This year’s New Zealand International Film Festival was filled with many great films I just wasn’t able to get around to seeing. Even though I hit nearly 30 films, when there are over 150 at the festival, you just know I missed some gems.

I’m not ashamed to admit that I like the ‘Twilight’ series. Ok, that’s actually a lie, as I am a little ashamed of this, but hey, I love film and I tend to watch anything!

I first saw this film earlier in the year during its cinema run and I really liked it at the time.

Often it’s very easy to take things for granted, and I think for today’s generation the Hubble telescope is one of those things.

There have been a decent amount of end time’s movies over the years, and even TV has joined in with miniseries, TV movies and even full TV series based on the end of everything.

It’s not often a film comes along that actually scuttles, in some respects, your very own feature film project ambitions.

Continuing my book vs movie reviews of the Harry Potter series, I’m now onto book and film number two, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Normally when I write my reviews, I follow a pretty standard formula. I set up the review, throw up a synopsis I grab from the net, and then follow up with my actual thoughts and feelings on the film.

I’ve been loving being able to review a lot of History and Discovery channel DVD’s as of late, and they have been a good mixture of true life, science and history shows.

I was lucky enough to see this film at a media screening earlier in the year, which makes my job even better when I get the chance to also grab the films later on, on DVD or Blu-ray, and have another watch to see if I still feel the same about them.