“The Selfish Giant” may be a happy fairytale, but its adaptation into a movie is pure haunting. “The Selfish Giant” tells a story about two friends that are troublemakers together. The boys behavior causes them to be expelled from school and fall into earning money working for a scrap-dealer and also a criminal. However, it is not the boys’s behavior that is haunting, it is the fact that their lives are at risk. It is easy to understand that age thirteen is the common age for kids to want to become popular and immature. Their immaturity hurts them negatively with the trouble they are putting themselves into, but it is brilliant with compassion and friendship.

The boy who is the big troublemaker is Arbor (played by Conner Chapman). Arbor is keen to make money and impress the criminal Kitten (played by Sean Gilder). Arbor is very devoted to having a negative tone,

I keep this review short since the film is haunting, so find out for yourselves everyone.

I really do not know how to define how “The Weatherman” is a good movie. Mixed emotions I guess is the right way to feel. Since this is not your ordinary weatherman, he is a weatherman with a bunch of drama to deal with. All things in the life of Dave Spritz (played by Nicholas Cage) is obstacles; his son thinks it is appropriate to for him to be hanging out with his counselor, his daughter cannot find activities that suit her, he is divorced, and above all his father Robert Spritzel (played by Michael Caine) is dying of cancer. In the end, I connect these issues together, and just appreciate that I do not live in this type of life style.

This film could have been somewhat captivating if it had any connection with “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Gore Verbinski directed a film about pirates, now he is directing a dark drama. Difference is “Pirates of The Caribbean” was Disney and meant for family, this one is just meant for pure adult audience. I guess the young crowd convinced Verbinski to want to do something more serious than receive so much teen attention after “Pirates of The Caribbean.”

In “The Weatherman” Dave Spritz is a weatherman with tons of family problems and so much stress on his hands given he is recognized by the press. I know that life sounds like it sucks doesn’t it? The entire film is all set on Spritz’s behavior. Trying to be professional at his job, doing his best to keep his goods in good spirits, trying to help his sick father, but also his use of frequent swearing which is fairly a ridiculous amount of F bombs adds up that nothing goes well for Spritz ninety percent of the time.

Both Dave and his ex-wife Noreen (played by Hope Davis) have so many problems that they struggle to resolve. Noreen claims that the divorce is because she was never in love with Dave, but then right away she gets a new boyfriend, so both are to blame for divorce. Dave ‘s entire focus is for his children to be happy, but is always hesitant, because of how he feels about his father’s view on his parenting skills

Things will work for Dave Spritz. He has so much drama to deal with but some positive vibes going. His ability to entertain people on camera and with family add up to be an honest, but dark drama. Three stars.

Advertisements were false about “August: Osage County.” The commercials made this film seem like it was going to be a dim-witted comedy, but it is just devastating. “August: Osage County” has its funny moments, but problems just continue to throughout the entire movie.

Meryl Streep is the lead who plays Violet Weston. Someone diagnosed with mouth cancer, a consistent smoker, and addicted to pills. This troubled character is intended to be negative and opinionated, but is surprisingly weak. Half the time experiencing Streep’s performance, you will ask yourself how much worse can things get with her?

“August: Osage County” is a sad version of “Love Actually.” So many big names such as Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Dermot Mulroney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Juliette Lewis, and many other names. The main star to deal with most of the problems is Barbara Weston (Roberts). She is motivated to help her mom understand the consequences of her actions, but lacks the support from her separated husband Bill Fordham (McGregor). The daughter Jean Fordham (Breslin), is distracted and getting into the phase of the bad teenage habits and is pretty checked out and not that caring of the situation of her grandmother.

The movie is a movie that is best to watch once. I felt the film would be uplifting at first but it is not that at all. The acting is brilliant but it is just drama after drama and nothing good comes of the movie. Two stars.