Melting Your Heart: Peace by Chocolate Movie Review

Peace by Chocolate is a Canadian film from director, Jonathan Keijser that shows the impact of war and we are taken on a journey of the Hadhad’s who leave their home in Syria to start again, after a bombing destroys the family’s beloved chocolate factory.  

Arriving in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Tareq (Ayham Abou Ammar) is ready to pursue his dreams of becoming a doctor, while his father Issam (Hatem Ali) is already dipping his fingers in chocolate, in hopes of reigniting passion again and making sure Tareq will be part of building their chocolate legacy. 

The challenges faced by Tareq become overwhelming, as he has to juggle sacrificing his own aspirations and identity with his family’s security. With the need now to hustle, there never seems to be enough time.

There are so many beautiful moments in this movie, especially a certain light-hearted snow-shovelling scene that paves way for a friendship between Issam and Frank (Mark Camacho), the family’s Canadian immigration sponsor, highlights the warm Maritime friendliness.

An uplifting film with hope, love and infinite possibilities, as well as a reminder that during times of struggle within our own family units, our lives can also be more enriched when we extend open arms for friends to become our family too.

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Somewhere In Time Movie Review: Come Back To Me

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In the film Somewhere in Time, on the opening night of his first play, Richard Collier (played by Christopher Reeve) is greeted by a mysterious older woman who subtly puts an antique watch into his hand with a picture of a beautiful woman. Several years later, wanting to get away from work, Richard decides to take a break and finds himself staying in a hotel where he becomes awe-struck and obsessed by the same photograph he was given inside the watch. On the hunt for answers, he finds out that the woman was an actress back in the 1900's named Elise McKenna (played by the beautiful Jane Seymour.) Unable to get her out of his mind, he resorts to self-hypnosis in the hope of travelling back in time to meet and fall in love with her. 

This was such a romantic movie filled with beauty and utter simplicity. Christopher Reeve gave a brilliant performance showing his strong-willed character on the brink of madness and my heart was filled with awe feeling the passionate love between Richard and Elise that endured throughout the film. His obsession with Elise reached a point where the yearning for her became almost heartbreaking to watch. Seeing how far of a journey he went, even in his own mind, makes time travel a truly life-changing experience.

Another tear-jerker of a movie, with the great possibility that if you’re watching this alone, you’ll be finishing off that giant tub of ice cream, by the time the film credits roll.

It's Complicated Movie Review: I’ve Never Really Known How To Live Without You

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In the movie, It’s Complicated, after 10 years of being divorced, Jane and Jake played by Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin find themselves in each other’s arms after reuniting for their son’s graduation. Jane is a workaholic and is unsure about going back into the dating scene, while Jake has taken the plunge again, this time marrying a younger woman. As Jane battles being the other woman in this discrete yet exciting affair, she is suddenly courted by a new love interest played by Steve Martin who is recently divorced and wants to start anew. Going on dates yet still sleeping with your jealous ex-husband who wants you back, doesn’t seem so easy anymore and so Jane and Jake need to decide what kind of benefits they are really looking for so things won’t remain complicated.

I loved every second of this movie! Everyone can relate to this film in some way as relationships at any age or of any kind are not always simple. Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin were fantastic together. The dialogue between them was really entertaining. Add in the painfully shy but zany character played by Steve Martin, and this was a sure hit. John Krasinski from the popular show The Office had a small but great role worth mentioning too. There were tons of hilarious scenes especially one involving a webcam and some tender moments as well that had a lot of meaning. 

It was anything but complicated to go out and purchase this movie, which I know that I will watch repeatedly and hopefully you’ll feel the same.