The Chaperone (2011) Review
An ex-con who has recently got out of jail wants to do everything he can to make it up to his daughter, after he has missed so many years of her life.
Conan the Barbarian (2011) Review
The story of a young boy’s adventure to life trying to get vengeance for his father’s killer, along with the men who wiped out his village.
Cowboys & Aliens (2011) Review
A film which appears to be a normal Western/Cowboy film is not as it first appears when a spacecraft is spotted with Alien’s taking away people from different small towns.
Cool Off With The Classics
Cool off with the Classics . . . a blogathon consisting of a top 10 list of some classic black and white films. It didn’t really take very long for a few of the films to come straight to my mind for this list. I am not going to put them in any particular order, but 10 films are included.
Marc from Go, See, Talk has done it again with another fantastic blogathon and you can see the original post linked to everyone else’s posts here.
While some films came straight to my mind, I actually found it quite difficult to get to ten films without ending up with mainly Mae West and Marx Brothers films in the list. This has made me realise that I have a lot of films that I must watch!
After making the list I got to thinking about how all of the films I have chosen have so many quotes that are still repeated and loved today. Is that due to the black and white look of the films or just how times have changed? Also performance wise just seems to be so much better than a lot of the current day films.
One Day (2011) Review
After graduating University together Dexter and Emma spend the night together. They agree to be just friends and this film takes us on a journey over 20 years to see where they are on the 15th July each year from that first night together.
You Again (2010) Review
What if the girl who made your life a total hell in high school was suddenly back in your life and going to marry your brother? Well Marni (Bell) is about to find out . . .
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Review
In San Francisco Dr Will Rodman (Franco) rescues a baby ape when experiments went wrong and the company he worked for order for them all to be put down.
The Joneses (2009) Review
The perfect looking family move into a new neighbourhood but they have a little secret . . . the family role is just a well paid job. Product selling . . . Steve (Duchovny) his wife Kate (Moore) and their children Jenn (Heard) and Mick (Hollingsworth).
New Header
Something that I have been thinking about doing for a while is making a header containing pictures of some of my favorite films, with my favorite actors and actresses in them. Ranging from classic films to more recent, all of them having something that actually means something to me.
Why Dirty Dancing should not be remade . . .
A lot of speculation and rumours online yesterday about a possible remake for ‘Dirty Dancing’. I am in the please don’t remake it side. I just cannot understand why a film which is still so loved and watched over and over should be remade. Even if you try to update it, it won’t have the same effect at all. You could not get away with the same lines which while some are so cheesy yet some are so brilliant. It would not be the same hearing someone different say them after nearly 25 years of this film. Patrick Swayze’s best known film and why all women (including myself) love him.
No way the ending could be recreated like that, and with that song . . . which everyone just loves to dance and sing along to. A very big hit at party’s and discos, with people trying to recreate the lift! (Yes I have been attempted to be lifted before).
7 Films you forgot Sarah Jessica Parker was in!
My previous blog post about Sarah Jessica Parker’s new film ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ got me thinking about her career on the silver screen. She has been in quite a lot of films now, but can you actually remember many of them? I am guessing for a lot of people the answer will probably be known. Most well-known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw in the Sex and the City TV Show.
When looking at her different roles to make this list, one thing that I seemed to notice is that not many of her characters are liked by the other characters. So that probably means that audiences aren’t really too fond on them either. That could possibly be a reason why SJP is not very well received by critics and movie watchers. Although I will always consider myself a fan after Sex and the City, and always hope that she gets some good movies to appear in.
I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011) Trailer & Posters
I am in the minority in my love for Sarah Jessica Parker, yes I am a massive Sex and the City fan (more the TV show than the films) and actually do enjoy watching a lot of her films. In recent years they have been films which are very easy to watch and often enjoyable if you do not want something too serious. I think this film looks very charming and as a woman I do like to see something where a woman is in charge of everything!
Super 8 (2011) Review
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and strange events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) Review
Liu Kang must help to save the Earth in six days and in the end the only way to do that is in . . . Mortal Kombat.
December Boys (2007) Review
Four young orphans who have grown up together and are very good friends, spend some time away together that they will never forget. But all end up competing for the attention of the same family, in hope of being adopted.
