where did they all go?

Ack, movies. Sometimes you love them, sometimes you hate them, and sometimes, they pretty much disappear!
It has been rainy outside, but a severe drought in the good movie department lately.
Alas, I’ve been biding my time getting wisdom ripped from my mouth, recovering and exploring the city that never sleeps!

If anyone reading this ever gets a chance to go to New York City any time soon, go see HAIR. It was brilliant. We also saw In The Heights, the Tony for best new musical last year, and it was really fun!

Sidetracked. Okay, so what I have watched, has really been few and far between, but here it goes.

LAST CHANCE HARVEY

Starring Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman, it is a “Before Sunrise” movie for the baby boomers. I really liked the “before” series of movies and am praying for another one, but this movie had the same simplicity, but in more of a mainstream way. Two people meet in a faraway land, and spend the day with a total stranger. I long to have an encounter like any of these when I travel, but instead I get hit on by very old fish monger/market stall men or an overly friendly South African dude wanting to share a lot more than his Maurician Spiced Rum. shudder.
Hoffman and Thompson are both ‘losers’ of sorts, not really anywhere in life, and instantly connect. If you want a sweet LIGHT romantic comedy, an escape from the depressing stuff in your real worlds, then watch it for sure.

TAKEN

Okay, I have to say, I was pretty impressed by Mr. Liam Neeson. When this movie hit theatres, it didn’t really garner any attention until week 3 when it made it to top spot. It was a good action movie, it didn’t take long to get to the story. Maggie Grace seemed a little bit old to play his 17 year old daughter (she’s actually26) but she tries to act, walk, run (esp) like a teenager. I don’t know why I remembered that part. She gets kidnapped and put into ‘white slavery’  in Europe. It’s a good crazy quick ride.

BRIDE WARS

Do Not Do It. Seriously, I like fun chick flicks like everyone else, but it was pretty sad. Kate Hudson actually looked like she was trying to hide a pregnancy the entire time, and quite honestly Anne Hathaway is way better than that. I laughed a few times, but whatever. It would be good maybe for a rainy sunday afternoon when you have nothing better to do.

CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

It’s a magic trick. A very long one, and it is fascinating to watch the whole aging thing, but I was expecting a lot more. Cate Blanchette is great as always, but the store jumps back and forth over and over and over again.

VALKYRIE

I turned it on, and twenty minutes later, I turned it off. I just didn’t care.

And that’s about it.

For those of you looking to the theatre, I went with D to see THE SOLOIST. Robert Downey Jr. THANK GOD you are a recovered alcohold and drug user. Hollywood is better having you around on screen. Jamie Foxx is great as well, the story is strong and meaningful and makes you take a deep breath after it’s done to pull yourself up and out of it. The director of photography, Seamus McGarvey, UNBELIEVABLE. Every scene change, I wanted to snap a picture. He told a story on top of the story.

Anyhoo, that’s my opinion, in case it matters.

As Bleak as the Weather!

So it’s springtime in the capital. The ‘winter and spring are duking it out’ (thanks D for the great quote) and it looks like spring is in the lead. The rain is simply washing away the last signs of winter and buds are slowly rearing their heads through the soil.

Sadly, it’s slow going, and so are the movie choices…I apologize for missing last week’s installment, but to be honest, I only watched one of the movies I brought home, and didn’t want to dedicate an entire page to one movie. If I were to do that, it would have been for Slumdog.

So, let’s begin shall we?

Last week was THE READER. Kate Winslet, you are  beautiful and fearless and inspiring to actresses around the world. It’s an challenging premise involving Nazi War Crimes, a torrid love affair between a woman and a very, very young man. Kate doesn’t look as ‘old’ as she’s supposed to be at the begining of the movie, she’s gorgeously simple and utterly fearless spending the better part of 40 minutes naked. The young man, actor David Cross, by the same token, doesn’t look as young as his 15 year old character should be, but the two have such a strong bond on screen despite the cold character Winslet plays. The story is told in flashback, which understandably is frustrating to some  movie watchers, but I appreciated meeting the present day Michael Berg first, played by the ever reliable Ralph Fiennes. There are a few moments in the movie that are so beautifully, hauntingly made that it took my breath away. Kate Winslet won an Oscar for her acting in this movie, and to that I say, FINALLY.

Okay, I lied. I watched two last week. The second was THE DEAL, the third movie in the last 6 months with this title, starring a cosmetically er, ‘improved’ Meg Ryan, William H Macy and spitting image of his father Jason Ritter (may John RIP). The movie is silly and ridiculous, but Macy, who also co-wrote the film made me laugh at times. There’s no shortage of shameless comedy either, LL Cool J plays a bad guy action super hero/rapper turned Jew and Elliot Gould as the fame seeking Rabbi. It’s a movie about the making of a movie, in which Macy’s character Charlie Burns, is INTENTIONALLY trying to make a bad film (so bad it’s good). He takes his nephew’s (Ritter) script, which is actually pretty good, and destroys it, hiring and firing new writers to add extra comedy to it. The movie is just okay, but as a comedy, it’s a getaway from the Judd Apatow frat pack movies of late.

The SPIRITalso came out, which I had no desire to watch. I wasn’t particularily enthralled by Sin City, so really, why bother?

CASSANDRA’S DREAM , good title, because I fell asleep during it. It was released from love him, or hate him actor/writer/director Woody Allen. The pros, it starred Tom Wilkinson, Colin ‘sigh’ Farrel and Ewam McGreggor. The cons, I can’t stand Woody Allen films, luckily he wasn’t in it, so that would be up there with the pros, except the movie was pretty boring, I watched 2/3 of it on fast forward. Harsh yes. My time is limited. I will say this, want to see Colin Farrell on screen? RentIn Bruges. It’s a dark comedy and Colin Farrell does an award winning job in it, much better than Cassandra’s Dream.

This week didn’t fare that much better for me. Not a lot of time, but I was able to watch THE WRESTLER. Mickey Rourke makes his much talked about comeback as a washed out wrestler looking for a comeback of his own. Um, Mickey Rourke, not what I would call attractive by ANY stretch of the imagination. In fact, he’s damn right ugly by Hollywood’s standards. I actually wondered how much make up was involved in the making of his face…He does do a good job in his role as Randy the Ram Robinson though. You feel for him, you cheer for him, you want to slap him around the ring like the other wrestlers at times. Marissa Tomei, who, my god, if I have a body anywhere near that at her age (45) I would be playing a stripper all the time. She plays Cassidy with both a hard edge, and a real vulnerability, that makes you see why she too was nominated for an Oscar (her second nomination, winning one in 92 for My Cousin Vinny). I found the movie to be slow moving with a lot of wrestling sequences, that I could honestly do without. I hate wrestling. Men in tights? No thank you. But despite the over-tanned, roid-pumped, vein popping dude with the super-bleached hair, this is one wrestler you can’t help but fall in love with.

And finally, Personal Effects with Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher. She looks pretty great for a woman of her age (not over processed like some of the other aging starlets) and he’s absolutely ripped in a very attractive way. The movie though? Don’t bother. I never even finished it.

That’s about it for now. My opinion, in case it matters.

Tripping through the movies

Literally, tripping. Like drug induced coma, staring at the television not really absorbing anything. Let me explain. Last week, I had, what should have been minor oral surgery on a tooth. I HATE and FEAR the dentist going into it, and am traumatized after leaving. I don’t drink very often at all, and I do not do drugs, I am stubborn to take anything even for a headache, but I WAS given some pretty strong painkillers for the pain, that I gladly took, which then induced nausea (perhaps to take my mind off of the mouth pain? Don’t know) anyway, while staying iced and horizontal for almost 4 days straight, I did nothing really BUT watch movies. My opinions may not be overly entertaining to read, nor may they be strongly opinionated, but I thought I’d share just in case!

BEDTIME STORIES
Everyone’s favourite ‘idiotspeaking’ actor  Adam Sandler is back, only this time, he’s filmed something to entertain the same age bracket as he usually acts on screen, and that is, a child. It’s a idea for a movie, where the kids create the story, only what they make up actually comes true. Kind of reminds me of those choose your own adventure books. Adam has fun in the role, and maybe, with a child of his own, he has settled down somewhat. It is a good movie for the whole family to watch, and one that most parents won’t be bored with. Although they may need some gumballs on hand, because chances are, children everywhere will be wishing a rain of giant gumballs after watching the flick.

TALE OF DESPEREAUX
It’s cute. A story about a rat who ruined the town of D’or/Dor/DOOR (I don’t know) and now they no longer make soup. Everyone is miserable and the princess is sad, so to the rescue, the fearless, big-eared mouse who introduces himself as ‘A gentleman’. (they still make those?). Ahem. Anyway, Despereaux’s adventure takes him out of Mouseland to try and finish the fairy tale story. It’s a sweet movie with good animation and a few laughs, but I’d take a pixar or Disney film any day.

DOUBT
Honestly, and I am going to blame the codene on this, but I thought it was JUST okay. I sat there watching 4 oscar nominated actors for these roles, and was just kind of waiting for the ahhhhh, sigh, great moment. It’s based on an award winning play of the same name, written for the screen and directed BY John Patrick Shanley (writer of the play). I don’t know. I mean everyone was good in their parts, but I found my mind wandering to the rain outside…so again, I blame the perscription drugs.

YES MAN
So I’m watching Jim Carrey starring in Yes Man on the two perscription drugs, gravol and zero food in my stomach, save for a meal replacement shake, forced on me by my mother, who I am sure secretly enjoyed the opportunity to take care of her child once more, but I thought it was funny. I’ll dub this movie The Bucket List part duo. Jim Carrey’s character is a No Man, until one day he is introduced to a powerful motivational speaker who teaches him (or instills fear in him) to say YES to anything and everything. It’s an interesting philosophy to adopt, and I’d like to say that I’ll try to say yes to opportunities to stand in my way, but I’ll be realistic and say that, most likely, I WILL say no at times. Jim has definitely calmed down from his neurotic  days of Ace Ventura, and I consider him to actually be a pretty damn good actor. The problem is most people can’t see that. Yes Man is an innocent, fun movie, good for a few laughs (not using crude humour), although I think it had a lot more potential than what made it to the cutting room floor. 

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Oh Keanu…I lost interest, and I am pretty sure I wasn’t halucinating when I watched part of the movie on fast forward. It’s a ‘world is coming to an end and we need someone to save us’ movie NOT starring Will Smith. Good thing is, Keanu was cast as an alien devoid of human emotion, which is right up his acting alley.

I WAS extremely entertained by a tv show I’ve been watching online called
FREAKS AND GEEKS
The show aired in the late nineties for just one season, and what a shame, because I am really finding myself laughing out loud, by myself while watching a young
Seth Rogan, James Franco and Jason Segal stumble through high school. Ben Foster (whom I think is one of the most talented in young hollywood), Joe Flaherty and a number of guest stars all descend on McKinley High. You have your FREAKS (stoners, grunge, non-populars) and your geeks (full out GEEKS). It is really funny. That is all I can say. Try to find it online, out of over 12000 votes on IMDB, it received a 9.5 out of 10 and I totally agree.

So that is that. My high thoughts, in case my opinion matters.

Simple Enough

So it was a slow week for me for movie watching. Two of the movies, I’d already watched in the theatre, which for me, is rare. I usually wait to see them for free on DVD, but I am glad I got to see them on the big screen. I DID however go see some plays in Ottawa and I have to say if you are interested in seeing LIVE THEATRE, The Blue Dragon, at the NAC. Robert Lepage is someone I’ve recently been introduced to as an artist, and his imagination has no boundaries.  And now, on to the movies..

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Just. Watch. It. If you think that Heath Ledger’s haunting portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight was amazing and lived up to all the hype then I can assure you, that Slumdog is 100% deserving of every award it has received. It is such an interesting was to tell a storey. It has everything, Drama, Comedy, Action, it even has multi-coloured subtitles, which I have to say, I totally appreciated. I hate nothing more of subtitled movies, that they are written in white, and half the time you can’t see it. Well Danny Boyle solved that problem in a great manner.  I loved it.

SEVEN POUNDS

Again, interesting story, the problem lies in the amount of side stories. I understand WHY, but it’s unfortunate that the choice wasn’t made to either INCLUDE all of the characters in an equal amount of story, or leave them out. It got slightly confusing at times. Will Smith and Rosario Dawson both did a great job at playing sincere human beings. They are united over unfortunate circumstances and develope a strong bond. Cameos by a number of people again, add to the story, but are forgotten by the end.

MARLEY and ME

Owen Wilson convinced me when he was sad. Jennifer Aniston, I just don’t like, and maybe that’s one of the reasons I found like the movie was just okay. I didn’t believe her once. I don’t think she’s America’s Sweetheart, I don’t feel sorry for her, and quite frankly, I’m not convinced of her talent. Harsh, but honest! The dog was adorable and annoying, and you could tell when they used a new one, but the main character was the dog. It was cute, based on the novel of the same name, and fun, but it was no Slumdog!

That’s all I had time for, sorry for the small message.

That’s my opinion , in case it matters

The happy/sads of releases

Well, having had a crazy week full of here’s and theres, I was able to watch a ‘few’ of the releases that come out tomorrow.
QUANTUM OF SOLACE

I have to premise this by saying, I had gone to see a beautiful and horrific play at the NAC on Saturday afternoon, and was DESPERATELY in need of something to take my mind off of the devastation I had seen on stage. Who better to do that than Bond himself. Pierce Brosnan wouldn’t have cut it. Daniel Craig would be my only, ahem, solace…(sorry, originally unintentional, but witty no?), in this time of need. It did the trick. The endless action sequences, the handsome tuxedo’ed man, mmm. It was a fun movie. It thankfully didn’t have the many sexual innuendoed one liners a la 90’s releases of Bonds. It proved once and again that the martini sipping spy will be around for a while, ESPECIALLY if it’s Daniel Craig. The story was just so-so, not as well defined as Casino Royale, but it’s Bond. I was surprised to see Paul Haggis in the opening credits as one of the writers, considering you won’t see the depth like that of his writing in CRASH. Judy Dench does her jobs as M, as only she can. The bad guy looked too normal I suppose, for me to think OOOOHHH, it’s the bad guy…

Next up THE CAKE EATERS

Kristen Stewart, whom many now know as Bella from the TWILIGHT series adds another serious role to her brooding teen repertoire. This time, she’s  17 year old Georgia battling a muscular disease. Physically, she plays it well, but vocally, her speech is very subtle, where her disorder is concerned. I suppose that could be a good thing, she certainly didn’t OVERACT the part, but that’s Kristen for you. Her excitement and disapproval aren’t too far off from each other. The rest of the cast are fairly unknowns, with a few, hey, what’s he in? INCLUDING the brilliantly talented, and completely underused in this movie, Jesse L Martin, whom musical lovers will recognize from RENT and whom crime drama lovers will recognize from LAW AND ORDER. The premise is this, young diseased girl with overprotective mother, wants to live her life before it’s too late. And by living her life, in this case, means losing her virginity before she loses feeling…The story wasn’t fully developed and ends without so much of anything. As I mentioned to someone, it would have been like someone recording someone’s life for a few days, editing it, and then rolling some credits. The tagline for the movie is precious “life can be as sweet as you make it” . I think I’d have preferred just eating cake. I’d have enjoyed it better.

GARDENS OF THE NIGHT

Brace yourself. I have to warn you, it is a tough subject matter. The story centers around a young girl named Lesley, who at the young age of 8, is kidnapped while walking home from school and ‘cared for’ by her captors, played by Tom Arnold and Kevin Ziegers (best known for his fantastic performance in Transamerica). The events that follow will remain unwritten, but I’m sure you could figure it out. Jeremy Sisto plays his usual creepy self, and Harold Parineau (Michael from LOST) is pure disgust.
John Malkovich has a very small cameo in it. I watched the whole movie, which meant that it kept my attention, but it was almost like a car crash. Because of the subject at hand, I just didn’t want to even be a part of it. It played, at time, a little like a movie of the week, especially at the end.

And finally on the movie list BOLT

Disney has done it again, this time in an adorable white dog. He’s an actor-dog, who doesn’t know that he’s acting. The studios keep him sheltered and the cameras all out of sight, even while shooting. One day during shooting they film a cliffhanger, where is ‘human’ as he calls her, is kidnapped. Not knowing real from fiction, he breaks out into the wild to find his beloved Penny. Along the way he meets some funny furry friends, including the scene stealing pigeons, and the hilarious hamster RHINO. As an adult, you sit there playing the ‘name that voice’ game, along the way, coming up with the obvious, John Travolta and (for once) not overly annoying, Miley Cyrus, but see if you can figure out the others before the credits roll. It was a cute, fun family movie and I really enjoyed it, but let me make something clear though, it’ll never top WALL-E.

One thing new to the TV on DVD section is a series called IN TREATMENT

There are 9 DVD’s in total with 5 26 minute episodes on each on this EMMY and GOLDEN GLOBE winning series. The premise is simple, a psychiatrist meeting with his patients. Really interesting characters meeting with the doctor, played by the ever-talented Gabriel Byrne. Melissa George, whom many of us were introduced to this year in Grey’s Anatomy as Grey’s old friend Sadie, is almost unrecognizable with the reddish hair, a girl with relationship woes. Blair underwood, as the hard-ass marine, is a character I want to know more about. I have only watch 3 episodes on the first disk, but I am CONFIDENT that I will become addicted to the series, and I haven’t even gotten to Diane Wiest’s character yet.

Another series that sadly, only lasted one season was HBO’s TELL ME YOU LOVE ME. This time the therapist specializes in Sex Therapy and Couple’s Councelling. It’s HBO so it is no holds barred when it comes to what you see. This show was recommended to me by a friend, and it is GOOD. I will say this, you will feel like a voyeur when watching many of the episodes, but you find yourself completely absorbed by the characters. The cast is made up of many faces you’d know but can’t place at first, and I think that adds to it. I’m convinced by these actors, if it were a cast of A or B list actors, I’d probably hate the show.
So that’s that folks! My opinion in case it matters.

a not so sparkly week in movies.

Okay, so this week, the big release was the sequel to the Punisher until Twilight (insert squealing tweens here) comes out on Saturday.  A pretty dull week if you ask me.
Punisher: War Games starring Ray Stevenson (of ROME fame, ah Titus Pullo mmm) was a total dude movie. If you are a guy, grab some of your guy friends, some beer and turn off the X360 for 2 hours and enjoy the bloodbath. I lost interest about 15 minutes in but did witness what I’ll assume was the first of MANY action sequences involving guns and ass kicking. I had no problem with that, it was the really, REALLY cheesy, obviously fake New York Italian accents by the bad guys. As I said this is a man movie, for men.

And Twilight for the ladies. Well, the intensity that Edward looks at Bella is enough to make any woman long for a fanged fellow but I had a real problem with the movie. I read all the books, so I’d invested my time into these characters and imagined how it would look, which seems to be the problem with all movies that were originally books, they aren’t EVER as good. I found the movie to move too fast through the story, despite the long running time. You don’t get to learn about the characters as you did in the book. The directing wasn’t strong and the special effects were WEAK. (I’m pretty sure I saw the wires when James was flying through the air). I am reading a new Vampire series right now, geared toward WOMEN and let me tell you, if you want the intensity (both in violence and sensuality) without all of the sugar (a la Twilight) then pick up the book. If you are a tween reading this, enjoy, sigh, and have sweet dreams of Edward watching you as you sleep…

Elegy-didn’t get a chance to watch it this weekend, but I’ve heard good things about it from critics. Apparently Ben Kingsley gives his best performance since Sexy Beast.
SPEAKING of which. D and I watched it this weekend. He’d downloaded it (bad bad bad!) years ago and wanted to watch it, so it was his choice on Saturday. I’ll give it to Ben Kingsley who swallows up the other actors every time he’s on screen but I just didn’t get it. Had I been at home watching it, it would have been turned off. The cockney accents were so thick I had a hard time understanding what they were saying most of the time, which just gave the disjointed story even more ammunition to confuse me.

And finally The Express. It was actually released  a few months ago, but seeing as there wasn’t much out this week, I thought I’d catch up on an ‘older’ flick that I’d heard was good. I’m only halfway through it, if that’s any indication. It’s another football movie, set in the south in the sixties, a time where African Americans were looked at by most people as some kind of Alien. The movie, from what I’ve seen so far, is okay. Dennis Quaid adopts a gravelly voice as the hard-ass coach, and Rob Brown as the real life Ernie Davis footballer for Syracuse University. His wig job is awful and the story, as of yet, isn’t something I haven’t seen on Remember the Titans. I suppose I just don’t care all that much to continue watching it. The problem with football movies, is the EPIC football scenes. I don’t like watching the sport on Television, why would I want to watch 14 scenes of  it in a movie.

I told you I’m hard to please when it comes to movies…

Enjoy the movies. Until next time, this was just my opinion in case it matters.

In case my opinion matters

Much to the encouragement of a person who’s opinion I value the most, I’ve started writing my ‘reviews’ on the movies I see. Working where I do, I get to watch, or I suppose the better term is ‘have’ to watch movies as part of my job. It may not be my career, and most times I’m certainly not proud of where I work, but right now, it pays my bills, I’m secure enough that I won’t get ‘downsized’, I have full benefits, and 5 weeks paid holidays. SO, long-winded, I’ve become quite opinionated, picky and hard to please when it comes to watching the latest movies out on DVD. I enjoy the light romantic comedy as any other girl does, but it takes a lot to impress me and make me go WOW. In fairness to most movies out, each one (with the exception of horror or sci-fi) each movie gets at least 15 minutes of my time. If it doesn’t grab my attention, twist and turn the plots or tug at my heartstrings, off it goes, and another disk is placed in the machine.
So without further adieu, I give you the first ever ‘my opinion matters’ reviews of the latest and not so greatest.

First up. Role Models. Starring Paul Rudd and Sean Williams Scott. It’s funny, I’ll give it that, but what lacks in most comedies nowadays, a la Seth Rogan and Judd Apatow, is subtlety. As in most of their movies, anything goes, the more shocking the better, and Role Models is no exception. Rudd is the unhappy employee for an energy drink company who travels to schools to enforce the ‘don’t do drugs, drink our beverages instead’ marketing campaign. One too many of the drinks he and his mascot sidekick (Scott) drinks, throw a break up and semi life crisis, the two are sentenced to community service in lieu of jailtime. It takes a while to set it up, but the movie really starts going when the kids come into play. Ones a total role-playing geek and the other is a foul-mouthed kid who thinks he’s a gangsta. There is sincerity to the movie, but for the most part, it’s just plain silly. I enjoyed watching it more than some of the latest comedies, but please, for the love of god, I don’t need to see pee shots, or people vomiting in my movies to make me laugh.

Next up. MILK. Sean Penn was perfect in the movie, and earned his Oscar win (although part of me was secretly hoping that Richard Jenkin’s subtle and beautifully played character in The Visitor would shake up the best actor category). The movie, directed by Gus Van Sant was beautifully shot, and the supporting cast strong and courageous. It is also a bit of a history lesson. Harvey Milk pioneered much of the Gay and Lesbian rights movement back in the  70’s. The writing by Dustin Lance Black was strong and again, deserving of the screenwrighting award(go on youtube to see his acceptance speech, best one ever), but part of me wished to know not JUST the good side to Milk. Maybe he really was that positive, always great person, but there didn’t seem to be much darkness to him in this film. James Franco deserves mention as Milk’s longtime love Scott Smith.

Rachel Getting Married. I understand why American princess Anne Hathaway was nominated, but I often found myself really irritated with the script. It bounced around a lot and many times in the movie, I found myself checking the time to see if it was almost over. There were too many scenes, most unecessary to the story being told. One cool thing about it is that all of the music in the movie, is actually coming from IN the movie. It’s the weekend of her sister’s wedding, and it seems like the house is more of a hotel than a home, housing all the guests. They are an eclectic mix of artists and musicians.  I don’t know, I just don’t know if it deserved what little hype it actually go.

HOUNDDOG

Dakota Fanning, a young actress WISE beyond her years gives a very strong performance. The movie received lots of attention and flack when it was being filmed due to a particular scene in the film where Fanning’s character gets raped. It raised a question of is this appropriate? But I have to say, the way that scene was filmed was done in such a way that you didn’t see anything, you never even saw the man touch her, and yet was effective enough to let you know what was going on. The second half of the movie is dreadfully depressing, but is worth watching for Dakota’s performance. Props to the cameo by soul singer and poet Jill Scott as Big Moma Thornton, her interpretation on the song you’ll find yourself singing for days afterwards is one I want to download onto my ipod.

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY

It’s a simple movie, about nothing really. Just a young 30 year old woman who is happy. REALLY happy. Annoyingly happy. Actress Sally Hawkins has created a very quirky character of Poppy, who seems to always have her rose-coloured glasses on. If you can manage to sit through the just under 2 hour movie, I do recommend it, but I do warn you that you will find yourself thinking, is she for real…

Finally, for now, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
It`s a holocaust movie without it being a holocaust movie. The story revolves around the lives of two 8 year old boys from different sides of the fence. LITERALLY. Young Bruno, is German