Today is my 9th Wedding Anniversary. Can’t believe we’ve been married that long, I feel like we just got married a few years ago! I’ve been blessed to marry my best friend Ivan whom I still adore him as much — if not more — as when I first met him when I was only [...]
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Special Anniversary Post: Nine Wonderful Movie Husbands
Posted in Random Thoughts, The Flix List, tagged Christian Bale, Gerry Butler PS I love you, great movie husbands, John Rolfe The New World, Marriage montage UP Carl Ellie, movies, movies about good marriages, Paul Child Julie and Julia, The Painted Veil, Young Victoria on May 10, 2012 | 98 Comments »
The year of ensemble-cast movies – which one is your favorite?
Posted in Random Thoughts, The Flix List, tagged movies, Rufus Sewell, The Hobbit, The Dark Knight Rises, All Things to All Men movie, The Avengers, at swim two birds, ensemble cast films 2012, Favorite ensemble cast movie, Moonrise Kingdom, To Rome with Love Woody Allen, Richard Armitage Thorin on May 8, 2012 | 76 Comments »
With The Avengers kick-starting the Summer movie season, 2012 is shaping up to be the year of blockbusters. The year of ensemble cast blockbusters to be exact, as The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit are all vying to be amongst the ‘billion dollar club’ of the decade. … An ensemble cast: a cast in which [...]
Five for the Fifth: May 2012 Edition
Posted in Five for the Fifth, tagged Alfonso Cuarón, cinco de mayo, Expendables 2 trailer, five for the fifth, Glasses or no glasses Clark Kent Man of Steel, Henry Cavill Superman, mexican directors, movies, Richard Armitage, Samuel L. Jackson slams NY Times Critic, Spooks movie on May 5, 2012 | 48 Comments »
Hello folks, welcome to the May 2012 edition of Five of the Fifth! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. So let’s get [...]
Five for the Fifth: April 2012 Edition
Posted in Five for the Fifth, tagged five for the fifth, Gregory Peck films, Lee Pace, movies, The Flash casting idea, The Flash movie, To Rome with Love poster, Wes Bentley Hunger Games, Whitney Houston Sparkle trailer, Woody Allen on April 4, 2012 | 72 Comments »
Hello folks, welcome to the April 2012 edition of Five of the Fifth! It’s a bit early this year because tomorrow we’ve got a very special tribute post planned As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your [...]
Monthly Roundup: March Movie-Watching Recap
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Casablanca, Favorite March movies, Hunger Games, March roundup, movies, movies watched in March, My Week with Marilyn, reviews, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, Senna on April 2, 2012 | 42 Comments »
Though I’ve been blogging for over 2 years now, I’ve never actually done a monthly movie-watching recap before. But I’ve been inspired by Eric, Andy, Diana and Andina so from now on, I’m going to do this on the first or second day of the month. Like Diana said on her post, I too feel so diminutive [...]
Attention action directors: Shaky cam and fast editing needs to go away
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Brad Bird, Christopher Nolan, Extreme Prejudice final shootout, Jonathan Liebesman, movies, Paul Greengrass, Shaky cam and fast editing style, shootout scene Domino, Sylvester Stallone Expendables, The Expendables car chase scene, Tony Scott on March 28, 2012 | 48 Comments »
This is my rant to action some action directors in Hollywood who thinks that by having shaking cam and fast editing style will make your action scenes look cool. Please stop doing that right now! Those kind of sequences made some of us the viewers dizzy and a lot of times distract us from enjoying [...]
Weekend Watching Plans? Odds are definitely in Hunger Games’ favor
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Gary Ross, Hunger Games, Hunger Games box office, Hunger Games fever, Jennifer Lawrence Hunger Games, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, movies, Suzanne Collins on March 22, 2012 | 32 Comments »
Happy Friday all! After a very slow late Winter months, Spring is starting out with a bang in the movies! Hunger Games is here! This is the only major film that opens today, as the Indonesian-based action thriller The Raid (which I talked about here) only opens in limited release. So that means box office-wise, [...]
Five for the Fifth: March 2012 Edition
Posted in Five for the Fifth, tagged Akiva Goldsman A Winter's Tale, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, five for the fifth, Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Jude Law Anna Karenina, movies, Scarlett Johansson, The Raid movie featurette, Tom Hiddleston for A Winter's Tale on March 4, 2012 | 63 Comments »
Hello folks, welcome to the March 2012 edition of Five of the Fifth! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. So let’s get started, shall we? [...]
Counting Down to Oscar 2012 – Winner Predictions
Posted in Awards Chatter, Random Thoughts, tagged 2010 Oscar nominations, 84th Academy Awards, Black Academy Award winners and nominees, Gregory Peck Oscar acceptance speech, movies, Oscar 2012, Oscar predictions 2012, will a silent film win an oscar? on February 25, 2012 | 16 Comments »
It’s less than 24 hours until the 84th Academy Awards. But hey as my friend David @ Never Too Early Movie Predictions just posted his predictions on Friday, I suppose it’s not too late until the presenter takes out the card from the Oscar envelope, right? As I’ve posted in my nominees predictions, I missed the number of [...]








