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Paddington - Review

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In the deep jungles of darkest Peru, an explorer named Montgomery Clyde locates a family of semi  intelligent bears, who he realises can learn English and have a deep appetite for marmalade. He tells them they are always welcome should they wish to go to Britain. Some years later, their nephew must travel  to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined - until he meets the kindly Brown family, who read the label around his neck ('Please look after this bear. Thank you.') and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist called Millicent, who captures and stuffs exotic animals to house in the Natural History Museum. When she becomes aware of Paddington, she immediately tries to hunt him down.  After some small incidents at Brown's home made by Paddington trying to escape from the t

The Imitation Game - Review

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The Imitation Game, the movie based on the life of Alan Turing and the first computer ever created, has been released in my country just a couple of days ago, while I understand it has been out before in some countries, you have to understand my reasons of including it in the 2015 list... It tells the story of Alan Turing and his team of code-breakers racing against time as they attempt to break Nazi Germany's Enigma code at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. The group of scholars, mathematicians, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers have a powerful ally in Prime Minister Winston Churchill who authorises the provision of any resource they require. The film spans the key periods of Turing's life: his unhappy teenage years at boarding school; the triumph of his secret wartime work on the revolutionary electro-mechanical bombe, which was capable of breaking 3,000 Enigma-generated naval code

My Top 10 Favourite Actors

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I wanted to make an updated list of my favourite actors, so I think it's a great first post for 2015, and maybe nobody cares about it but I'm still posting it :) 10. Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Book of Eli) 9. Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Trek into Darkness, Avatar ) 8.  Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables, Interstellar, The Devil Wears Prada) 7. Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who, In the Loop, Paddington) 6.  Natalie Portman (Black Swan, V for Vendetta, Thor: The Dark World) 5. Robert Downey Jr.  (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Sherlock Holmes, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) 4.  Amy Adams (Enchanted, Man of Steel, Big Eyes) 3. Emma Stone (Zombieland, Birdman, The Amazing Spider-Man) 2. Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean, Sweeney Todd, Mortdecai) 1. Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Star Trek into Darkness, The Imitation Game)

Happy New Year 2015!

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I really wish you all have a great new year 2015 filled with happiness and hope!