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This year has been really great for movies. Some of the better ones are even made available for the commercial audience and not just limited to special features or festivals. Below are our choices for this year’s five greatest movies:

INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS – The film delivered artistic value and intellectual relevance all at the same time. It’s also so much entertaining to watch. It was a very ambitious undertaking for Quentin Tarantino, but it was one that he pulled off really well. Story-telling was tight and well-written and the action scenes were killer scenes, as expected. The acting ensemble was also commendable.

UP – This animation touched the heart of many movie-goers. For sure, no one will be forgetting the film’s first 15 minutes any time sooner. The characterization was truly special and resonant, while the graphic details, of course, remained superior.

500 DAYS OF SUMMER – It was quite unconventional how this film was presented. It had a very fitting leading lady who charmed her way into our hearts. But the surprise of the movie is actually in its male lead, who showed his range, depth and versatility.

JULIE/JULIA – Meryl Streep nailed her character really well playing the iconic Julia Child. Amy Adams on the other hand, delivered yet another natural, critically acclaimed performance. The film delivers such a cute story of two people whose lives are actually so much in parallel of each other.

DISTRICT 9 – While everyone was watching Transformers Revenge of The Fallen, they should have actually been watching this film instead. The action scenes may be no match to the Michael Bay flick, but the story line is of a higher standard.

Here’s to more great movies in 2010!

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Based on Julie Powell’s book “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.” Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that’s going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother’s dog-eared copy of Julia Child’s 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year.

At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crepes, she realizes there’s more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. With Julia’s stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She sends her husband on late-night runs for yet more butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life’s ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.

Cast:
Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond

Release Date:
August 7, 2009

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