Movies

Each movie is given a star rating with five stars being the best.
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The Adventures... (2011)

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)*

Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure

Director: Steven Spielberg.

Key Cast: Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis.

Run Time: 107 minutes.

Summary: Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.

Review: Everything about the film was perfect. The motion-capture technique with which the film was made, as well as the characters that are familiar from my childhood, it was all so great. Jamie Bell was great as Tintin, he really brought something special to the character. The humour was also spot-on.

X-Men: First Class (2011)

X-Men: First Class (2011)*

Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Director: Matthew Vaughn.

Key Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon.

Run Time: 132 minutes.

Summary: In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start world war III.

Review: I have nothing to say except that I love everything about the film. The cast was great, the effects were awesome and the back stories of characters that are already so well-known were brilliantly carried out. I was quite sad when the film ended.

The Fall (2006)

Genre: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy

Director: Tarsem Singh.

Key Cast: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell.

Run Time: 117 minutes.

Summary: In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

Review: Lee's performance as Roy and the relationship between him and Alexandria was my favourite aspect of the film, and I also loved the entire look and feel of it. The film was beautifully shot.

Billy Elliot (2000)

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Music

Director: Stephen Daldry.

Key Cast: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis.

Run Time: 110 minutes.

Summary: A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Review: I love everything about this film, especially Jamie Bell's performance. It was absolutely brilliant, in more ways than one. Even as a young boy he was extremely gorgeous, so watching him was not something I complained about. Seeing how Billy was treated by his family made me incredibly angry, but that was the only negative feeling I had when I watched the film.

101 Dalmatians (1961)

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Family

Production Co: Walt Disney.

Run Time: 79 minutes.

Summary: When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

Review: This is one of my favourite Disney classics and I used to watch it a lot when I was little, so the film stir old memories and it's quite emotional. I feel particularly strongly about animals as main characters and I love how the dogs interact with one another. The 'twilight bark' is amazing, one of my favourite scenes in the film, and it kind of makes me wonder if dogs actually can communicate that way.