Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth
Certificate: 18
Genre: War
Awards: Best supporting actor (Waltz)

The first ten minutes of the film shows one of the most brilliant and tense scenes of the history of cinema, as the Jew Hunter - Hans Landa (Waltz) - is one of the greatest characters Tarantino has ever created. He seems charming but he can see what other Nazis can not.

The Jew hunter's story, However, is one of three (As usual for a Tarantino film).  On the side of the allies, stands a guerilla group of American Jewish soldiers who are deep in nazi occupied france scalping Nazis and generally bringing fear and death to the German soldiers. The group is led by lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt) who likes to carve swastikas into the surviving nazi's foreheads to send back to the army.

The third story is of a French Jewish girl called Shosanna (Laurent) who's family were killed by Hans Landa and his men. She now owns a cinema and plans to blow up a nazi premier there as revenge for the death of her family.

Inglourious Basterds is defiantly in the top three Tarantino films made so far as it's story is brilliant and it even has music from Ennio Morricone (Sergio Leone films) and David Bowie. You know what Tarantino? This may just be your masterpiece.

*****Brilliant

P.S I'm now away for four weeks

Inglourious Basterds Trailer

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, Kenneth Branagh,  Christian Coulson
Certificate: PG
Genre: Fantasy Boarding School
Awards: None

The Second film in the Harry Potter film series shows Harry (Radcliffe), Ron (Grint) and Hermione (Watson) back in Hogwarts for a second year. But this time a Chamber of Secrets has been opened and a monster is attacking the students. The headmaster- Albus Dumbledore (Harris)- does not know what to do, Hagrid (Coltrane) has been framed and the only clue is a diary from fifty years ago belonging to a boy named Tom Riddle  (Coulson)...

Oh yeah, and their new defence against the dark arts teacher- Gilderoy Lockart (Branagh)- is an idiot.

HPATCOS is the last Harry Potter film directed by Christopher Columbus, It is the last film that has the innocence of Harry Potter before it all turns dark and tragic. It is also unfortunately the last film that Richard Harris played Dumbledore due to his death in 2002. The Chamber of secrets contains better acting than The Philosopher's stone and shows humour as well as tension which is what some of the later films fail to do. Cheesy ending though.

*****Brilliant

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Trailer