I've loved most of David Fincher's work to date. The movie is loosely based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, and was getting rave reviews all around. But contrary to public opinion, I was rather unimpressed by this movie. And that 's putting it lightly.

It's like that line by George Carlin:

I can hardly believe that a movie with a sum total of about two pages of dialogue can be so entertaining and endearing. I do not say this often, and do not say it lightly, this movie is an absolute masterpiece.

The story revolves around a solitary robot on a deserted earth, WALL-E. The abbreviation stands for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth class". The little robot dutifully spends his day clearing up the trash, compacting it and creating piles which rival skyscrapers.

After 700 years of solitude, the robot has developed a personality, a romantic, dreamy one at that. He collects intriguing odds and ends and stores them in his trailer, where he spends the nights watching Barbra Streisand sing "Hello Dolly" on a scratchy VCR.

An offbeat comedic look at the afterlife. Albert Brooks visits the subject with an earnest and humourous outlook, which doesn't get preachy or morbid.

He plays a young advertising executive who dies in a car accident. He finds himself in "Purgatory", which looks rather similar to suburban California, with its manicured lawns. In the extraordinary world where he's surrounded by aged people in hospital-gown like clothing, he is put on trial with a defense attorney and a rabid prosecutor.

On the surface, it's just a slight variation of Ghost with the gender of all the key characters changed. Reese Witherspoon is a workaholic doctor who is now in a coma after a car crash. Mark Ruffalo is a loner who moves into her apartment, and runs into her "ghost".

The variation is that he can see and talk to her, but of course, no one else can. The other twist is that the "ghost" Reese has no idea who she is, and why she is that way. As far as she knew, she just got home and found a stranger in her house.

They slowly unravel her identity with the aid of Jon Heder, who plays a spaced out clerk at a supernatural bookstore. And they are pressed for time; an evil colleague of hers is all set to pull the plug.

Corporate espionage pays spies a lot more than CIA or MI6 do. In this movie, former government spies Clive Owen and Julia Roberts, who have a personal history, find themselves working in the corporate world.

Two consumer products companies are locked in a battle of one-upmanship, and go to extremes to discover and steal whatever the other is doing. The movie features so many twists and turns with agents, double agents, and double double agents, that I can hardly say anything more without giving away at least one element of surprise.

Paul Giamatti is excellent as the over-eager unscrupulous CEO. On the whole, decent movie and worth watching.

Trust Kevin Smith to come up with a name like that. It's been a while since he last tangled with the Christian groups, so he probably thought to himself, "Hmm... what can I do to rankle that bunch?". It's an adult theme, and sure to get an R rating, but with that name, now, you're just asking for trouble. And right on cue, Christian groups were up in arms.

Anyway, about the movie itself. Meh.

Zack and Miri are childhood friends, looking out for each other since the days of the high-school geek clique. Now, they are room-mates, with dead-end jobs, and mounting bills. They need to make money fast, and decide to make a porno movie. All well, but here's the tepid twist. They have feelings for each other, but don't know it.

This shoddily made movie attempts to be a sort-of rehash of When Harry Met Sally.

Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet are both from L.A., and meet on a trip to New York, in the airplane loo no less, where they end up joining the mile-high club. They part ways after the trip, when Peet tells him he's not her type. He does give her his number though, and tells her to call him in 6 years, when he's got his act together.

Some years later, she does call him though, but only because she's dateless for a New Years'. They keep meeting up subsequently, whenever either is going through a personal crisis of some sort, either on the personal front or the career front. They do eventually realize that they are meant to be together.

A poignant and moving story of the life of Ramon Sampedro. Ramon was a ship mechanic, who was paralyzed neck-down in a swimming accident. Now a quadriplegic, he is looked after by his family (father, brother, sister-in-law and nephew).

While he was energetic and ebullient before his accident, his condition distresses him extremely. He dreams of flying across the sea, while confined to his bed. The old vigour and sparkle are still evident as many women literally fight over the right to attend to him.

He is too helpless to even take his own life. Euthanasia in Spain is illegal, and for the past 28 years, Ramon has been fighting the courts for the right to die.

Another sci-fi movie exploring the whole concept of temporal paradox.

This one is set in New Orleans in the days after Katrina. A  TImothy McVeigh-ish Jim Caviezel blows up a ferry and kills 500 people, and ATF officer Denzel Washington is called in to help the FBI investigate.

Among the dead on the ferry is a young woman who, it is determined, was killed before the ferry incident. To add a big boost to the investigations is a new ultra-secret project which helps them view all the events of a few days before, as though they were video-taped.