Wet Blogathon: Jane Austen’s Beautiful Rain Scenes

Andrew at EncoreEntertainment is conducting yet another movie meme blog-a-thon and the topic is an irresistible one: Great rain scenes! I love rain scenes... not only are they usually beguiling and beautiful, rain undeniably adds drama/romance/terror/suspense to any given scene, depending on how the director frames the scene. One thing for sure, as Andrew said, …

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Everybody’s Chattin’: Five Blog Links Worth Your Time

Happy Friday, everyone! Time to highlight some great posts I think you ought to check out: My buddy Castor over at Anomalous Material has concocted an über fun and addictive game called The Hollywood Fantasy Draft. It's kinda like Fantasy Football for movie lovers! We get to play movie producers and cast our director and …

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31 Days Movie Meme Day #13: Favorite animated movie

I grew up watching Disney Princesses flicks, so to this day I always have a fondness for animated movies. Well, as I mentioned in my Films That Define Us post, one of the movies that left a lasting impression on me is Sleeping Beauty. But I've grown out of the fairy tale love story stuff …

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Flix Poster of the Week: You Will Meet a Tall, Dark, Stranger

Another year, another Woody Allen's ensemble-cast movie. I'm not one to rush to see his movies, in fact, I can count with one hand how many of his films I have seen. But these posters of his upcoming rom-com just spell lovely. I love, love these! The illustrated silhouettes are so simple yet sooo romantic, …

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Random assortment of movie musings and news: August Edition

Happy Wednesday everyone! Well, I've got a few things to blog about so let's just get to 'em shall we? I got a free advanced screening to see RED yesterday, thanks to my hubby's co-worker. It's either this or The Last Exorcism, hiiih no way I'd see that one even if someone paid me! I've …

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Random Thoughts: The Chameleon vs. Perpetually-Typecast Actors

Well, clearly we have winner on the movie battle of the muscled men vs. Julia + her men vs. a nerd boy hero. The Expendables exploded at the box office with $35 million, with Eat, Pray, Love came out in a distant second with about 10 million less. I guess Sly's gamble paid off, it …

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31 Days Movie Meme Day #12: Best Soundtrack

I wrote a post around the same time last year called Favorite Movie Music, where I made two different list of my favorite movie soundtrack and scores. Well, I'm going to highlight one from each list that I never grow tired of listening to: Fave film score: Somewhere in Time An unabashedly romantic film about …

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