Top Movie Blog

Previous Week Top Ten Box Office - January 23/29, 2006:

1. Big Momma’s House 2 - new
2. Nanny McPhee - new
3 Underworld: Evolution
( Weeks Released 2 - Last week on 1st place )
4. Annapolis - new
5. Hoodwinked
( Weeks Released 3 - Last week on 2nd place )
6. Brokeback Mountain
( Weeks Released 8 - Last week on 5th place )
7. Glory Road
( Weeks Released 3 - Last week on 3th place )
8. Last Holiday
( Weeks Released 3 - Last week on 4th place )
9. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
( Weeks Released 8 - Last week on 6th place )
10. The Matador
( Weeks Released 5 - Last week on 28th place )

Out of Top Ten Box Office of last week are:

• Fun with Dick and Jane
• End of the Spear
• Hostel
• King Kong

Nanny McPhee is a movie based on a series of British books published for children in the 60’s, titled Nurse Matilda and written by Christianna Brand. With his children - who are nightmare - and with the family’s evil Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) - who has been supplementing the families income and threatens to tear the family apart and send him to debtor’s prison if he does not marry within the month - the widowed father Mr Brown find himself in a complicate situation but that until Nanny McPhee arrives at his door, determined to turn the children into upstanding citizens. Thanks to Nanny McPhee’s 5 lessons, we see transformations both in the lives of the Brown family as well as with Nanny McPhee. What follows is a story quite fictitious and fairy tale-like.

Genre: Comedy
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly MacDonald, Celia Bannerman
Directed by: Kirk Jones
Produced by: Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner

Score 3 / 5

Annapolis movie about Jake Huard (James Franco), who had always dreamed of attending Annapolis Naval Academy and becoming a naval officer, being just the son of a poor dock worker. With the help of his father Bill (Brian Goodman), Jake becomes a promising amateur boxer and Annapolis has a legendary annual boxing competition, so he’s championed for admittance by navy recruiter Lt. Commander Burton (Donnie Wahlberg).

Unfortunately Jake’s dream (which came true) turns into a nightmare thanks to his instructor Cole (Tyrese Gibson) and of course the two will end up in the final round of the boxing competition. The best parts of the movie were the indirect lessons on what it takes to be a good father. Several scenes showed what kind of impact parents have (positive and negative) when they encourage their sons or ignore them.

Genre: Drama
Starring: James Franco, Jordana Brewster, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Donnie Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson
Directed by: Justin Lin
Produced by: Steven Nicolaides, Mark Vahradian, Gym Hinderer

Score: 3 / 5