Every time Hollywood studios turn popular books into films, most fans of the books will always coin the term “The book is better”. I’m quite sure fans of The Hobbit and Jack Reacher books are already saying that. Most of the time they’re right, as an avid reader myself, I used that term many times …
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Hello friends! Today happens to be my birthday, so I'm taking today off from work as part of my birthday present to myself 😀 A few years back, I chose a birthday-related movie to mark the occasion, which was David Fincher's excellent but underrated thriller The Game. I highly recommend that if you haven't seen …
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Hello everyone! Happy post-BAFTA Monday, fellow film fans. I've only followed it somewhat via Twitter, seeing people's reactions on the winners. What's with the hate against ARGO, I think it deserved the Best Film and Best Director win for Ben Affleck. In fact, it's perhaps one of my favorite Best Picture contenders, but I remember …
Continue reading [Wintry] Weekend Roundup: House of Cards and All About Eve
The discovery of a dead English monarch's bones found in a parking lot in Leicester, England has been dominating the news lately. Just this past Monday, scientists indeed confirmed that the remains indeed belong to Richard III, the last English king to die in battle. It's quite a fascinating story that started back in 2009 …
Continue reading Now THIS is a CASTING NEWS I can get behind! Richard Armitage as Richard III
I just realized I haven't done a Music Break since last November! Well I'm feeling rather melancholy tonight so I watched a little bit of the 1995 version of Sabrina. I adore this movie... it's just sooo enchanting. It's a modern-day Cinderella story of sort. Sabrina Fairchild, the chauffeur of the billionaire Larrabee family, is …
Well, it's another Wintry weekend here in MN with snow and plummeting temps. But I'm looking forward to 30 degrees above zero this week, ahah. Well, it's relatively unproductive as I only saw two movies this weekend as I spent some time working on my ARGO write-up for The Lamb Devour The Oscars series. This …
I barely watched the Superbowl, maybe only for 5 minutes when the Baltimore Ravens' QB threw a 40+ yards touchdown pass. I've only watched the biggest sporting game show for the ads, and now that I've got a movie blog, for the movie trailers! The power outage cracked me out though, someone tweeted that he's …
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