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AN EXCITING ACTION THRILLER BATTLESHIP Review by John Delia Who’d ever think they could make a film from a kids Hasbro board game and come
May 18, 2012
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AN EXCITING ACTION THRILLER BATTLESHIP Review by John Delia Who’d ever think they could make a film from a kids Hasbro board game and come
A WILD AND WACKY JOHNNY DEPP FILM DARK SHADOWS Taunting the audience with trailers that promise a quirky horror flick with a lot of
The film Melancholia by writer and director Lars von Trier stimulates the artistic part of the brain with sprawling landscape images, ominous tableaus and threatening visuals of a drifting planet. The film moves along playing out like the definition of its title. Melancholia: a mental condition and especially a manic-depressive condition characterized by extreme depression, bodily complaints, and often hallucinations and delusions.
Hollywood has a way of reinventing things by rejuvenating characters and bringing them up to date with all the bells and whistles necessary to make it ‘fresh and new.’ This is the case of the film Conan the Barbarian as reviewed by John Delia and Marisa Ings.
The movie Hanna has a lot of relentless action and for that the adrenaline seekers will be grateful. It has Saoirse Ronan and her tough sweetness surly blisters the screen. Beautifully photographed, nicely acted and directed, but the storyline didn’t move me.
Going over in my mind the adventures of Harry Potter who gets thrust into wizardry in a strange school never knowing what the future will bring, I found the first six films increasingly enjoyable. During each year at the academy of dark arts, Harry and his friends fight their way out of perilous situations. With this final book the boy wonder is now an adult and is still trying to figure out his destiny, but this time Harry and his friends are on the run from ‘you know who’.
Well they did it again, the movie industry jumped to a level beyond science fiction with Surrogates. It’s called unrealistic. When you make an unrealistic film, you expect the audience to get suckered into a plot so unbelievable that their fantasy brain buds take over and accept what they are watching.
Darkly written, keenly animated, stuffed with cool characters, the action adventure 9 is an excellent film that entertains from beginning to its thrilling ending. I enjoyed Shane Acker’s moving and futuristic message of machines overtaking the earth.
“KICKING OUT ALIENS” Starring: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike, John Sumner and Vanessa Haywood Directed by: Neill Blomkamp MPAA Rating: R for
Mystical, mushy and meager is the best way to describe the movie version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth in a series of seven books by J.K. Rowling. Not your ordinary kid friendly film, but more of an updated drama filled with romance, some adventure and sinister machinations.