Cast:

Lily James

As Ella

Cate Blanchett

As The Stepmother

Richard Madden

As Kit

Helena Bonham Carter

As The Fairy Godmother

Duration: 1hr. 45min.

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Disney

Rating: 7/10

Director: Kenneth Branagh

About the movie:

·       It’s one of the most popular an amazing fairy tale you must have read or heard.

·       It teaches us that”Be courageous and kind” that is in the moment of despair and tragedy one must not lose hope .One must think that there is always light after the long night, happiness after sorrow. We should never loose ourselves to fear and keep belief in miracles.

·       Story of a young girl Ella, who lives happily with her mother and father at edge of the country land.

·       Her father a merchant, he often ventures foreign lands for trade.

·       Her mother the most caring of all.

·       It was the happiest family of the world until her mother fell ill and died. A tragic incident in their lives but the coped.

·       Years pass, Ella grows and has become a beautiful young woman.

·       Her father marries a widow of a fellow merchant. Ella approves of it.

·       Her stepmother is wicked and cruel lady who has seen both good and bad of life. Ella treats her like her mother but her stepmother does not see her as one of her daughters.

·       Both of her stepsisters are ungrateful and do not see her and her father as one of their own.

·       One day Ella’s father ventures on a journey and does not return. Ella is left with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters.

·       As if it was not enough Ella is now treated as a mere servant. She cooks, washes dishes, and does the laundry. She had to give up her room and is now forced to live in the attic. She is not even aloud to eat together at the dining table, she eats the leftovers.

·       A midst all this despair Ella remember what her ailing mother told her “Have courage and be kind”.

·       One day she tries to run away and ventures deep into forest. As if it were her destiny she meets the prince who is captivated by her beauty.

·        The king was ailing and aging. The prince needed to be married in order to guarantee an heir to the throne.

·       The prince gave an open invitation for a royal ball in which all the maidens of the country were invited. This ball was intended to choose his bride.

·       The day of the ball arrived. Cinderella was not allowed to go to the ball, her gown torn apart by her stepmother, she was made dishearten.

·       But she never left the courage! It is then she meets her fairy godmother how changes her world.

·       She provides her with a golden wagon, white horses, two footmen, a driver, and the most beautiful gown one has ever seen. But, she also warns her to return before the last bell of midnight.

·       Ella goes to the ball. Her beauty, grace and elegance outshines everyone else .The prince recognises her and dances with her. It was the best day of her life.

·       But the clock is ticking and the last bell is about to go off. She runs , in a hurry she leaves her glass sandals.

·       These sandals are the only thing that the prince is left with. He loves her and wants to marry her even if she is not a princess.

·       He declares in his entire kingdom that the maiden whose foot fit the sandal would be his wife.

·       After herculean effort the officers find Ella locked in the attic. The sandals fit Ella, and the prince marries her.

·       They were known as the kindest and the most caring rulers of the kingdom. 

·       Like in every Disney movie They lived happily ever after!!

Review:

It as magical and inspiring tale as expected to be. “Have courage and be kind”.

This is great movie to watch. Kids will love it.

It’s great Disney movie. Full of animations and awe inspiring scenarios and landscapes. It like an unreal fairy tale so perfect and beautiful!!

The movie teaches a lot of things both in philosophy and life. One must not give up the darkness that stall one’s life, for it is mere bliss and would go before you may even know, and a new dawn will come. This is what the movie has tried to convey to its viewers.

Enjoy it! A good movie with kids or without kids!

My goals   is to  help parents and kids  figure out if the  movie is suitable for watch ,Commonsense media which is a non profit organisation (https://www.commonsensemedia.org/)is helping kids understand the effects of modern media and improving quality of lives.

   

Grotesque bosses, haunted hordes of half dead zombies, and on top of it, a limited supply of ammo to defend yourself against Ruvik. The creator of resident evil franchise, Shinji Mikami finally delivered a game as good as resident evil 2 and 4.

Scarce resources and ammunition are the key to making a good survival horror game. Other games like Alien:Isolation made quite an impact on the gaming industry following the same strategy of giving limited resources to the player.

The dust or blood like particles floating in the air add to the scary environment of the game. As the game proceeds you will encounter the bosses, and you will forget about environment and you will solely focus on how to kill that entity to survive, and that my friend is what makes this game awesome.

The only thing that kinda sucked the fun out of the game is the awkward position of camera and character control, it made it difficult to watch around the corners to look for trouble but I think that, not knowing what is around the corner added to the scary element of the game.

Horror is nothing without a good story and this game's plot has all of the horror punchlines. The story is about Ruvik, the villain and Sebastian, the protagonist. The player will get to know about the past of Sebastian through a series of lost diaries that will be found before every checkpoint and through a series of visions that Sebastian will have. We will know about the tragedies that convert a genius, innocent child into blood thirsty sadist.

Story

Sebastian along with his partners Joseph Oda and Juli Kidman, enter a hospital to respond to a massacre at the hospital. After a short while they begin experiencing a series of unfortunate events that revolve around a mentally unstable patient named Leslie Withers and Ruvik. Ruvik was using Leslie as a way of his return to the real world, so to prevent that Kidman is determined to kill Sebastian but our hero stands against her.

Some screens from game

Above is a vision that Sebastian is having about past of Ruvik. These visions generally had Ruvik in injured state explaining his progress on an experiment that he was conducting along with Dr Marcelo Jimenez, also the doctor of Leslie.

The mirror acts as a portal which takes Sebastian to the asylum where upgrading chair and other utilities are kept.

Weapon's wheel has a maximum of eight elements. Sebastian has a wide range of weapons like a sniper rifle, shotgun, magnum and other tools like medicine box, matches.

The game has an innovative approach as to how Sebastian will upgrade his skills and save his checkpoint. The given scene involved an asylum which can only be reached through a special mirror, and there were all the tools which made Sebastian stronger. Nurse Tatiana taught Sebastian how to use various resources of the asylum. Upgrades can only be purchased in exchange on green goo like stuff.

Sebastian shooting Ruvik in final game sequence.

The anomaly chasing Sebastian in a spooky hallway.

Another scene from final game sequence.

Sebastian staring down at the insanely crazy and deadly maze.

The beacon hospital's light.

Sebastian aiming a rocker launcher at the final Ruvik monster

Sebastian being surrounded by the sewer's half dead haunted.

Laura coming after Sebastian after tearing a metal mesh.

A haunted being sliced by the maze's blade.

The mind having the control of the whole haunted world.

The sewer monster.

Sebastian performing a silent kill on a haunted.

Sebastian shooting blinding and shock bolt at the ring leaders of haunted.

Laura creeping on Sebastian from behind the metal mesh cage.

Ruvik explaining his whole plan and why he is invincible.

Laura mashing the Sebastian's head to pulp.

Sebastian shooting a 50 cal at the final boss.

Sebastian shooting at the burning haunted.

Ruvik inside the mind of the final boss.

The best part of the game was figuring out how to defeat the bosses because you cant solely rely on fire power and melee attacks to defeat the bosses. You have to utilize your ammo and various bolts in best way possible. Having full knowledge of your surroundings and traps is essential while in a fight against a truly terrifying entity like the keeper(i call it square head) and the multi-limbed Rebon Laura (the hairy creature).. whoooo...they still scare the sh*t out of me..sometimes you will find yourself cornered without anything left to fight back but you have to keep your calm and run.

So that you can come up with a strategy and beat the shit out of that monster.. and the feeling you get when after a long struggle you finally emerge victorious from jaws of an evil... well that is priceless..you feel invincible and encouraged to advance forward into the deeper and darker evil just to get that feeling again. After playing this game you will not be afraid of dark and evil cos your nerves will be of steel.

My final opinion on the game:

The realistic game play, amazing graphics, spooky surrounding, a psychotic villain constantly giving you creeps...well what else you need to keep you sleepless and awake for nights. Well there is always a room for improvement, like full screen glitch fix and better placement of camera but nevertheless if you want to start playing survival horror but you don't want to play classics like resident evil 4, this game is a solid recommendation.

CAST

Ralph Fiennes
 as M. Gustave

F Murray Abraham

as Mr. Moustafa

Edward Norton

as Henckels

Saoirse Ronan

as Agatha

Tilda Swinton

as Madame D.

Duration: 1 hr 39 min

Genre: Drama,Comedy

Rating: 8/10

Director: Wes Anderson

About the movie:

·       The story begins with a girl visiting a monument to writer. She carries a book named “The Grand Budapest Hotel” written by him.

·       The book was about an amazing and unbelievable tale which inspired the author when he had visited the hotel.

·       The Hotel was situated in the fictional central European state of Zubrowka. A mountain country.

·       The hotel had fallen to hard times but was once a luxurious hotel.

·       He meets the current owner of the Hotel Zero Moustafa.

·       Zero was once a novice lobby boy of the same hotel, who is now among the wealthiest people of central Europe.

·       Zero tells the author his amazing tale that had led him where he is now.

·       His story begins in 1932, back then hotel was in an excellent state.

·       Nobody knew about the owner of the hotel, it was a mystery.

·       He worked under the supervision of M. Gustave H.

·       Zero worked very hard and fell in love with Baker’s daughter Agatha.

·       Gustave H a legendary concierge at the hotel. They were war ravaged times.

·       Gustave was very good at his job; attended to the needs of his guests and exceptionally to rich blonde women.

·       He was very intimate with Madame Celine Villeneuve Desgoffe-und-Taxis aka Mme. D.

·       The story takes a sharp turn when Mme. D. dies leaving lavish amount of awe inspiring wealth.

·       In her will she gave a valuable painting ‘Boy with Apple’ to Gustave.

·       Mme. D.’s son Dimitri is the antagonist ; a murderous and greedy character who wants everything for himself. He challenges the will.

·       Gustave and Zero steal the painting turning up a series of events.

·       Soon after Gustave is imprisoned for the murder of Mme. D. testified by Madame D’s Butler.

·       Zero helps Gustave in breaking out of prison and prove his innocence.

·       They have a very narrow escape.

·       They both go back to the hotel to take back the painting.

·       This is led entropic gunfight in Agatha flees with the painting.

·       At the back of the painting they discover a Madame D’s second will. This will help Gustave by exemption from all the charges pressed in him.

·       Will states that Madame D was the mysterious owner of the hotel. Gustave is left with a huge amount of fortune, the painting and the hotel itself.

·       Zero becomes the new concierge and marries Agatha.

·       Later on Gustave dies and Zero becomes the new owner of the hotel.

·       This is how the amazing tale ends.

Review:

It’s an amazing tale. Only a few can ever be mad e like it. It’s an elegant and beautiful illustration of a breath-taking story!!

You wouldn’t get bored in one single moment of the story. The movie is full of comedy. Sarcasm can be seen time to time in the movie.

The intellect of the story and its elegance binds the audience. Everything is pretty in this movie the hotel, the costumes, the pastries, the train, the prison …. Everything!! It’s a must see movie.

The bottom line it’s a movie you regret missing.

The whole crew must have put their hearts out making it.