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 …
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 …
Oscar Musings, Predictions & Everybody’s Chattin’
Happy last Friday of February... or as we cinephiles call it, the start of Oscar weekend! As usual, the Oscars will be televised live this Sunday by ABC and in more than 225 countries worldwide from 8:30-11:30 p.m., ET. I'm a bit bummed out that the James Bond tribute won't be featuring all of the …
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Question of the Week: Who’d you pick for Best (or Worst) Casting in 2012?
Since it's the week of the Oscars, I've been preparing my predictions and also an Oscar-edition of Everybody's Chattin' series. That's on schedule for Friday but today I just want to pick your brain a bit today, so hope you'd indulge me. I just found out about this post from Flavorwire site (thanks to @WordandFilm …
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