SEVENTH SON

I was thinking I should post about this today because I would be extremely tied up for the next two weeks.

Starring Ben Barnes as the titular character the seventh son of the seventh son Thomas Ward, Jeff Bridges as Gregory the Spook, one of my favourite actresses Julianne Moore as the evil witch and dragon Mother Malkin, Alicia Vikander as Alice, Kit Harington (lead actor of last year's movie Pompeii) with a brief role as the apprentice Billy Bradley and Olivia Williams as Tom's mother Mam who is a good witch, the simple storyline was a letdown to me.

Thomas, the son of a good witch and human, was sort of destined to be an apprentice to help the supernatural master the Spook to kill a dark witch, who was once Gregory's ex-lover. What is a movie like this without a love relationship, hence the character Alice, who was the daughter of another witch and human, and Thomas fell in love with each other. Anyway, that was besides the point and I hardly think it was a pivotal part of the movie.

Interestingly, Kit Harington had a small part to play at the beginning of the movie and died shortly after being killed by the dragon. This was another recent movie of Julianne Moore's but I wasn't quite impressed with her character and role. Ben Barnes was just there to look good. I did find Mam quite an interesting character though.

Anyway, I don't think this is excellent box office material, which kind of explains why it wasn't released in December 14 with the bigger blockbusters.

Billy ensnared by the dragon's tail.

the witch in human form

Thomas and Gregory

Alice and Thomas

Mam who sacrificed herself to save the village

FRINGE

I am watching season 2 of the american television series "Fringe" and I must say this is one of my favourite science fiction tv series in recent times.

Created by J.J. Abrams, it explores an existence beyond this universe with every week's bizzare events and often deadly occurrences. The show is fronted by the 3 main leads Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop and Walter Bishop played by Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson and John Noble respectively.

This season is about the alternate universe but what makes the plots believable are the great acting by and chemistry between the 3 leads. It is about time the charismatic Olivia and Peter get together as a couple after they have been through so much. Above all, I think Walter's acting is superbly natural and fantastic. Each week's storyline puts me on the edge of the seat and pieces of the jigsaw are slowly coming together as the plot unravels gradually. I cannot wait to watch the rest of the episodes.