Lars Lindstrom is a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him. He introduces Bianca to his brother Gus and his wife Karen and they are stunned. They don't know what to say to Lars or Bianca--because she is a life-size doll, not a real person and he is treating her as though she is alive. They consult the family doctor Dagmar who explains this is a delusion he's created--for what reason she doesn't yet know but they should all go along with it. What follows is an emotional journey for Lars and the people around him.

When I first saw the commercials, I thought this was be comedy. And it is labeled as one. However after watching it, I would say it's more drama. There are funny parts in it though.

So we have Lars, this really shy guy. He doesn't do much. Just works and then stays in the garage where he lives. It's on his brother and sister in law's property. His sister in law is constantly trying to get him to open up.

One day he shows up at their porch saying he wants to introduce them to his girlfriend, Bianca. Turns out she's a sex doll. Gus and Karen just kind of sit there staring at Bianca not knowing what to say. Lars explains Bianca is from Brazil and she lost all her clothes. Her parents died when she was young and she's wheel chaired bound. Lars asks if Bianca can stay in the house with them. He doesn't feel it's right they share a room.

The next day they take Bianca to the doctor to make she's well. While Bianca is receiving treatment, the doctor talks to Lars. The doctor is also a shrink. She tells Lars Bianca is sick and she should visit every week. So while she's treating Bianca, she's also treating Lars. The doctor later tells Karen and Gus that there is nothing wrong with Lars. Bianca was created so that Lars could work through a problem, possibly his shyness. She advises them to go along with it. They agree.

The rest of the movie shows the town accepting Bianca. She's even on the school board and reads to children. As Lars gets more invovled and leaves his shell, the sicker Bianca becomes.

I enjoyed watching this movie. I thought it was cute. If you get a chance watch this movie. Here are two clips from two parts I



I don't know, him chucking the flower and then walking/running away made me laugh.

This part I found funny and sweet. Funny because Margo was taking dude's action figures. And then he hung her bear as revenge. Which is something I can see us doing at work. Sweet because Lars brought the bear back to life.




I give this movie a B.

Ok, yesterday's episode, I'm not beating around the bush, Stacy Ann went home.

WTF is that? Exactly!

There was some tension as Fatima, who is a refugee, LOST her travel documents and waited until the last minute to say anything. All the judges thought this was foolish, but they still put her through to ROME anyway. She didn't even have a photo as she wasn't at the photo shoot.

Every girl in past episodes (that I've seen) that has missed a photo shoot has gone home. Me thinks Fatima is getting preferential treatment.

*sigh*

I know that I need to practice that patience that Peyton talked about in this episode but it's so hard for me to do that when Lucas is completely dismissive of his feelings for her. I'm starting to wonder if maybe he really doesn't love her like that anymore, I'm starting to wonder if they're trying to move Lucas' character on to someone new to show that you can find true love again. I don't know if I'm just retarded for thinking that but I can't help it. We see Peyton dealing with her feelings for Lucas but Lucas is dealing with his feelings with Lindsay..Peyton is the farthest from his mind right now. Does he feel bad because he hurt Lindsay, deep down inside does he want to be with Peyton, does Peyton have his heart still because he wrote another book about HER. I don't care how many times he says otherwise, that book about the Comet was about her. He was telling everyone, their story. She came back to him and he knew that she would. He's just coming to grips with the fact that his heart does and always has belonged to Peyton Sawyer.

Atleast that's what I'm going to keep telling myself because they HAVE to be together...for real and forever this time.

None of this, wishy washy crap either, the whole deal, the whole shebang..that's what they need to be.

FOR real.

This week, my heart went out to Brooke because I think Brooke would be a wonderful Mother and it just sucks that even from far away, Bitchtoria can still find ways to ruin Brooke's life. Like she didn't do enough when Brooke was growing up, she just keeps on ruining the hard work Brooke's put forth and making things difficult for her but I know that Brooke will get over this bump and she'll be stronger for it. She's the character on the show that I admire the most. Although, I didn't like the assumptions the lady was making about Brooke's feelings for Lucas...do you guys still think they're there? I mean, Sophia Bush said in an interview that she thinks Brooke and Lucas are truly over and I seriously hope she was right in that statement because I can't take another Brooke/Lucas/Peyton love triangle.

I'm still going to stand behind my Dan theory. I still think that he hired Carrie to ruin Nathan and Haley's marriage and to do the whole kidnapping thing to get in good with Jamie. I think all of that was Dan's doing so that he could save the day and be brought back into the fold...but when Lucas and then Nathan came out of the house with their fists flying in Dan's direction, I sure was laughing my ass off. That was funny.

I'm glad to see that Nathan and Haley are working on their marriage. They've been married for awhile and it's good to see a relationship after the honeymoon is over...I love that they're still very much in love with each other even though they're fighting right now. I'm loving that these two are still truckin' along with each other by their sides, it's one of my favorite things about this show. I loved the walk down memory lane with Nathan, I loved Haley's things that she loved about Nathan and like their shrink, I think they're going to be just fine and I can't wait to see happier days with these two...they're so in need of those happy days because they sure have been through the wringer.

I can't wait to see next week's show, I'm so flippin' excited that One Tree Hill is back and sorry Levi, but I won't be at FHE anymore until I either get DVR or OTH moves to another night...nothing gets between me and my Leyton love angst!

What did you guys think about tonight's show?

Until next week guys...

Starring: Amanda Bynes, Matt Long, Sarah Paxton
Rating: PG-13
Grade: B+

Gorgeous freshman Sydney White has come to Southern Atlantic University to pledge her late mom's once-dignified sorority. But while surviving the pledging process wrought by evil campus witch Rachel, Syd finds out this version of sisterhood isn't remotely what it's cracked up to be. Banished to a condemned house on Greek Row, Syd finds her rightful place with a band of seven very socially challenged guys. With the help of one lovestruck frat boy named Tyler, she and the doofs campaign to take over student government. Fighting for the rights of misfits big and small, Syd organizes her gang to revolutionize the system, once and for all.

Hi, my name is Rowena and I love blogging, reading and spreadsheets and I'M A DORK! =P

I LOVED THIS MOVIE!

Corny. Cute. Cuddly.

This movie had me rollin' ...I wanted to watch this movie ever since Izzy reviewed it here. I seriously couldn't wait to watch it because these are the corny movies that I absolutely love. These are MY kind of movies, the feel good, underdog takes the evil queen down and all that Disney goodness.

This modern twist on Snow White was a laugh a minute, corny sigh out loud kind of movie. It was the kind of movie that I'd watch when I need to laugh, want to feel good and just because I want to watch it again kind of movie.

Amanda Bynes was a great "Snow" White and Matt Long was a great Prince Charming, the 7 Dorks were too frickin' funny, cute and all things wonderful. They made this movie! It was really cute and I can't say enough good things about this movie.

Check it out, I enjoyed it and I'm sure you will too. It's funny like She's the Man only Matt Long is cute but he's no Channing Tatum.

YUM!

Starring: Adam Brody, Meg Ryan, Kristen Stewart
Rating: PG-13
Grade: B

For as long as he could remember, Carter Webb had been falling in love with women. And for as long as he could remember, he’d been searching for the right one. He found everything he was looking for in Sophia and for a little while he was happy. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be. When Carter is dumped by Sophia in a North Hollywood coffee shop, he sees his entire life flash before his eyes. Heartbroken and depressed, Carter escapes Los Angeles, heading across the country to suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother. An eccentric and complicated personality, Grandma offers Carter a uniquely different perspective on life and especially death. Soon after his arrival, Carter stumbles into the lives of the family living directly across the street, Sarah Hardwicke, the mother of two daughters: Paige, a precocious, effervescent eleven-year-old and her older sister Lucy, an angst ridden teenager. While Sarah faces her own personal crisis, Lucy wrestles with the fears that define her. Through his relationships with these women, as well as his grandmother, Carter begins to discover that what felt like the end was really only just the beginning of his adventure.

I heart Adam Brody.

Seriously. I have loved that boy since he played Seth Cohen on The O.C. and truth be told, he was the only reason I watched that show for so long. There's just something about Adam's goofiness and lanky good looks that totally gets me. I have been wanting to watch this movie for a long time and so I netflixed it. When it came in, I was giddy to get it watched and I totally did. The movie is about Carter Webb trying to fix his life. He's all about women, he's always falling in love with women and when he gets dumped by his girlfriend, Sofia he decides that he's had enough of L.A. so he flies to Ann Arbor, MI to stay with his crazy grandma who swears she's gonna die pretty soon and holy hell that woman IS crazy.

This movie was good. It was one of those movies that you won't expect to like but you end up really liking it. It's not one of those movies that you just know is going to be good, it's the movie that surprises you and you'll totally fall in love with Adam Brody. He played this character really well and you can see a bit of his own personality shine through this character and I really dig that about him.

Meg Ryan's character was really cool, she was a cool Mom and I felt for her and her family. The whole thing with her husband and then the whole thing with her illness made me sad for her and I just really enjoyed getting to know Sarah Hardwicke and her family.

Kristen Stewart, I don't think she's all that...I know this is the chick that's going to be playing Bella Swan in Twilight: The Movie but as much as I enjoyed this movie, I didn't get excited to see Kristen Stewart as Bella, she just doesn't do anything for me.

Blah.

But I loved the storyline, I loved the characters and I really just liked this movie.

Great stuff, check it out!

Starring: Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Marc Blucas, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Jimmy Smits, Kevin Zegers and Lynn Redgrave
Rating: PG-13
Grade: B

In modern-day California, six women in a book club find their lives and romances reflected in the six novels of English author Jane Austen.

After I watched Becoming Jane, I thought I'd wrap up my love of Jane Austen (newfound though it was) by watching this movie and once again, I really enjoyed this movie. I enjoyed the cast of characters and I thought that Hugh Dancy was adorable and Allegra (isn't that a women's pill or something?) was HOT! I thought she was gorgeous, I don't like girls like that but if I did, she would be plastered to my desktop!

I think I would have enjoyed the movie a lot more if I would have read the books beforehand but since I didn't, there were some things that I didn't get. But that didn't ruin the movie for me at all, I think that even though you haven't read the books, you'd still be able to enjoy the individual storylines and the individual characters.

For me, I really loved Hugh Dancy and his love interest (I forgot her name, it's been two days, sorry) ...I thought that he was just too darned cute, the dog lady was annoying in her need to set all of the men she comes across with herself and it annoyed me that she wouldn't read his damn books, she didn't even try, it got on my nerves but in the end, I enjoyed it.

Bernadette was a sweet lady, the way she put the whole book club together was cool and so cute. Ugh, frickin' Prudie got on my hot damn nerves, that little cradle robber...the way that she was with her husband was so uncalled for at times but I still enjoyed her storyline...at the end.

Allegra and her parents storyline was cute as well, this whole movie was just too cute! I loved watching their discussions on each of the books, it was funny to see the different opinions each of them had and to see each of them go from hating each other or being indifferent with each other to really loving each other at the end. The way they all came together to support Sylvia with the Library Dinner was just too cute.

Dude, Marc Blucas was frickin' HOT in this movie..I need to watch more movies with him in it. This was a pleasant movie to watch with your sisters or your book club friends, such a cute movie...I'm sure you'll enjoy it!