Movies

It's a rare occasion when a movie reduces me to tears, but Big Fish has the ability to reduce me to a blubbering heap every time.

Big Fish tells the life story of Edward Bloom through a series of flashbacks and retrospectives. As Edward nears the end of his life, his estranged son comes home and their tensions resume as it becomes clear Edward has invented many of the childhood stories he told his son William.

Any time you encounter a Will Smith movie, he's valiantly fighting to save the world from something. In The Pursuit Of Happyness, it's different. He's valiantly fighting to save himself.

Movies featuring Will Smith usually pit him as an energetic, wise cracking hero amid a bunch of aliens and special effects. But perhaps it is because of - or in spite of - this pedigree that Smith manages to surprise us with a remarkably low-key and touching performance as a down on his luck single father trying to make ends meet for his family.

You know, I've always considered Harry Potter as a bit of a wimp. With the glasses and always being bailed out by someone else or accidentally worming his way out a situation.

But what if we beefed Harry Potter up a little bit, perhaps got someone a bit tougher to play the role. It'd be worth it just for what would ultimately become the new Potter's catchphrase: