MOVIES AND TV SHOWS
Elena
Lion King
This is my favorite animation film. This is the story of the life of the little lion Simba, who will succeed his father Mufasa, as king of the Lion Lands in Africa. His uncle Scar kills Mufasa. Simba is made to think that he is responsible for his father's death so he escapes. When Simba grows up, he receives good advice from his childhood friend Nala and the shaman Rafiki, about how to defeat his uncle Scar and how to win back the throne. He manages to take his place as the rightful king and marry Nala.
My favorite character is Simba, because he grew up strong and brave after all the lies by his uncle. He succeeded in saving everyone from the evil king Mufasa.
My favorite scene is the final scene in the film, when everything bad is finished and Rafiki shows all the animals of the savanna Nala and Simba’s son.
I didn't like that Mufasa lost his life to save his son's life.
We can learn from this film that good always wins. After all the bad years away from his family and friends, Simba wins and saves himself and all the animals in the savanna.
Ani
Review of a movie (The Addams Family)
Have you heard about the movie The Addams family? It’s an animated movie in two parts. I hope there will be a third part soon! Some people may think the movie is scary but in my opinion it’s funny and interesting.
The story is about a strange monstrous family that wants to live in peace away from people. In the first part Gomez’ and Morticia’s daughter Wednesday goes to school for the first time. Their son Pugsley has to play an instrument in front of all his relatives. He’s really irresponsible and always annoys Wednesday. Really chaotic things happen.
The second part is about a family vacation they go on with their uncle. Wednesday accidentally turns him into a giant octopus by doing a science project.
My favorite characters are Wednesday and her friend Parker Needler. They’re both 13 years old. Wednesday wears black clothes and raises spiders. Parker wears bright colorful clothes but feels lonely and depressed. Her mother Margaux doesn’t pay her attention. It’s interesting when the two friends exchange clothing styles. Their parents are shocked when they see the girls. A good friend can influence and change your personality.
My favorite scene is when uncle Fester turns into a giant octopus. This happens because Wednesday makes a mistake with her science project at school. She transfers octopus genes to uncle Fester to make him smarter (her octopus is very intelligent and is called Socrates). Uncle Fester fights with a giant chicken.
I recommend the movie. It’s really surprising and makes my whole family laugh.
Viky
The series Mr. Hiiragi’s homeroom is about an art teacher (Ibuki Hiiragi) who is teaching class 3A. One day he announces to them (3A) that they are all his hostages. If his hostages want to stay alive, they must find out the true reason behind Sakura Kayano’s suicide.
I like the series because it’s very interesting.
My favorite character is Ibuki Hiiragi because he is trying his best to make his students and other people better.
I don't think there is something that I don’t like. We can learn a lot of things, such as ,,Think before talking’’ and others.
The genres are: psychological; school; drama; mystery.
The first season has 10 episodes.
Sofia
The movie The Devil Wears Prada is, in my opinion, one of the most iconic and interesting films about fashion. The interesting thing about it is that a girl who has no sense of fashion is hired by a fashion company called Runway and starts her journey in this hard position. While trying so hard to impress her boss, Andy forgets about her life outside the job and that turns out to be really bad for her, but she pulls herself together and goes to Fashion week, instead of her coworker Emily, who isn’t allowed to go because she is in hospital.
In the end she quits Runway and Miranda (her boss) writes a really good review for her. So she gets her dream job as a journalist.
My favorite scene is when they are in Paris for Fashion week because there are a lot of beautiful places.
The acting is really good. The main character is Andrea Sachs who is played by Anne Hathaway. Her workmate, Emily Charlton, is played by Emily Blunt, and their boss Miranda Presley is played by Meryl Streep. As you can see, the cast of the movie features well-known actors.
It also has a lot of awards like a Golden Globe, AFI movie of the year, a Satellite Award for Best Costume Design and many others.
The soundtrack suits the situations from the movie perfectly. It includes some popular songs like: Vogue by Madonna, Tres Tres Chic by Mocean Worker and many others.
Zornitsa
Despicable Me
Despicable Me is an animated American film about a villain who lives completely alone until he meets the Minions. They become his helpers and faithful servants, but they like it. In the film the villain meets three orphaned girls and adopts them. Of course, they also help him, but most of the time they have fun with either the Minions or the dog. The girls also do ballet. They are very good - not only at ballet but also in life. The film is very interesting and has several parts. Each part becomes more and more interesting and better than the previous one.
Stefan
Review of Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania is an animated film.
There are four parts. It’s about monsters that live in a hotel but one day a real person gets there and sees them. After that there are many interesting stories.
The film is not scary and it’s animated so everyone can watch it. I really liked it because it was very funny and I recommend it.
Marto
The Batman movie
The film The Batman is a very good and long action movie, in which Batman is trying to catch the villain of the movie, the Riddler. Batman is also helping Catwoman find her friend Anika, because she was kidnapped. The Riddler kills people and leaves messages to Batman, which are riddles. Batman has a friend in the police and they help each other. They soon find out that there is a rat (a corrupt cop) in the police. They search for him, and ask Penguin about the rat. Penguin doesn’t know anything about the rat, but while talking with Penguin they find a code, which leads to a website. On that website, they talk to the Riddler. The riddler doesn’t answer their questions, but he leaves riddles and some clues. Then Catwoman finds out that her long lost father, Mr Falcone, was actually the kidnapper of Anika. There is a recording of him torturing Anika. Then Catwoman goes to Falcone and tries to shoot him, but he dodges it and then he almost kills Catwoman! Batman then saves her and they arrest Falcone. Then the city floods because of the Riddler and they have to save the politicians and people of Gotham.
I really liked the movie and would recommend it to anyone who likes action movies. My favorite character has to be Batman (Bruce Wayne). He is strong and cool. I didn’t like the fact that the movie was that long. It was 3 hours long! Sometimes I would get tired and forget that I was watching the movie. My favorite scene is when they catch Falcone, because he is a bad person.
Overall, the movie is a 9/10.
Polin
Films
I love watching films and I think everyone loves that. There are a lot of different kinds of films (comedy, romantic, animated, drama, etc.) and everyone has a favorite type. I like comedy or action. You can watch films on TV or download films from different websites. Actually there are competitions for films like the Oscars. Some films are very, very popular but for this result filmmakers work very hard and have to know some tricks. Here they are:
It is really important to advertise the movie well. You can create a website about the film. Another good idea is for the actors to do interviews and talk about the movie.This is important because the film can be very good but it might not be popular because no one knows about it.
They can make a film based on a story or book – if people love the book, maybe they can’t wait to watch a film about that. I love to watch films which are based on books and I love to look for differences between the book and the film.
They need to make people write or talk about the film - they make trailers to show on TV. When I see some interesting trailers on TV I want to go to the cinema and watch the film but sometimes there are trailers which are better than the film, which is not good.
If the film is good, you don’t have to use popular actors, but more popular actors are good for advertising. I love films with different actors - some are very popular but others are not. For me this is not really important.
Some filmmakers want to make a movie which can win a prize. This is not really important to me because there are a lot of good films without prizes.
These tricks are very good but if the film is fantastic and people worked hard on it, you can do without them.
My favorite film is Beauty and the Beast. This film is based on a fairy tale and is a musical. In this movie the story is about a girl who likes to read a lot of books and a beast who was a prince but now isn’t. Bell (the girl) has a good father who has a workshop. Another character in the film is the beautiful man in the village – Gaston. Every girl loves him but he loves Bell, who isn’t in love with him. Bell’s father goes on a journey to the city but he doesn't return to the village. So Bell goes to a castle near the city because a beast is holding her father there. But the beast wants to have a prisoner so Bell is the new prisoner. There are a lot of talking objects like cups and a clock. While she is there, the beast starts to become better than before and they fall in love. But Gaston and other people in the village want to kill the beast. In the end, all objects and the beast become people and Bell and the prince get married.
My favorite character is the beauty, Bell. She is beautiful, kind, polite and loves to read. Actually I love to read too. In the film Bell is played by Emma Watson. She is a very good actor and is one of my favorites. My favorite scene is when Bell is in the castle because all the objects there are alive, can talk and have dinner with the beast, and because with Bell's help the beast is better than before. In the film we can learn that it is not kind to call someone a beast - actually not only a beast, but also ‘bad’, ‘unkind’ and other negative adjectives.
I really like the show because it’s very funny and dramatic sometimes. My favourite scene (which I think is the most dramatic) is before the last scene of the second season, when Simone talks to a mysterious person that she is working for. My favourite character is Frankie because she does all the things like an android, which is really funny. I personally learnt from this show that we should accept and respect everyone the way they are.
The cast of the show is very talented too: Alex Hook (Frankie), Nycole Alyse Nelson (Deyton), Carson Rowland (Cole), Kyson Facer (Andrew), Tommi Rose (Simone).
Maria
I’m Frankie
I’m Frankie is a Nickelodeon TV show (series). The series shows us a different world - of androids (a robot which looks like a person).
It has two seasons. In the first season, Frankie, the main android, enters the world of teenagers and high school. It’s difficult for her not to tell anyone that she is an android because she’s programmed to always tell the truth so she accidentally reveals her status to Deyton (a teenage girl from Frankie’s school). Through the season more people learn the truth about Frankie and help her to fix all the problems.
The genres are:
- Drama
- Comedy
- Action
- Fantasy
- Horror
The seasons are: 6
Deya
Teen Wolf
The series Teen Wolf tells the story of the life of high school student Scott McCall, who studies at Beacon Hills High School with his friends. One night, Scott is bitten by a werewolf and he joins them. He tries to lead a normal life by hiding the fact that he is a werewolf, but not from his best friend Stiles, who helps him control himself. His girlfriend, Alison, the daughter of werewolf hunters, tries to help him. Alison's family are werewolf hunters and are trying to kill Scott, because they think he is dangerous for their daughter. And the other mystery is another werewolf, Derek Hale, who teaches Scott about his new life and the changes in his body.
In this series, he faces unexpected challenges and meets supernatural beings that he has to deal with together with his friends, who later also become supernatural beings.
I like this series because friends support and help each other and protect each other in it.
My favourite character is Stiles - Scott’s best friend, because Stiles always supports Scott and their friends although Stiles doesn’t have superpowers.
I don’t think there’s anything I don’t like - I think the series is perfect and we can definitely learn a lot from it. For example, we should always be together and help each other. I think very few people help and support each other today and if we really help each other, the world will be a better place.
BOOKS
Polin
Books
I think books are better than films because when you read something, you can imagine all of the story by yourself, with your fantasy, but when you are watching a film, you don’t imagine the story. I love to read books and actually now I’m reading Harry Potter. There are a different kinds of books:
Fantasy
Romantic
Cooking
Biography
History
And more
My favorite kind of book is fantasy because I like books with magic and adventure. But writing a good book is very hard because first you have to write a story, then you have to go to special places where a team of people print and then publish the book. There are very good books with very interesting stories. A lot of popular films are based on books: Harry Potter, Star Wars, films about superheroes, and others. If you are bored, you can read. You can read everywhere and if you have free time, it is a good idea to read.
I have two favorite books.The first is “Под Игото”.
In this book the story is about the history of Bulgaria when it was under Turkish slavery. A lot of people don’t like it because they think it is too long and boring but for me it is different. I like it because it is very interesting for me to learn about this period in history. My favorite character is Rada because she is kind, brave and a very good person. Actually, there is a film and Rada is played by Lili Popivanova. My favorite part of the book is when they have a play in their city. Everyone wants to see this play and the people want to go there right now. This book is about Bulgarian history and every person from Bulgaria has to read it. The writer is Ivan Vazov, one of the best writers in Bulgaria.
My second favorite book is Harry Potter.
Harry Potter has 7 parts and every part is different. There you can read about a boy - Harry, and his friends Ron and Hermione. Every year they face unexpected challenges. I like the books because they take you to another world. My favorite character is Hermione Granger. She is smart, brave, polite and loves to read like me. In the films she is played by Emma Watson. My favorite book is the 5th one. I don’t know why but out of all seven parts this is my favorite. This book teaches you to be kind, brave, be good to your friends and most importantly: use your imagination. The writer is Joan Rowling, who is a very good writer.
COMPUTER GAMES
Theo
Half-Life 2 review
Half-Life 2 came out in 2004 but to this day people say it’s the best game ever made but why is it so good?
The story is good. An alien empire called the Combine has taken over earth in a war called the Seven Hour war. You wake up as Gordon Freeman and have to work with other humans who decided to rebel and free earth from the Combine. There are many guns in the game and all of them are good in their own ways; the way you get the guns also makes sense. All the enemies have guns that look like something they would use in real life. There are many enemies but they are all different. It never feels like the enemies are copy and paste. The graphics are great for a game that came out in 2004 and it has great characters. The main enemy in the game is the Combine with their leader being Wallace Breen, but he is really only a puppet to the Combine advisors. In the game you're seen as a hero that will save humanity from the Combine. The gameplay is normal: get from point A to point B and kill all the enemies that are trying to stop you. You will have allies to help you along the way, like other rebels that you can command and other important characters like Alyx Vance, who is with you for most of the game. I think the characters are another reason I like the game so much! The game is so good! My favorite characters are Barney Calhoun, who used to be a co-worker of the main character Gordon Freeman, and Alyx Vance - the child of Eli Vance, who worked with Gordon as well. The enemies you'll fight the most are the Combine soldiers and the zombie headcrabs . The Combine soldiers are the main fighting force for the Combine patrolling the outlands for any rebels they find, and the zombie head crabs were people who were attacked by a head crab and taken over by it. There are 3 types of Combine soldiers: the normal soldiers, the Combine daggers, who are armed with a SPAS-12, and the elite unit . The elite unit is the strongest Combine unit - well, the strongest human unit. They use an AR 2 but what makes them different from normal soldiers is that they use the Alt fire of the AR 2. There are 4 types of head crab zombies too, but in Half-Life 2 we only see 3 types - (the fourth type is in its episodes): the fast head crab zombie, the normal dead crab zombie and the poison head crab. To go with those, there are 3 types of head crab: normal, fast and poison.
The gameplay isn’t just run and gun - there are some puzzles you need to solve in order to continue. The only problem is that if you are playing it for the first time and you haven't seen any videos of it, you can get lost but that's not much of a problem.
Overall I like Half-Life 2 a lot. It's a great game - for me it's a 10 out of 10 and I recommend it.
Stefan
Rocket League - Game review
Rocket League is a very interesting game. There you play football but with cars. You can play online with other people or with your friends. In the game there are many different modes. There are normal modes for one, two, three or four players but there is also a volleyball mode and a mode which looks like a normal game but the cars have super powers. For example, if you touch the ball, it goes higher and it’s faster. Besides the modes, there are many different maps too - you can be in a forest or in a modern town. You can play the game on your computer or even on your phone and the best part is that it’s free. For me the game is very interesting and I really like to play it with my friends or even with my family.
