Christmas is the most wonderful season of the year and when it’s time for Christmas, it’s time to watch some Christmas movies. If you’ll celebrate Christmas in front of the TV, they will serve you the usual Christmas menu: “Love Actually” and “Home Alone” but this year go to the cinema for a change and watch Robert Zemeckis’ “A Christmas Carol”.
This timeless tale was portrayed countless times but the story never gets boring. Ebenezer Scrooge, played by Jim Carrey, doesn’t believe in the spirit of Christmas. He is such a negative and mean man and is haunted by the three ghosts of Christmas; Christmas past, present and future. Ebenezer Scrooge gets to see all that he needs to see just so he would realize what the true spirit of Christmas is.
Basically, the story is still the same but it’s the animation that makes it different. Of course there is a bit of difference on every version as to keep the viewers guessing. This version is spectacular and is available on iMax 3D so viewers can enjoy the animation even further. Jim Carrey’s portrayal of Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge is impressive.
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A chilling movie about true-to-life story of alien abduction (or at least that’s what they believe it is) in Alaska. There are 4 kinds of Alien encounter. The first kind is when a UFO is spotted, 2nd is when there are evidence, 3rd is when an alien made contact and the fourth kind is abduction.
The fact behind the story is based on the mystery of missing persons in Alaska since the 1960’s. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, had videotaped sessions with her patients and discovered some very strange and disturbing evidences of alien encounters and abductions. Olatunde Osunsanmi, the director, had interviewed Dr. Abigail Tyler and that’s how the movie began.
She talked about her experience as a psychologist, detailing information about her patients and their violent reactions under hypnosis. One patient even ended up killing his wife, kids and himself when the doctor couldn’t figure out what his language meant. It’s a spine-tingling movie that will keep you on your toes for the entire movie. The fact that this is not a fictional movie makes it much scarier.
Milla Jovovich portrayed the character of Dr. Abbey Tyler in an impressive manner. The movie was well played and the suspense would lead you up to the very end. All in all, it’s well worth a movie ticket. Go and watch the movie at your local cinema now.
Tales From The Golden Age contains a series of 5 episodes each built around a legend from Romania in the late 80s. The Golden Age was the official name of Ceausescu’s rule, even if in reality people were living in darkness (electricity was off in the evenings on a daily basis for about 2 hours, most of the times there was no hot water, no heating in the houses and no food in the fridges).
The film explores episodes from everyday life of the Golden Age contemporaries – trading food for food, organising meetings with people forced to participate, fear at the workplace etc. The most tragi-comic episode is the episode called Party Photographer – an experienced photographer working for a national newspaper. All the president’s pictures that were to be published had to be approved by a panel of party members – so the pictures had to be edited in order to make the president look taller and better than his official visitor. It was the pre-Photoshop era so the photography tricks had to be made by scissors and glue. One particular episode is shown in the film: the visit of French president Valery Discard d’Estaing – a representative of capitalist world.
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This movie was released last October 16, 2009 but had been filmed 3 years ago with a very low budget. The movie stars who are now being called as 2 very famous unknown people Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat.
Basically, the movie is low budget but for it to have gained such a big impact in the movie industry means something and that’s the reason why I went out and watched the film myself. I must say, the movie will bring chills down your spine. It’s like a regular documentary of paranormal activities in Micah’s house and their effects are minimal but really well done. The scene where Katie was pulled out of their bed and dragged out of their room was fantastic. The ending was the movie’s climax too and it was quite simple but well made.
If you have no clue the actor’s are just acting, you’d probably think this documentary is really the real thing. They truly captured the heart of paranormal activities and that earned them millions of dollars. Kudos to the 2 geniuses for a wonderful job. They managed to beat other more expensively produced horror flicks such as Saw VI and Astroboy ranking number 2 at the box-office next to Michael Jackson’s This Is It movie tribute. It’s a great watch especially for Halloween so make sure you don’t forget to bring popcorns and enjoy the movie.
This movie stars Max Records as Max. This young boy simply loves having fun but felt misunderstood by the world. One time, he got angry and bit his mom and he ran away and that’s the beginning of his amazing adventure.
Max ran away and reached the forest. He ran through the forest and at the edge, he found a small boat that he used to set sail out to sea. He then arrived to a very strange island where he met some very strange creatures that were arguing. There were the wild things and there’s another character named Carol. Carol was destroying the huts and the wild things were mad at him. Max joined him and destroyed the huts. The wild things were so mad at this intruder that they wanted to eat him. Then, Max told them he has super powers and he’s a king from where he came from.
Max was then crowned as their own king but eventually, the wild things and Carol figured out that he wasn’t a real king at all and that he doesn’t have super powers. They got mad at him which made him want to go back home. Carol was mad at him at first but later realized that Max was a good friend. The part where they had their farewell was a very touching scene.
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The Happiest Girl in the World is a film which will not make you the happiest spectator in the world but at times will make you smile or laugh. When the final credits will flow on the screen a natural question might torture you “Was that all?” The script is pretty simple – a 17 year old girl won a car after sending in 3 labels taken from some juice bottles. She and her parents travel to Bucharest to get the car but the girl will take part into a whole day of filming testimonials to encourage people to send in their labels. During the small breaks of the filming sessions, the girl’s parents try to convince her to sign the car selling agreement. The parents want to sell the car and open a touristic hostel with the money.
The viewer is given a “she signs it”-“she signs it not” situation and is fed a lot of repeated actions and lines from shooting the commercial.
The title of the film hides a bit of an irony because the girl cannot fully enjoy her prize (her family want to sell the car straight away). One of her lines in the commercial is “… and I am the happiest girl in the world…” but she doesn’t smile for the camera (and thus making the marketing people of the juice brand go crazy).
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Anyone who has seen the Final Destination movies could tell they are full of blood and gore.
Basically, the theme of the story is still the same as the previous Final Destination movies but you have been warned by previous films and you know what to expect. Basically, the lead actor would be having a premonition of an accident and then later wakes up from that dream and realises everything’s happening the way he dreamt it. In this movie, the lead character is Nick O’Bannon. He had a premonition during the race car show that there will be a race-car crash. In his dreams the accident was horrific and a lot of people lost their lives. One had been decapitated while others had either been burned or crashed in the stampede or poked by falling debris. Upon waking up from that dream, Nick realize that his dream seems to be coming true and started to panic.
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Eric Bana plays Henry DeTamble, a librarian who has this very strange gene that causes him to travel back and forth in time involuntarily. Rachel McAdams plays Clare Abshire, the woman who fell in love with Henry and became his wife even though they get to be apart because of his rare time travelling condition.
This movie is really about love and what its deepest meanings. It can be related to our own lives and how we love another with no condition. How can we beat the love of Clare for Henry when she had to build her life with him even though he goes time travelling involuntarily and leaves her behind?
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District 9 stars Sharlto Copley as Wikus Van De Merwe. The story is set 20 years ago when the alien ship had reached Earth and arrived at Johannesburg in South Africa. They just hovered around Johannesburg for 3 months and did not have any contact with the humans but humans had decided to go inside the ship to see what’s going on. Inside the ship they found aliens, lots of them, and they all looked very sick and thin. It turned out that these aliens were just workers and their leaders may have been wiped out by a plague.
The prawns, as what the aliens were called, were then put as captive in District 9. The story evolves around Wikus Van de Merwe in the year 2010. Wikus is a field operative of MNU and he is tasked to move all the 1.8 million aliens from District 9 to 10. He went into an alien residence where a dark liquid was squirted on his face and eventually led to his arm to mutate into the arm of an alien. When Wikus suffered the transformation, he was able to use the aliens’ weapons.
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This movie was released on August 7 2009 and it stars the ever graceful Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams star as Julie Powell. This is a biography movie with a bit of drama, romance and some comedy too. It’s a great movie to watch.
Basically, the story is about 2 women named Julia Child and Julie Powell. Both are from different times - Julia Child is from the past and Julie Powell is from today’s time. Both of them had written memoirs about their lives and their lives had intertwined although separated by time.
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