Movie of the Week: Jurassic Park

Title: Jurassic Park

Director: Steven Spielberg

Release year: 1993

Notable cast: Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern

Genre: Action, adventure

Recommended for: everyone – we should all see it at least once!

Rating: 5/5

Description: I always have loved this film and always will! I think it is timeless, especially because I must say the special effects are still as good as today’s special effects! Everytime, my breath is taken away when we see the first dinosaurs and I just find it a film full of imagination and wonder that everyone should watch. It has a little bit of everything for everyone, a hint of romance, a bit of scare and a thrill. I also love watching Sam Neill’s character’s relationship with the children grow as he protects them.

Plot Summary: During a preview tour, a dinosaur theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaurs to escape.

Movie of the Week: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Title: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Director: Jim Sharman

Release year: 1975

Notable cast: Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien, Susan Sarandon, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, & Barry Bostwick

Genre: Musical comedy

Recommended for: if you want to have a good time!

Rating: 4/5

Description: I watched this to get the awful remake off my mind and I still love it! It’s not perfect, but it’s not meant to be; it’s meant to be rough around the edges, something which the remake completely missed. It’s got a great balance of crazy, comedy and shock-horror and fun, which makes it enjoyable every time!

Plot Summary: A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a visit to a castle of a mad alien scientist which leads them on a strange journey.

Movie of the Week: Divergent (Cliché right?)

Title: Divergent

Director: Neil Burger

Release year: 2014

Notable cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Kate Winslet

Genre: action, adventure, sci-fi, romance, fantasy

Recommended for: teenagers

Rating: 4/5

Description: I made this movie of the week because I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it, not necessarily because it was fantastic film. There was good chemistry between the leads, however I feel it lacked in the romance department a little, in other words a little more romance and a little less action/violence would have been nice to balance it out a little. Furthermore, both leads impressed me with their acting, I was initially very unsure about them but they did a good job. Overall a good start to the franchise.

Plot Summary: In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she’s Divergent and won’t fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it’s too late.

Favourite quote: “Fear doesn’t shut you down, it wakes you up” -Four

Beetlejuice

Title: Beetlejuice

Director: Tim Burton

Release year: 1988

Notable cast: Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton

Genre: comedy, fantasy, sci-fi

Recommended for:  teens-adults looking for a bit of a laugh

Rating: 3.5/5

Description: probably a little dated now, but still an bizarrely interesting movie that you keep watching just because you wanna know what happens next!

Plot Summary: A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a “bio-exorcist” in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.

Favourite quote: ” Let’s turn on the juice and see what shakes loose.” -beetlegeuse

Movie of the week: The Adjustment Bureau

Title: The Adjustment Bureau

Director: George Nolfi

Release year: 2011

Notable cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt

Genre: sci-fi, thriller, romance

Recommended for: definitely a good one’s to satisfy  both boyfriend (sci-fi, thriller) and girlfriend (romance)

Rating: 4.5/5

Description: captivating, compelling, on-edge, clever in how it blends sci-fi and romance

Plot Summary: The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.

Favourite quote:”You don’t have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will.” -Thompson

E.T

Title: E.T

Director: Steven Spielberg

Release year: 1982

Notable cast: Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace

Genre: sci-fi, fantasy, kids + family

Recommended for: EVERYONE!

Rating: 5/5

Description: ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! So sweet, and magical, contemporary but classic, excellent graphics for the 80’s, MUST SEE FOR EVERYONE!

Plot Summary: A meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial. He has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet.

Favourite quote: “It was nothing like that, penis-breath!” -Elliot

The Hunger Games

Title: The Hunger Games

Director: Gary Ross

Release year: 2012

Notable cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Woody Harrelson

Genre: action, adventure, sci-fi

Recommended for: EVERYONE!

Rating: 4.5/5

Description: should have been more visceral, interesting, excellent cast, amazing sets and costumes (esp. in the Capitol), rich characters, fascinating yet disturbing, A MUST SEE!

*Did you feel like the ending was rushed? I did. I think they needed a better ending for that 5/5! However this is still one of my fave movies (and book series ever)!

Blurb: Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.

Favourite quote: ” Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it’s contained.” -President Snow

 

Director’s Notebook: Catching Fire

Hi,

Just wanted to make sure you’ve all seen the newly released The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Trailer, so here it is:

Who’s looking forward to this film? I know I am!

Super 8

Title: Super 8

Director: J.J Abrams

Release year: 2011

Main cast: Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Kyle Chandler

Genre: mystery, sci-fi, thriller

Recommended for: teens/tweens, maybe kids? It’s just I took my 10 year old cousin and he was terrified!

Rating: 5/5

Description: AWESOME! Suspenseful, must-see, unexpected, best-Spielbergfilm-not-directed-by-Spielberg, homage to 70’s and 80’s films, great sets + costumes + acting

Blurb: During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

Favourite quote: “Lets hug before the monster comes back!”

*This is now one of my fave films!!

Do you think it is a good movie for kids??

In Time

Title: In Time

Director: Andrew Niccol

Release year: 2011

Main cast: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde

Genre: action, sci-fi, thriller

Recommended for: people who like action films but with something different/unusual

Date watched: 2012

Rating: 3.5/5

Description: thrilling, nerve-wracking, intense, different, good vs evil

Blurb: In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage – a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system.