Total number of points: 18

Film review: The Guardian

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Preliminary information

Name: The Guardian
Year of release: 2006
Director: Andrew Davis
Genre: drama, action
Leading actors: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher

The Guardian tells a story of a legend and young stubborn student. Ben Randall (played by Kevin Costner) is almost living legend. He is famous Rescuer swimmer, who losts his group druing a storm. After that, he is sent to the "A" school. He doesn't think that is a job for him, but doesn't refuse either. At school he ends up teaching a class, where Jake Fischer (played by Aschton Kutcher) is. The two don't get along very well, both having their dark past also. During the movie, both characters learn something from each other. They really grow, and Jake learns to understand the real meaning of rescue swimmer. Ben finds himself fighting against the feeling that Jake shouldn't be better than him, but still enjoying the challenges he can make Jake to beat. Also some romance is included when Jake meets Emily Thomas (played by Melissa Sakemiller). That romance leads Jake also into a bit of trouble. 

Whole movie is kind well made in my opinion. Characters are very plausible and plot is good and keeps the tension to the end. I'm not going to be a spoiler and reveal the end, because it would take all the fun from watching it. Kutcher's character Jake is the most interesting one.

Language was partially quite difficult, but nothing that can't be somehow understand, luckily.

I would recommend this film to any fan of action or drama films. It's a  combination of action and drama, without going too dramatic or including too much action. And especially if you're interested in sea rescuers, I would definitely recommend it for you.. 

TV show review: McLeod's Daughters

Preliminary information

Name:	McLeod's Daughters (season 2)
Original run: 27 March 2002 - 16 October 2002 Genre: TV show Number of episodes: 22 Regular actors: Bridie Carter, Lisa Chappell, Aaron Jeffery, Myles Pollard, Jessica Napier, Rachael Carpani and Sonia Todd

McLeod's Daughters is australian TV show, and its second season was released (in Australia) on channel Nine Network. After first two seasons, came six more. Main idea is just to picture work on a big farm, but it also has some feministic features while the main characters are women.

Season 2 starts pretty much were first one ended. Claire is falling love with Peter, despite her first impression. Tess is still thinking about her dream, the cafe, but she has more and more feelings towards Nick, especially when things didn't work out with Alex after all. Also Tess is still learning the habbits on farm, but she isn't so pathetic anymore, and is starting to understand things. After some incidents, at the season's very last episode, is revealed during a horse accident, that Claire is pregnant (okay, viewer can find it out little bit sooner, but the characters find it out when Claire falls). Peter is the father of the child, but because Peter isn't so good guy after all, Alex is pretending to be the father of the child. 

As well as the first season, the second is also mainly located to the lovely farm of Drover's Run. Still the others are mentioned and visited also (e.g. Killarney). 

My opinion of the series just got even better while watching the second season. All made more sense now, when I knew who is who, and stuff. Actor were able to create better bond between the characters and they seemed very plausible. There weren't (luckily) many changes done to the series, so it remained almost same. Of course there were couple of new recurring characters. Still my favourite characters are Tess and Nick, while they are still so cute.

Language was (still) pretty easy to understand and only few moments I felt like I didn't exactly get the point. So I would recommed the second season (also) to everyone who loves Australia, animals, good views or just want to learn english by listening it.

Film review: Interstellar

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Premiliminary information:

Name:	Interstellar
Year of release: 2014
Director:	Christopher Nolan
Genre: action, sci-fi
Leading actors: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain

Interstellar is new sci-fi film, which has been praised by critics. It starrs quite few Oscar- nominees and -winners. Director Christopher Nolan has made kind of version of 2001: A space Odyssey (1968), and Interstellar has parts of some other sci-fi movies too.
Interstellar has quite interesting plot. It starts with document-like interviews, and timeline has been shuffled a bit. But the main idea stays quite clear. Leading role is played by oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey. He's loving father, who has always wanted to do something different from his non-demanding job as a farmer. He has two kids and his father living with him. As a consequence of some odd insidences he finds himself being casted to the group of people whose mission is to save people still living on their dying home planet. Group has only very limited time to complete their mission, and the time goes differently on every planet they land. Some planet's hour is equal to many years on Earth. And that's how they keep trying to find a decent place to live.

The movie was quite good, except, it didn't find the true loneliness of outer space. Still, actors did good work with their roles. Characters were quite plausible, but the chemistry between actors weren't so great. I find it little bit irritating to follow them discussing something very dangerous, like going to the Black hole, with a voice, like they're just sitting on coaches and discussing weather.

Language was quite okay, but some voices, like rocket, were so massive, that I couldn't hear a word they were saying. Entirety was really good, I wouldn't have changed so much, but the one thing I would've, is the silence. There were too few moments of complete silence, which is however very big part of space.

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TV show review: McLeod's Daughters

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Name:	McLeod's Daughters (season 1)
Original run: 8 August 2001 - 20 March 2002 Genre: TV show Number of episodes: 22 Regular actors: Bridie Carter, Lisa Chappell, Aaron Jeffery, Myles Pollard, Jessica Napier, Rachael Carpani and Sonia Todd
McLeod's Daughters is australian TV show, and its first season was released (in Australia) on channel Nine Network. Later, series got seven seasons more. Main idea is just to picture work on a big farm, but it also has some feministic features while the main characters are women. Season starts, when Tess Silverman Mcleod (Bridie Carter) arrives to her dad's farm after his death. She hasn't seen her half-sister Claire (Lisa Chappell) for many years, since her mother took her away from the farm. Tess is going to sell her hereditary part of the farm - which doesn't please her "tough guy" sister. During the season characters develop and Claire and Tess get closer. Also crushes can't be avoided, when Tess get to know their neighbours Alex and Nick (played by Aaron Jeffery and Myles Pollard). Series is set mainly to the lovely farm, Drover's Run, in Australia. Also other farms (e.g. Killarney) are mentioned, and Gungellan, the "big" city. Drover's run In my opinion, McLeod'S Daughters is very succesful. Characters are very nice, and they are easy to identify with. Also the writer has succeeded on keeping all the characters very close to the viewer (they are plausible - to me, at least), who can feel their pain, happiness and everything. I think I could identify myself most with either Tess or Claire, maybe more Claire. She's little bit like me, and I really like the way she does things. My favourite parts are parts with Nick and Tess, because they are so adorable. Nick and Tess at the party Language was quite easy to follow and understand. Some parts were of course more difficult but mostly I understood it quite well and I could recommend it to also ones, who doesn't understand english well. I would recommend series to anyone who likes Australia, animals or anything like that, because it's quite well done and keeps the excitement on.