Stick it
By Laia Esquerrà

Hailey Graham is a young girl with many family problems. She was a great elite gymnast but she left the USA team in the lurch at the Worlds two years ago. Everybody started hating her and she left gymnastics. She started going out with two friends and breaking the law. After too many run-ins with the law the Judge makes her decide between going to the Texas Military Academy or the Vickerman Gymnastics Academy. She chooses the Military Academy so she is forced to go to the VGA which for her is worse than Juvy. She doesn't make things easy at the Academy but she sees that she isn't getting anything and that she has nowhere else to go. She finally starts training for her own in the old gym but things become difficult at the IG Classics with all the Hailey-haters. She gets over many obstacles and arrives to Worlds another time but she doesn't have enough so she tries to change the world of gymnastics.
Directed by: Jessica Bendinger
Starring: Missy Peregrym, Jeff Bridges, Vanessa Lengies, Nikki Soohoo, Maddy Curly, Kellan Lutz and John Patrick Amedori
Music by: Michael Simpson
Release date: 28 April 2006
Country: US
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport

Secret

By Rong-Xiu Wu & Xiao Wei Chi

The film is about a high school student, Ye, who studies in the school where his father is the headmaster. He is very good at playing piano. On the first day of school he hears an unknown melody, played by Lu, which leds him to meet her. From this moment they are always together, however, Lu is a mysterious girl and when Ye tries to get to know her more, she doesn’t allow him to find out things about her.Later there is a misunderstanding between them and Lu disappears. Ye has his heart broken and tries to find her. But events show him that things are different from what they seem.
CastJay Chou as Ye Xianglun : The Music student who lives with his father.
Kwai Lun Mei as Lu Xiaoyu Rain: The Music student who lives with her mother.
Anthony Wang Chao Sang as Xianglun’s father : The teacher of Xianglun's school and his father.
Alice Tzen as Qing Yi Sky: The girl Ye Xianglun meets when he joins Dangjian. She admires Ye Xianglun.
Devon Song as Abao Bob: A bad behaved student and member of a rugby team.

We recommend this musical film because its plot is very romantic, the cast excellent and the script touching. Although we find it is rather short and has a tragic end. Don't miss it, it is well worth seeing.
DIRECTED BY: JAY CHOU
PRODUCED BY: WILLIAM KONG
WRITTEN BY: JAY CHOU, TO CHI-LONG
COUNTRY: CHINA (TAIWAN)
LANGUAGE: MANDARIN, ENGLISH

Schindler’s List
By Timotei Savu

Schindler was an important person for the Jews. He was a real person who lived in the time of the Nazis. The film is directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993 and it is based on the novel “Schindler’s Ark” by Thomas Keneally.

This film tells the story of a Dutch businessman who saved the life of a thousand Pollish jews during the Holocaust.
Liam Neeson plays Schindler; Ralf Fiennes is the officer Amond Leopold Goeth and Ben Kingley his secretary Itzhak Stern.
The film won seven Academy Awards, including the best picture, best director and best original score, as well as other awards. In 2007 The American Institute ranked the film 8th in its list of the best American films of all time. The film is very long and it is in black and white, but it has got very impresive images of the bad Nazis.

Edward Scissorhands
By Sonia Oller

It’s well known that “Edward Scissorhands” is one of the best films that Tim Burton has ever done. This film is about a doctor who has never had children, so he decides to make a robot, Edward, but he dies before he can give him hands.
Edward lives in a castle on a hill and one day a woman who sells make up products enters the castle and she decides to take him to her house. There, Edward meets her family and he falls in love with her daughter. Little by little, he starts to meet the neighbours and he is very happy with his new friends. But one day, Linda’s boyfriend starts to feel jealous about Edward and he forces him to break into a house. Then a lot of problems happen and the whole town becomes angry with Edward. Linda’s boyfriend wants to kill Edward, but when they are fighting Edward kills him with his scissors. After this accident Edward has to return to his castle and then Linda tells Edward that she loves him.

The most recognisable scenes of this film are when Edward is cutting the hair of the people and when Linda is dancing under the ice.