My friend Andina over at the gorgeous Inspired Ground blog invited me last week to take part in her ongoing series My Movie Influence. Here's the gist of what the series is all about: Many people have their own movies they think highly, praised and probably started seeing things differently after watching them. I’ve shared …
Continue reading My Movie Influence: Sense & Sensibility (1995)
Today's the Bard's 448's birthday! I didn't realize it until Garrison Keillor, the host of NPR Writer's Almanac, talked about it this afternoon on my way home from work. At the end of the segment, Mr. Keillor read one of William Shakespeare's most famous love sonnets published in 1609: Sonnet 116 Of course it was …
Continue reading Scenes Spotlight: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 in Sense & Sensibility
A few weeks ago, my blog pal Marc from Go, See Talk invited a bunch of us to participate in this fun blog-a-thon called “Double Feature Theater”. The idea here is that we all get to imagine ourselves as bona fide Theater owners. As such we set up our schedule for a week’s worth of …
Anna from Defiant Success blog first came up with this movie meme back in May, I've been wanting to participate but haven't got around to it. Other bloggers have since participated in this, here are a couple that I like: I Luv Cinema and My Film Views. Well, I figure it's fitting to reveal more about my …
Continue reading 2nd Blog-a-versary Special: 15 Questions Movie Meme
Day 27 - Best villain Now, this is a tricky one, what constitutes 'best' villain? Are we grading 'em based on entertainment factor, as they're naughty but oh so much fun to watch? Now those I've covered in this post of charming bad boys. Or the most evil? In which case they get under our …
Andrew at EncoreEntertainment is conducting yet another movie meme blog-a-thon and the topic is an irresistible one: Great rain scenes! I love rain scenes... not only are they usually beguiling and beautiful, rain undeniably adds drama/romance/terror/suspense to any given scene, depending on how the director frames the scene. One thing for sure, as Andrew said, …
Continue reading Wet Blogathon: Jane Austen’s Beautiful Rain Scenes
Internet meme (pronounced meem): an idea/concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet Fresh out of the fun blog event Desert Island DVDs, I've been tagged by Castor, Marc, and Meredith (who interestingly enough are the same kindhearted friends who nominated me for Kreatif award earlier this year, thanks again all!) I've also found …
Continue reading The meme goes around: 10 Movie Facts About Me
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