The Sorcerers Apprentice is a new Disney released film from producer Jerry Bruckheimer.  It’s loosely based on the bit in Fantasia, and I do mean loosely.  There is one misplaced scene with dancing mops.  Anyway, it’s directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure 2, While You Were Sleeping) and is about a kid who gets sucked into a war between sorcerers going back thousands of years.  It stars Jay Baruchel (Undeclared, Tropic Thunder), Nicolas Cage (The Rock, National Treasure), and Alfred Molina (Spiderman 2, Magnolia).

 

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An Education is a true coming of age story set in 1960′s suburban England.  It’s about what happens when a 16 year old girl (Carey Mulligan) meets an older man (Peter Sarsgaard) who seems to be cultured, refined, and much more interesting than anything else in her life.  It’s based off of a single chapter of the memoir of Lynn Barber, a british journalist, with both the book and the chapter sharing the movie’s title.  The screenplay was written by novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity) who has had several of his own books adapted for the screen and the film is directed by Lone Sherfig.  As of the time I am writing this An Education is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, Carey Mulligan is nominated for Best Actress, and Nick Hornby is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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