BTB Fest Entertainment

About a week ago, I went to a movie rental around my blocks to rent some movies. I needed them because I planned to have a small party in my home with my friends from my office. We would eat some pizzas, drink lemonades, and watch our favorite movies. Unfortunately, I wasn’t that lucky. I could not find two from five movies I wanted to rent. So then I called one of my movie-freak friends, Sam, asking what I should do.

He truly gave me a good solution. He suggested me to find the Netflix on the internet. It’s kind of cyber movie rental but much better. By using Netflix’s service, I don’t have to make a trip to the movie rental anymore. Instead, now the movies come to me, and the best part is they provide a vast collection of movies. Thanks to their service, I could save my party.

Once I choose the movie I want to watch, all I have to do is wait for the movie to arrive in my mailbox. By the way, when I compared its cost with the movie rental, I found that it’s cheaper. I wonder how much money I should pay if I were to rent as many movies at the movie rental as I have at Netflix. Probably, I would go broke.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is based on the first of a series of books by author Rick Riordan and is aimed at young teens, particularly boys. The series proposes that the Greek Gods are alive and kicking in the modern world, more specifically operating out of a new Mount Olympus in Manhattan.

Well now, here’s the story. A New York teenager Percy (Logan Lerman) who is living with single mom Sally (Catherine Keener) and her no-good boyfriend Gabe Ugliano (Joe Pentoliano). What Percy has never known is that his real father is Poseidon (Kevin McKidd), the Greek god of the oceans. So Percy is a demi-god, son of a god and a human.

Being the son of the lord of the ocean and of earthquakes has some great advantages, like the ability to manipulate and control water. Percy meets with fellow demigods, centaurs, satyrs and other very-much-alive creatures of Ancient Greek Myth and even manages to rub shoulders with a few gods and a rather intimidating prophecy.

The characters are much as you would expect and the film-makers have done a good job casting the trio of young leads, though fans have already expressed their opinions about changes in the ages of the characters and the look of both Grover and Annabelle.

Valentine’s Day works in the tradition of last year’s February romantic success story, and Love Actually, a British dramatic rom-com that jump-started the technique of applying multiple love stories in a film. That way, if one story doesn’t work, you have multiple other chances to still enjoy the movie.

“Valentine’s Day” is set in Los Angeles where love and heartbreaks are intertwined all within those 24 hours. Florist Reed Bennett (Ashton Kutcher) proposes to his girlfriend Morley (Jessica Alba) and he is all excited about it. His best friend Julia (Jennifer Garner) is having an affair with Dr Harrison Copeland (Patrick Dempsey), while talent agent in training Josh Morris (Topher Grace) has just met the receptionist Liz (Anne Hathaway), who moonlights as a phone sex entertainer.

Meanwhile 10-year-old Edison (Bryce Robinson) who is one of Julia’s pupils, wants to send flowers to his Valentine; his grandparents Estelle (Shirley MacLaine) and Edgar (Hector Elizondo) also have a surprise after being married for so long. And up in the air, an off-duty soldier (Julia Roberts) travels from afar just to spend one day with someone she loves.

Special Forces Army Sergeant John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is home on a two-week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah’s purse that had fallen off the pier. John is smitten by Savannah and falls in love at first sight. Savannah is a college student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is on spring break and is helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity.

Military service in this movie is strictly an opportunity to engage in passionate correspondence of the old-fashioned snail mail kind. Savannah and John exchange declarations of love and loyalty revealed to us in voice-overs. But just when John’s remaining year of service is over, the 9/11 attacks happen. Poor John! Duty calls. His squad members, after a weekend during which John goes all the way back from some top secret exotic country to Charleson, all decide to re-up for duty in Afghanistan, and he can’t desert them.

Like so many of Terry Gilliam’s films The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is one that is going to need multiple viewings to truly form an opinion on.  The film is of marvelous spectacle yet unprofound simplicity but limitless. It’s along the lines of his magnificent visual storytelling as in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, leaving out the subtext like Brazil and Twelve Monkeys.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus tells the story of the immortal Dr Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) and his magical Imaginarium, a travelling show in which a volunteer from the audience gets to experience their greatest need in vivid forms and then has to choose between two paths.

The score is great. Nothing ground-breaking but the music disappears and becomes a part of the scene. A great touch is when whenever Mr Nick appears, the score changes to something jazzy or bluesy.

It is basically a story about a father protecting his daughter. But what makes it unique is the fact that is it layered with metaphors and references about religion, the battle between good and evil, choices people made, impression people put up and morality behind each of our action.

Let’s get it straight right away: Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie, is quite a riot and one of the most entertaining movies of the year.

Just fresh off capturing and witnessing the hanging of Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong), an occult serial killer, Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and Dr. Watson (Jude Law) are stunned to hear rumors that he has resurrected back from the dead and resumed his killing spree. To complicate matters, Watson is planning to get married to pretty Mary Marstan (Kelly Reilly) and move out of good old 221b Baker Street to Holmes great despair. Holmes, hilariously resolved not to let that happen, attempts to sabotage his friend’s proposal while hunting down Lord Blackwood. Holmes perks up considerably though when his tempestuous old love interest, the fetching Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) pops back in town for some mysterious business.

Do you like Pocahontas? Do you enjoy painting with all the colors of the wind? Only in a crazy rendered 3d world created from the mind of James Cameron? Then perhaps Avatar is the movie for you!

There have been movies which have been controversial upon their release. The Catholic church practically waged war on “The DaVinci Code”, and the conservatives labeled Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11″ a bleeding-heart liberal doctrine. Avatar is one of them.

The tale of “Avatar”, based upon a humanoid and extraterrestrial race, provides a fruitful, relishing and striking array of fluorescent colours, story lines and character illustration that keeps the audience fixated upon the world of “Pandora”. After the death of his scientist brother, crippled marine Jake Sully agrees to control his avatar and research the Na’vi under the supervision of fellow Avatar, Grace. Although Grace is Jake’s boss, he is also under orders from military commander Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) to infiltrate the Na’vi and point out all of their weaknesses for a future military attack. While exploring the planet, Jake befriends Na’vi princess Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), who then takes him to meet her clan. It is decided that Neytiri will teach and train Jake in the way of her people. Eventually Jake becomes drawn in by the proud group of blue skinned warriors and begins to question whose side he should be on.