Dr. Phyllis on "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince"

Alright my fellow Harry Potter geeks the moment you've been waiting for has come. Harry Potter has hit theaters around the globe once again in the sixth installment of the series Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Harry Potter is on the threshold of his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but there is more than school on Mr. Potter's mind. When we last saw Harry he had just discovered a prophecy concerning him and Voldemort. He now knows it is up to him to defeat the Dark Lord, but there is a catch "neither can live while the other survives". Now Harry must prepare for the final show down with Lord Voldemort and Albus Dumbledore has agreed to assist while he can. Yet what Dumbledore will teach him is not complex spells of defence, but information that can only be found in the hazy world of memory. Yet their most important, belonging to the new potions master Professor Slughorn, has been tampered with and it is up to Harry to retreive the truth from within Slughorn's mind and thus find the key to defeating Voldemort once and for all.

However Dumbledore isn't the only help Harry has found this year. Harry has also managed to fool Professor Slughorn into thinking he is some kind of potions prodedgy by following the instructions of mysterious Half Blood Prince found in the form of scribles in an old potions book. Yet as Ginny Weasley discovered in her first year of school sometimes a book is more than a book.

There another concern weighing on Harry what Malfoy is up to. Just before leaving for school Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed Malfoy to Borgan and Burks in Nocktern and he requested Borgan keep something safe. During the year many fatal objects had made their way into innocent hands such as the cursed necklace, found by Katie Belle, and the posioned bottle of wine Ron accidently drank in Slugghorn's office intended to be a gift to Albus Dumbledore, the one man the Dark Lord ever feared. Harry believes these poor attemps to assinate Dumbledore are the work of new Death Eater, Draco Malfoy. Of course this is the book's version of events.

In the film Harry, Ron, and Hermione follow Malfoy and Malfoy's mother to Borgan and Burks which is filled with a small company of Death Eaters, Phinear Greyback among them. They witness the unvailing of a cabinate, and some of kind anisiation ceremony. The film also shows Malfoy trying to repair the cabinate in the room of requirement while in the book the reader only knows that wherever Malfoy is spending his time doesn't show up on the Marauder's Map.

Now in the book there is a lot of romance between Ron and Hermione and Harry and Ginny. In the film this quality is inhanced along with action and less time is spent on the memories Dumbledore shows Harry, which are important to the seventh and final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Some fudage is wasted with an added action sequence where another memory could have been introduced. The death scene also could have been done better. Perhaps I've said too much. Anyway, see this movie, but after you read the book. You'll get more out of it that way. I'll give this film an A. I know shocking.

Hannah Montana The Movie - By Psycho P and Dr. Phyllis

Psycho P-Just because it is Hannah Montana doesn't mean it is stupid or that it's just for the younger kids. For those of you who have been living under a rock for years and have not heard of Hannah Montana The Movie, it is about Miley Stewart, played by Miley Cyrus, and how she has lost her country girl roots in the whirl of her double life as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana and in is need of a "Hannah detox" as Robby Ray puts it. So to give Miley a much needed reality check he sentences her to two weeks in Tennesee at her grandmother's house. There she goes through usual endangerment of her secret identity, nothing new. Yet despite the fact that its slightly predictable its themes on life are universal. Psycho P thought it was awesome no matter how predictable Dr. Phylls thought it was. I love how they brought the idea of being who you really are and never forgetting your beginnings and how family is important. the music is great in my opinion. There is some country, pop, country line dance with a hip-hop twist. and two songs that pull at your heartstrings. I really mean it when I say you should go see it. It's not just a kid movie. It's a family movie. GO SEE IT!!!!! Even if you don't like Hannah Montana. The great message makes up for it. I was so close to crying, but in a good way. I personally give this movie a rating of an A and R. Once again I say, GO SEE IT!!!!! I will now turn it back over to Dr. Phyllis.

Hey! Dr. Phyllis here! Despite the predictable plot its theme and comedy make for it. As Miley stuggles to decide who she wishes to be we as teens see ourselves and our quest for self discovery. This films speaks to the heart, especially to those who at a lose in themselves as well as the young and young at heart. Of course there is another that I know most teenaged girls will...the guys. This film also brings the classic theme of the crush as Miley struggles to not blow her first real realtionship without blowing her secret while a noisy reporter keeps prowling around, which makes it a funny and touching story. On the F.A.R.M.C.O.W.Z.S.L.E.P.T. scale I'd give it an R for Recommend especially if you plan to bring the younger members of the family with you while having some yourself. Just give it a chance you might like it. I was sceptacle the first time and it may not be the best movie ever, but at least rent the D.V.D.

Dr. Phyllis on "Phantom of the Opera"

"The Phantom of the Opera is there inside my mind" after watching this strange, but none the less stunning musical. I guarantee the chords of Phantom will be running through your mind as well.

Okay here's the basic situation to this musical. The story takes place in the year 1870 in a most unusual opera house in Paris that is said be haunted by the mysterious Opera Ghost. No one knows where this man came from, who he is or what is up with the half of a mask he wears on the left side of his face? Well Christine Daae is about to find out what horror hides behind the mask.

Christine Daae was orphaned at the age of seven after her father died. On his death bed her father said to her: "When I'm in heaven child I will send the angle of music to watch over you." Once orphaned Christine came to the Opera to become a member of the ballet, there she would light a candle every night for her late father and hear someone singing songs in her head...the angle of music perhaps?

Years pass and Christine shows promising talent in both dance and song. The story begins when the Opera is under new management, accompanying said new management is Raul, an old childhood friend of Christine's. They arrive in the middle of a rehersal and of course the leading lady Carlotta is a total prima donna who is basically unhappy with everything. She even threatens to leave right in front of her new managers. The best advice their prediessor can give them is grovel. They grovel and beg like dogs for her to stay even asking her sing for them. Talk about mood swings. She goes from crying and complaining to "it my managers command". Then she sings this romantic love song in her harsh saprone voice that makes dogs cringe, and this lady is sopposed to be the lead saprano for the past five seasons. I'm not kiding. Well of course the phantom won't have that. Silently he drops the current on Carlotta's head. Well after that Carlotta is having none of it. She leaves right then and there. This is the former manger's que to high tail it our of there. Before leaves he informs his secessors: "if you need I shall be in Austrailia." How's that for your first day. A current falls on the leading lady, she storms out, and moments you recieve a note from this Opera Ghost demanding that box five remain empty for his use, and a reminder that his salary is due. Well now it seems that the show must be canceled since the star has just stormed off. Yet all is not lost. Madame Jerrey, the ballet teacher, tells them that Christine can take Carlotta's place. Christine blows them away and sings on Clarlotta's behalf. Here starts the madness of the Phamtom of the Opera and his obession with Ms. Daa as he tries to win her love, after inspiring her voice to take flight. Yet he has come too late, for Christine already given her heart to an old friend from a lost childhood sending the Phantom into a dangerous plan to somehow claim Christine, willingly or not.

The film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Phantom of the Opera is a good representation of the originally stage version. The music is haunting and difficult to forget. The story itself is an exploration of death, love, beauty, good and evil, as well what is divine. We huamns have an uncanny ability to use the name of God, not matter what name he takes, and use it to bring about terrible crimes. The Phantom himself can be seen as representation of false divinity as Christine goes from calling him the Angle of Music, seeing him as a diety in his own right to seeing as a mad man with a troubled past. Here in lies the loss of innosence. The question for our character is now which path will Ms. Daa choice? Watch the movie or see the play to find out and watch the mad genius at work. For a rating I'd give this movie/musical an A or an R. If you like musicals you'll enjoy this.

Psycho P here to tell you about my awesomeness

I am not totally psychotic, but my cousin almost tried to get me committed once but that is because I was acting more weird than I normally do. I am slightly crazy. I get extremely overly hyper for no apparent reason on a weekly bases if not more often. I was like that last night. Its almost like I'm high. (I was once accidentally high and take my word for it it really wasn't that great) but like my friend Dr. Phyllis i was in The Sound Of Music but that's over now. I am an Aquarius, I love Country, Rock, and Pop music, but I love all types of music. i cant think of anything else right on the spot besides I am HOPELESSLY OBSESSED with the Twilight Series. so with that i bid you adieu, adieu to you and you and you. any questions just ask.

Psych P has left the building, but don't fret she will be back