SYDNEY WHITE is not a film based on classic literature, acclaimed novel or runaway bestseller.  The film is a campy take on the well known fairy tale SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS reset during the first year of college freshman Sydney White (Amanda Bynes).  Sydney pledges her late mother’s sorority.  But this sisterhood is now run by the vainest and most evil campus Queen of them all, Rachel (Sarah Paxton).  Naïve and kind Sydney, brought up in a male environment by her single dad (John Schneider) is expectedly ousted from the sorority.  But with the help of 7 hopeless social outcasts, Sydney finds her Price Charming (Matt Long) and becomes the new queen.

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!  These will arguably be the most famous and inspirational words voiced by man.  Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface.  The documentary by David Sington IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON boasts the story of the Apollo missions told by the surviving crew members from NASA’s Apollo astronauts. 

The actors are meticulously costumed and cloaked, photographed within picturesque scenes of the Missouri countryside among impeccable props.  They spew poetic prose while the soundtrack varies from traditional folklore to piano music.  These descriptions are not likely to accompany a Hollywood western.  Unless it happens to be the odd almost 3 hour artistic saga with Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck entitled THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD.  As the title tells, Jesse James will be shot, Robert Ford is portrayed a coward and the film would tell of the anatomy and aftermath of the assassination.

The curse of Chuck and the luck of the ladies:  Any woman sleeping with Charlie (Dane Cook from EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH) results in the next man she meets being her true love.  This is the simple premise of GOOD LUCK CHUCK which falls into the curse of typical Hollywood romantic comedies of cliché after cliché imagined being used.

At the film’s start, the statement “Only the most ridiculous parts of this film are true” proudly flashes on the screen.” This bold challenge inevitably forces cineastes to consider how much truth there is in it.