“Me and Orson Welles” is perhaps among the most heartfelt movies that have ever been made. Orson Welles casts Richard Samuels for the part of Lucius in an interpretation of “Julius Caesar,” and it is the final week of rehearsal. Most of the actors are lusting after the Welles’ assistant, Sonja, who finds Richard’s innocence amusing and leads him on. Richard, returning the infatuation, believes it to be true but then discovers her relationship with Welles is something other than business.

A moment is shown where Welles drops his guard after seeing Richard pull out a copy of the novel “The Magnificent Ambersons”, and Welles, with sadness in his eyes, mentions how it is about how “it all gets taken away.” It is a moving moment because we already know he directs the film years later and subsequently had the film taken from him and recut. He speaks about the loss of the film with such despair that it is almost as if he had lost a family member, or even a child. It moves us to think that self-destruction is already gathering force.

Opening night comes and “Julius Caesar” receives a standing ovation, prompting Welles to question how he will do better next time. In his eyes, however, there is a glint that assures the audience that he is not worried in the least. Richard, meanwhile, just experienced something much larger than himself and in the end, he feels all life seems to be far more ahead of him, but that he cannot help but share in his rapture.

Embodying a ‘Thank you for smoking’ vibe, Up in the Air follows a fast paced story line which follows how Ryan Bingham, played by George Clooney, an aloof, top corporate executive whose millions of frequent-flyer miles just cannot keep him above the emotional turbulence he tries to avoid. Bingham spends most of his life traveling around the world firing people for corporate executives who cannot bring themselves to do the dirty work.

Called a ’slickly engaging piece of lightweight existentialism’, the movie is Jason Reitman’s third film which cleverly taps into certain cultural aspects of a present-day zeitgeist, which is portrayed in a slightly comical manner.

Clooney’s excellent comic timing and the wonderful interplay between Clooney and Natalie played by Anna Kendrick put together a delicious comedy you must watch. The story adapted from Walter Kirns novel with Sheldon Turner has wonderful overhead shots of a few American cities, giving the movie excellent production value, as are the transitions as characters move around the country.

The Rotten Tomatoes consensus on the movie was “Led by charismatic performances by its three leads, director Jason Reitman delivers a smart blend of humour and emotion with just enough edge for mainstream audiences.” The reality portrayed in the movie rings true to what everyone goes through at an airport with the racial stereotypes much around, even though we would like to think that society has progressed for the better. Another review on Up in the Air stated, “Any film that tells his [Bingham's] story would have to be light on its feet, but the deftness and surety of Jason Reitman’s latest work defy the law of gravity. Look, up in the sky: a terrific, nimble movie.”

Called ‘a series at the top of its game’ by Robert Canning of IGN, 30 Rock’s third season scored a whopping 9.3 on a scale of 10, is now available on DVD by Universal Studios.

Alynda Wheat of Entertainment Weekly on a review of the DVD release said “sort of like the first day of school after summer vacation: sort of awkward at times, but fast and buoyant and warmly familiar all the same”. Although Brian Lowry of Variety called the third season “wildly uneven” and said 30 Rock was “merely a good comedy whose shortcomings prevent it from joining the ranks of great ones.”

30 Rock’s third season received 22 Emmy Award nominations, which is the most for a show in 2009, and broke 30 Rock’s own record for the most nominated comedy in a single Primetime Emmy Award year.

This series features a short on the Muppets show: the Muppeteers who work on the set of 30 Rock. The ‘He Needs a Kidney’ musical performance is fabulous and is in the ‘behind the scenes’ segment. The entire segment, though being very factual, goes on to relate how the song was put together and the orchestration mechanics of the performance. Tina Fey’s charater, Liz Lemon attempts to juggle her job and personal life, focusing on trying to adopt a child and find a new boyfriend. Jack Donaghy is also heavily pursuing his love life with Jenna Maroney, and undertakes a film project, while Tracy Jordan reaps the benefits of a video game that we saw at the end of season 2.

Audio commentaries on the DVD are not so hot, because they are simply normal commentaries. The speakers do not have much to say, while Tina Fey is mostly speechless.