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Title: City of Ember (微光城市)Director: Gil KenanGenre: Science-Fiction / Fantasy Running Time: 90 minutesYear: 2008City of Ember is a 2008 science-fiction-fantasy movie based on the book of the same name written by Jeanne DuPrau. In the movie there is an underground city known as Ember that is kept alight by a massive generator. The Builders of Ember have handed down a metal box set to unlock itself...

Title: Sherlock Holmes (大侦探福尔摩斯)Director: Guy RitchieProducer: Joel SilverGenre: Action, MysteryRunning Time: 128 minutes  Directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 live-action mystery film based on the character of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The plot follows the detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) as he tries to solve a series of...

Title: Alice in Wonderland (爱丽丝梦游仙境)Director: Tim BurtonWritten By: Linda WoolvertonGenre: Fantasy Adventure, Live Action and AnimationYear: 2010Running Time: 108 minutes Of course, when Tim Burton declared that he was doing a Alice in Wonderland tale, I wasn't quite surprised. The tale was certainly popular enough that there was bound to be a few remakes or spin-offs at least. Tim Burton's movie...

Title: Sacred ScarsAuthor: Kathleen DueyGenre: FantasyYear of Publication: 2009Sacred Scars is the sequel to Kathleen Duey's Skin Hunger. The story picks up where we left off with the boy Hahp and the girl Sadima. Sadima, Franklin, and Somiss have been driven out of Limori by a fire and have taken residence in a cave. Somiss continues to attempt to restore magic while Sadima dreams of escape for her,...

Title: Magic StudyAuthor: Maria V. SnyderGenre: FantasyYear of Publication:2006Snyder's Magic Study picks up where we were previously left off in Poison Study. After rescuing the other kidnapped girls from General Brazell, the protagonist Yelena follows Fourth Magician Irys to the southern land of Sitia to be reunited with her family and to learn control of her magic. Once in Sitia, Yelena receives...

Corpse Bride (僵尸新娘) is yet another musical stop-animation film by Tim Burton. This time the story deals with a boy named Victor who finds himself accidentally married to a corpse while practicing his wedding vows. Then begins a dramatic episode of Victor desperately trying to return to the world of the living to marry the girl he loves (Victoria) while Emily the corpse bride chases after him. The...

Disney tries to take a new spin on the traditional happily-ever-after princess story by creating Enchanted (魔法奇缘). Giselle (Amy Adams) is about to be married to her true love Prince Edward (James Marsden) but everything goes wrong when the prince's stepmother Narissa (Susan Sarandon) pushes her into a magical well that sends her to New York City. There, she meets Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey), a...

I'm quite sure that many of you are familiar with the movie The Princess Bride (公主新娘). The movie is an reenactment of a story sick boy's grandfather reads to him to pass the time. The reenactment follows the love story of a girl named Buttercup (Robin Wright) and a farm boy by the name of Westley (Cary Elwes). During their relationship, Westley had to go out to the sea to earn money for their marriage....

Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (剪刀手爱德华) (1990) tells the tale of Edward Scissorhands, an artificial man that was left with scissors for hands. His name: Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) He is soon picked up by Avon salesman Peg Boggs and taken into her family. There, he creates a name for himself with his artistic creations by cutting hedges and people's hair. He soon falls in love with Peg's teenage...

From one of the most beloved anime series comes a rendition done with the latest technology in the film industry. Astro Boy (铁臂阿童木) (2009) is set in a futuristic city known as Metro City. Humankind has decided to abandon Earth and instead live on a floating island where robots are there to guide us hand and foot. These ingenious creations are all invented by Dr Tenma (voiced by Nicholas Cage). However,...

The Child Thief is a novel written by Brom, the commercial illustrator of Gothic (if you will) art. It can be considered a twisted version of Peter Pan. In this version, Peter hunts the cities for children to bring to Avalon, a land where children will never grow up. To many, it sounds awesome, but Peter fails to mention several things. His band of stolen children names themselves the Devils, and...

Apparently some guys just can't handle Vegas. That's the storyline for Todd Phillips' 2009 screwball comedy film The Hangover. The plot follows four friends who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. However, they wake up the next morning to find that they can't remember anything that happened (let alone huge hangovers). Not only that but the groom-to-be Doug is missing! So now the three remaining...

Hayao Miyazaki's latest creation to hit the U.S. is a movie called Ponyo (Japanese Title: Gake no Ue no Ponyo). It's based on the Hans Chrisitan Anderson tale of The Little Mermaid. In Ponyo, a young goldfish with a human face (The idea itself is somewhat creepy but Miyazaki manages to make Ponyo look adorable) goes on land where she is discovered by a five-year-old boy named Sosuke. The two soon...