"Just Like Heaven"

Film: Just Like Heaven
Genre: Comedy, romance
Director: Mark Waters
Cast: Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo

Review:
When David moves to his new apartment, after his wife death, the last thing he want to found there is company, but surprinsingly Elizabeth shows up with the idea that the apartment was hers...until she disappears right in front his eyes. He is convinced she is a spirit, on the other hand she is convinced she is still alive.
After a long time trayin to understand things, David agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. While they are trying to find some clues together, their reationship changed from resentment to love.
Unfortunately things take a turn for the worse when the hospital and Elizabeth's sister follow her wishes to not artificially prolong life and take her off life support.

Mark Ruffalo’s performances is amazingly perfect, he surprised as every time with his unexpectedly actions, but at the end, he undoubtly touched our hearts with the most unexpectedly, beautiful and romantc love action of all times.

This film change the wrong thought that love depends on destiny and teachs us that, on the contrary, DESTINY depends on LOVE, specially if you love with every peace of your heart.

Student name: Florencia Castiglioni
Class: 5th Humanistico

Death becomes her

Film: Death becomes her (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini

Review:

Actress Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) and writer Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) are long time rivals. Helen's life falls apart when Madeline steals her fiancé, plastic surgeon Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis), and marries him. Helen becomes an obese, depressed woman.

Many years later Ernest become an alcoholic and miserable in his marriage, and he has been reduced to working restoring the looks of celebrities for their funerals. When Madeline and Helen meet again, Helen appears misteriously rejuvenated and thin.
Madeline, jealous of Helen, searchs for help of Lisle von Rhoman (Isabella Rossellini), who claims she has discovered the secret of eternal youth. She offers Madeline a magical potion to reverse the process of aging.
Meanwhile, Helen has seduced Ernest and conspired with him to kill Madeline. Before their elaborate plan can be carried out, Madeline falls down the stairs and breaks her neck, but she gets up and puts her head on straight. Ernest thinks that her resurrection is a miracle, and uses his skills to repair the damage done to Madeline's body.

Helen, thinking that Madeline is dead, arrives at the house, but Madeline shoots Helen. When Helen, with an enormous shotgun wound in her stomach, reawakens, Madeline guesses correctly that Helen was also a customer of Lisle's. The two undead rivals fight, but fail to do any real damage. Finally, the two ladies reconcile their differences and beg Ernest to repair their damaged bodies. Ernest agrees on the condition that he never see them again after the work is done. However, Madeline and Helen discover that his repairs are only temporary. They conspire to make Ernest drink the potion as well. Although Lisle makes an impassioned argument for immortality, Ernest refuses the potion, stating that a life lived forever is worthless.

In trying to escape, Ernest finds himself on the roof of the house. He slips and his suspenders get caught on the rain gutter, swinging him over an open pit. Madeline and Helen implore that he drink the potion so he will survive. Ernest refuses again, lets the potion fall, and then falls from the gutter. With Ernest, Helen and Madeline realize that they are now forced to take care of each other forever.

I think that is a very original movie, it's different from the other typical comedies. It is not a new film, but the effects are perfect for that year, when the technology was more difficult to use than now. Actually, the film won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
The movie is very funny and it's perfect to see in family on a Sunday afternoon!


Student name: Sofia Santos
Class: 5h

UP

Film: UP
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Author/Director: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
Characters: Carl Fredricksen, Ellie, Russell, Charles Muntz, Dug, Beta

Review:
The film is about Carl Fredricksen, who met Ellie, the love of his life, when they were very young. They share the same interest in exploration as their hero, famed explorer Charles Muntz.
Carl and Ellie grow old together, keeping since kids their dream of a house in Paradise Falls, in South America. Just as they seem to finally be able to take their trip, Ellie dies of old age. After a long time Carl decided to keep his promise to Ellie, and uses his old professional supplies to create a makeshift airship using tens of thousands of helium balloons which lift his house off its foundations. But in the porch was Russell, a Wilderness Explorer who was trying to help Carl to earn his final merit badge.
Finally, Carl and Russell start to understand to each other and, with a little help of a big storm, they find themselves in Paradise Falls. They live a lot of adventures and also met Charles Muntz, who is not like Carl think it would be.
This film is hillarious, but it also have details that make the story more 'real'. The sadness of Carl for loosing his wife is very touching.
It's perfect to see in family, because parents and kids will enjoy it!


Student name: Sofía Santos
Class: 5h

Edward Scissorhands

Book/ Film: Edward Scissorhands
Genre: Comedy; Drama; Fantasy; Romance
Author/ Director: Tim Burton
Characters/ Actors: Johnny Depp; Winona Ryder; Dianne Wiest
Review:

Like all fairy tales begins, this begins like one too…
Once upon a time in a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor with his greatest creation - Edward, a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, Edward is left with metal scissors for hands. Edward has always lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg discovers Edward and welcomes him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes Edward into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse.
This movie have a nice comedy and a but with the time, it becomes a drama with beautiful fantasy-romance. The movie is rated for people passing the 13 ages.

Student name: Ignacio Igarreta
Class: 5º H

Beetlejuice

Book/ Film: BeetleJuice
Genre: Comedy
Author/ Director: Tim Burton
Characters/ Actors: Alec Baldwin; Geena Davis; Michael Keaton

Review:

This is the story of Adam and Barbara who live in a beautiful house. One day, while driving to home, they are involved in a terrible auto accident. They walk to home only to discover that they have died and now haunt their house. When their house is purchased by an out of state family, they feel their home is invaded by an artists wife and her proprietary-selling husband. Their attempts to scaring the family out of the house, but they are ignored. Finally they fall to the temptation to use the people-exorcizer Beetle Juice. When they find his tactics too dangerous, they attempt to contain him and save the family they were trying to boot.
The movie have wonderful visual effects and a light-black humor comedy can see it all people not-under 13 ages.

Student name: Ignacio Igarreta
Class: 5º H

My mom's new boyfriend

Book/ Film: My mom's new boyfriend
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Author/ Director: George Gallo
Characters/ Actors: Antonio Banderas as Tommy, Meg Ryan as Marty, Collin Hanks as Henry, Selma Blair as Emily.

Review:

I chose this film because I really enjoyed it. It tells the story of a man named Henry who lives with his widowed, ugly and fat mother, Marty, and works for the FBI. After a journey of three years for a very secret investigation, he goes back to his house and finds out something incredible: his mother had been going on a diet and she was trully thin and very attractive! They inmediately started talking about their lives and Henry told her that he was engaged with a lovely woman who worked with him called Emily, who was arriving at the house some hours later. Marty took the most of the moment, and told him that she had been going on some dates, not only one, but lots at the same time! From that moment, the story turns so funny because it's all about meeting Marty's dates, but the real story begins when she knows a man named Tommy and falls in love with him. But the problem turns up when Henry discovers that the man is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves, and he is forced to spy her mother even in the most awkward situations.

In my opinion, this film is really nice and is so appropriated for the whole family, and I have to say that I had a great time when I saw it. I think the characters did a great job and so did the director.

Student name: María Agustina Forcatto
Class: 5ºH

August Rush

Book/ Film: August Rush
Genre: Drama

Author/ Director: Kirsten Sheridan

Characters/ Actors: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, William Sadler

Review:
Everythig starts when Lila Novacek (Keri Russell), a young brilliant cellist, meets a rock musician called Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) at a party; they spend a night together. However Lila’s father forces them apart. Lila realizad that she is pregnant and try to contact whith Louis but she can’t; at the same time Louis try to find her.
One night Lila has an accident and is taken to a hospital where his father lies to her telling that her baby died, and the boy is given for adoption.
After that the movie tells the story of a realy special boy of 11 years called Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) who hears music everywhere he goes. He lives in an orphanage but he knows that his parents are alive, but maybe they don’t even know about his existence, and is determinated to find them; he is quit sure that the music will make them be together again. After his scape from the orphanage he goes to New York, where his search begins. At the same time Lila discovers that her son is alive and starts to look for him by herself.

In my opinion this is a really beautiful film that show us that faith and perseverance can make great things in our lifes. It’s a sweet story about love, faith, passion and specialy about music.

Here you are two quotes that I like from this film:
I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales…
Music is all around you, all you have to do is listen…

Student name: Carolina Delgado

Class: 5º H

Slumdog Millionaire

Book/ Film: Slumdog milonaire
Genre: Drama, Romance
Author/ Director: Danny Boyle (director)
Characters/ Actors: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Kaan

Review:
Slumdog millionaire is based on the novel “Q and A” of Vikas Swarup and is directed by Danny Boyle. Is the story of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a kid from the streets who lives in India and decides to participate on the India’s version of “Who wants to be a millionaire?”. Everyone thinks that because of his condition he would never win the pot, but when they realizad that the boy is realy good answering the questions, they alert to the police thinking that he must be cheating. He is arrested and the police interrogates him; Jamal bigins to explain how he could answer every question reminding some moment of his hard life; he also tells them that he decided to appeared on the show because he wants to find Latika (Freida Pinto), an old friend from the childhood.

I have to say that I never felt so atracted to see this movie until it won those eight Awards of the Academy; then I knew that I HAVE to see it. When I finally saw the movie I liked it so much because it’s a realy original love story full of humor, sensibility, thriller, romance and good music.

Student name: Carolina Delgado
Class: 5º H

The Reader

Film: "The Reader"
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Stephen Daldry
Actors: David Kross, Kate Winslet and Ralph Finnes

Review:

“The Reader” starts when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped by Hanna Schmitz, a stranger who twice his age. When Michael recovers from the illness he decided to go to Hanna’s apartment to thanks her. The two quickly fall into a passionate and secretive affair which is a short step from pedophilia. Apart from the sex they create a reader-listener relationship when Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to (origin of the movie’s name) and Hanna is surprised as how Michael reads to her. Despite their intense relationship, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken.
Eight years later, while Michael is a law student, he is astonished to find Hanna back in his life but this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will save her from being unfairly accused.

As we are accustomed, the performance of Kate Winslet is exactly what the film needs.
What is really remarkable is David Kross acting. He incredibly impressed me with his catching personality and his ability to register multiple emotions and thoughts which are complicated, especially during the trial scenes. He is, without a doubt my favorite character.

In my view “The reader” is a haunting story about truth and reconciliation, which offer a different love story as the ones that we are accustomed to watch.

Student name: Florencia Castiglioni
Class: 5th Humanistico

A Cinderella Story

Book/ Film: A Cinderella Story
Genre: Comedy
Author/ Director: Mark Rosman
Characters/ Actors:Hilary Duff,Jennifer Coolidge,Chad Michael Murray,Dan Byrd,Regina King,Julie Gonzalo.

Review:

The New Cinderella, is a renewed version of the Cinderella story. In this story, Sam Montgomery, a student, lives with her stepmother, Fiona, and her two sisters, who treat it as her servant. Sam wants to enter Princeton University. One day he met her "Prince Charming" online, and your social life becomes more exciting and complicated. Because her prince, is the popular football player in his school, Agustín Ames. She awakens from her fantasy when she forgets her cell phone, just before the clock strikes twelve touch of midnight. And now, your mobile will be the key to making your dream a reality. Sam fears that Austin will reject it if he realizes that she is his girl online and therefore confused when he tries to discover who is trying his princess cybersecurity.


Student name: María del Rosario Toro Tesini
Class: 5ºH

Marley & Me

Film: Marley & Me
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Frankel
Actors: Wilson Owen and Aniston Jennifer

Review:
John and Jennifer are young reporters who decided to marry and move to Miami. The natural wish of Jenny of having children provoques a great panic in John. In order to neutralize the necessity of giving love John decides to present her a dog. A beautiful puppy. The puppy began to grow. John and Jenny weren`t able to maintain their authority when the can started to make disasters. Different and several incident occur and they finish adopting themselves to the behavious of the dog. The arriving of the children complicates their lives, but al the same time their professional life begins to estabilize John becomes in the reported of a newspaper where its well read column has as the principal character Marley, the dog.

Student name: Constanza Bidegain
Class: 5º Humanístico

This is England

Book/ Film: This is england
Genre: Drama
Author/ Director: Shane Meadows
Characters/ Actors: Jo Hartley, Jo Hartley, Joe Gilgun, Stephen Graham, Thomas Turgoose

Review:

Shaun is a 12-year-old child beaten everywhere by his marginality,his not good-looking and his poor way of dressing in some years, the 80s, where the aspect was everything. His father has died in the Malvinas war and that absence makes him a weak and frustrated person for the others. On having coincided with a group of skinheads led by Wood, between sides and jokes, he is adopted as a new member of the gang.
The return of Combo after being in jail, divides the band because he adheres to radical political ideas which not all shared; this influences Shaun forcing him to leave the only group of friends where he has found a little bit of affection and respect.




Student name: Fabricio Rodriguez
Class: 5to H

Freaky Friday

Book/ Film: Freaky Friday

Genre: Comedy

Author/ Director:
Mark Waters

Characters/ Actors:
Jamie Lee Curtis
Lindsay Lohan

Review:

Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) and her mother, Dra. Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) are two completely different persons.
However, Anna has a band where she plays the guitar , but his mother says that she only makes noise.
Dra. Coleman is going to marry whit her boyfriend, which Anna dislikes .
However, Dra Coleman and her daughter have one thing in common
They don’t relate to each other on anything.
Not clothes or men or Anna `s passion to be in a rock band, nothing.
Then one night a little mystic mayhem changes their lives and
They wake up to the biggest FREAK-OUT ever.
Dra. Coleman and Anna are trapped inside each other body!
But Dra. Coleman ‘ll married the next Saturday and Anna have an important audition with her band so they must Find a way to switch back.
I really like this film because is too funny and I love Lindsay Lohan.


Student name: Delfina Bartolome
Class: 5 Humanistico

Matilda

Book/ Film: Matilda
Genre: Comedy
Author/ Director: Danny DeVito.
Characters/ Actors: Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris and Brian Levinson.

Review:

Matilda tells the story of a very clever girl callad Matilda. She could read and write when she was 3 years old. Her parents Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood didn`t understood her because they lived their own life, he sold second hand cars dishonestly and her mother went out with her friends. The first person who realised that she was so clever was the libralian. Matilda went to the library every day and read books about Math, Oscar Wilde etc.
When she entered primary school her teacher Miss Honey thought she couldn't be in first grade because of her intelligence so she went to speak with her parents and they reacted telling her to leave their house immediately.
Miss Truchbull was the headmistress of the school, hje was very rude, strict and bad person, nobody loved her. She was really Miss Honey's aunt and although Miss Honey's father had left her money and very nice house, Miss Honey lived in a small house with little money, so Matilda wanted to help her.
One day Matilda discovered she had special powers. At first her teacher didn't believe them but one day she could show them to her.
Finally thanks to Matilda's powers Miss Honey recovered her house, Miss Trunchbull never appeared at school again and Miss Honey adopted Matilda as her daughter because Matilda's parents were going to lived to other country and Matilda didn't want.
I think this is a very interesting story thet shows me that a little gril who was always alone and not loved, colud be appreaciated and considered by her teacher, because of that Matilda went on livinig in a better way.


Student name: Maida Daniela Salto.
Class:5º Humanistico

The Unborn

Book/ Film: The unborn
Genre: Terror
Author/ Director: David Goyer
Characters/ Actors: David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page, Noel Wilton Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman

Review:
Casey Beldon hates her mother for leaving her during the childhood.
But when inexplicable facts start to happen, Casey begins to understand
why her mother had left. Stalked by nightmares and by a torturer ghost who
chases her when she is awake, she needs to look for Sendak's help,
the only person who seems to be able to stop it. With the help of Sendak, Romy, her best friend,
and his boyfriend Mark, Casey discovers the origin of a
familiar curse which comes from the Nazi Germany and a creature with the skill
of living in any place or thing

Student name: Fabricio Rodriguez
Class: 5to H

Star Wars Episode 1

Book/ Film: Star Wars Episode 1 : The Phantom Menace
Genre: SCI-FI
Author/ Director: George Lucas, Rick McCallum

Characters/ Actors: Liam Neeson (Qui-Gon Jin), Ewan Macgregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Natalie Portman (Padme Admidala) , Jake Lloyd (Anakin Skywalker), Ray Park (Darth Maul).





Review:

A long Time ago in a galaxy far far away the trade federation, a republic separatist group decides to organize an economic blockade around the planet Naboo. Due to this the supreme chancellor of the galactic republic sends two Jedi’s from the Jedi order as diplomats to resolve the conflict, they where a young Obi-Wan Kenobi and his master Qui-Gon Jin. The Trade Federation invades Naboo with an army of battle droids and attempt to murder the Jedi’s who managed to escape and land on the surface of Naboo.
This is just the start between the war on Naboo and the Queen Padme Admidala of Naboo and the Jedi’s adventure to discover the truth hidden by the war.

After escaping Naboo with the Queen Admidala, the Gungan Jar Jar Bings (a Naboo native species) the two Jedi’s land on a nearby desert planet called Tatoine in order to repair their ship. There they meet a young boy called Anaking Skywalker who helps them to get the parts for the ship. Qui-Gon senses that the kid had a strong presence of the Force within him, and decides to present him to the high Jedi council in the capital planet of Coruscant. Before leaving Tatooine Qui-Gon realizes that the treat of the sith it’s still living as he battles Darth Maul, a Zabrak who was trained in the dark side of the force.

An amazing movie, and the beginning of the second trilogy of Star Wars, even that its works as a precuel of the first. It will shock you whit amazing battles, amazing visual effects and beautiful landscapes. and a mysterious plot ideal for watching if u don’t know the saga and vital to watch is you do. I highly recommend it

Student name: Diego Papa
Class: 5º H

The Notebook

Book/ Film: The Notebook
Genre: Drama - Romance
Author/ Director: Nicholas Sparks Characters/ Actors: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands, James Garner, James Marsden, San Shepard, Joan Allen

Review:

Is story about two young people in the 1940s who fall in love and endure life.

They are Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling) who fall in love when they were teenangers. The young couple is quickly separated by Allie's upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn't right for her. Several years passed and Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now with another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. But when they meet again, their passion is reborn, forcing Allie to choose between her soul mate and class order. This beautiful tale has a particularly special meaning to an older gentleman (James Garner) who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging companion (Gena Rowlands).

Is a great movie, especially if you like love movies! I don’t usually watch tv or go to the cinema, but there are specific films that I can’t stop watching, and one of them is “The Notebook”.

Student name: Agustina Féraud
Class: 5th Hum

Monsters Inc

MONSTER INC.

Book/ Film: Monster Inc.
Genre: Animation/ Childrens
Author/ Director: Peter Docter. Disney & Pixar
Characters/ Actors: Mike, Sully and Boo

Review:

Mike and Sully, two funny and adorables monsters, are job partners and best friends. They live in a monster´s city and work at Monster Inc., a big company that captures the screams of little children and turns them into energy. To make the children scream, the monsters must enter each child's bedroom through the closet door, then deliver a frightening affront. But the great problem is that kids aren't scared anymore. And because of this problem, Monsters, Inc. is in a crisis.Later, a little girl called Boo accidentally enter into the factory in the monster’s world when it´s considered like a contamination. Later Sully and Boo became friends and he helps her to back home.In my opinion, it is a very funny movie for childrens and adults, the animation is incredible! I really liked and recommend his movie. It´s fantastic!!!


Student name: Victoria Alonso
Class: 5º H

Walk the Line

Film: Johnny and June

Genre: Drama, musical

Director: James Mangold

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Patrick, Dan Beene.

Review:


WALK THE LINE
This is the story about the singer Johnny Cash from his early days in an Arkansas farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis. When he grows up, he joins up the army and he is sent to Alemania. When he is twenty two years old he returns to America and stays in Memphis. There he gets married with his girlfriend and starts his musical career, first with gospel music and then he changes to country music where he hilights his powerful voice.
When he starts doing concerts, he meets a singer who he has always admired, June Carter. The distance with his wife takes him to fall in love with her.
During the sixties his success leads him to the drinks and drugs, but June helps him to leave it.
Finally they get married, but they have to go over a lot of problems, and walk the line.
In my opionion, it is a fantastic movie because it has a little bit of everything, it is funny, emotional and romantic.

Student name: Florencia Rossi

Class: 5º Humanístico

New in Town

NEW IN TOWN

Film: New in Town.

Genre: Comedy- Romance.

Author/ Director: Jonas Elmer.

Cast: Renée Zellweger (Lucy), Harry Connick Jr. (Ted), Siobhan Fallon (Blanche).

Review:

New in Town is a story about an exciting and ambitious woman who lives in Miami. Her name is Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) and is a high achiever that tries to become a Vice President.
To show the President of the company that she has the ability, she takes a temporal assignment to restructure a small manufacturing plant of yogurt in Minnesota. That city is so cold, full of snow and icy roads.

By the way, Lucy must endurance to the hard work to succeed. When she arrives, a local woman (Blanche Gunderson) invites Lucy to her house. There, Lucy meets Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick Jr.) who is the union representative. At first, she has some conflicts with the workers, but soon they begin to accept her. To add another problem, the product line is not working, and she is ordered to close the plant. However, she has a better idea of making money for the company and saving everybody's job. The company now manufactures Tapioca, a typical Blanche Gunderson’s meal. Along the way, she finds something she didn't know she was looking for and that is love.

In my opinion, the direction is great and the actors are incredible! I really liked the movie it was so funny, I specially like Renée Zellweger’s movies. She is a wonderful comedy actress.

Student name: Agustina Leguizamón.

Class: 5to Humanístico.