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The trend continues.Hollywood,like every year,is ready to release an array of movies and animation films in the beginning of New Year.Although a number of block buster movies are already showing in theaters there is no dearth of excitement among movie lovers for new releases.As per box office news some of the latest movies are making great profit with the rush of viewers in the festive season.Film magazines are full with film reviews and movie photos while Page 3 reporters are competing with each other for exclusive interviews of movie stars.If you have not updated your movie list yet here is some latest movies news for you.

Movie buffs are all charged up with the release of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.This British drama film has already rocked the world with its touching story and excellent cinematography and causing commotion in the box office too.Director Danny Boyle is on a high with awards flowing from everywhere while exclusive interview of Slumdog Millionaire’s Jamal Mullick,Dev Patel is already being aired.This cross over film has already bagged 4 Golden Globes and five out of the six awards it won nomination for at the Critics’Choice.Millions of viewers hope this winning spree continues for Slumdog Millionaire with ten nominations at the 81st Academy Awards and eleven at 62nd BAFTA Awards.

Another release of 2009 is Defiance that has all the attributes to be enlisted among the best commercial movies of the year. The creator of The Last Samurai,Edward Zwick is back with another war film. Much acclaimed actor Daniel Craig is featuring the lead role as Tuvia Bielski.The action thriller based on the novel’ Defiance: The Bielski Partisans’ is a story of four Jewish brothers who escaped from a Nazi military base.The movie evolves round the incidents and danger the prisoners faced while escaping.The films title song ‘Defiance’ is already a hit and it won nomination for Best Original Score at the 2009 Oscar. Though the novel could be filmed more dynamically Defiance has much to offer to its viewers.

Those who love to watch off-beat films can include in their movie lists the names such as ‘The Reader’,'Doubt’,'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and ‘Challenging’.'Revolutionary Road’ pairing Leonardo DiCaprio and the Kate Winslet has already acquired critics’ appraisals.Extraordinary performance of the blonde beauty in Revolutionary Road and The Reader has brought her two Golden Globes in 2009.The Reader gives you a taste of modern German classic.While portraying the complex character of a concentration camp guard,Hanna in The Reader Kate Winslet shows her class as an actor.

With the release of Revolutionary Road it was inevitable that comparisons will take place between the box office hit Titanic and this latest Leo and Kate paired movie.From the innocent teenager in Titanic to the desperate housewife in Revolutionary Road the blonde beauty has walked a long way and that shows in her performance.

Doubt is a superb screen adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony Award winning drama.The movie is a quest for existential truth that enthralls its viewers with the desolating consequence of blind ‘justice’ in the epoch of ethics and moral conviction.That is where Doubt succeeds in raising questions in the mind of its audience.
The list is long.Reviews of 2009 Golden Globe winning feature films are already available on the web.Apart from film reviews websites come loaded with movie clips,movie news and photos.In addition to the latest movie releases you have a lot more coming soon.So,this year you have good reasons to rush to the theater.

A movie review gives indication as to whether or not others will find the movie worth watching. The purpose of most movie reviews is to help the reader in determining whether they want to watch, rent or buy the movie. The review should also give enough details about the movie so that the reader can make an up-to-date decision as to whether to watch the movie or not. At the same time, the review should not give away too much of the essential plot of the story.

In this article we will be discussing the guidelines that should be followed while writing a movie review. Before starting to write a review, the writer should remember the following procedure:

- Selecting the movie

- Knowing the context of the movie, such as it’s director, actors, story and many more

- Formulating the writers opinion in one sentence

- Selecting special scenes from the movie or other facts that will support the writer’s opinion.

The first step in writing the review is to watch the movie. Most movie reviewers take notes as they watch the movie. Watching the movie a second time helps to absorb a lot more detail about the movie. Most movie reviewers give their personal opinion of the movie in their review. In all good journalism, the reviewer should always give impartial details, and allow the reader to make their own opinion as well.

Reviewer’s opinions should be explained to allow the reader to determine whether the readers would agree or not. The reviewer also needs to consider the audience. Writing a movie review for children requires a different approach than if writing for a general movie audience. The review should always be written keeping the targeted audience in mind. The main essence of the movie should be retained in an outlined sketch — but it should always be remembered not to give away any essential details like surprises or a sudden turn in the plot.

Details of actors, crew members, directors should be mentioned in the review. It should also be mentioned how well they have acted and how well the movie has been made technically. The technicalities are an important part of the movie review. Technicalities include art direction, music, editing lighting, cinematography and many more.

Movie reviews even include a little bit of criticism if needed. Criticism says what could have been done to make the film better or what the weak points of the movie are. Though critical analysis is not always needed, a word or two can serve the purpose in a movie review.

Conclusion

A reviewer must always remember to give an outline of the whole story, but not give away details which hold surprises or the special essence of the film. It should be kept untold for the audience to watch the film. The movie review should be written keeping a note of the types of readers who would be reading the review. The language, presentation and technicalities of writing would also depend on the types of readers. The medium which the review will be published is also important, because if the review is published on the net, the reviewer will get mostly youth readers. However, if it is going to be published in a local language in a local daily newspaper, then the approach should be different.

Everyone loves sundays and weekends when we get on a chair or on a sofa and staying along with our “half” – to be understanded as our girlfriend or boyfriend, or, hubsand or wife. We all of us, at least one time per week, we get time for watching a movie, a great or just a good one. Then we go and story to anyone known how great or good or bad was that movie.

How do we choose a movie? We go and surf the internet, or maybe kist watching various tops on tv, reading different brochures or just going on a movie shop. Also the movies box office is very important when you choose a movie, isn’t that true? I am sure the answer give will be positive.

A high intervention in our choose, maybe fifty percent is the given movie trailer : from there starts everything. Then we might go and see what other people thinks about that movie and we decide which is the choosen movie.

There are various websites with the proposal to offer a place where people can review (aka posting comments) to one or more watched movies that you have been seen so people would know what is other people opinion about a given movie. That will might help them, when they want to watch a great movie.

For example, on www.watchedmovie.com are posted frequently the Top 10 Movies and their trailers (ussually official trailers).

Also, in that website (www.watchedmovie.com) they are posting a maintained box office of movies, so it is easy as one, two, three to see them in a dedicated page, it’s helping us to avoi searching them in hundreds of websites for each movie.

By the way : there are two sort of people who love watching I movie. But, the question is : where do you prefer to see it ? Well, there are only two responses available. First answer is that people who wants quiet around and gets the movie rendered in their home dvd cinema, and, the second answer is that people who prefer going to a cinema, to see and meet another people, who loves the cinema high quality sounds (sometimes).

What do you think is the best choice? My opinion is that depends of a lot of things such as audience age, the movie kind (action, thriller, comedy) etc., lifestyle, moment disposition and so on.

Post scriptum : To be mentioned, as there a lot of movie genres, a very important fact when some people choose a movie is movie genre: someone would prefer to watch a comedy to make himself laughing, some other would prefer a sience fiction film because maybe they just want to explore the movie creators imagination, someone might want a romance because they are teenagers or want to gain a little bit more of experience in life, and I could continue with an entire list of movie genres and their descriptions.

Dont waste your time : go and make your own research to pickup and start watching a great movie which you’ll love after.