War Horse: A film review

 - Vancouver, British Columbia - To start off, I must confess that movies about horses generally have the terrible disposition of being terrible, overly sappy and sentimental, since often the horse is given human attributes, albeit silent ones. Thus it must come as no surprise that when I first heard that Steven Spielberg was choosing to come back to the director's chair to make a movie about a horse, I felt reasonably concerned. Upon the premier of the second promotional trailer for this film, however, my fears were relieved by the realization that this was not simply going to be another dumb movie about a horse, but something more than I had imagined.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: A film review

 - Vancouver, British Columbia - The third Harry Potter series saw some significant changes that would forever take the series in a new direction. The biggest change of them would be the switch over from director Chris Columbus to Alfonso Cuarón. J.K. Rowling apparently quite enjoyed Cuarón's adaptation of A Little Princess in 1995 and deemed him suitable to direct the third film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This would become a trend through the franchise as it would see more directors before finishing.

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