I Wanna See ...

Lately I become a movie buff. I have been hitting of the movies every week. These little outting are getting rather expensive seeing as to how I don't have a man to buy my movie tickets. That is a whole 'nother story in and of itself, but N-E way there a few movies that I haven't seen, but have been hearing some rave reviews about: The Express and The Secret Life of Bees.

The Express is a bio-pic about the late Erine Davis (Rob Brown), two-time All-American running back for Syracuse University who led his team to the national championship in 1960. In 1961, he became the first black man to win the Heisman Trophy. Later that year, he was the first pick in the NFL draft. But Davis never got the chance to play professional football, he was diagnosed with leukemia during the summer of 1962 and died nearly a year later at the age of 24.

The Secret Life of Bees is a book turned movie. Set in South Carolina in 1964, the tale of Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), a 14-year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters: May (Sophie Okonedo), June (Alicia Keys), and August (Queen Latifah), Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping, honey, and the Black Madonna.