Hello hello! Miss me? Well I'm not exactly back yet, I'm extending my hiatus probably until after Christmas. I've been diligently working on my script daily and I don't want to lose momentum. I might still do a post here and there if I have time and feel like doing it, so don't forget me …
Continue reading November Viewing Roundup + What I watched during my hiatus
This review is part of Epileptic Moondancer's PSH blogathon. I selected the second last completed movie by Hoffman before his death. He died a week after the premiere of the film at the Sundance Film Festival. A Most Wanted Man A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror. …
Continue reading Philip Seymour Hoffman Blogathon – A Most Wanted Man (2014) review
I saw Mockingjay: Part 1 on opening night and I hate to admit it, but I was a bit disappointed. Granted, in my opinion, the source material wasn’t as engrossing as the first two books, but, still, I had such high hopes going into the film. Director Francis Lawrence came into THG series with such gusto, partly …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review – Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I (2014)
PIRATE RADIO A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s. So I guess not all *pirates* are bad. This Richard Curtis' comedy is [loosely] based on a true story in the 60s era Britain when the then-traditionalist British government deemed it illegal for radio stations to play rock …
It's a pretty uneventful weekend after a busy one of last. Hubby and I opted for home cinema as I've already seen two of this weekend's new releases: The Monuments Men and The LEGO movie. Click on the title to read my review of it, I actually agree with the critics on both films. It's …
It's truly one of the c-cc-coldest weekend ever. It's way too early to have an arctic weather conditions here and it lingers way too long! We're talking about several degrees below zero (Fahrenheit that is, so it's a few dozen degrees below zero in Celcius!), with Wind Chill Advisory issued by National Weather Service when …
Continue reading [Arctic] Weekend Roundup & Quick Thoughts on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
I was recently asked by Andrew Kendall at Encore Entertainment to contribute a post for the Motifs in Cinema blogging project. 2012, a multi-site themed blogging projects of 11 writers looking at 11 motifs from films last year. When Andrew emailed me the topics for the Motifs in Cinema Project, for some reason I gravitated …
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