MONSTER book review by Treyvon T.

Monster by Walter Dean Myers is a great book. I recommend that everyone of this generation read this book sometime in their life. By reading Monster you are getting glimpse into the life of a person on trial and how it affects their family and the people around them. Walter Dean Meyers also allows you to experience some of the discrimination faced by African-American men, in the United States Judicial system. I enjoyed reading this book because it’s not a conventional type of writing format of a book, it was written in screenplay format.

GI JOE – Movie Review Jeremiah J.

GI Joe was one of the most action paced movies of this year. It started off with explosions everywhere and high-tech weaponry. Next thing you know two regular soldiers are thrown into a secret society that no one has ever heard of, G.I Joe. This organization silently protects the world. After the two soldiers are drafted they quickly show just how worthy they are of being Joes.

SEPTIMUS HEAP: SYREN book review by Jeremiah J.

Syren is the fifth book in the Septimus Heap series. This far into his wizard training Septimus is one of the best young wizards of his time. He has passed many trials to get to where he is now. And in Syren they get even bigger and more challenging. This book will have you flipping pages nonstop until you reach the surprising end. With its diverse characters, vivid detail and remarkable storyline Syren draws you in and makes it feel as if you are there in the middle of the action.

STRANGER THAN FICTION movie review Hannah C.

Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell as Harold crick and Emma Thompson as Karen Eiffel, is “a story about a man and his watch” Harold Crick bases his life off of numbers, his watch and Karen Eiffel, his narrator. “He’s not crazy he’s just written that way.” Is a statement that could not be more true, as Karen, his narrator is actually planning out and writing his life for the past 10 years.

            What made this movie so appealing to me was that there were expressions of all different types of emotion throughout the movie. Including serious, sad, mad, funny, and confused. Throughout most of the movie Harold is lost and confused by this voice he is hearing. At one point he asks a fellow bus rider if she too can hear the voice he is hearing. She has no idea. Not only is Harold confused, but as a viewer over the course of the film, I got lost in what was happening. This is one of those movies that you really have to watch to truly understand everything, you have to catch every little detail.

Maximum Ride School’s Out-forever Book review by Kevin S.

  “No Parents, No school, No rules”.  James Patterson is the author of Maximum Ride.  The flock is headed toward Washington, D.C. where they hope to find the answers to their life. Although after Fang is injured by Ari and taken to a hospital the flock is taken in by an FBI agent named Anne. The flock enjoys a rare period of peace, but there are sinister things at work in the background. A major corporation named Itexicon is plotting to destroy the world, on what Angel overhead when she was kidnapped back at the lab, and is also tracking down the flock’s movements. Anne reveals herself as the leader of the lab that created the flock and seeks to recapture them. Furthermore, Max must face her clone.

AVATAR movie review by Olivia J.

 “Avatar has been described as a “game-changer,” and perhaps it is.” Says James Berardinelli. After being in over 10 years in the making, “Avatar”, has become the top grossing film of all time.. Directed by James Cameron, Avatar is about an ex-marine, Jake Sully, who is sent to an exotic planet inhabited with odd and creative creatures. Becoming a human mind in an alien body, he must choose between two different sides. Staying with the humans to take over the foreign planet, or help the ‘Na’vi’ species protect their home.

ANGELS AND DEMONS movie by Dylan R

             Angels and Demons

“the real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness, with lush cinematography by Salvatore Totino, who renders the real sky above the Vatican, in a cataclysmic event, with the detail and majesty of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.” –A.T. Hurley

 

Angels and Demons is the sequel to the Davinci Code. It begins with four cardinals from Rome who are kidnapped by an unknown person or persons. Tom Hanks who plays the main character Robert Langdon is sent to Rome to find the kidnapper who is trying to blow up Vatican City and kill the four cardinals. He follows clues that take him across Vatican City. The reason I think this was a good film are; the complicated plot, the suspense, and the main characters Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra, a scientist who helps Langdon to solve the mystery.

SHERLOCK HOLMES movie review by Camila A.

 ”Raucous, rough energy infuses this film from start to finish, carrying us along even when the slightly over-egged script starts to feel somewhat slender. And it’s the terrific chemistry between Downey and Law that makes the film worth seeing,” says critic Rich Cline (Shadows on the Wall). And Rich Cline is correct. With the chemistry between Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, this film is a must see. Guy Richie’s interpretation of the infamous books by Arthur Conan Doyle was adequate as it did not exactly meet the standards of the original Sherlock Holmes we all now and grew up with. Yet, with the strong performance of the legendary Sherlock Holmes played out by Robert Downey Jr., this apocryphal detective is back on the case. The story starts off when Watson (Jude Law) is set off to marry, and the egotistical Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) becomes jealous. Luckily, when the evil Lord Blackwood has come back from the dead, this gives Sherlock a chance to lure Watson- who feigns grieving all the way- into another adventure.   

The Tenth Circle Book Review by Zanqueania W.

  

Her hands were knotted together between them, like a heart that had broken its bounds. “Daddy, he raped me…”

Imagine This. Your a fourteen year old freshman girl, you’re pretty, smart, and the love of your life is captain of the hockey team, and the most popular boy in the school. Then one day he just up and breaks up with you, your heart is broken, your full of rage, and sadness…So you decide to get back at him, you want to make him jealous, but it all backfires, He…He Raped you. What has Happened? What did you do to deserve this? Why did he do this to you?? Well, That’s exactly how Trixie Stone felt when the boy she thought loved her, changed her life forever…Well, thats what everyone else thought, truth is what if it was just a scam, a lie? What if all the truth eneded up coming out….

WHAT MY GIRL FRIEND DOESN’T KNOW,book review by Allison D.

“…When people see us laughing together and holding hands, the room goes morgue quiet.” What my girlfriend doesn’t know, by Sonya Sones is and extraordinary story that shows you that even if you are truly in love with someone, there are others that can and will try to break up your relationship. Robin Murphy is dating Sophia Stein, which wouldn’t be such a big deal if Sophia wasn’t one of the most popular girls in school and Robin well isn’t at all popular.