I didn't expect anything good from this movie reading the reviews - Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters was supposed to be this terrible version of an old folktale. Instead, I enjoyed this action-horror dark fantasy more than the others, according to the ratings! This twisted take on the adult lives of Hansel and Gretel was begotten by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola in 2007 while he was at film school in Australia and finally fully delivered in 3D. It is kind of a continuation to the German folk fairy tale "Hänsel and Gretel". 200 years later we finally discover what happened to the main characters through the actions of the stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in the title roles of a brother-and-sister duo of professional witch hunters. Famke Janssen stars as the deadly leader of a coven of evil witches that they seek out to destroy.

Renner and Arterton had a month of training beforehand to prepare for the physical demands of their roles which were very similar to the some of the wuxia style counterparts from Hong Kong and China. I watched this with a bunch of 12 year old kids and they loved it! I was impressed by the weapons and wardrobe, and Wirkola's choice of an old-world look with a modern touch. And what a refreshing approach to film outdoors in European nature rather than in a studio (the project was filmed in Germany).

If you have some craving for violence, action, horror and good looking heroes - this could keep you entertained. The film topped the domestic box office on its opening weekend and was a major hit in Russia, Brazil and Mexico. Its worldwide theatrical run gross exceeded $200 million for the production cost of $50 million. Due to the commercial success of the film, which was planned as the first part of a series, its sequel is currently in development. And I'm glad for it!

This historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg is quite a pleasant movie to enjoy. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, the cast managed to keep me engaged together with the Spielberg's skills, and helped by the story which covers the final four months of Lincoln's life, focusing on the President's efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of Representatives.

Very popular movie with the critics, and it was nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director for Spielberg and winning Best Actor (Motion Picture - Drama) for Day-Lewis. Wasn't missed at the 85th Academy Awards either, it was nominated for twelve Academy Awards including Best Picture; it won for Best Production Design and Best Actor for Day-Lewis. The story was developed almost perfectly involving us fully into the strains of a wartime presidency, and I was amazed by the ability to portray the character with extraordinary sensitivity, insight and focus! It was a kind of a political thriller energetically staged and alive with moral energy and civic lessons. I have to say that I am saddened that for a movie based on historical events , 'Lincoln' lacks accuracy. But, even with the partially phoney, sanitised version of Lincoln, I still enjoyed it - of course, that is the reason it's not as highly rated as some of my RT friends would prefer.

I noticed this movie few months earlier trying to raise money on kickstarter.com for additional funding to finish post-production sound and music... and even that unfinished version won the BEST HORROR FILM from the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and Best Actress, Julie Gonzalo and Best Actor, Adam Johnson from the Los Angeles Comedy Festival! The $15,000 goal was reached with 149 backers (actually it reached $15,102)... and I decided to check it out.

The story of Wayne Gretzky (Adam Johnson) is not about the famous hockey player but about a vampire with an issue! His teeth won't grow, and his psychiatrist friend Dr. Levine (Gary Cole) is trying to help him. Wayne teaches history, and he is pretty good in it, because most of the time he witnessed the events he was teaching about. The new semester brings freshman Chris Keller (Julie Gonzalo) who looks alike his old love Mary. Things get complicated when they begin to have an affair... which ends when Wayne turns Chris into a vampire.

I was surprised how clever and witty this comedy was... I did not expect that at all. Previously titled Dr. Limptooth, Vamp U is, with the help of a very talented cast, funny and entertaining movie with smartly combined comedy and horror script by the director Matt Jesperson and writer Maclain Nelson.

Tanner Beard, the director, started this as an ambitious project but somehow managed to dilute this take on the allegedly true story so much, that became insignificant. There is a good Western hidden somewhere but not many people would bother because there is so many other useless things going around which grab your attention and waste time going nowhere. Beard, the writer, spent more time developing characters which are disappearing around the story than building a story itself. Beard, the actor (stars as Irish never-do-well James McKinnon) never shows why would we accept him and follow him - while the bunch of other classic spaghetti Western-style group of antiheroes, men who normally would have nothing to do with one another but who are thrust together by circumstances beyond their control - are all doing their own thing. I could not fault the acting under circumstances, especially in the last part when finally picks up the pace, but by then it's too late.

Uninspiring and without strength and conviction!

One of the BBC reviewers wrote about this American science fiction drama that "will either blow your mind or drive you out of it". For me, did the second one! This $7,000-budget tale of two engineering geeks - one of them writer/director/producer Shane Carruth - who accidentally build a time machine in their garage, starts very intriguing and follows with by a perplexing middle... but the end - what the hack was that? One reviewer said that "anybody who claims he fully understands what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar." I agree with him - but I have no intention watching this thing again, and I think that this is a movie that demands you watch it two, three, four times. I have to admit that rarely in my life 77 minutes seemed so long (I can remember one or two dates).

I am familiar with Carruth (I gave recently 90% for his Upstream Color) and I know that he graduated from college with a degree in mathematics and is a former engineer. He choose not to simplify the screenplay or the movie for the sake of the audience - that's a good choice for a specific audience... the film collected the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, before securing a limited release in the United States, and has since gained a cult following. Again, I repeat, for a specific audience. Not me! I would not mind the certain confusion in this movie as long as they gave me some reason to stay engaged - but that wasn't on the list of offers! There we could find, in the last third of the movie, migraine of look-alikes, scenes which keep repeating and the space-time continuum full with explanatory "black holes". For a viewer like me, simple advice: stick to Back To The Future when time travel is preferred viewing.