Chicago winning Best Picture in 2003 at the Oscars is often regarded as a mistake due to the other films nominated that year. I fell in love with it but then again I am just a little bit of musical geek. So obviously I still love it and have it as one of my all time favorite films. The academy showed its supposed love for musicals that year but Oliver! was the previous Best Picture winner for a musical so it had been a very long time between a musical winning the best picture award. I think it’s quite scary that it is now 10 years on and loved how the cast we involved in the 2013 ceremony. Especially the All That Jazz performance from Catherine Zeta Jones that totally made the whole show for me. It’s a great song one of the best openings to a musical and it also helped show that she still has it after more than 10 years!
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March 5, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 2002, All That Jazz, Best Picture, Bob Fosse, Catherine Zeta Jones, Chicago, Christine Baranski, John C. Reilly, Musical, Oscar Winner, Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, Rob Marshall | 5 Comments »
Jimmy Morris coaches a high school Baseball team and makes a deal with his players that if they make the play-offs he will try out for the minor league. This is after they found out how good a pitcher he was and still is!
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December 2, 2012 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: 2002, Dennis Quaid, Review, Drama, Baseball, Jay Hernandez, Brian Cox, Netflix UK, The Rookie, Angus T. Jones, Rachel Griffiths | Leave A Comment »
The second part of the incredible trilogy picks up with the different characters heading in different directions. We see three different stories unfolding in The Two Towers. This film is a lot darker than Fellowship of the Ring, as Middle Earth heads into a battle at Helms Deep.
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November 23, 2012 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: 2002, Adventure, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Orlando Bloom, Review, Viggo Mortensen | 2 Comments »
Instead of setting some New Year’s resolutions for the blog or movie watching I have decided to set some 2012 challenges in regards to film watching!
- Try to review each film I see at the cinema – now this wasn’t far off in 2011 but must do better!
- Watch the films I have on DVD that I have never actually seen
- Focus on old films with the year ending in 2 . . . 2002, 1992, 1982 etc
- Form top 10 lists with regards to the above challenge
- Catch up on films I missed in 2011
- Make more use of my LOVEFiLM subscription
- See more than 57 films at the cinema (2011′s total)
What about anyone else, any 2012 challenges?
January 1, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 1982, 1992, 2002, 2012, Blu-ray, DVD, Films, LOVEFiLM, Movies | 3 Comments »
A look back at the posters from the second Potter film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)!
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July 13, 2011 | Categories: Harry Potter | Tags: 2002, Alan Rickman, Albus Dumbledore, Bonnie Wright, Daniel Radcliffe, Dobby, Draco Malfoy, Emma Watson, Film Poster, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Hermione Granger, James Phelps, Jason Issacs, Lucius Malfoy, Maggie Smith, Mineva McGonagall, Movie Poster, Oliver Phelps, Poster, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, Ron Weasley, Rubeus Hagrid, Rupert Grint, Severus Snape, Tom Felton | Leave A Comment »
We head back to Hogwarts for second year. Although something or someone is trying to stop Harry from getting back. He receives no letters from Ron or Hermione over the summer, then cannot get through the barrier at King’s Cross to get on the Hogwarts express. But what is he being warned against?
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May 20, 2011 | Categories: Harry Potter, Reviews | Tags: 2002, Adventure, Alan Rickman, Alfie Enoch, Bonnie Wright, Chris Columbus, Chris Rankin, Daniel Radcliffe, David Bradley, Devon Murrary, Eleanor Columbus, Emma Watson, Family, Fantasy, Fiona Shaw, Gemma Jones, Gemma Padley, Harry Melling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Heather Bleasdale, Hugh Mitchell, J.K. Rowling, James Phelps, Jamie Waylett, Jason Isaacs, John Cleese, Josh Herdman, Julie Walters, Kenneth Branagh, Luke Youngblood, Maggie Smith, Mark Williams, Matthew Lewis, Miriam Margolyes, Oliver Phelps, Review, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, Rupert Grint, Sean Biggerstaff, Shirley Henderson, Toby Jones, Tom Felton, Tom Knight, Warwick Davis | 1 Comment »
Third part of the countdown of my top 50 films of the decade . . .
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January 14, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, Across the Universe, Amy Adams, Best Films of the Decade, Best Films of the Decade 2000's, Brad Pitt, Brian Clough, Cameron Diaz, Decade 2000-2009, Denzel Washington, Disney/Pixar, Eddie Murphy, Enchanted, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jason Statham, Jim Carrey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Winslet, Love Actually, Michael Sheen, Mike Myers, Paul Newman, Remember the Titans, Road to Perdition, Shrek, Shrek 2, Snatch, The Beatles, The Damned United, Timothy Spall, Tom Hanks, Up | 4 Comments »
Now to the second part of the countdown . . . films 40-31 . . .
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January 11, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, Best Films of the Decade, Best Films of the Decade 2000's, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Comedy, Daniel Day Lewis, Decade 2000-2009, Drama, Ed Harris, Gangs of New York, Heath Ledger, Imelda Staunton, In the Valley of Elah, Jack Black, Johnny Depp, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, King Kong, Leonardo DiCaprio, Love, Mamma Mia!, Meryl Streep, Mrs Dalloway, Musical, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Notes on a Scandal, Peter Jackson, Pierce Brosnan, Romance, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Hours, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, Tommy Lee Jones, Vera Drake, Virginia Woolf, Zooey Deschanel | Leave A Comment »
While I was writing my review for Nine (and even watching it) I was trying not to compare it to Chicago. Mainly because I love Chicago and it is one of my favorite films ever, so to compare another musical directed by Rob Marshall on one viewing would not be very fair. So I have decided to take a deeper look into both movies and not really say which one is better, but to show comparisons.
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January 5, 2010 | Categories: Musicals, Uncategorized | Tags: 2002, 2009, All I Care About, All That Jazz, Be Italian, Catherine Zeta Jones, Chicago, Daniel Day Lewis, Fergie, Guido Contini, John C. Reilly, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Marion Cotillard, Musical, Nicole Kidman, Nine, Penelope Cruz, Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, Rob Marshall, Roxie Hart, Sex, Sexy, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson, Stockings, Suspenders, Velma Kelly | 3 Comments »
After getting excited yesterday about “Dear John” and realising how much I love Nicholas Sparks Novel’s which have been turned into movies, I decided to look a bit closer into them. Not only is “Dear John” coming out next year, another based on one of his novels is “The Last Song” (2010) which I cannot believe I forgot about as Miley Cyrus is going to be starring in it. At the moment Nicholas Sparks has 14 Novels, 6 of these are now movies. With two of them due for release next year. The other four which have been released are “Message in a Bottle” (1999), “A Walk to Remember” (2002), “The Notebook” (2004) and “Nights in Rodanthe” (2008). The tagline’s for each of the movies help to show which type of story is the main key in the movie, and the pictures below show that too . . . Love . . . all about love.
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October 16, 2009 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 1999, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, A Walk to Remember, Amanda Seyfried, Based on a Book, Based on a Novel, Channing Tatum, Dear John, Diane Lane, Drama, Greg Kinnear, James Garner, Kevin Costner, Love, Mandy Moore, Message in a Bottle, Miley Cyrus, Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe, Paul Newman, Rachel McAdams, Richard Gere, Robin Wright Penn, Romance, Ryan Gosling, Shane West, The Last Song, The Notebook | 15 Comments »
A New York suburban couple Connie (Diane Lane) and Ed’s (Richard Gere) marriage goes astray as Connie has an adulterous fling, with Paul (Olivier Martinez). Risking her marriage and pretty much her lifestyle, for an affair which contains sex like she never had in her marriage. She was bored and ended up spending quite a lot of time with Paul during the day while her husband was at work and their son was at school. I will not reveal what happens at the end as I think the twists it takes are very good. I do like when she has a flashback to the day she met Paul and thinks about the way it should have gone, which I think just helps to show that every decision we make can go two ways and change everything, or you can keep it all the same.
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October 6, 2009 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: 2002, Affair, Chad Lowe, Diane Lane, Drama, Erik Per Sullivan, Marriage, Michelle Monaghan, Olivier Martinez, Review, Richard Gere, Sex, Thriller, Unfaithful | 3 Comments »
I have just watched this movie for the first time (after actually wanting to see it for a while, as I am a big Kevin Costner fan, yes a big fan thats right).
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April 5, 2009 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: 2002, Dragonfly, Drama, Fantasy, Kathy Bates, Kevin Costner, Mystery, Review, Thriller | Leave A Comment »
Come on babe, why don’t we paint the town . . . and All That Jazz !!!
Best Picture winner in 2003, and rightly so. Chicago really did mark the return of the musical. Showstopping and so entertaining.
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February 26, 2009 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: 2002, Best Picture Winner, Catherine Zeta Jones, Chicago, Crime, Dominic West, Drama, Fame, Jail, John C. Reilly, Murder, Musical, Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger, Review, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs, Vaudeville | Leave A Comment »
