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MOVIE REVIEW:

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2

Review By:

G.P. Manalo

Directed By:

Marc Webb

Starring:

Andrew Garfield | Emma Stone | Jamie Foxx |

Dane DeHaan | Sally Field | Paul Giamatti |

I’ve always thought that the first The Amazing Spider-Man wasn’t entirely all that “amazing” and it was obvious that there is definitely room for improvement. But for a sequel, it is a step backward somehow because of the flaws the film failed to correct from its predecessor.

PLOT SUMMARY:

After the events of the first film, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is still haunted by the death of Gwen’s father, and he learns to move on by graduating high school, distancing himself from his daughter, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) and becoming the city’s greatest defender as Spider-Man. But being Spider-Man has a cost, and it would mean him facing formidable threats such as Electro (Jamie Foxx), The Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan), and The Rhino (Paul Giamatti) coming together to defeat Spider-Man, but Peter has even greater problems as he go deeper to the secrets of his parents’ cause of death when he was only a child.

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MOVIE REVIEW:

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Review By:

G.P. Manalo

Directed By:

Wes Anderson

Starring:

Ralph Fiennes | Tony Revolori | Adrian Brody |

    Saorise Ronan | Willem Dafoe | Jude Law | F. Murray Abraham |

Edward Norton | Jeff Goldblum | Tilda Swinton |

After seeing the latest Wes Anderson film, I left the theater telling myself “is it too early to name my #1 movie of the year?” and I meanwhile answered “perhaps so”. It’s that great. The film is not surprisingly, charming, fast-paced, and at the same time a very nostalgic feel to it as it is very much as most people would describe as a love letter to vintage cinema.

The Grand Budapest Hotel opens with a young writer in a more obsolete version of the hotel in the 60s, he met a mysterious man who happens to be the owner of the hotel. As the mysterious man invited the young writer to dinner he narrates his own misadventures as a newly hired lobby boy, Zero (Tony Revolori) as he became closely acquainted with an eccentric concierge, M. Gustave H who runs the famous and luxurious Grand Budapest Hotel in the brink of war in the early 40s. The film centers on a battle between him and the son of a wealthy family, for a large amount of their family fortune and a theft of a famous and treasured painting.