Truly awesome! This film pulled me in from the very beginning with its documentary approach and kept me hooked all the way to the intense conclusion! In my Early Thoughts & Opinions I expressed my doubts with Peter Jackson’s “attachment” to the film and Neill Blomkamp’s direction, but I was wrong! This film has such a gritty reality to it, you actually feel like this is happening live in Johannesburg, South Africa. For those who are a little confused about the story from the trailers, although I think that is exactly the [...]

To give you a perfect idea of my feelings towards Funny People I will tell you that once the credits rolled, I turned to my friend next to me and said, “I may have to raise the Year One review after seeing this movie!” Yes, it was really that bad. This movie was long and painful! It seemed to start up so slow and with so much negative energy, that I found myself urged to leave before the rising action. In my opinion, there were so many things wrong with this film that I need three paragraphs to accurately explain [...]

Hilarious for both men and women! The Ugly Truth featuring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler had me laughing consistently throughout! The chemistry between the two is so believably funny; I would have been satisfied watching them argue back and forth for an hour and a half. However, as much as I enjoyed it there are some high and low points of the film which I must discuss. [...]

Let me start this review off by announcing that I have not read this particular book in the series so, I will do my best not to dwell on notes which could reflect the similarities or differences between the film and the book. Furthermore, I loved this movie! Although it has its lacking areas, like all films, it picks up right where Order of the Phoenix leaves off and delivers a character driven side of the story which we have not yet seen in the previous films. Although I do not want to divulge any secrets or surprises, and there were [...]