If there's one thing that amazes me about children, it is how they can watch the same thing over and over and over again; it's fascinating. Not only do they watch the same show or movie consecutively, but they're amazed every time the main character is on the screen. During the movie Cars, every … [Read more...]
Warm Bodies: Movie Girl’s Debut Review!
:) hai (thats how we greet each other nowadays) i figured it was time i did a review of a great movie. Warm Bodies its a mixture of zombie and rom-com. now how could anyone say no to that!!? the producers of the movie describe it this way: WARM BODIES is a funny new twist on a classic love story … [Read more...]
Film Review – Wreck-It Ralph
Poor Ralph (John C. Reilly). He's tired of doing the same old job for decades and who can blame him? Wreck-It Ralph is the massive bad guy in a popular video game. He destroys buildings with his huge hands while the hero Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer) comes to the rescue and, you guessed it, … [Read more...]
Film Review – ARGO
Imagine that six US diplomats have taken refuge in a Canadian embassy during an Iranian Revolution in 1979. The revolutionaries haven't discovered them - yet. U.S.- Iranian relations are at a breaking point. You are a CIA rescue specialist and you have a couple of days to get them out before they … [Read more...]
Film Review: Frankenweenie
Much to the chagrin of his father (Martin Short), young Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) is not a sporty kid. He's a bookish ten year-old who rides around the town of New Holland on his bike. He prefers to spend his time making stop action movies which he screens for his family. His best friend … [Read more...]
Film Review – Hotel Transylvania
Count Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) is a successful businessman with a problem. He's a popular owner of a high-end hotel for monsters. His Hotel Transylvania offers a reprieve for monsters of all kinds from us pesky humans. The Count's daughter Mavis (voiced by Selena Gomez) is about to turn the … [Read more...]
TIFF Film Review: Silver Linings Playbook
I saw this movie with hundreds of others, packed into the Winter Garden Theatre during TIFF. When the film's director David O. Russell (The Fighter) came to the podium, he delivered what was probably the shortest intro I've heard at TIFF: "I'd rather not set expectations or talk too much about the … [Read more...]
TIFF Film Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I'll start with two confessions. One: I have a serious soft spot for teenage angst films. Two: I have not read The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the 1999 book written by screenwriter and director Stephen Chbosky - but heard great things. So I when I attended a press screening of the film adaptation … [Read more...]
Wes Anderson rules “Moonrise Kingdom”
Remember the time you first fell in love? When you thought adults were dumb, you may have had trouble fitting in and the only person who "got you" was your first love? It was you against the world and all you wanted to do was be with the object of your love, all the time. Wes Anderson's Moonrise … [Read more...]
Will she or won’t she “Take this Waltz”?
"I'm afraid of being afraid. I don't like in-between things." says Margot (Michelle Williams) at the beginning of Take This Waltz, a movie written and directed by Sarah Polley. Unfortunately for the married Margot, she finds herself right in between things as she meets Daniel (Luke Kirby) on a … [Read more...]
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