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A movie entitled Letters to Juliet that uses Taylor's Swift Song as a carrier theme is definitely one aimed at teen girls bursting with romantic dreams or meeting the right guy in a romantic land. The movie has all the elements for a teen movie with star like Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls and Jennifer's Body) and Christopher Egan (Eragon) in the lead roles.

What's the story about? Well, A girl is on vacation in Italy and she find a letter to Juliet hidden in the Verona courtyard of the fictional lovers. The letter was about a missed rendezvous with her romeo and it was written in 1957. She makes it her personal mission to find the woman (Vanessa Redgrave) who wrote the letter and help her to finally reunite with her lover. She does find her and her grandson. Together, the go on an adventure in Italy, discovering more of each other and finding new love.

Letters from Juliet is a movie teen girls would love to watch. It's perfect for them if they've ever read those little romance novels for young adults and dreamed of romance in exotic European settings. It's a fun romp on the road in Italy with all the sights and sounds of the country and its people. If you're not a teen, then it's a breath of fresh air if you've grown tired of the usual fare of violence in the movies.

Indeed, Letter's to Juliet will also appeal to older people because there are two stories in the movie - one about Seyfried's character and the other about Redgrave's. Both are about finding true love - something that has pretty much lost its meaning in today's society of prenuptial agreements and divorce papers.

Much of the movie is predictable, yes, but it's not so much knowing what's going to happen that's really important. It's the getting there that's more thrilling to the viewer. The magic of this simple and lighthearted romance will definitely leave you feeling good and perhaps wanting to book a trip to Italy as soon as possible and pay a visit to the Verona courtyard in order to leave a letter of your own to Shakespeare's Juliet.

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Some of you may remember the first Clash of the Titans movie. One of the more memorable scene is where the hero, Perseus, gets to fight the giant stop-motion scorpion. Let's not forget his battles with the giant Kraken and Medusa. On the other hand, the most boring of the scenes are those where the Titans talk on Mt. Olympus with blue disco lights in the background. The visual effects are crude, but the original movie was a hit and kids loved it.

Now there's a new Clash of the Titans and it's been upgraded with more scorpions, scary monsters, and heavy-hitting action. The trailer by itself shows how raw the new movie is and this is likely inspired by movies that came before it like 300 and even Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth. The new Clash of the Titans definitely has elements and techniques that were used before in other movies.

The new Clash of the Titans may have elements that are no longer original, but it promises to be better than the first one and caters to a broader and more adult audience. The metal music that's played in the trailer goes to show that this is no longer the same old Harry Hamlin-starrer (left) directed by Desmond Davis. This one is for an audience who demand realism in such movies based on Greek mythology - no sugar-coatings and idealistic portrayals of the Titans. The movies depicts everything as plausible, including the magic and monsters.

It's likely that audiences can expect to see more movies based on mythology and period films set in the Mediterranean. The anticipated success of movies like The Lightning Thief and the Prince of Persia could inspire more of the same movies. There was a time when Lou Ferrigno was popular as Hercules and we can only wonder who will be the next demigod hero actor (or actress). In the New Clash of the Titans, Sam Worthington (left) plays Perseus. He came into the consciousness of movie viewers when he played a machine with a conscience in Terminator: Salvation. So will he be the next big actor going into the next decade of the 21st century? The success of Clash of the Titans (2010) will definitely help. It also stars Gemma Arterton from The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. She plays Io. Andromeda is played by Alexa Davalos who played Kyra in The Chronicles of Riddick.

Are the palm-eyed "gourd" monsters in the new Clash of the Titans movie inspired by the creature in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth?

The Lightning Thief is a novel-turned-movie. It's like the Harry Potter series. In the story, a kid learns that he's half-god - half-Poseidon, to be exact. The hero, twelve-year-old Percy Jackson, discovers this the hard way when he encounters strange, mythological creatures like the Minotaur which disappears with his mother. Percy finds himself mysteriously transported to a camp where he discovers is a training ground for demigod kids like himself.

Author Rick Riordan weaves a a fast and humorous tale of fantasy, action, adventure, and mythology, moving around a kid with personal problems associated with being dyslexic and attention-deficit. He gets the enormous task of coming between three ancient gods at war, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Our unlikely hero must deal with quests, intrigue, and the personal interests of those around him that could jeopardize his mission.

The movie adaptation of young adult novel, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, features big name stars like Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, and Sean Bean. Thurman, who's appeared before (some twenty years ago as of this writing) as the goddess of love, Venus, in the movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Now in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, she plays the snake-haired Medusa. Her gruesome character makeup can definitely turn someone into stone. Brosnan plays Chiron, and Bean, who've played mean guys before, plays Zeus. Kevin McKidd, from Grey's Anatomy and the mini series Rome, plays Percy's father Poseidon.

It's hard not to compare Percy and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief with the Harry Potter Series. Both Percy and Harry have problems, both are trained in a school, and both are offsprings destined to discover the amazing powers they have, ultimately giving them a purpose when in the beginning, they're just ordinary kids with the misfortune of being in undesirable situations. The book has sold 1.2 million copies in the first four years of its release and this figure already says a lot about the movie. This one is directed by Chris Columbus, who also directed Harry Potter movies. Its screenplay is from Craig Titley.

Uma Thurman and Pierce Brosnan play mythological creatures in movie adaptation of the first The Lightning Thief book.

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he Boondock Saints is a movie about two Irish vigilantes - brothers in fact. They're the MacManuses who came to kill because they believe God told them to rid the world of evil men wherever they may be. In these times, such religiously-inspired motivations can be viewed as extremism. But on the flipside, the men who engage in such acts can be called heroes - even saints - as is the case in this movie.

It's the Season of the witch for Nicolas Cage. He plays a 14th century knight in the movie who gets the task of taking a suspected witch to a monastery. Of course, the witch doesn't look anything like witches in old children's fairytales. She's young and pretty and Cage's knight character has doubts about her being an evil witch.

Have you ever seen a trailer for the first time and know right after watching it that you would enjoy seeing the movie? The Hollywood movies of Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan are like that. Just by the trailer alone, you already know it's worth watching for fun and plenty of laughs.

Dwayne Johnson, who used to be known as "The Rock" as a former wrestler, is now a tooth fairy in a movie with The Sound of Music's Julie Andrews. Yes, how life has turned for Johnson. The fairies have sent him a summons to be judged for his misdeeds and must serve time as an honest-to-goodness tooth fairy.

Filmmakers must be sensing how people are getting fearful about infectious diseases these days. Something new seems to come out of the woodwork every now and then to make our lives on this earth a little more interesting. Several movies have recently come out based on the idea that little critters are out there that can infect people and make them sick and turn them into zombie-like killers.

Next to superhero movies, horror movies are the next favorite of filmmakers to spoof in a comedy. For some reason, it’s funny to see serious horror movie antagonists trying to make people laugh. These spoofs are very popular in Halloween and a lot of people prefer to watch these instead of the the serious ones just for the fact that they want to feel good for the holiday.