Daniel Radcliffe in December Boys

All said this film was an excellent next move for an emerging child-to-adult actor. Radcliffe did well in it. He does restrained emotion very well, which allows viewers to be involved in the story but keep an emotional detachment from its progress. In that respect, the film isn't over dramatized. It accomplishes allowing viewers to identify with each of the boys without being sentimental, which I think shows the craft of the writing and direction more than any other facet of the film. It's clearly a very sad and traumatic time, in the adult mind watching it. But for the young ones living it it's just... life, a time that when processed later as adults, they realized how pivotal it was.

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City of Rott - Animated Zombie Movie

Wow. Just wow. An animated zombie movie just filled with gut-eating, head-popping, and oddness. Really, this movie makes no sense at all.
City of Rott, made in 2006, doesn't take any time to get off the ground. We immediately start off watching a nurse get attacked and bitten by zombies in a shopping mall, and hence we learn that the zombie plague is spread via these evil little brain worms that are transferred into fresh victims through a bite, are ejaculated out the zombies themselves and can infect you by, say, crawling into your ear, and they also inhabit most the water supplies. So pretty much the entire City of Rott is populated by the undead. We only see about seven human characters grace the screen for a handful of minutes before they die.
Except Fred. He's the "star" of this movie. Him, his walker, and his right slipper.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

If you liked the first two films, then you should see this one. It picks up where the last one left off and leaves many questions unanswered, but that really isn’t the problem. It is entertaining, made to be a blockbuster hit. And for that, it delivers, giving you the thrill of the first time, but only the first time. But by the end of this movie, there are so many loose ends left to be tied that the fourth film is inevitable, if only anybody knew that three times was too much and I want to get off the ride.

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Animation - Ratatouille

Yesterday I watched "Ratatouille". It had been highly recommended by friends and it was nominated for a Golden Globe. I tend to start watching things that have been nominated now, as I like to try to see as many of the Oscar noms before the date. I'd recommend Ratatouille. It's cute, clever and visually fun, and it's sure to appeal to foodies.

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Comedy - How The Grinch Stole Christmas

The basic story line as you all know is about the Grinch who hates Christmas. So much so, that on Christmas Eve one year, annoyed at all the holiday cheerfulness, he decided he’d stop Christmas from coming! Sneaking into the Who’s houses and stealing all their toys, decorations, Christmas trees and even the ‘roast beast!’ But the greatest lesson for the Grinch and movie viewers to learn is that Christmas spirit goes deeper than tinsel and toys.

Now I personally don’t have a preference between Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Ron Howard’s version with Jim Carrey. I like Dr. Seuss’ version because it was the one I grew up with. I love the animation and the narration by Boris Karloff. I also feel the music was one of a kind; especially ‘You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.’ However, I thoroughly enjoyed Jim Carrey as the Grinch in the 2000 remake. Jim Carrey is great for the part, not only for his usual crazy antics but also in part by his facial expressions which actually mimic the original Grinch character! I have to give kudos to the directors/writers for being able to reinvent a beloved childhood classic into an hour and a half magical tale. Both versions are definitely wholesome family entertainment for adults and children alike. I give them my highest recommendation and hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

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The Simpsons Movie

I remember growing up with the Simpsons, watching it nearly every time it was on TV. It was funny, brilliant at times and most of all, extremely entertaining. It was one of my daily drugs, at least until I grew weary of it. Some people say it jumped the shark, but with a series that is still going since 1989 I don’t think you can say it jumped the shark only once, it probably has many times, and came back again. What I know is that I stopped watching some years ago. Never felt the need to revisit it.

And then came the movie, which I expected to be competent, but not really good. Well, I was wrong. The Simpsons movie is all how the series was like, when I still liked and watched it. It has an excellent plot, it’s funny and every character feels like he’s alive, in some other parallel universe where people are yellow. The movie made me care again for this bunch of fallibly but oh so human characters. It’s not the longest movie, but it doesn’t feel like just another TV-episode stretched for the big screen. It’s a story that actually feels big, important enough to be told on the big screen. And the movie made me itch to search out the rest of the seasons I missed. Sure, there might be awful stuff and lowpoints, but there must be good stuff too.

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Bruce Willis - Live Free or Die Hard

Live Free or Die Hard is the fourth installment in the legendary Die Hard series. Unlike the other Die Hard movies that largely involved explosions, guns, and high-speed car chases, Live Free or Die Hard seems to be trying to gain the appeal of all the geeks around the world. In this digital age, everything is controlled by computers and so the bad guy in this film is some guy who’s hacking into some of the biggest computers, like the ones that control our traffic lights and the ones that manage our banking information. Bruce Willis is definitely getting a little too old for roles like this and while I thought it was a little quirky to cast Justin Long (from the “I’m a Mac” ads) in a huge supporting role, the film as a whole is a bit of a let-down. Live Free or Die Hard is reasonably entertaining, but it doesn’t deserve to be a part of the Die Hard franchise.

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