I don't want to postpone this review any longer than I already have. I watched The Artist last week and needed 6 days to come up with anything to say about it because my gut reaction after seeing that movie was total speechlessness ( Read more... )

Congratulations, The Artist, for winning Best Picture at the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The movie is wholly deserving because, you know, throughout the ceremony, they were showing these clips of actors talking about what makes a good movie. Well, The Artist, since the very first minute I watched it in the cinema, defined what a "good movie" is to ( Read more... )

Good morning, folks ( Read more... )

I don't know about you but I feel like the 84th Annual Academy Awards has the weirdest list of nominees ever.

I thought there were supposed to be 10 movies for Best Picture nominations but, nope. This year there's only 9. The selection is so uninspired. Predictable, boring, dull. Also, only 2 nominations for Best Song? Sheesh. What's the point ( Read more... )

I just came across a Lord of the Rings review and I thought to myself: "Aragorn, Boromir, or Eomer?" Immediately, my mind made up: Boromir. Between Aragorn, Boromir, Eomer, Faramir and Legolas, I would always choose Boromir. If we're talking about the movie, the first elf I'd choose would be Haldir. This is fact ( Read more... )

I finally managed to catch The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec today. I was really bored and decided that I should watch the movie before it disappears from the cinema (highly unlikely, seeing as the Hollywood movies ban is still ongoing, but still ( Read more... )

TV is looking absolutely promising (and gorgeous) right now. I have H50 to catch up on and A Game Of Thrones to hunt. Then Glee returns tonight (tomorrow morning for me) and at_midnight will be copying me Sherlock soon.

But the sad thing is I've been trying to watch Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec, this French historical adventure movie ( Read more... )

That's it, mes amis! The 2011 French Film Festival is over... I watched one last movie today with odayski and closed my own festival experienced with a bang!

Or should I say with lightning and thunder because the moment we stepped out of the cinema, it was raining cats and dogs and the power went out. Creepy, much? It took a while for the power to come ( Read more... )

This is it: penultimate day of the French Film Festival. I watched two movies today, one of which is L'arnacoeur, the one I've already seen last week. I wanted to savor seeing Romain Duris on the big screen so when I pre-bought the tickets, I decided to include this film again.

I stayed only until the part Romain danced the Dirty Dancing dance, ( Read more... )

As it turned out, I survived the 159 minutes long presentation of the French documentary yesterday. What I almost didn't survive was the traffic. I'd planned on leaving the office as soon as I posted yesterday's entry, but my car didn't get here until 6.40 PM! Forget dinner, I was now in danger of not even making it on time to the cinema. It took ( Read more... )