Movie reviews.

Saving Mr. Banks looks beneath the shiny and magical of Disney’s iconic Mary Poppins movie adaptation to examine the true-life story of Poppins creator P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) and her relationship with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks). After decades of fighting to keep the rights to her character out of Disney’s hands, low finances at last force Travers to venture to Hollywood to make a deal with Disney.

However, Travers will not sign-off the rights to Poppins without first making sure of what Walt has planned for his film. When she first sees the happy-go-lucky movie about Mr. Banks and his family, the author is outraged (literally you dislike her 10mins into the movie) but slowly and surely she begins to crack, and waves of bad childhood memories begin to make Mrs. Travers wonder what Mary Poppins really means, and whether or not the world should see her painted in the light of the Disney brand.

Saving Mr. Banks is a tender and interesting look of historical memoir, which manages to break-down – and then, put back together – an iconic character and film in a way that is at once truthful and mature but also moving and real.

Beware,The scenes from the past of Travers’ childhood on a farm are dreamily surreal in their earthy tones and sun-set glow these are different in the presence glow of 1960s Hollywood and the bright world of Disney. In either case, what could be mundane scenes of period-era workplace are instead transformed into more artful and cinematic setting.

As far as holiday season movies go, this is a solid bet for that feel-good family film, despite the fact that it contains some heavier (but worthwhile) dramatic elements. Hanks is nominated for a Golden Globe for this role.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Review:

The first Hobbit was quite a success at the box office ($1 billion worldwide). But if Im being honest, I will admit it was a little boring and a lot long as 'The Lord of the rings' ( Yes, I am a huge fan). The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a little less long and a little more boring, its 2hrs and 45mins. That's because after two hours of setup involving Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he hobbits along with the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and 13 dwarves, led by Thorin, to win back the Dwarf Kingdom, the dragon shows up 2hrs later. This Smaug is a dragon to die for, literally his words not mine ' I am fear, I am death'. Director Peter Jackson performs the same kind of miracles with the dragon Smaug that he did with Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.The scenes between Smaug and Bilbo were as lame as listening to ABBA. The bloated 3D movie had no sense of character or purpose. As before, there's a ton of padding. Orlando Bloom's Legolas shows up out of nowhere, yes you have eye candy, to be fair the best scene in my opinion was between Legolas and an Orac. Orlando Bloom looked like a plastic surgeon attacked him. And the elf warrior Tauriel ( Kate from LOST) was an added benefit to a boring, non colorful production. is pure invention. The movie dragged, the 3D was dreadful and the story-line had BIG HUGE 'As if' moments, along with a few holes in it. All in all..... wait for DVD, or better yet watch paint dry.