Directed by: Robert Schwentke

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Tagline: If Someone Took Everything You Live For… How Far Would You Go To Get It Back?

Plot Outline: A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.

My Rating: 7.0 [rate 3.5]

Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Kate Beahan, Erika Christensen, Jana Kolesarova, Marlene Lawston, Sean Bean, Greta Scacchi, Michael Irby, Assaf Cohen, Christian Berkel, Shane Edelman, Mary Gallagher, Haley Ramm, Forrest Landis

A nice film with enough suspense to keep you to your chair until the end. I am not saying that it’s perfect, but I am not going to say that it’s not. Imagine flying home with your children, relatives, friends and suddenly you realize that someone is missing. I personally wouldn’t want to go through it. I think the one thing that made this hole movie even more interesting is that she knew the plane inside and out.

The moral story of the movie? Personally I would say that don’t mess with people on a plane since you never know what they do for a living.

Directed by: Mike Newell

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

Tagline: “Difficult times lie ahead, Harry.”

Plot Outline: Harry finds himself selected as an underaged competitor in a dangerous multi-wizardary school competition.

My Rating: 10 [rate 5]

Cast: Eric Sykes, Timothy Spall, David Tennant, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Mark Williams, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Bonnie Wright, Jeff Rawle, Robert Pattinson, Jason Isaacs, Tom Felton, Stanislav Ianevski

I have seen the first three movies without reading the books. When I came to Sheffield on September 2004, I bought books 1 to 4 and I started reading them. When I finished the 4th book, instead of thinking that now I know the ending and the film will not be exiting. My thoughts where exactly the opposite. I wanted to see how this book was going to be translated into the big screen. Of course my quest to finish the story has led me into reading the 5th and the 6th book, but thats another entry.

Warning this post will have spoilers if you do not wish to continue stop reading now, you have been warned.

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