU physics major chosen by fate to be ''the prime Merlinian'' — a junior sorcerer whose destiny, should he embrace it, is to help a centuries-old wizard named Balthazar (Nicolas Cage)., a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protege."The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is a perfectly typical example of its type, professionally made and competently acted.
Imagine a graph with one line indicating the consumer's age and the other line representing his degree of enjoyment.Granted, there is nothing especially deep about The Sorcerer's Apprentice, so those who prefer their movies with lots of subtext will be out of luck. But if you're looking for enjoyable cinematic candy, pack your toothbrush, because this is one sweet ride.Perhaps it's a hangover from the remarkably imaginative and energetic "Inception," but nothing in this movie about magic, competently directed by Jon Turteltaub, feels the least bit magical. I'll be proud to you give this score as B.