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Heather was born deaf, just like her parents were. Now the question for the parents is, whether to give their deaf kid a cochlear implant or wait for the time she can make the choice herself.
It's a difficult dilemma. Your child is deaf, just like yourself. You don't think there's anything wrong with being deaf. But everyone around you says you will give your child a better future by giving her a cochlear implant.
This documentary makes you feel like there are only two worlds. The world of the hearing and the world of the deaf. The decision the parents have to make is a difficult one and ultimately you feel like Heather would have a disadvantage by not having the implant. But still, what if the implant really has little effect?
Interestingly, I just found out there's a follow-up called 'Sound and Fury: Six Years Later'. I wonder what happened.
Madame Souza loves her grandson Champion. She raises him like her own and gets him a tricycle to train for the Tour de France. When Champion is finally ready for the Tour, he gets kidnapped by some men in black, the French mafia. And Madame Souza goes on a journey to find her son.
I know there have been a lot of animated and children's movies on the site lately, but I promise this one is not anything like it. It's rather one of those unusual artful movies, but still quite light for its genre.
While it also may be one of the weaknesses, the unique thing about this movie is the dialog. Because well, there isn't any. Depending solely on its great animation music and humor, it is unlike any other animated feature I know.
Somehow these three old woman, with all their funky tunes, kept spinning in my mind for quite some time. Or, actually, that might be because I own the soundtrack. Anyway, this is just one of those movies you have to experience for yourself. Definitely check out the trailer to see if this is your thing.
To let five children into his secret chocolate factory, Willy Wonka makes five golden tickets. And when Charlie Bucket finds one of those winning tickets, he is in for the most fantastic day of his life.
I was never really into the books of Roald Dahl, while they were pretty popular when I was young. And I wasn't a fan of Tim Burton either. So it came as quite a surprise when I enjoyed this movie. It wasn't until later that I realized how much I actually had enjoyed it.
I was going through some movies when I found 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' again. I knew it had entertained me, but I had to see it that second time to realize what an unique movie it was. It just proves again how movies don't have to be adult or children only. And how family movies don't have to be all nice and cuddly.
That's probably the thing I like the most about the story. This big chocolate maker every child loves, isn't a lovely man at all. Played brilliantly by Johnny Depp. There's a fine balance between funny weird and just weird and he pretty much keeps it steady at the funny part. Another fun family movie to enjoy on this casual Monday.
Sid, Manny and Diego are back for the third installment of Ice Age. Not much is known about the plot, so nobody seems to be sure how they got into the time of the dinosaurs. But I still had to share this new trailer, since it just made its way to the web this week — it was shown only before ‘Horton Hears a Who!‘ in theaters earlier.
Ice Age 3 (Dawn of the Dinosaurs) will be fully produced in 3-D. According to IMDB it is in post-production, but we still have to wait until next summer to see it. Yeah, that's a pretty long wait. But releasing a trailer this early, isn't a bad sign I think.
I just hope it's better than Ice Age 2. Almost all of you agreed Ice Age 1 was better than part 2. And while Ice Age is one of my favorite animated movies, Ice Age 2 was just ok in my opinion.
But I'm sure we'll have a new impression when a trailer with Sid and the gang arrives. Around next winter, maybe.
"Now this is a brilliant movie. Something unique and very well observed and woven movie. Peter playing a paranoid little guy who's life wasn't not tht [....]"
