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The foodfest place,just say it,food tours nyc,Magnolia Bakery,Grandaisy’s pizza,Baltazar’s french style chocolate chip cookie,Yonah Schimmel’s potato knish,and also many interesting places that you can go all day long.
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Release Date : December 25th, 2009 (US)
Director : Guy Ritchie
Casts :
Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes
Jude Law as Watson
Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler
Mark Strong as Blackwood
Kelly Reilly as Mary
Plot :
The film was begin with the death of Lord Blackwood,the worst enemy of Sherlock Holmes. But before the dead,he promises he will return and get revenge. And he has come back,with more complicated and twisted mystery to solve by Sherlock Holmes.
With the Watson’s fiancee and help from Scotland Yard,Sherlock Holmes begin his adventure to solve the mystery twisted with murder and a little of black magic. And also to meet his temptress, Irene Adler.
This movie is best especially for Sherlock Holmes’ fans,and everyone who loves mystery,murder,and the solve style of Sherlock Holmes.
Star Rate for this movies (0 – 100) : 75
Another style of classic story about the frog’s princess.It’s Prince Naveen and the waitress Tiana,the prince is cursed by a voodoo magician into a frog,and Tiana is kissing the frog.Another casts is a trumpet-playing alligator, a cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, together they help the prince and Tiana to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
Surprise cast is Oprah Winfrey as the voice of Eudora,this is the first Disney movie to feature a black princess and it’s also the first hand-drawn Disney animated film since Home on the Range (2004).Another trivia is, the alligator character in the film is named Louis in honor of jazz singer Louis Armstrong.
The Princess and The Frog has been released in USA at December 11,2009,and become hits at its first week,so let’s see what will happen in the next months.
Another movie from James Cameron,from the last movies that he has directed “Titanic (1997)”,it’s been more than 10 years to him to direct next movie “Avatar (2009)”,and the result is 9 nominations from several festival,and 4 nominations for Golden Globe,it’s amazing ! Many people expected that this movie will make new box office,over “Titanic”,and also the other hit movies that he ever directed,like The Terminator (1984),Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985),Aliens (1986),The Abyss (1989),Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991),and True Lies (1994).
Avatar is a movie that setting at the future time.Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is an ex-marine that join in the program,the goal is to mine the minerals at moon Pandora.At Pandora there are Na’vi people that lives there,they are more strong and tall from humanbeing.The problem is humanbeing can’t breathe at Pandora,so Jake will be in the program,to transform become an Avatar,the Avatars have a Na’vi body and a human DNA.Later,Jake is fall in love with Na’vi woman,and the human at Earth have to force the Na’vi and begin the war.So Jake has to battle humans to save the Na’vi and the woman,and the film become a love story.
This film is perfect at CGI but weak at storyline,but who cares? Most of us want to see this movies to see the CGI.
It’s your choice now,if you want to see for the beauty of Na’vi and the CGI,it’s perfect movie,but if you want to see the film like Titanic,don’t hope too much 
After all,it’s a great movie,perfect movie from James Cameron.
2012 is a 2009 science fiction apocalyptic disaster film based loosely on the 2012 phenomenon and directed by Roland Emmerich. The film stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Filming began in August 2008 in Vancouver.
The credits cite the bestselling non-fiction book Fingerprints of the Gods by author Graham Hancock as inspiration for the film, and in an interview with the London magazine Time Out Emmerich states: “I always wanted to do a biblical flood movie, but I never felt I had the hook. I first read about the Earth’s Crust Displacement Theory in Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods.” The film briefly references Mayanism, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and the 2012 phenomenon in its portrayal of cataclysmic events unfolding in the year 2012. Due to solar flare bombardment the Earth’s core begins heating up at an unprecedented rate, eventually causing crustal displacement. This results in an onslaught of Doomsday event scenarios plunging the world into chaos, ranging from California falling into the Pacific Ocean, the eruption of the Yellowstone National Park caldera, massive earthquakes, and Megatsunami impacts along every coast line on the Earth. The film centers around an ensemble cast of characters as they narrowly escape multiple catastrophes in an effort to reach ships in the Himalayas, along with scientists and governments of the world who are attempting to save as many lives as they can before the disasters ensue.
Reviews of the film have been mixed, with critics pointing out the impossibility of some of the Apocalyptic scenarios depicted in the film. The film ran a much criticized viral marketing campaign in the form of the fictional organization Institute for Human Continuity, a fictitious book written by Jackson Curtis entitled Farewell Atlantis, and streaming media, blog updates and radio broadcasts from the apocalyptic zealot Charlie Frost at his website entitled This Is The End.
Miramax Films developed a full-fledged live action adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, with Peter Jackson as director. Eventually, with Miramax owner Disney becoming increasingly uneasy with the sheer scope of the proposed project, Jackson was given the opportunity to find another studio to take over. In 1999, New Line Cinema assumed production responsibility (while Miramax executives Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein retained on-screen credits as executive producers). The three films were shot simultaneously. They featured extensive computer-generated imagery, including major battle scenes utilizing the “Massive” software program. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released on December 19, 2001, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on December 18, 2002 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King worldwide on December 17, 2003. All three won the Hugo Award for Best (Long-form) Dramatic Presentation in their respective years.
The films were met with both critical and commercial success. Jackson’s adaptations garnered seventeen Oscars, four for The Fellowship of the Ring, two for The Two Towers, and eleven for The Return of the King; these covered many of the award categories. The Return of the King in fact won all of the eleven awards for which it was nominated, including Best Picture. With a total of 30 nominations, the trilogy also became the most-nominated in the Academy’s history, surpassing the Godfather series’ 28. Its 11 Oscars at the 2004 Academy Awards tied it for most awards won for one film with Titanic six years earlier and the 1959 version of Ben-Hur. It also broke the previous “sweep” record, beating Gigi and The Last Emperor (which each took 9 out of 9). The Return of the King also made movie history as the highest grossing film opening on a Wednesday and was the second film after Titanic to earn over US$1 billion worldwide.
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy is widely and currently considered to be the most popular and is verified to be the currently highest grossing motion picture trilogy worldwide of all time, evidenced by its earning close to $3-billion (US), besting other notable franchises such as the original Star Wars trilogy (without adjustment for inflation) and the Harry Potter series. The film trilogy also set a record for the total number of Academy Awards won, tallying a total of seventeen Oscars. Critical acclaim has commonly hailed the trilogy as “the greatest films of our era,” and “the trilogy will not soon, if ever, find its equal.”
On the other hand, some readers of the book decried certain changes made in the adaptation, including changes in tone, various changes made to characters such as Aragorn, Arwen, Denethor and Faramir, as well as to the main protagonist Frodo himself, and the deletion of the next to the last chapter of Tolkien’s work, “The Scouring of the Shire”, a part he himself felt thematically necessary.
The trilogy’s defenders assert that it is a worthy interpretation of the book, most changes stemming from the filmmakers putting the book into a modern context, rearranging the events into a chronologically linear narrative (as opposed to Tolkien separating the two main story threads into two separate parts for The Two Towers and most of The Return of the King), and their perceived need for developing characters further or for sheer timing issues. In any case, the films proved popular with general audiences and readers alike.
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of the Civil War, stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland, and tells a story of the Civil War and its aftermath from a white Southern viewpoint.
It received ten Academy Awards, a record that stood for twenty years. In the American Film Institute’s inaugural Top 100 American Films of All Time list of 1998, it was ranked number four; although in the 2007 10th Anniversary edition of that list, it was dropped two places, to number six. In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 top 10 — the best ten films in ten American film genres—after polling over 1,500 persons from the creative community. Gone with the Wind was acknowledged as the fourth best film in the Epic genre. It has sold more tickets in the U.S. than any other film in history, and is considered a prototype of a Hollywood blockbuster. Today, it is considered one of the greatest and most popular films of all time and one of the most enduring symbols of the golden age of Hollywood. When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind remains the highest grossing film of all time in North America and the UK.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Dee Wallace. It tells the story of Elliott (played by Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends a friendly extraterrestrial, dubbed “E.T.”, who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help the extraterrestrial return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.
The concept for E.T. was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents’ divorce in 1960. In 1980, Spielberg met Mathison and developed a new story from the stalled science fiction/horror film project Night Skies. The film was shot from September to December 1981 in California on a budget of US$10.5 million. Unlike most motion pictures, the film was shot in roughly chronological order, to facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast.
Released by Universal Pictures, E.T. was a blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the most financially successful film released to that point. Critics acclaimed it as a timeless story of friendship, and it ranks as the best science fiction film ever made in a Rotten Tomatoes survey. The film was re-released in 1985, and then again in 2002 with altered special effects and additional scenes. Spielberg believes E.T. epitomizes his work
Titanic is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated maiden voyage of the ship. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters (such as members of the ship’s passengers and crew) are based on historical figures. Gloria Stuart plays the elderly Rose, who narrates the film in a modern day framing device.
Production of the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the real wreck of the RMS Titanic. He envisioned the love story as a means to engage the audience with the real-life tragedy. Shooting took place on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh – which aided Cameron in filming the real wreck – for the modern scenes, and a reconstruction of the ship was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California. Cameron also used scale models and computer-generated imagery to recreate the sinking. Titanic became at the time the most expensive film ever made, costing approximately US$200 million with funding from Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox.
The film was originally to be released on July 2, 1997, but post-production delays pushed back the film’s release to December 19, 1997. The film turned out to be an enormous critical and commercial success, winning eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It became the highest-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide total of over $1.8 billion (it is the sixth-highest grossing in North America once adjusted for inflation).