It should not be a surprise that I'm an Anglophile, seeing how many British-related stuff I put on this blog 😀 Well, since my good friend Becky (aka Prairegirl) is visiting London in a few weeks, I thought I'd feature one of my all time favorite cities for my Traveling Through Cinema series. Yes, I …
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Five for the Fifth: March 2013 Edition
Hello folks, welcome to the third Five for the Fifth of the year! 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. 1. Ok, I …
Weekend Roundup: Holy Motors and Mrs Brown
Happy Monday everyone! Hope y'all had a nice weekend. Still can't believe two months have come and gone in 2013. Well, because of the press screenings that usually take place on weekends, I don't go to the cinema on weekends. Here are my mini reviews of the two movies I saw: Holy Motors (2012) I …
FlixChatter Review: Jack the Giant Slayer
I've actually never seen any Jack and the Beanstalk movie before, but of course I'm familiar with this bedtime story. I was curious enough about this one given that it's directed by Bryan Singer. It starts unpredictably enough, with Jack's father reading him a bedtime story and of course Jack always believed it's not just …
Monthly Roundup: What I Watched in February
Happy March everybody!! It's still Winter here and we actually may get snow showers on Monday but I don't care, I'm going to have tulips on my recap banner today!! Think Spring. Think Spring. Think Spring. 😀 Ok, now that I've got that out of my system. Well, February has been quite a hectic month, …
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31 Days Of Oscar – Spotlight on Hollywood’s Costume Queen Edith Head
This is my contribution to a mammoth blogathon event created by Paula (@Paula_Guthat) of Paula's Cinema Club, Kellee (@IrishJayhawk66) of Outspoken and Freckled, and Aurora (@CitizenScreen) of Once Upon a Screen that coincides with Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar, February 1 to March 3, 2013. It’ll be a month filled with fabulous tales …
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Comedy Done Right: My Favorite Year (1982)
Greetings and all sundry! Please allow me a few moments of your time to broach a topic that has through the years has shown a minute, yet steady degradation from its heydays of the 1940s through mid 1960s. To present day. Where once reigned clever, slyly written, often melodic dialogue. Only to be replaced with …
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