The Reader

Director: Stephen Daldry
Writers: David Hare(screenplay), Bernhard Schlink (book)
Release Date: 9 January 2009 (USA)
Genre: Drama, Romance,

Movie Plot: Middle aged German barrister Michael Berg recollects to himself his lifelong acquaintance with Hanna Schmitz, a relationship with whom he never disclosed to anyone close to him. Michael first met Hanna in 1958, when he was fifteen, she thirty-six. The two had a turbulent summer long love affair, dictated by Hanna that their encounters would begin with him reading to her followed by lovemaking. Michael next encountered Hanna in 1966, when Michael, now a law student, attended the Nazi war crimes trial of six female former S.S. concentration camp guards, one of whom is Hanna. Through listening to the testimony, Michael comes to the realization that he is in possession of information which could save Hanna from a life in prison, information which she herself is unwilling to disclose. In deciding what to do, Michael is torn between his differing views of justice. Written by Huggo

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Director: Mark Herman
Writers: John Boyne (novel), Mark Herman (screenplay)
Release Date: 28 November 2008 (USA)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Movie Plot: Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pajamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Dear John

Director: Lasse Hallström
Writers: Jamie Linden(screenplay), Nicholas Sparks (novel)
Release Date: 5 February 2010 (Canada)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Movie Plot: While John is on leave in his hometown, he finds Savannah, a college student visiting the town. Although love was unexpected, it doesn't mean they didn't find it. With the knowledge of John having to leave for the army, their love still lives, until his re-signs on due to the 9/11 attack. Troubles invade and their love put on hold. One cannot bear it anymore; can the other? Written by Fiona Anderson

Doomsday

Director: Neil Marshall
Writer: Neil Marshall (writer)
Release Date: 14 March 2008 (USA)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Movie plot: A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair, is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare. Written by Nicolettea

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
Writers: Danny McBride and Dirk Blackman
Release Date: 23 January 2009 (Canada)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Movie Plot: When the human son of a werewolf is born in a cell, the evil leader of the clan of vampires, Viktor, spares his life and names him Lucian. He then forces him to transform other humans into the new breed - Lycan, and raises him as a slave wearing a leash to control his ability. Along the years, Lucian becomes a brave warrior with a great leadership over the other Lycans. He protects the aristocratic vampires during the daylight against the vicious and infectious breed of werewolves that are unable to take human form ever again. However, Viktor's daughter, Sonja, and Lucian are lovers and they secretly meet each other every now and then. Lucian unleashes and transforms in a werewolf to save the life of Sonja in a battle against the werewolves. However, Viktor sentences him to be brutally whipped thirty times and then imprisons him in the dungeon. Sonja saves Lucian and he escapes with other prisoners to the woods. When Viktor discovers that Sonja is pregnant and in love with Lucian, he locks her up in her room to force Lucian to return to the castle to rescue her, in the beginning of the feud between the two bloodlines. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Englishman's Boy

Director: John N. Smith
Writers: Guy Vanderhaeghe (novel, screenplay)
Release Date: 2 March 2008 (Canada)
Genre: Drama, Western

Rreview by : ram-30 from Dillon, Saskatchewan

De-glamourizing Hollywood's Wild West
How fitting that Guy Vanderhaeghe's novel about Hollywood's misguided love affair with Cowboys and Indians has finally made it to the screen, even if it is the small screen. The two part TV movie has many great strengths. One strength is its glimpse into Tinseltown's treatment of First Nations people. The Louis B. Mayerish producer (played by Oscar nominee Bob Hoskins) is determined to have his way to show a realistic Cowboy movie. When an underling suggests rounding up some Mexicans to play the Indians (which was what happened in those days), Mr. Chance insists they get real "Indians". This is a huge irony as the movie mogul is not concerned with the real truth. He wants Tom Hardwick to be the hero in his film, when in fact the real Mr. Hardwick is shown, through Shorty McAdoo's flashbacks, to be the villain in the actual story. The real hero is Shorty McAdoo, a wrangler and stunt man who is already upset with the movie mogul after a young co-worker is seriously injured by Mr. Chance's hazardous practices. He is the one who's life history is the background for Mr. Chance's Western called "The Besieged". Another of the film's strengths is the casting. Besides Bob Hoskins, we have ubiquitous Canadian TV man R.H. Thompson. Thompson, who usually plays the Canadian hero, plays the villain here. The hero is played with unusual restraint by Nicholas Campbell, who will be a familiar face to many viewers. Harry Vincent, the man who tries to convince the movie mogul to tell the real story, is played by Michael Therriault. Therriault is a relative newcomer to the screen although he has previously starred as Tommy Douglas in the last great Canadian prairie TVM. Anyone keen on Prairie history will appreciate a film that depicts the Cypress Hills massacre. Unfortunately, great First Nations performers like Tyrone Tootoosis (BIG BEAR) and Tantoo Cardinal (DANCES WITH WOLVES) do not have much to work with here. One other great strength of this movie is the parallels made between Shorty's witness to the insensitivity of his cowboy boss Mr. Hardwick during the 1870s scenes and the insensitivity of the movie boss Mr. Chance in the 1920s. The drama weaves effortlessly in and out from flashback to present history (in this case, the Silent Film era) . Some may dismiss this film as an attempt to cash in on the recent popularity of Westerns like 3:10 TO YUMA on the big screen and successful small screen efforts like Spielberg's "Into the West" and AMC's "Broken Trail". Truthfully, the novel was written a decade ago and was in the works for years. I just call it good timing... and good entertainment.

Changeling

Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Release Date: 31 October 2008 (USA)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

Plot Summary: Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Director: Lee Daniels
Writers: Geoffrey Fletcher(screenplay), Sapphire(novel)
Release Date: 13 September 2009 (Canada)
Viewed Date: 13 February 2010

All I can say is wow!

Plot Summary Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. Written by anonymous

Valentine's Day

Director: Garry Marshall
Writers: Katherine Fugate
Release Date: 12 February 2010(Canada)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Viewed: 13 February 2010


Movie plot February 14th, Valentines Day, is not a national holiday, but it is one of those days that must be celebrated. There are "special someones" in your life who expect to receive romantic gifts from their lovers. Commercialism has put a tremendous amount of pressure on men to give their lovers a romantic day with all the trimmings. Women are under pressure to have a man, or they feel desperate and unloved. Valentines Day follows the lives of several couples during this day. Their stories are told through the interconnections they have with each other. Some will find romance in their relationship, and others will feel the heartbreak of ending a relationship. In this Russian roulette world of finding love, everyone in the film is asking for advice on how to find and keep true love. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)

New Rating System

Ratings
***** Great, must see
**** Highly recommended
*** Good, recommended
** Worth renting; some great moments
* Did not like Don't recommend
NFE Not for everyone

I Will be tring to use them every time

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding

Director: Douglas Schwartz
Writers: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz
Release Date: 28 February 2003 (Canada)
Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure
Viewed Date: 7 February 2010
Review: I watch it becouse there was nothing else on TV and it kinda sucked it was a guys movie no plot just a lot of girls in swimmwere. I am only admiting that I watched this show becous eI need to add it to my 500 movies.

Plot Summary Mitch Buchannon didn't die in a boat explosion in the 10th season but has been recovering from amnesia in Los Angeles. Mitch returns to Hawaii to get married again! His new fiancée Allison looks a lot like Lt. Stephanie Holden, a past love. Little does he know, Allison is cooperating with Mason Sato who appeared in the show's 2nd season and now returns for revenge. The Baywatchers are invited to Hawaii by CJ. She's opening CJ's Bar & Grill at the Turtle Bay Resort. Coincidentally, Caroline Holden is already there filming a soap opera. Neely Capshaw (ex-Mrs. Buchannon) comes to Hawaii to stop the wedding. She wants Mitch back! Written by robbob-3

Love's Enduring Promise

Director: Michael Landon Jr.
Writers: Cindy Kelley, Michael Landon Jr.
Release Date: 20 November 2004 (USA)
Genre: Drama

Plot Summary In this Janette Oke sequel to "Love Comes Softly," the eldest child in an 1800s frontier family, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful elementary schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive, she feels as though shes met a hero from one of her novels. But their courtship is complicated by the appearance of Nate, a mysterious young man who helps Missies family in a time of need. Torn between two worlds, Missie finds herself at a crossroads, forced to choose between the love of two very different men and two very different futures.

Love Comes Softly

Director: Michael Landon Jr.
Writers: Cindy Kelley, Michael Landon Jr.
Release Date: 13 April 2003 (USA)
Genre: Romance, Western, Drama

Plot Summary A young woman's dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith and courage. By covered wagon, Marty (and Aaron Calridge have come west in search of fortune and a new life. But an unexpected tragedy leaves Marty a widow facing bleak prospects for the future. With a bitter winter season approaching and no safe passage back home, she finds herself stranded yet befriended by settlers Ben Graham and his wife Sarah. They encourage her to take up the recently widowed Clark Davis on his unusual offer--join him in a temporary marriage of convenience. Marty will have a roof over her head until the spring thaw when she can return home. In the meantime, Clark's nine-year-old daughter Missie will have a teacher. As promised, the arrangement is strictly business. However, teaching Missie, who's still mourning for her mother, becomes as challenging as living with Clark, a young man cut off from his emotions. For three similar people, each grieving for a loved one who they've lost, comfort comes from sharing their pain and hardships. But is it enough to make two lonely spirits recognize what it is that they truly need and want? As the months and seasons pass, and Marty gets closer to the day of her departure, she finally discovers the meaning of courage, her inner faith, a love she never thought possible, and the bittersweet truth in her friend Sarah's sage advice: "Bloom where you're planted." Written by KLange

My Life in Ruins

Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Mike Reiss
Release Date: 5 June 2009 (Canada)
Genre: Comedy
Viewing date: 6 February 2010



Plot Summary: Georgia is an American academic who's lost her teaching job in Athens. She's taken a job as a tour guide, but she hates it and it shows: the tourists, mostly American, are bored with history and facts; they want to shop. Every group has a goofy couple, a frat boy, a sullen teen, a feuding couple, divorcées looking for a mate, and a funny guy. This group is no exception, plus there's no air conditioning and a bearded silent driver. Thanks to an unlikely friendship, plus daisies, an ice-cream cone, the history of syrup, and the Oracle at Delphi, Georgia may have a shot at finding her kefi during this four-day tour. Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

Zombieland

Director: Ruben Fleischer
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Release Date: 2 October 2009 (Canada)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Viewing Date: 6 February 2010
Review: I liked it, it was funny and for myself, someone that hates zombie movies this was a nice change to laught and not be scared.

The horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. Columbus is a big wuss -- but when you're afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive. Tallahassee is an AK-toting, zombie-slaying' bad ass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita and Little Rock, who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies. Written by Columbia Pictures
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Love Happens

Director: Brandon Camp
Writers: Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson
Release Date: 18 September 2009 (Canada)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Viewing Date: 3, Feb 2010
Rateing: It was good I cryed a little, but a sweet story.

Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in the romantic drama Love Happens. When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might finally be able to help him help himself. Dr. Burke Ryan (Eckhart) is on the precipice of a major multimedia deal, but the therapist who asks his patients to openly confront their pain is secretly unable to take his own advice. Eloise Chandler (Aniston) has sworn off men and decided to focus on her floral business. However, when she meets Burke at the hotel where hes speaking, there is an instant attraction. But will two people who have met the right person at exactly the wrong time be able to give love another chance? As each struggles with the hurt of love and loss, they realize that in order to move forward, they need to let go of the past. And if they can, theyll find that, sometimes, love happens when you least expect it.

The Invention of Lying

Directors: Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson
Writers: Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson
Release Date: 2 October 2009 (USA)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Viewing Date: 3 Feb, 2010
Rating: goood but not as funny as I thought it would be.

It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic pool that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void that awaits her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com} IMDB.com

Whip It

Director:Drew Barrymore
Writers: Shauna Cross
Release Date: 2 October 2009 (Canada)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
My Rating 8 Stars

Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page) has grown unhappy with the apparent small-town Texas life of Friday night football and beauty pageant competition, the football championed by her father Earl (Daniel Stern) and the pageants by her mother Brooke (Marcia Gay Harden). She commiserates with her best friend Pash (Alia Shawkat) at their waitressing jobs. Pash has a plan to get out: she is applying to Ivy League schools. Bliss just wants to get out and needs a plan and a calling. She finds it during a shopping trip to Austin, Texas where she picks up a flyer for a Roller Derby event, schemes to attend, gets invited to try out and becomes Babe Ruthless, her alter-ego roller derby character. She makes the team, lies about her age, works hard to succeed, experiences her first love with the young lead singer of an Indie rock band, gets disappointed in love, bonds with her new family of roller derby girls, fights with her mother to escape the beauty pageant and live her new dream as roller derby star. She manages to reconcile all of this, impress and win over her parents and friends, and charts an ambiguous goal to move to Austin, continue with Roller Derby, and live her new life. IMDB.com

Outlander

Director:Howard McCain
Writers: Dirk Blackman, Howard McCain
Release Date: 23 January 2009 (Canada)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Viewed Date: 31 Jan 2010
My Rating: 6.5 Stars

In 709 DC, in the Iron Age, a spacecraft crashes in the Viking kingdom of Herot, Norway, and the pilot Kainan survives. He turns the beacon on; learns the language and culture of the planet using a machine; and finds that the predator, Moorwen, that he was transporting, had escaped. While chasing the alien monster, he finds a village completely destroyed and is arrested by the warrior Wulfric, believing that he killed the locals - Kainan is brought to Herot as a prisoner. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil IMDB.com

Up In The Air

Director: Jason Reitman
Writers: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
Release Date: 12 Sept. 2009 (Canada)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ryan Bingham's job is to fire people from theirs. The anguish, hostility, and despair of his "clients" has left him falsely compassionate, living out of a suitcase, and loving every second of it. When his boss hires arrogant young Natalie, she develops a method of video conferencing that will allow termination without ever leaving the office - essentially threatening the existence Ryan so cherishes. Determined to show the naive girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, but as she starts to realize the disheartening realities of her profession, he begins to see the downfalls to his way of life. Written by The Massie Twins IMDB.com

Sherlock Holmes

Director:Guy Ritchie
Writers: Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Simon Kinberg
Release Date: 25 Dec. 2009 (Canada)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery

After finally catching serial killer and occult "sorcerer" Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. But when Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with his partner's new fiancée and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the dauntless detective must unravel the clues that will lead him into a twisted web of murder, deceit, and black magic - and the deadly embrace of temptress Irene Adler. Written by The Massie Twins IMDB.com

Eurotrip

Director:Jeff Schaffer
Writers: Alec Berg, David Mandel
Release Date: 20 Feb 2004 (USA)
Genre: Comedy, Adventure

When Scotty's German online pen pal suggests they meet, he initially freaks out. But then he discovers that she's gorgeous, and heads out with three friends after graduation to meet her. As they travel across Europe, the four friends have comical misadventures. Written by lcheala@imdb.com IMDB.com

Underworld: Evolution

Director: Len Wiseman
Writers: Danny McBride, Len Wisemen
Release Date: 20 Jan 2006
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Viewed: 30 Jan 2010
My Rating: 7.5 Stars

Underworld: Evolution continues the saga of war between the vampires and the Lycans. The film goes back to the beginnings of the ancient feud between the two tribes as Selene, the beautiful vampire heroine, and Michael, the lycan hybrid, try to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines. This will be a modern tale of action, intrigue and forbidden love, which takes them into the battle to end all wars as the immortals must finally face their retribution. Written by Shewolfinlondon IMDB.com

Underworld

Director: Len Wiseman
Writers:Kevin Grevioux, Len Wiseman, Danny McBride
Release Date: 8 Sept 2003 (Canada)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Vampires and Werewolves have been sworn enemies for hundreds of years. Now fought in a Gothic-like setting, the conflict takes an unexpected and deadly new turn. Selene, a beautiful vampire warrior, uncovers a Lycan plot that could prove fatal for her entire race. She shadows a human, Michael, the Lycan's supposed target. Although she finds herself becoming attracted to him, he becomes infected with the lupine disease during a violent struggle with the Lycan overlord, Lucian, long thought to be dead. Now both sides must decide how to end the conflict and save their species as new and terrifying secrets unearth themselves and threaten their entire existance. Written by Sundancersfire IMDB.com

Whiteout

Director: Dominic Sena
Writers: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chad Hayes
Release Date: 11 Sept 2009 (Canada)
Genre: action, Crime, drama, Mystery, Thriller

A U.S. marshal (Kate Beckinsale), the only one assigned to Antarctica, must investigate a murder there within three days before the Antarctic winter begins. She crosses paths with a U.N. operative (Gabriel Macht), also investigating the murder.She must chase down suspects and find more murders. Early in the story, Steko is attacked by the killer and left for dead in a storm. She saves herself but loses two fingers due to severe cold-related injuries.

For U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko, things are about to get even more dangerous. The only law enforcement in this unforgiving territory, she has just been sent to investigate a body on the ice. Antarctica's first homicide. A shocking discovery in itself, it will plunge her into an even more bizarre mystery and the revelation of secrets long-buried under the endless ice--secrets that someone believes are still worth killing for. As Stetko races to find the killer before he finds her, winter is already closing in. In the deadly Antarctic whiteout, she won't see him till he's a breath away. IMDB.com

Fame (2009)

Director: Kevin Tancharoun
Writers: Allison Burnett (screenplay), Christaopher Gore (1980 Motion Picture "Fame")
Release Date: 25 Sept 2009
My Viewing Date: 27 Jan 2010
My Rateing: 2 stars out of 10

This movie is based upon the 1980 film which follows NYC talent attending the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. The movie fallows some students from there Freshman to their Senior year.

This movie was not as good as I had hoped. I love dance movies and musicals, this was a great dance movie but that is about it, and they did not show vary much dancing. The movie focused on to many students so you never really cared about any of them. I didn't even remember there names which is funny, that is the tag line of the movie.

Inglourious Basterds

Director:Quentin Tarantino
Writer:Quentin Tarantino
Release Date:21 August 2009 (Canada)
Genre : Action, Drama, War

Plot Summary (taken from "The Internet Movie Database")
"In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history." The Massie Twins From IMDB.com

The writing very good , and the movie has beautiful transition between four different languages.
The acting was wonderful! Christopher Waltz was “wow” he deserves an Oscar, he spoke every language in this movie, and he stole the show. All the actors in this movie were amazing.

Although a completely fictional take on WWII, Quentin Taratino’s Inglourious Basterds is a good movie. I liked the fact that when the Natzi’s, as there are commonly referred to by Brad Pitt’s character Lt. Aldo Raine , meet there final demise they feel some the terror that their victims felt.