You're going to love the film Ratatouille!

What do you get when you combine a mouse with a clumsy restaurant garbage boy and a 5-star French restaurant? The best chef in Paris! Rats aren’t known for their cooking skills in the kitchen, only their mischievous hunt for food, but the talented and innovative minds of the animators at Disney and Pixar Animation studios, have created an unconventional story with a more than unlikely little hero.

A sure-to-please, entertaining treat for the whole family, Ratatouille is a story that caters to both children and adults alike. Throughout the movie, kids along with their parents were sporadically laughing, as Remy and his friends were found in not so favorable predicaments. The humor is easily understood by young audiences and the story is sophisticated enough for their parents to enjoy. The plot is very well-developed and the characters are so cute (especially Remy), that you can’t help but cheer for them.

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New Releases: Sicko

Michael Moore is one of the most controversial documentarists of this time. He has made many friends and enimies with previous films such as Bowling for Columbine and Farenheit 911. But now he has used his personal connections to take his research to a whole new level and perhaps make a positive impact on the lives of many individuals in America.

Although Moore is famous for being one-sided in his political plight, this film is made for the American people in a hope to promote understanding and encourage change in our system. The argument Moore makes is one of a moral and ethical tone. If the United States is one of the richest countries in terms of GDP and other health indices, why do we fall so low in our health care system? In his film, Moore uses juxtaposition to analyze the US health care system versus counties like Canada, Britain and France. Because these citizens pay for universal health care through taxes, doctors and health-aids are government employees and patients need not worry about their medical bills. Citizens can chose which hospital, pharmacy, and doctor to see – without paying any money. This may seem like a mythical utopia, but as Moore captures in his film, this is a reality. Read our full review online.

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Sneak Peak June/July Issue: Gracie Movie Review

Entertainment writer Sophia M. Papadopolous caught an early preview of Gracie, to be released this Friday, June 1st. Here is an excerpt from her review. Click here to read the full review and movie trivia.

In a time when women’s soccer did not exist, Gracie Bowen (Carly Schroeder) a 15 year old teenager from New Jersey finds herself fighting for her right to play on an all boys varsity soccer team. Taking place in 1978, when women are still fighting for their rights and trying to prove that they too are just as smart and able-bodied as men, Gracie proves to herself and to all those who doubt her that she can handle this intensely physical “male sport.” Growing up in a household with three soccer obsessed brothers and a father (Dermot Mulroney) who thinks soccer isn’t a girl’s sport, Gracie not only struggles to find her place in a male dominated household, she also has to prove to her toughest critic [her father] that she too can play just as hard and rough as the boys.

When her older brother and star of the high school soccer team dies in a tragic car accident, Gracie and her family are distraught over the loss. Her only confidant and protector is now gone, but she will not allow his memory and his dream to die with him. Wanting to prove her skills and win the nationals for the team, Gracie petitions the school to allow her to take the place of her brother on the soccer team. After many discouraging comments from the coach, the guys on the team, and her own father’s skewed view of her abilities as a girl, she wins them over with her un-dying determination and commitment. Her father, a past star high school soccer player himself, begins to steadily come around, as he starts training her just as hard as he trained her brother.

This film demonstrated that woman can in fact do anything men can do, even though our patriarchic society does not seem to think so. It also demonstrated how hard women have had to fight to be heard and seen as equals. This movie was a great testament that women’s abilities are not determined by their bodies, but by their intellectual strength, courage, and will to strive. We too can fight like the “Big Boys,” on and off the field!