Girlfriend's Day

Hi classmates,

This week’s movie is called “Girlfriend's Day”. It is a new movie just came out this year.

In a city where greeting card writers are celebrated like movie stars, Romance writer Ray used to be the king. In trying to recapture the feelings that once made him the greatest, he gets entangled in a web of murder and deceit as writer vie.

http://ew.com/movies/2017/02/01/bob-odenkirk-girlfriends-day/

Here is a short clip and I hope you guys will enjoy this movie!

Win It All

Hi everyone!

This week’s movie is called “Win It All” by Joe Swanberg. It introduces a story of Eddie agrees to watch a duffel bag for an acquaintance who is heading to prison. When he discovers cash in the bag, he is unable to resist the temptation and winds up deeply in debt. When the prison release is shortened, Eddie suddenly has a small window of time to win all the money back.

Jake Johnson, Rony Shemon and Morgan Ng are the main stars in this movie.

I hope you guys will enjoy this movie. :)

Amadeus

Hi guys,

This week’s movie is called Amadeus. 

Peter Shaffer's acclaimed play received the adaptation treatment from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest director Milos Forman, and it might be the greatest biopic of all time. Starring Tom Hulce as the giggling composer and F. Murray Abraham as his struggling contemporary Antonio Salieri, Amadeus extrapolates creative pursuits through bitter rivalry, discovering how masterpieces and failures, disasters and sophisticates, can bang together into history as one invisible, harmonic chord.  

Overall, this is a great movie and I hope you will enjoy it!

The Fate of the Furious 8

Hi guys!

There is no doubt that thousands of us have seem the movie “Fast & Furious” somehow. On the upcoming week (April 14), there is an awesome movie called “Fate and the Furious 8” will appeal in the movie theater. In fact, I am one of their fans! I’m so looking forward to see this movie with friends at the Ward Consolidated Theater.



 In the beginning, I thought it is just a movie about racing and winning. In fact, it involves family and love which makes me so exciting about this upcoming one and I can’t wait to see it in next week! 

Here is a short trailer about the Fate and the Furious 8 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DMpqplvADQ 

I look forward to see you guys at the theater!!! 

The legend of 1900

Hi everyone!

This week's movie is called "The legend of 1900".

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Writer: Alessandro Baricco, Giuseppe Tornatore

Casts: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill Nunn, Melanie Thierry

Awarded: Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, David di Donatello for Best Director & Best Music 

Length: 2h 50m

Rating: ★★★★☆

Viewers comments: 

"The Legend of 1900" is not the most attractive title for a film and the Italian original, "The Legend of the Oceanic Pianist", is no better. in retrospect there is no title worthy of this film. The marquee should read simply "See This Film, Your Life Will Be Better for It."

As its pianist, this film could be bound for success, but the fact is, it remained relatively obscure. I can't understand why did a movie with this deepness and feeling end up in oblivion. Because, if there are some beautiful movies, this is one of them, from the moment that fantastic Ennio Morricone score begins until we witness the tear-jerking finale.

After seeing this movie I went straight to my video store to buy their copy.

Did you know?

There was actually a registered ship named the SS Virginian which was built in 1904 and scrapped around 1954. The ship had one funnel with the Allan Liner's colors on it. 

Have the popcorn ready and enjoy!

Arrival

Hey everyone!

This week's movie is called "Arrival". 

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Writer: Eric Heisseerer, Ted Chiang

Casts: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien

Awarded: Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie, Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, BAFTA Award for Best Sound

Length: 1h 58m

Rating: ★★★★☆

Viewers comments:

Positive—I forgive this film’s clever attempt at promoting globalism… And I do so, because the film is a stunning sci-fi movie. I can’t recall for a long while being so captivated and enthralled by the sustained wonder, as well as the tension, that this movie is able to not only create but maintain.

Neutral— Staring up to the stars and not knowing what is up there will only create a void that has to be filled. It can be filled by God, or, in this case, Aliens. The movie “Arrival” chooses the latter. Language is very interesting.

Did you know?

Trivia

The siren emitted throughout the movie signaling the scientists' preparation to approach the ship is identical to the siren used in The Purge (2013) and its sequels.

In the end, I hope you like this movie! Have a good spring break!

The Babadook

Hey Everyone!

This week's movie is called "The Babadook".

Director: Jennifer Kent 

Writer: Jennifer Kent

Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West

Awarded:  Empire Award for Best Horror, AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay,
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Film

Length: 1h 35m

Rating:★★★★☆

Viewers comments:  

The line between terrifying reality and terrifying fantasy isn't so much blurred as altogether obliterated. ___John Semley 

The film has a solid grasp on the mutable, but ever-present pain of loss. ___Lenika Cruz

It presents grief as a demon, questions reality, and creeps out the viewer by making psychopathology seem like something that could happen to anybody. ___Jim Slotek

 Did you know?
According to writer and director Jennifer Kent, the Babadook was designed based on stills from the lost film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney.

In the end, I hope you enjoy watching this film!