Kate & Leopold

Welcome to a new recommendation, this  is romantic-comedy fantasy film that tells a story of a duke who travels through time from New York in 1876 to the present and falls in love with a woman in modern New York.

On 28 April 1876, Leopold, His Grace the 3rd Duke of Albany, is a stifled dreamer. He has created a design for a primitive elevator, and has built a small model of this device. His strict Uncle Millard has no patience for what he characterises as a sign of Leopold's disrespect for the Monarchy, chastising him, and telling him he must marry a rich American, as the Mountbatten family finances are depleted. In response to his uncle's accusations of his blemishing the family name, Leopold counters that the new nobility is to be found in those who pursue initiatives, hence his interest in the sciences and inventions.

One day, the Duke finds Stuart Besser, an amateur physicist (and great-great-grandson of Leopold) in his study perusing his schematic diagrams and taking photographs of them. He had seen him earlier at Roebling's speech about the Brooklyn Bridge, after he was laughing at the word "erection." Leopold follows Stuart and tries to save him from falling off the unfinished bridge, only to fall with him into a temporal portal between centuries that Stuart has used to travel to 1876.

Leopold awakens in 21st century New York City. He is at first confused and thinks that he has been kidnapped. Stuart says that he has created formulae to forecast portals in the temporal universe and that Leopold must stay inside his apartment until the portal opens again a week later.

Leopold is intrigued by the cynical and ambitious Kate McKay, Stuart's ex-girlfriend, who comes to the apartment for her Palm Pilot stylus. He observes that she is a "career woman" and that her field, market research, is a fine avocation for a woman, and states that he once dated a librarian from Sussex.

Kate and Leopold become romantically involved as they dine and tour New York.

I hope this movie pleases you, if you like it, recommend it to more people, enjoy your weekend.

by: Benjamín Mejía

The Boss Baby

        

Hi welcome to another thursday blog, I hope that you are having a good day, so the movie of this day is "The Boss Baby" it is a great movie, I´m pretty sure that you will love it as I did.

This movie is about Tim Templeton wich has the most amazingly perfect life ever. With his loving parents to himself he doesn't realize his mother is pregnant. But when his new little brother comes along, he starts getting less attention. one night Tim hears a voice coming from inside his brother's bedroom and discovers something startling... his little brother is plotting against his parents company!!! After adventures, mischief, and lots of trust, the two realize they need each other and are meant to be brothers.

Trailer:

By: Gabriela Sandoval

The Avengers

This amazing movie was written and directed by Joss Whedon. Produced by Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures, based on the original comic in 2012.

The movie starts when Loki is talking with the leader of the Chitauri’s army. They are making a deal in exchange of the tesseract a powerful device that can build and destroy anything, but in the wrong hands this is a lethal weapon. All Loki wanted was to be king of a planet, and The Earth was the perfect place to start. Fury needs to gather a team to fight future threats, and he was in a lab where the tesseract was being investigated when the god of mischief appears and destroys everything on his way until he takes the device and kidnaps a doctor to create a new weapon.

The agents of S.H.I.E.L.D went all over the world looking for those heroes selected to be part of the Avengers project, here we see Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow and Hawk Eye. They were all in a spaceship with the god in a cage designed for Hulk when they had internal problems. Fury lied to them about what purposes they were investigated the device, but Tony planted a hacker chip in the control station and found out. Loki used this as opportunity and distracted Thor to take his place and make The Hulk burst in rage and destroy everything.

At the end of the movie they all solved their problems to fight a bigger one: The Chitauri army in New York City. They were destroying the buildings and killing the people when Iron Man and Captain America start fighting them. Thor and The Hulk got rid of them by large amounts, but they kept coming endlessly. They had to close the portal opened with the tesseract, unfortunately, it could only be closed with Loki’s cane.

In my opinion, this was one of the greatest movies in the last decade. The combination of all our heroes fighting together seemed like a distant dream. This movie is rated for people over 13 years because of the fighting content. Nevertheless, I recommend it for all public, because there are not many movies of this type.

By Juan  Paniagua

Cool runnings

This is one of my favorite movies of all for three reasons: it is funny, it is about a sport and it is based on a real life story. 

The movie is about the Jamaica national bobsleigh team who managed to participate in Winter Olympics in Canada in 1988 despite all barriers that seemed impossible to overcome. Bobsleigh is a winter sport practiced in teams in which they use a sleigh driven by gravity through a narrow and twisting iced tracks.

Maybe you wonder, if it is a winter sport, how could a Jamaican team practice it or even going to the Olympics? Well, this is the thrilling and emotional part of the story.

Derice Bannok  was a runner who failed to qualify to the Olympics in 1988 but he really wanted to participate in a Olympic, no matter what sport, so he and his friend went to look for Irving Blitzer, who was a bobsled Medalist but was disqualified for cheating so he retired to Jamaica, Bannok wanted him to start a bobsleigh team. He eventually convince Irving and three more friends, who despite all weather and equipment disadvantages, they started training and going from being  a mockery to others, to become the first Jamaica team going to the Winter Olympics. 

In the race, everyone was impressed because they seemed to have the opportunity to achieve a medal, but sadly, their sled was really old so it could not handle high speed, so they ended falling far away from the finish line. Despite this moment, they were determined to finish the race, so they lift the sled over their shoulders and started to walk across the finish line, everyone stood up and applauded. It was a really special moment for the history of Olympics and Jamaica.

 Jamaican national bobsleigh team

By, Paola Montano

Down With Love

Welcome back to another movie recommendation for this weekend, today I present to you, Down with Love.

In 1962, New York, Barbara Novak arrives at Banner House to present her new work, “Down with Love”, a book the intent of which is to free women from love, teach them to enjoy sex without commitment, and to replace the need for a man with things such as chocolate. Following her rules would, she believes, help to give women a boost in the workplace and in the world in general.

The men who run Banner House refuse to support the book. But Vikki Hiller, Barbara's editor, has an idea to promote the book, and that's for Barbara to meet Catcher Block, a successful writer for the magazine “Know”, but he avoids her repeatedly by postponing their dates until she gets fed up, insults him, and walks out.

Barbara starts promoting her book with Vicky's help, and things take off when they get Judy Garland to sing the song "Down with Love" as a promotion to the book on The Ed Sullivan Show. Sales skyrocket, as housewives and women around the world buy the book and rebel against their men; Catcher now wants to meet Barbara, but now it is she who rejects him.

It all comes to a boiling point when Barbara appears on a national TV show talking about a chapter from the book "The Worst Kind of Man", and cites Catcher Block as the perfect example. His date rejects him, which infuriates him. Catcher swears he will prove Barbara is the same as every other woman, wanting the same things men do.

The sets, costumes, cinematography, editing, score, opening credits, and visual effects (including split-screen shots during phone calls heavily laced with double entendres between the two leads), are carefully designed to echo the style of 1960s comedies. The movie is very funny, I recommend it, it's fun to see how Catch tries to win Barbara's trust, and it has a shocking ending.

by: Benjamín Mejia

The Little Mermaid.

Hi, this time I´m going to talk about "The little mermaid", which is one of my favorite movies of all the times. 

This story is about Ariel, a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess, is dissatisfied with life under the sea and curious about the human world. With her best fish friend Flounder, Ariel collects human artifacts and goes to the surface of the ocean to visit Scuttle the seagull, who offers very inaccurate and comical knowledge of human culture. Ignoring the warnings of her father (King Triton) and court musician (Sebastian the crab) that contact between merpeople and humans is forbidden (the sea's primary contact with humans involve fishermen, so King Triton considers humans as nothing more than mere predators), Ariel still longs to be part of the human world; to this end she has filled a secret grotto with all the human artifacts she has found. ("Part of Your World") Sebastian, who is assigned to watch over Ariel and be sure she does not visit the surface again, tries to convince her that its better to live under the sea than in the human world ("Under the Sea").

Trailer: 

                                By: Gabriela Sandoval

The equalizer

It’s an action movie directed by Antoine Fuqua and it’s based on a TV show under the same title. Starring in the movie we can see Denzel Washington and Chloe Moretz.

The main character’s name is Robert MacCall and is a retired Black Ops agent who is now working in a Home Mart. Here he is friend of all his co-workers. There is one in specific who wants to join a company to be a security guard and he helps him to exercise, follow a diet until the exam day comes.

Every night he goes to a restaurant to eat something and read a different book every day.  His wife recently passed away and she was doing a challenge of reading the 100 most read books, and he decided to try to do so too. In this restaurant he met a prostitute called Teri, who wants to be a musician but she’s trapped in that world.

One day she didn’t go to the restaurant and somebody tells him she got beaten for rejecting a client and was left in the street near the hospital. A friend of her told him who did it and he went looking for those guys who handled a Russian pub near downtown and killed them very skillfully.

He thought it was all done, but the leader of that gang sent a corrupted agent to investigate the death of his men and a war between the Russians and McCall begins. Their worst mistake was coming to his place of work where he had his friends and all the necessary equipment to eliminate one by one. So he does when he finally faces the Russian agent.

In my opinion, this is one of the greatest movies he has made until this day. The action and seek of revenge is simply amazing so there is no boring moment in the movie. And even though you may know what is going to happen you never expect how he will do it. Recommended only for people over 16 for the graphic content and extreme violence.

 By Juan Paniagua

ZOOTOPIA

ZOOTOPIA

Would you like to have a great time with all your family? Well, this is your oportunity to do it at least you need some pop corn to eat while you watch this awesome movie. This nigth I bring to you and your family a good suggestion to choose it and this movie is Zootopia. 

Zootopia is a 2016 movie and it was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and released by Walt Disney Pictures too. It was directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore.

This movie begins when a little rabbit Judy has a big dream that was being part of a police group, but always their parents tell her that was to much for her and she must have to plant some vegetables like the others rabbits. But one day, she decide to go to the city and begging her career of a police and she thougt that should be a big deal but her boss was so rude with her and she was on the streets to parking duty. 

Then she was on the streets and arrest Duke who was stolen in a store and her boss repriminds her. Butt hhis day a nutria was on the police station find her husband and Judy offered her services to find him. She find help with the robber and he helps her and they realice that also the mayor of the city was involve in all the dissapearence of many animals. 

Judy and Nick were searching in the cameras of the traffic and they found the place where the animals were and they invest all the things that happend in the city. On the other hand they were confident with the secretary of the mayor and also she was really bad too and she was sending to prission and all the citizens were good again in zootopia. 

And in the case of Judy she became a real police and zootopia and Nick who was a became the first police ofice man and the main reason of the movie is that if you have a dream you have to figth to achieve your goals. 

Fatima Mendoza 

Nadia

Do you like sports? Are you interested in Olympic medalists stories?

Well this movie is based on the real Romanian Olympic medalist Nadia Comaneci. Winning the Olympics is a great thing, but Nadia did more than just winning a gold medal, she did something no gymnast had achieved before.

Nadia was born on 1961 in Romania, she started to get involved in gymnastics when she was 6 years old. In this movie you can see how good she was at gymnastics and began to stand out since her childhood. Years later she was discovered by Belya Karolyi, a Romanian-American gymnastic coach.

• But what did she do to become so famous?

In 1976 in Montreal Olympics she was the first gymnastic to obtain a perfect 10´s (which was once thought to be unattainable). She also won five Olympic medals in total. by the way, she was 15 years old ...

Nadia Comăneci poses beside the scoreboard that recorded her perfect 10 as 1.00 because none ever got a 10 score before, so they were not prepared and it could not be displayed. 

 I hope you enjoy this pictures.

By Paola Montano

He's Just Not That into You

Welcome to a new recommendation, again we offer a comedy with love stories. Nine people in Baltimore deal with their respective romantic problems, usually thwarted by the differing ideals and desires of their chosen partner.

Gigi is a single woman who repeatedly misreads mundane actions and comments from her dates as indications that they are romantically interested in her, and frets when the guy does not call her.

In attempting to meet Conor Barry, a real estate agent, at a bar, she befriends the bar owner Alex, who reveals the strategies men use to avoid a woman. He explains that if a man is interested in a woman, he will overcome any obstacles to ensure they date again, that the "rule" is that unanswered phone calls and similar behaviors mean that he is not interested, with few exceptions, and that Gigi has been misinterpreting and obsessing over imagined "signs" that she receives.

Gigi's friend and co-worker, Janine Gunders, is having difficulties in her marriage to Ben. As Janine obsesses on their home renovations, Ben becomes attracted to Anna Marks, a yoga instructor and aspiring singer, and she requites his affection for her. Ben and Anna pursue a flirtatious friendship under the pretense of him helping her establish a singing career. 

Gigi's other co-worker, Beth Murphy, is living with her boyfriend, Neil, who is also friends with Ben. After seven years of dating, Beth wants to get married, but Neil does not believe in marriage. With Gigi's newfound pragmatic stance on relationships after advice from Alex, she announces she will no longer misinterpret vague gestures from men as more than they really are. This spurs Beth to confront Neil about their relationship. When he still doesn't want to get married, she breaks up with him.

I hope this movie pleases you, if you like it, recommend it to more people, enjoy your weekend.

by: Benjamín Mejía

The Incredibles

Hi, today i'ts time to talk about The Incredibles. Bob Parr (A.K.A. Mr. Incredible), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world's greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire as superheroes to live a "normal life" with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

            Trailer: 

Ice Age

It is an animated movie presented in theaters in the 2002 by Blue Sky Studios, directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha.

The story begins in a time where humans still hunted and lived in tribes, sharing the world with gigantic and fierce creatures. In was the ice age and animals headed to their place to hibernate until a warmer time came. But, the main character called Many a lonely mammoth goes on the opposite direction just because he wanted. When he was finally alone, he finds a stinky and annoying sloth called Sith, that was escaping from two angry prehistoric rhinos. As he had no option, he let him go with him for a while, until they find a baby human, and Sith had the necessity of giving it back.

As they began a new and unwanted adventure they faced all kind of trouble, from a Sable tooth tiger to a bunch of angry dodos. Unexpectedly, the sable tooth tiger called Diego, became their ally and friend, and he changed so much that he faced his former leader into a live or death fight.

Having surpassed all trouble, they finally find the tribe of the baby that had just started to walk when he sees his dad and make a run for a hug. As the mammoth was no threat and men were not going to harm the saviors of a kid, they gave a necklace as a prove of their friendship, and then it becomes a goodbye.

Personally, this movie was a tremendous positive shock when I saw it as a kid. Just the message of belonging somewhere is really important for a kid’s life, and adding doing the right things just because it should be done that way, gives a little push into the right path and I began to consider the decisions I made.

                                                                            By Juan Paniagua 

TARZAN

Welcome to another day to see my blog, today I choose one of my favorites movies, I know that is kind of old but is really famous until now, and the good thing is  that you can watch it with all your family, maybe this could be a good excuse to invite someone that is really important for you. 

This movie was a 1999 comedy for all the family directed by Chrish Buck and produced by Walt Disney, this was based on the novel Tarzan of the Appes. 

During a time together a family have problems and they try to scape from a shipwreck and they survive to this episode in their lives, the build a tree house in the forest but they only stay a little bit time there because they were eaten by Sabor a leopard that was really bad. After this bad moment in the tree house a female gorilla that was named Kala hear the cries of the baby and she went to the tree house to see what happend and she was amazed when she realize that a human baby was there and alon, but suddenly Sabor appears again and Kala save the life of the human baby, and she call him Tarzan.

 She carried the baby with her but the leader of the group didnt want that Tarzan lives with the group of gorillas, many times Tarzan wants to do things in order to Kerchack accepted him in the group. 

One day a groups of explorers arrive to the forest and the peace of the place was interrupted, Jane who was a explorer girl meet Tarzan and they continue see them each other but one day Kala shows the things to their real family to Tarzan and he decide to go to England with Jane and her father, but guess what? It was a trap for them because Clayton who was a hunter wants all the gorillas and Tarzan knows that and he fight for his family but Clayton shoots Kerchack and he die but before this he forgives Tarzan for everything and names he the new leader of the group and also Jane and her father live there with all the gorillas. 

I hope that you enjoy to watch this movie and Thanks for visit!! 

Fatima Mendoza

The Truman Show

Welcome back to this movie blog. I know you are used to read about movies based on real life stories on Monday, but today it will be different. We will be talking about a movie in which the main character is one of my favorite actors of all: Jim Carrey. 

This movie is all about  Truman Burbank who lived in a small town located on an island called Truman, little by little he is realizing the reality that is happening around him, that his whole life is a complete deception because he is the main character of a TV show reality show that he has transmitted continuously and without interruption and live diary since his birth.

"The Truman show" is a reality television program which is broadcast live around the clock and across the globe. His entire life has taken place within a giant arcological dome in Hollywood, fashioned to create the seaside town of Seahaven Island, and equipped with thousands of cameras to monitor all aspects of his life. 

   

¡Imagine that! Imagine waking up and realize all your life was a lie. You should definitely watch it.

By Paola Montano