FS Picks of the Week, Feb 16-22 |Frustrated Sosyalera

Every Monday, Frustrated Sosyalera will try to bring you the best of the week to come -- called FS Picks of the Week. If I get the movie schedules wrong, I'm sorry. Sometimes the showing times aren't final 'til Wednesday, so tough. =P

Looks like it's book week at the cinemas where Confessions of a Shopaholic (yeah, yeah I didn't get the Gucci bag nor the free movie tickets so shut up already) and He's Just Not That Into You opens and Gran Torino finally makes it to Manila. Read on for details.

~oOo~ FILMS ~oOo~

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Starring
Isla Fisher
Hugh Dancy

Plot
A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur. Based on the novel "Confessions of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella.(imdb)

RottenTomatoes Rating: 21% rotten (gulp)

He's Just Not That Into You

Starring
Ben Affleck
Jennifer Aniston
Drew Barrymore
Jennifer Connelly

Plot
Based on the wildly popular bestseller from Sex and the City scribes Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, He's Just Not That Into You tells the stories of a group of interconnected, Baltimore-based twenty- and thirtysomethings as they navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life, trying to read the signs of the opposite sex... and hoping to be the exceptions to the "no-exceptions" rule. (rottentomatoes.com)

RottenTomatoes Rating: 42% rotten (passable?)

Gran Torino

Starring
Clint Eastwood
Christopher Carley
Bee Vang
Ahney Her

Plot
For his fourth directorial feature in the span of two years, Clint Eastwood tells the story of a grizzled Korean War vet's reluctant friendship with a Hmong teenage boy and his immigrant family.

RottenTomatoes Rating: 77% fresh (not bad!)

~oOo~ CONCERTS ~oOo~