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PIXAR have created another masterpiece and this time they have also released the movie in 3D. UP is the story of Edward Asner voiced by Carl Fredricksen, who is a simple guy who wants to be an explorer all his life but got busy in life just like all of us.

He marries his childhood friend Elie and grows old with her. But then Elie leaves Ed alone as she passes on to the afterlife. There are new buildings getting built all around Ed’s house and he is forced to move out of his house.

But Ed has different plans.

He ties numerous helium filled balloons to his house and navigates his house to the top of the mountain where Elie wanted it to be. The movie is all about this adventure of Ed journey. I want like to tell you more details and spoil your share of fun when you watch this amazing movie.

Director Jonathan Mostow again delivers a sci-fi action flick, this time starring Bruce Willis who plays the role of an FBI agent Tom Greer. The movie is set in the future where there the people who don’t know what is fear and pain. They don’t interact with other people, instead they sit at the comfort of their home and all their work is done by their surrogates who are remote controlled by their owners.

Yes, each and everyone have their own robotic surrogate who has the exact appearance as their operators to do all their running around. The plot thickens when for the first time in years there is a murder in the city. Bruce Willis has to now find out the reason behind the murder of two surrogates and their operators. The movie is very fast and you will have to keep up with it otherwise you will miss the plot.

Actor turned director Nick Cassavetes has beautifully adapted My Sister’s Keeper from Jodi Picoult’s 2004 novel with the same title. Cameron Diaz plays the role of Sara Fitzgerald who is a mother of three, Anna, Kate and Jesse played by Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva and Evan Ellingson respectively.

Jason Patric plays Brian Fitzgerald who her husband and father to the three girls. The movie strongly revolves around Anna and Kate.

The only reason Anna was got into this world was to save her sister Kate who is suffering from acute promyelocytic leukemia. This frustrates Anna as she gets older and starts realizing that she has no life of her own as the only thing she does is does in and out of hospital. The relation between Anna and Kate is that of love and since Kate knew that hers was a terminal illness, she helped Anna to file a case against their parents.

Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures collaborate to make this animated movie which is adapted from the children’s book written by Ron and Judi Barrett. The movie is revolves around a young scientist Flint Lockwood who is voiced by Bill Hader.

Flint believes that he can relieve the world from hunger and in doing so he invents a special type of rain in which instead of water, all sorts of food will fall from the sky. Flint in successful in inventing the rain but it is the City Mayor Shelbourne who sees his city getting on the world map and more importantly getting fame for himself.

There are other characters in the movie like Sam Sparks who is actually the real brain behind the invention, Brent whose only job is to bully Flint and Tim Lockwood is the technophobic father of our hero Flint Lockwood. The movie is also released in 3D version in select theaters.

Director Ruben Fleischer has hit jackpot with his latest release, Zombieland. The story line is somewhat similar to Dawn of the Dead. The movie starts with showing how most of the people have been infected by mad cow disease. But there are some who are not infected. The infected ones are called zombies.

Columbus played by Jesse Eisenberg is a student at the University of Texas, who is still not a zombie and the movie is about his journey towards his native place, coincidentally it is also named Columbus. He wants to reach home and find out are his parents fine, if they are still alive.

The journey makes Columbus meet many zombie’s who he has to kill to survive as the zombie’s are flesh eaters. He is joined by some non zombie’s, who he met on his journey home. The movie has a bit of horror and a bit of comedy which makes it revive the horror comedy genre.