Musings on Quentin Tarantino’s 12 Favorite Films

Earlier this month, Sight and Sound magazine asked many of the well-known filmmakers today to list their favorite films, you can see the list here. For this article, I would like to just focus on Quentin Tarantino's favorite films. If you read most of my articles on this site (i.e. ranking favorite Tarantino's films) then …

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Weekend Roundup: Wreck-It-Ralph & catching up on Downton Abbey

Happy Monday all! Well, it's not quite Spring yet at least not weather wise, even though we've sprung forward one hour. That also means we lost one hour this weekend 😦 Downright addicted to Downton Abbey I've only managed to see one movie this weekend, as I've been catching up on Downton Abbey. I've even …

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Traveling Through Cinema: London

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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