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Film: Aladdin Year: 2019 Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family Directed By: Guy Ritchie Starring: Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott About:  A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcMtWwiyzpU My Review: Loving Aladdin since I was a child and seeing that a new one was released with one of my favourite actors Will Smith in it I badly needed to go and see it. Feeling worried that it wouldn't live up to the previous with Robin Williams as he left an incredible character of Genie behind. However, this movie exceeded my expectations and I ended up loving it a lot more than I expected. I loved that the beginning of the movie foreshadowed the film with showing how Will Smith was telling his children a story which had some songs about a princess, prince and a genie in which later is his family after the genie is allowed to become hu...

Film: Wish Upon Year: 2017 Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller Directed By: John R. Leonetti Starring: Joey King, Ryan Phillippe, Ki Hong Lee About:  A teenage girl discovers a box that carries magic powers and a deadly price for using them Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkKaDoUh_so My Review: Having not watched a horror in a while I went to Netflix and came across Wish Upon which sounded interesting due to a wish box, deciding to give this a watch this is what I thought about the movie. The film is about a girl who is given a box by her dad as an early birthday present and when she starts making wishes people she knows starts to die as a consequence, however when she finds out will she be able to stop or will it take her life next? I thought that this film had a really good idea for a film which was rather original and that the foreshadowing from the mother's suicide at the very beginning of the film was brilliantly done. I did think that the idea of th...