I would like to brag that I was one of the first to discover Brit director Christopher Nolan.  When my mate and I were organizing Britpics in Toronto (a week of British film) back in 2000, we programmed his first film, the black and white FOLLOWING.  Nolan went on to make MEMENTO, INSOMNIA, BATMAN BEGINS and THE PRESTIGE.  All his films are dark, both in the storyline and often in the lighting. 

The opening sequence in the film SILENT LIGHT of a starry night making way to dawn and the ground tells it all.  It is a long, almost silent 6-minute start that will leave many in the audience already yawning, just like one of the children in the next scene having breakfast to the sound of the tick-tock of the clock’s pendulum.

THE WACKNESS is a story about both a shrink, Dr. Jeffery Squires (Sir Ben Kingsley) and his patient, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), a drug dealer who pays him with the weed he is peddling.  Both have girl problems, Squires with his wife, Kristin (Famke Janssen) and Luke with Squires’ step daughter, Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby).  Writer/director Jonathan weaves an interesting enough tale for the audience to care about the two men while setting it as a period piece.

In Alice’s house, live her three boys, Lucas (Vinicius Zinn), Edinho (Ricardo Vilaca) and Junior (Filipe Massuia), her husband Lindomar (Zecarlos Machado) and her mother Dona (Berta Zemel) who is slowly losing her sight.

The first of Hollywood’s six 3D blockbusters, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is directed by special effects master and several time Oscar nominee Eric Brevig who has worked on films like TWISTER, PEARL HARBOR and HOOK.  The Jules Verne 19th century novel is a natural pick for a 3D movie with characters venturing to a strange land beneath the surface and encountering wild creatures and strange vegetation.