Ideal Holiday Movies

This list may be a little late for Diwali (Hindu New Year), but they will be wonderful share with family and friends during the coming holiday season. If you get a chance to watch a few, let me know what you though in the Comments section. Cheers!
The Holiday (Jack Black, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet)
Last Holiday (Queen Latifa, LL Cool J)
While You Were Sleeping (Sandra Bulluck)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Judy Dench)
Sabrina (Harrison Ford)
Eat Pray Love (Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem)
Return to Me (David Duchovny, Minnie Driver)
Letters to Juliet (Amanda Seyfried, Gael Garcia Bernal)
The Big Wedding (Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon)
Keeping the Faith (Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman)

Movie Review: THOR: THE DARK WORLD

Thank you for checking back from time to time. I have been busy writing about Hinduism for a website my sister, Monica, set up to raise money for the completion of a school building at an ashram in South India. But I am here now and I want to share my thoughts on the new THOR movie.For those of you who do not know this by now, the second installation of the THOR franchise just came out last weekend. The title of the movie is Thor: The Dark World. It stars Chris Hemsworth (hubba hubba) as the main character, Natalie Portman (as his lady love), Tom Hiddleston (as the evil brother who still has an element of goodness in him), Anthony Hopkins (the daddy of them all), and Rene Russo (the glue that holds them altogether).I have gone to see many of the movies that have come out this year that are in the same genre as Thor. But a lot of them fell short. That is why I didn’t know what to expect when I entered the theater for this movie.  Well, I shouldn’t have worried.  The movie blew my reservations right out of the water!The movie opened at a scene two years after Thor bid farewell to Jane Foster. During that time, the Asgardians were busy in battle, restoring peace to the Nine Realms.  Now, during a moment of triumph and celebration, Thor found himself pining for that one girl that got away.Well, Jane Foster is no ordinary female. She is an astrophysicist who is still trying to figure out how to connect to Asgard, a world she knows almost nothing about. But that soon changes when she accidentally releases a mighty energy that can control the universe! Learning that this power has transmutated into Foster’s body, Thor brings her home to Asgard to figure out how to extract energy before it kills her.As the planets of the Nine Realms grow hungry for that very power, Asgard prepares for war. But Thor knows that the people of Asgard cannot withstand the onslaught of one regime after another. So he defies his father’s dictates and enlists the help of his wayward brother. How these two princes forge a truce and work together to keep the battle from coming to Asgard is what you must find out when you see the movie. But let me tell you, what I expected to be a fairy-tale ending was anything but.