TV Series Review: Prison Break Season One

Prison Break Season One is a well put together tv show. It starts off with two brothers- one of them is accused of killing the Vice President of the United States brother and is on deathrow. The other brother has just been arrested of armed robbery of a bank. If you don't like this so far, this is where the twist comes. The brother arrested for armed robbery, Michael, was arrested on purpose and has a plan to escape maximum security prison with his brother. If that still doesn't have your attention, throw in inmates, crooked guards, an ex-girlfriend, strippers and you got yourself an awesome tv show.

Movie Review: Confessions of a Shopoholic

Director: P.J. Hogan

Release: 2009

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis:

Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door—that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company.

Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control...and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.

Based on the best-selling series of books by Sophie Kinsella.

Review:

This is definitely a chick flick, but a good one in my opinion. There is some good humour with some of the situations that the main character, Becky Bloomwood, found herself in. It was almost painful to watch at some points especially the sticky situation she found herself in when trying to retrieve some misdirected mail that could have potentially blown her entire career! John Goodman and Jane Cusack as Becky's parents were hilarious! They really stole the show.

This is a good movie to watch as a couple because the girl will love it. My girlfriend watched this movie with me and she laughed a lot. At the end of the movie, she told me it was quite different from the book. The names and descriptions of all the characters were the same, but there were BIG differences in terms of plot and setting. Confessions of a Shopoholic is one of her favourite books and she is very familiar with Sophie Kinsella's work. In fact, her love of the books was the main reason for us watching the movie!

Anyways, the setting was wrong. The book took place in London, England and NOT NYC. All the characters were British and NOT American. Luke Brandon did not run Simply Savings magazine. He owned his own business called Brandon Communications in the book. Other than these glaring differences, the movie and book were pretty close.

For a comedy, I rate this 7/10.

Movie Review: Braveheart

Director: Mel Gibson

Release: 1995

Genre: Action

Synopsis:

Mel Gibson stars on both sides of the camera, playing the lead role plus directing and producing this brawling richly-detailed saga of fierce combat, tender love and the will to risk all that's precious for something more precious: freedom.

In an emotionally charged performance, Gibson is William Wallace, a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation. Filled with sword-clanging spectacle, Braveheart is a tumultuous tapestry of history come alive, "the most sumptuous and involving historical epic since Lawrence of Arabia". (Rod Lurie, Los Angeles Magazine).

Review:

This is one of my all time favorite movies. I have yet to find a movie that comes close to this one. It has everything in it: love, war, betrayal, drama,and a lot of action scenes. The best part that I enjoyed was the revenge that they forced William Wallace to do when all he wanted was to live peacefully.The king ran things with a iron fist which became his downfall. The prince was another story; he was weak and more feminine than most.

It's a long movie but because of the history it kept my interest. It's based on the invasion of Scotland by England back in the 13th century. I liked that one of the main characters was Irish because that's my background.

One thing I should mention is that this movie is really gory. The battle scenes are graphic with limbs being severed and blood everywhere. The sex scenes were PG unfortunately, but I still enjoyed them.

There are so many things in this movie and if you have not seen it I hope you get a chance to pick it up and give it a watch.

Rating: 9.5/10