Category Archives: Romance

12.12.15
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Brooklyn

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An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a new romance. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Brooklyn is without a doubt one of my favorite movies of the year. Brooklyn is  incredibly stylish, sweet, heartfelt, emotional, and well-acted. Saoirse Ronan delivers my favorite female performance of the year as a very compelling and interesting character who immigrates across the globe and has her life changed in both New York and Ireland. Ronan conveyed every feeling and emotion so realistically, and allowed the audience to relate to her closely. Throughout the film, I felt myself emotionally compelled, at times I was laughing, smiling, and even almost crying at other times, all thanks to Ronan’s deep and strong performance, as well as the way this movie was able to convey every emotion into the film. When Ronan’s character has to make decisions, you are always provoked to think how you would make them yourself. The movie delivers with a great story and screenplay, with a necessarily moderate length, a tad less than 2 hours, but still fits the story perfectly. Everything about the set and costume designing was great as well. I found Brooklyn to be a movie that has something great that has something for everyone, so I definitely recommend a big screen experience for this film.

Brooklyn delivers a great story with fantastic emotions, performances, and has something for everyone, no matter what your taste in film is like. If you want a charming and amazing time at the movies, I would recommend you see this.

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12.14.12
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Playing for Keeps

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George Dryer (played by Gerard Butler) is a divorced former professional soccer player who wants to be closer to his son, Lewis (played by Noah Lomax), so he decides to coach his son’s soccer team and falls in love with the players’ moms (played by Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Judy Greer).

This movie probably isn’t on my top 10 or 20 or 30 favorite movies list. But I still like it. I really liked Gerard Butler’s role, as well as Jessica Biel’s role as George’s ex-wife, Stacie. I would recommend this film for children 13 and over, but I think mostly adults would like this movie.

Also, here is the website and the trailer for the movie.

11.09.12
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Paperman

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This 7-minute black-and-white short film is theatrical with Wreck-It Ralph, and it is a combination of hand-drawn animation and computer animation. I really liked this technique. In this short film, a man tries to send a paper airplane to his love. The director of the short is John Kahrs and the producer is John Lasseter (director of Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Cars and Cars 2).The technique they used that blends hand-drawn animation and computer animation, called “final line advection”, gives the artists and animators a lot more influence and control over the final product as everything is done within the same department; the artists quoted, “In Paperman, we didn’t have a cloth department and we didn’t have a hair department. Here, folds in the fabric, hair silhouettes and the like come from of the commited design decision-making that comes with the 2D drawn process. Our animators can change things, actually erase away the CG underlayer if they want, and change the profile of the arm. And they can design all the fabric in that Milt Kahl kind-of way, if they want to.”

Also, here are some videos from the short.

08.02.12
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Moonrise Kingdom

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Yesterday, I saw the movie Moonrise Kingdom with my grandmother. We both really enjoyed the movie. It was pure pleasure and we both felt like we didn’t want it to end. Set in the summer of 1965 on an island called New Penzance, the protagonists are two 12-year old kids, Sam and Suzy. Sam is an orphan raised by foster parents and attending a scout summer camp. Suzy is a somewhat sad girl, living with her parents and her 3 brothers in a house called Summer’s End. Sam is rejected by everyone, including his foster parents and fellow scouts, while Suzy’s parents are constantly fighting and are showing no affection for their children and for each other. Sam and Suzy had met a year earlier at a church performance, became pen pals, and finally decided to run away together and leave on a remote beach away from everyone else. When their absence is discovered, everyone on the island begins to search for them, including the scout master, Sam’s fellow scouts, the local police captain, and Suzy’s parents. Sam and Suzy soon realize that they are soul mates,very much in love and won’t live without each other. Their love touches the hearts of Suzy’s parents, the police captain, the scout master and even Sam’s fellow scouts, and when Sam and Suzy are found, they all decide to help them stay together and the police captain decides to become Sam’s foster parent.

The setting of the movie felt like a fairy tale. It was partly funny and partly sad and touching and the drama was intensified by the forces of nature (flood, hurricane and lightning storm). The main idea which I found extremely touching, that the love between Sam and Suzy changed their lives and the lives of everyone around them. Sam and Suzy were both loveless children, but the love between them made all the difference and changed everyone’s lives.

The cast of the movie includes Bruce Willis as the police captain, Edward Norton as the scout master, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand as Suzy’s parents, Jared Gilman as Sam and Kara Hayward as Suzy. Moonrise Kingdom will be available on DVD and Blu-ray starting October 16.

Also, here is the Moonrise Kingdom trailer.

07.06.12
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The Artist

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4 months ago, I went to see the movie The Artist with my grandmother, who had come to visit us from Israel. Even though the movie was silent ( like the old movies before the talkies), I enjoyed it. Some parts were sad, but some parts were also funny. It is about a silent movie actor named George Valentin, who falls in love with a young woman named Peppy Miller. When talking movies begin, George refuses to start making talking movies with his studio, while Peppy, on the other hand, becomes a big star of talkies. George goes on making silent movies by himself, which fail, and leaving him unemployed, miserable, and alcoholic and he even tries to kill himself. At the end, George and Peppy end up starring in a talking movie together. It is a tribute to the first films ever made ( the silent films), and as a movie lover, I enjoyed experiencing the beginning of cinema. It is a movie about love, friendship, believing in yourself and moving on with time/progress.

Also, here is the trailer of The Artist: