the Mind’s Chew Toy

Plot: Two dim-witted gym employees stumble across a disc containing the personal memoir of an ousted CIA official (Malkovich), and try to use it to their advantage.

Plot: Benjamin Button (Pitt) ages backwards. At the age of 50, he falls in love with a 30-year-old woman (Blanchett). As the two of them literally grow in opposite directions, they must come to terms with their relationship.

While the Golden Globes ® this year were reduced to a short announcement show thanks to the Writer’s Strike, the Academy Awards ® were back with all their pageantry (and Jon Stewart) thanks to the recent end to the Strike.

And the winners are…

Plot: Michael Clayton (Clooney) is an in-house “fixer” at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. But, when attorney Arthur Edens (Wilkinson) sabotages a class-action mulit-million dollar suit, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.

Plot: While England is being bombed by the Germans in WWII, 4 kids are sent to live with their uncle in the country. During a game of hide and seek, youngest girl Lucy (Henley) hides in a huge wardrobe - only to emerge out the other end into a snowy wilderness. When the others finally discover the world in the wardrobe, they find themselves thrust into the middle of a battle between The White Witch and Aslan The Lion (Neeson). Based on the novel by C.S. Lewis.

Plot: John Constantine (Reeves) fights a battle most humans are totally unaware of. He knows that Heaven and Hell are waging a battle - he is able to see behind the normal, and sees the combatants hiding behind their falseness - and they see him. Now, he’s dying - but before he finally goes, he must help a woman (Weisz) who may, unknowingly, be at the center of an evil attempt to take over the world. Based on the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer graphic novels.