I'm posting two days in a row!  That doesn't happen very often anymore. I wonder if I can make it three in a row tomorrow.  I went to the movies today for the first time in about three months. I refuse to discuss the blurry screen during the trailers and the fact that the house lights came up in the middle of the show and remained on for nearly 35 ( Read more... )

Oscar & Lucinda (1997)
Directed by:  Gillian Armstrong
Screenplay by:  Laura Jones (based on a novel by Peter Carey)
Starring:  Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh
Narrated by:  Geoffrey Rush

Oscar Hopkins (Fiennes) is an Anglican priest and an obsessive gambler.  Lucinda Leplastrier (Blanchett) is an Australian ( Read more... )

Cate Blanchett honored the late Alexander McQueen yesterday by wearing one of his gowns to the Cannes premiere of Robin Hood. You may disagree, but I think this dress is GORGEOUS:

( Click for the pretty! )

Next up on my movie watch list is an award-winning Australian film from 2005:

Little Fish (2005)
Directed by:  Rowan Woods
Written by:  Jacquelin Perske
Starring:  Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Martin Henderson, Dustin Nguyen, Noni Hazelhurst, Joel Tobeck

( Synopsis and thoughts under here! )

...and obviously isn't going to take people's shit in this movie. Two short clips from Robin Hood. Check out Cate's eye roll in the second clip!

I wholeheartedly approve of Cate Blanchett swinging axes and shooting arrows and being an all-around kick-ass Maid Marian:


But I will miss this Sheriff of Nottingham:

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My New Year's resolution is to post an entry about every movie I watch for the first time this year (and, if I feel so inclined, maybe a few I've seen before but rewatch in 2010).  Sometimes I'll do a full review, sometimes I'll just post a few brief thoughts, but I hope this will be a way for me to fine-tune my analytical skills and a way to help ( Read more... )

Happy (almost) New Year! Since it's nearly 2010, that must mean the interwebs are crawling with "Best of the Decade" lists, right? Right!

InStyle recently posted a photo gallery of their 100 Best Dresses of the Decade (worn by celebrities at public events from 2000 through 2009).  It's totally worth the time it takes to look through the entire ( Read more... )