Saturday, November 23, 2013

August Osage County

August Osage is a place somewhere in the US midwest. This film starts with the two aging parents, the mom sick with cancer and the dad, a bit depressed. One of their children stayed back home to look after them the other two moved away and got married, and the other, still singe is the ild one. All of their children are girls. Tragedy struck and the dad leaves home and gone missing for days. The family gets home together and find their dad drowned himself.

This is is the first film I saw at TIFF 2013. The film is a family drama engulfing you with the characters of every family member, the aunt, the uncle the cousin even the husbands and the boyfriends. In hours and a few days spanning the funeral and afterwards drama ensues and conflicts arise.

This is a Meryl Streep sure fire Oscar nominated role come 2014 Academy Award season and batting for Julia Roberts. Aside from Oscar nominated and star studied ensemble this is a performance vehicle film, and a bit of story on the side. The drama is so much you just have to credit it to pull the amazing acting. The lines a bit to harsh and vulgar but the script you must say is stunning upon delivery.

Every now and then as I was seating in a full  theater with the audience remarkable delight reactions on every part enjoying the film I always see it as a drama in the Tagalog/ Filipino movie industry. It was so overdone that a soap opera would out run its bags of tricks. The drama is perfect for screaming lines, confrontations and oh no that just didn't happen kind of things. But, adapting this to a Filipino film would work sans the drug problem.

But this is a family drama, and worth the acting stunts pulled by Streep, Roberts, Lewis and Cumberbatch even the support would bag them an ensemble SAG all better than a remake or upgraded Steel Magnolias. Speaking of which SAlly Filed would have been the missing point of this movie and it would be en pointe to tear jerker, drama entertainment haven.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

49 The Royal Affair (Feb 18)

Best foreign Oscar nominee form Denmark about a historical bio pic about an English princess who marries off a Danish monarch and becomes queen. Tormented by an unhappy marriage she meets an unusual gentleman who became a loyal adviser of the mad king, her husband. This is an interesting tale of politics, good and right and forbidden love. It is how good people who might be outwitted by bad and scheming people. Its gripping and its 2 plus hours long in danish. Well made with great production quality, hair, makeup, costumes and set design. The actress, is very beautiful and act well like the new Keira, she looks like Jemima (Jessa) from Girls. She played Princess Kitty in the latest Joe Wright film version of Anna Karenina.

48 Enlightened S02E07 (Feb 17)

No Doubt

So Amy gets the other side of the Abedon CEO story. She gets the chance and conflicted. She meets him and he offers a job she didn't expect to get. A week before the story runs she then gets cold feet and Jeff gets drawn and annoyed by this. He then breaks it off with her and she breaks loose. Gets crazy again. Cannot wait what will happen next. Its a turn.

47.5 Girls S02E07

Video Games

Hanna goes to a somewhere town to visit Jessa estranged dad who lives with her stepmom and stepbrother/ or was he a half brother. Rossanna Arquette and a familiar face guest. He turns out to be a guy from dark Knight Rises and the uncle from Animal Kingdom. His name is Ben mendelsohn apparently and I really thought he was John Hawkes. Was this a sexcapade? Nope said Jessa but Hanna did have sex with the 19 year old step/ half brother who was like geeky cute/ hot. I thought for a while there was this a Sex and the City episode? I had enough of the SATC stand point and the shows it created post SATC. So in the end it had a weird conversation with Hanna calling her mom. I hate her mom. Much more I hate Hanna. And Jessa somehow awolls and leaves Hanna to go back to the city alone.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

47 Gayby (Feb 16)

Haven't seen a pink film in a while and this is a breath of fresh air. It was skeptical to see this indie looking film because of the poster and looks boring. Watching it the gay guy and guys are cute actually and the lead actress is fun in a Sarah jessica Parker fee. Its about the usual hag and gay who tries to get pregnant. But it actually shows you how they try over time and not in just one shot scene while they try to be best friends and struggle to be single and do good in work. their friends and family. Its two stages the sex and the injection and the dating a plus. Its actually hilarious, well written script and well acted. Its fun and gaymazing!

46 Paranorman (Feb 15)

One of the Oscar nominated animated film feature. It a stop animation with a sixth sense angle. Its about a boy who can see dead people. He feels strange with this gift and feels alienated from family and in school. He bonds with other outsiders or outcasts to battle an impending attack of the dead by a 300 year old curse. This curse is set on their town by a witch who was killed during the pilgrim and first settlers in their town.

Art wise the film looks good. Its detail is quite nice, fun and creative even the character design and the effects. Its humor not usual and it well made not too look predictable and try to appease the climax by being not too one dimensional with the characters. All is well that ends well.

45 Elementary (Feb 14) S01E17

Possibility Two

Probably the season finale and final case for season one. This case is about genetics or a disease suspiciously given by somebody to appear to be a hereditary disease to a well-off man. I have to see this how it ended since  haven't watched it through.

This also concludes how the Sherlock-Watson setup will carry through season two.

So its about genetics and a gene and some smart geniuses. This is a not so smart episode. It also shows Watson getting into the readings and knowing the ropes of Sherlock's job. So that conludes Elementary Season One. Season 2, I am waiting for Sherlock Season 3!

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

44.5 Enlightened S02E06

All I Ever Wanted

An episode exploring AMy taking a next step into something new. She finally sees that there is something going on with Jeff - the journalist. Something she did not expect coming. They spend time together more, kiss and sleeps together. As things get closer with this new man and with a surprising approval from her mom Levi comes back. Her ex asks her to give another chance, him, their marriage and having a baby again. She is afraid to turn him down and tired of the old trick with Levi. She is afraid to let him down seeing how new and clear he is from the renewed self he is now from the rahab. Why now after all her beggings in the fast she asks herself. In a moving scene where she comes back home to meet Jeff, walking away from Levi controlling her emotions, her mom immediately senses her distraughtness comes to her aid and tries to be the good mom she can be to Amy and hugs here, gives her the touch and assurance, unwilling and confused but its always a mother's instinct to do so. She then goes to dinner with Jeff then Levi sees them driving away. What will now happen to Levi. I am worried with that last shot, worried and wondering of whta will Levi be, do next.

Monday, February 18, 2013

44 Girls s02e06 (Feb 13)

Boys

This show get into your skin slowly. Its short but every minute of it is worth it. You can tell that the actors are method actors/ They can deliver and it's amazing how the script is written. It is structured in a way that is not predictable. Like turning words like back up, and the subtle meanings. Its worth a second watch and its entertaining. I can say that its well written, naive and quirky script gies this show a punch, a hell of a punch. Also its a lot of fucking words in the show.

So we we see that the characters are not as dumb as they look. Like Ray is such an intellectual loser. Adam is still hung up over Hannah. Booth is just lost and very protective of his insecure self with his work. And that is just the boys. All this delivered in brilliant acting by a cast that is less than mundane but honest, truthful and amazing.

43.5 Once Upon A Time s02e15

Manhattan

This episode tells more of Gold's son. We discover that his son is Harry's father. This is just by fate but by coincidence. Well that is how I understood it. And something about the prophecy of the seer about Harry in Gold's way. So the people out of the curse were Cora, Regina, Gold and Hook but with it broken they can have magic. And the other people who came earlier to the real world were Baelfire, Emma and Pinochio. This episode reminds you a lot of the previous episode and it somehow connected, like Gold's injured leg. Its amazing how they put pieces together and make perfect sense for an intriguing plot. Maybe its time to take notes.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

43 Frankenweenie (Feb 12)

Tim Burton's short animated, stop animation take on M. Shelley's life and death science horror classic blown up to a full feature film now nominated for an animation Oscar. Its an animated film in black and white and the charm is just amazing. Burton is an imaginative and creative story teller and the score captures the flow of the story and drama of this childhood tale.

The classic tale names are taken here and a tribute to the author in one of the dead pets of the children, a dead turtle. The details are entertaining and truly a Burton masterpiece and always has that glitch of dark thrill and humor.

As said, well written and remarkably entertaining with great effects, production design and cinematography.

42 Sherlock s02e03 (Feb 11)

The Reichenback Fall

A stirring final full of drama for the show/ telemovie that I am in awe and gasping with admiration. This is a smart show tha tdoesn't fall short of suspense, drama and brain. Sherlock faces the great enmity in Moriarty. But Sherlock never fails to think ahead. Moriarty strikes into decoding and invading 3 most secured places in London. He get arrested and gets acquited. All in the game play that turned the table for Shrlock. But as I said our lead hero is on the side of the angels and is always thinking ahead so is he thinking for a third season yet.

41 Sherlock s0202 (Feb 10)

Hounds of Baskerville

Very mysterious episode set with a gigantic hound in an eerie far away town. Sleuth and fellow is brought to a small town. A hotel or an inn and curious towns folk abound our detective leading up to a secret military base facility set in the quietness of the town. In the end the episode didn't fail to surprise.

40 Sherlock S02e01 (FEB 9)

A Scandal in Belgravia

Sherlock returns in this break from Moriarty but someone under him or something. Its the seecond season and its first episode. Its an interesting made episode, well edited. The Lady or the Woman is Irene Adler. A clever dominatrix who is like he female Sherlock. She hold information that keeps here security and her life. A bit of a love twist in this if it amuses you of this kind.

39 Sherlock s01e03 The Great Game (Feb 8)

This one is one hell of a season finale or a good tele movie episode. It draws you to a series of cases like a game, with a time limit or somebody blows up and it all interconnects. Here Sherlock meets Moriarty and solves mysteries from the swimmer, the absconder to Colombia, the painting to mention a few. Four blips and a photo clue and a call dictated what to say to Sherlock by a victim strapped with bomb. If the murder is not solved then the victim explodes then on to the dance as Moriarty amuses and Sherlock with his trusty Dr. Holmes solving away his weary concocted cases. All in all very unexpected turns.

Full attention to details is required wtaching episode like this, to cherish and savour the twist and the plot s the witty sttory is presented.

38 Sherlock S02E3 The Blind Banker (Feb 7)

I am happy Sherlock is more immense and complex and well thought of than Elementary. Though the two is interchangeably connected the two are of different comparisons. Sherlock is also better rated than Elementary. Though one is not the version or another caption of the other.

Its a mini movie with 3 episodes in one season. Second episode reveals at the end his enemy - Moriarty to be behind the Chinese foot soldier smuggling underworld gang.

Sherlock is presented never in a linear way. Its always unpredictable and very smart keeping you surprised and at the edge of your seat, thinking and amused in its cleverness.

37 Arbitrage (Feb 6)

This film is about a man struggling between business , family, an affair, a tragic death by accident, hiding from the police and putting somebody life on the line for him. Richard Gere turns up as a business man who in in the brink of success trying to keep clean and do what is best for him and his family and his business and for him in the end. Support cast include Susan Sarandon and Tim Roth. This is a tale of suspense, drama and intrigue in the spite of our everyday struggles, being caught on being honest or just being decent and what is right and what is wrong.

36 Enlightened s02e05 (Feb 5)

The Ghost Is Seen - In a world of many people a lot of people feel lonely and most of the time feel invisible like a ghost. Amid all the plans Amy is concocting, fighting off possibility of being caught before achieving her goals, Tyler is revealed in this episode. As a lonely man who happened to meet someone special. He meets the secretary of the big boss who they wanted to bring down and they try to connect to her to get to that. In the end they ended up dating and sleeping together. Tyler finds hope. So in the lines of the plot being purposeful and rational lies the human and gentle core of just being loved and lost, important and nothing.

35.5 Girls S02E01

Girls is another show with 4 women in its main plot. The main character is your smart ass ordinary girl, not so Hollywood but she wrote, created, produced and directed the show. She literally is everything about the show, like literally exposing herself, n all naked glory. But this show is engaging in an indie and artsy feel. And she is just named Hannah.

Season Two starts with her break from her weirdo sex buddy Adam - this is Hannah and her BFF moves out of the apartment. That's the pretty Girl Marnie. Her ex BF who is now gay turns up as her new room mate. The Brit Girl get married while the Lashona or whatever her loser name geek face is get it for real and loses her virginity at last.

Its all kinds of girls, fun, witty and comedic and its HBO pips.


35 Once Upon A Time S02E10-11 (Feb 4)

E10 - The Cricket Game
E11 - The Outsider

This is a recap of the start of OUAT in 2013. The winter break left with Cora on the way to Storybrook with the help of Hook and the magic bean that he got. They are both on the way to find Regina and Gold. Cora frames Regina by killing Dr. Hopper.

Then Hopper is that that dead and finally dies. Gold tries to find his son in the outside world and an outside starts to come in Storybrook. Belle falls across the line and looses her memory of her old self.


34 Being Human UK S01E02 (Feb 3)

I am watching this UK version and its the original of the US version. Its about a werewolf and his roommate who is a vampire who moves in a house inhabited by a ghost. I actually saw the test pilot from the UK. The difference is that they retained just the actor who played the werewolf. The vampire now is a hotter version. The test pilot ghost was funnier than the actress playing the ghost now.

So they move in with the ghost of a girl who accidentally slipped her way down after just moving in with her fiancee. The vampire and the werewolf try to live together and live with their condition. They could see the ghost and she confronts her past when she sees her fiancee visiting their place with his now new girlfriend. Other characters include old vampires and victims who are now ghosts.

33.5 Once Upon A Time S02E13

Tiny is the nickname of the Giant up in the bean stalk. His name is Anton. Giants plant magic beans transporting fairy tale creatures in between worlds from down on Fairy Tale land to up there to Maine and back. Tiny happens to be a comeback character who owns the compass that led Emma and Snow back to Maine and the bean that brought Cora and Hook to Maine too. Now he is in Maine, in travel size and grows back giant size. Gold uses a potion to travel out of Storybrook, Emma and Harry goes with him to find his son. So why was his son able to get out of Storybrook again? I wonder.

33 Girls S02E05 (Feb 2)

This is a brilliant episode that mesmerized me. It felt like a stand alone episode, a single short story of a single day. A whirl of an affair and the enchantments of Hannah. Patrick Wilson the Hollywood gigolo, 42 year old, in a gorgeous Brownstone. It was an adventure too true to believe. It can happen with wit and confidence and its almost like a fairy tale.

One's Man's Trash - yes his trash complaining about how he wanted his trash protected and not abused. the loser boss trashes out and swear and she heads of in her slutty shorts and blouse ends up more than a lemonade. A good bizarre almost vague literary pice of an episode that is like a Kubrick scenario or plot, very surreal and leaves you thinking, full of meaning and hidden messages.

32.5 Elementary S01E16 Details

I think the most boring non-Elementary looking Elementary episode just like it came out of a mill. Detective Bell gets framed an din a series of easy knock-off clues the case is solve. Just a pass on this ordinary episode a not so worthy one.

32 Elementary S01E15 (Feb 1)

A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs - John Hannah, an English bloke drops in the set. I thought he'd play the brother as he drops in anked in the first scene he appears shocking the wits of Watson. So a kidnapping occurs and drug busts and gangster. Another not so exciting episode which I lost attention to.

31.5 Elementary S01E11 Dirty Laundry

A get back on 2013 premier of this promising show. But sad to say the new episode shown last January 3 is a let down and get down on the show's weaker episode. Not much to say her but a liner and predictable twist and turns. Not a not so amusing spindle of a witty episode for me, the usual cover up, and Russian spies and interconnected crimes with prostitution within a hotel and cover ups.

31 Suits S02E15 Normandy (Jan 31)

Revert close look on the case of blown up 45 cases of gender discrimination cases against one client handled by vexing Daniel Hardman. Rachel gets neutered by anxiety of her sure win Harvard application. Luis turns in a good leaf for her but then fails. And its Katrina versus Rachel-Mike.

30.5 Suits S02E14 He's Back

Zane, like Rachel's big top notch lawyer dad teams up with who else Daniel Hardman. A blown a class suit case of gender discrimination pushing the firm into a crisis.

We have not yet seen the end of Hardman. He is back and wrecking havoc in Pearson Hardman. Daniel Hardman is definitely back and is not resting till he shakes the firm that has his name on their door.

The new character Katrina Benett a BFF's Nicole and Naomi true knock-off is just delicious. I loved you since you danced your red ballet shoes in Centerstage.

February Here You Are

15 days off or maybe 17 and trying to catch up with posts. Busy with work gym and job applications and slacking. Pacing up and catching up real quick with TV episodes here and there on the weekened. Hohumm. Can I actually do this? Note to self - yes you can!

30 Glee s04e14 I Do (Jan 30)

End of the episode or I mean first month. Its the  wedding finally of Will Schuster and Emma. She on the other hand is out of herself and not herself or unusually more of herself being distraught about the improper kiss from Finn. Rachel's boyfriend is a trash of a gigolo. Highlight would be an 80's song and Blaine Anderson's Fred Perry white outfit.

29.5 Glee S04E13 Diva

A missed out episode of Glee. I need to reconnect and maybe catch up. Just a note on Madonna's song Hung Up sung by Tina Cohen Chang. Episode ends with Finn kissing Emma in her office. 19 yo ex student posing in for a teaching position for her finacee. WTF Glee?

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

29 The Sessions (Jan 29)

I actually watched this movie tonight, the evening of February 6, 2013. I have been slacking and been watching TV shows to make up for it.

This is a film unbelievably based on a true story and focused on a disabled man who discovers sex through a sex surrogate. Of course sex sells. They are trying to tell us that courage and will beats all obstacles and anything is possible. Actually this film desexualizes sex and thought provoking in a way how one views sex. But believe me sex her is shed in a better light, one and I for one should hope it should be. It also recollects sexual issues for everyone, single, married and you don't have to be disabled.

Great performance by Helen Hunt and John Hawkes and excellent adaptation to the screen. A real good watch and well-made film about one's man's courage, the defiance of love and the sweetness of just being human, disabled or normal (I don't know if that would even be politically correct).

28 Girls S02E04 (Jan 28)

Nothing familiar nor significant with this episode. Except that Ray as the title suggest Its A Shame About Ray is a loser. The British girl in a highlight scene having dinner with in laws breaks up and starts a divorce. The short as usual episode ends with a nude scene with two girls taking a bath or one girl getting into Hannah's bath and a snot.

28.5 Enlightened S02E04

Follow Me is an episode about networking and how the big people can be rich or insignificant yet makes a bigger impact on the people and places around them. I didn't make much attention to this episode. It is also about Amy's new Twitter account. The journalist also plants a clueless kiss on Amy leaving her nonethelss clueless.

28 Enlightened S02E03 (Jan 28)

Higher Power - This episode starts with a letter from Levi on his first few days in Hawaii doing rehab and self help in a place where Ay did her re-awakening. At first he finds it lame and irritating. He tries to do his best to see his purpose and goal in doing the rehab despite how he cannot stand his peers and mentors there. He blunts as a rude and passive member of the clinic. He then succumbs to a escape with fellow addicts to a nearby hotel, drinks, do drugs and se an din the end he realizes he need to get up and clean his act and returns to  the facility, with a few sprints back to his room, renewed and trying to become better. He may not be same or seeing things as Amy ddi but all is doing well in the end for his rehab there.

27.5 Suits S02E13 Zane Vs Zane

I actually tried to watch this episode over and over again. Its a good watch with an angle focused on Rachel Zane and her dad being a famous and top notch New York lawyer. The plot shows some family and firm issues with Zane and Pearson Hardman dealing with the aftermath of Daniel Hardman leaving the firm. Rachel dad owns a big firm and is a very good lawyer n New York. She tries to prove hersel f and earns her way in a different direction working for Pearson Hardman as the best paralegal in the best firm in New York City.

27 Elementary S01E14 The Deductionist (Jan 27)

Another Elementary episode that promises as a good well made one. This starts with a ruthless serial killer. But how, in Hannibal Lecter's proportions of a criminal can his security be leniently handled so thus breached. Heavy security should have banished the plot of this episode. Anyhow they moved on and had him escape and a sly track down by Sherlock through a radio wave. This one not so similar with how he treated M. Watson gets into the groove into Sherlock's work and stays on as a disguises as still his sober companion after her contract is finished.

26.5 Elementary S01E13 The Red Team

This episode is about the conspiracy theorist murder and tracks back to a government project with members being murdered for the valuable information they had with the project. Interesting episode this one with a good conclusion and traces back with a note on the previous episode. Not much to say but this ups up the pace for a rather slow show come back for 2013.

26 Elementary S01E12 M (Jan 26)

M - Lately this one is an interesting episode from Elementary. They have spinned out boring plots and linear case usually, heading some its episodes to snooze ville. Last episode was a bore. This episode brings in M  for Moriarty... a nemesis worth something for our English sleuth, an old familiar enemy with emotional ties and personal history with Sherlock. Jonny Lee Miller still looked amazing in this role. Something made him look more different and better slimmer in this preppy role. The outfits also still inspire. Vinnie Jones, another English bloke appears as M.

25.5 Glee S04E12

Naked - So instead of selling weed cupcakes Glee kids sell post it calendars for the girls to get some money for their bus to a competition. So bodies and abs galore for this episode. Boy these boys can sing, dance a nd less fat in their bodies. Way to be young and famous in TV America.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

25 Celeste & Jesse Forever (Jan 25)

Watched this January 29th. Great soundtrack, almost tolerable plot and almost adaptable performance by a romantic lead actress. The male lead can't help you think of but how big his cock would be every time you see (his nose) him.  Two divorced or separated or about to be divorced couple who remains to be friendly and close. They sleep with each other once but the girl gets her hope; oh no the man hopes of a get back together but no for the girl. He gets pissed and felt used and dates another lady who he gets pregnant after. Of course lead lady gets emotional over this and everything is just leading to a conclusion that women are weird. She runs in this movie a lot too. And indeed Chris Messina makes a pleasing appearance in this movie.

Friends are confused as well as the audience. Dismissable role of Julia Roberts' niece has to be taken notice.

24 Girls S02 Ep03 (Jan 24)

The Bad Friend - This is taken on the last part of the episode Hannah giving a speech to Marnie, upset of not telling her that Elijah fucked her. Elijah get s kicked out. Oh this is the coke episode, party and the junkie downstairs. The short episode is still smart in every bit and funny in an unconventional American TV way. Hannah is less naked in this episode but sleeps in her sheer drug high state with the junkie (who stalks her in a way).

23.5 Suits S02 Ep12

Blood in The Water - Clients try to back out or get stolen, associates get fired and people are sneaking into the drama of the law firm, job offers are put on the table too. Luis is pissed and people whispering upon the turmoil Pearson Hardman is deadling with to pick up the pieces. On personal notes harvey takes on a hit from a gal pal and tells Donna.

23 - Citizen Architect (Jan 23)

Watch this on January 24. Its a documentary of an Architect and his group of students, interns and architects trying to bring Architecture to a rural area in the US, helping people who needs a better roof over their heads, a touch of design and a lab rat for their projects. Who can say no to quirky design when its all for free? Anyway there is much say on the issues and moralities and value of this documentary in regards with my own point of view. I would just simply say that Architecture, strives when anyone can tolerate it in whatever form, but the real meaning of being a designer as a social role comes to a very sharp turn and point and the ideal and beauty of the profession enlightened.

22 - Glee S04 Ep 11 (Jan 22)

SADIE HAWKINS, is a dance when girls ask the boys to go with them to a school dance party like a prom. Its a prom but with reversal of gender roles but not really. Glee Season 4 returns in 2013 and is still amusing with its songs sans the plot lines seasoned with switching partners and sexual preferences. How high school can this TV musical get? My first post of Glee shows I still tolerate this show. It still has good new characters and annoying old ones. Good parts would be the Bruno Mars song Locked Out of Heaven and that song from My Bestfriend's Wedding and the cute outfits they wore for that number.

21.5 - Enlightened S02 Ep.02

Revenge Play - Enlightened is a subtle show about the working class and coming to terms with personal issues in the modern life. The second season takes us further into the real scheme of Amy's journey into getting back at her employer, a mega company up to screw small people like her. So from the previous episode we meet the new character of Dermont Mulroney as the investigative journalist AMy contacts to help her. Then the journalist asks them to get into the system to get important information to take down the corporation. Of course IT discovers the security breach so the basement department get investigated by looking into each hard drive. Amy and Tyler, the nerd IT genius who hacks the system evades this discovery by blaming it on one co-worker who ends up getting kicked. So our two hero wannabe's get saved but Dougie, the IT VP down there, gets suspicious.

Monday, January 21, 2013

21 - Here Comes The Boom (Jan 21)

Before I make a review of this movie let me just say that Kevin James is one handsome dude. Take that on the record. I think he is and I do think so. It must be the eyes or the school by haircut.

Now on with the movie. This is a movie that actually showcases the big fun sport of UFC - Ultimate Fighting Champions. Yes we have boxing and wrestling and golf movies and this is the first to feature UFC. This movie being a non-basketball movie from Hollywood is actually a better any latest Adam Sandler movie.

Its about a teacher raising money to save a co-worker's job by fighting Mixed Martial Arts. Or should I say Mixed martial Arts rather than UFC. Since its a UFC movie oh I mean mixed martial arts (MMA) some notable people from UFC are in this movie as themselves. I  don't know them except for the host of Fear Factor. The teacher then meets a gan of friends helping him out, the music teacher, Salma Hayek, immigrants, students and a groupd of Thai craze MMA white boys. I didn't know Charice is in this movie too.

Not a bad movie for a man comedy. It has its hilarious parts and didn't miss on the soft spots and if David O. Russell directed this movie instead of The Fighter he would make this an Oscar nominated film, seriously. The fight scenes at the end were scenes to watch and not to miss and well crafted.

20 - Girls s02e02 (Jan 20)

Second season begins and seems to be more funnier than the last. The unexpected turns and lines of this not so conventional show seem to amuse. Hannah splits up with weird Adam. Her best friend gets a job and the British chic get some more air time compared to the season's premier last year. Highlight would be the break up converstaion of Hannah and her black dude boyfriend. I somehow forgot how this 20 something minute episode concluded. Was it when Adam was arrested by the cops for the 911 call and restraining order scenario?

19.5 Once Upon A Time (s02E12) - Jan 20

I have never written something about Once Upon A Time. It is a show about Fairytale characters brought in the real world. These characters are loosely based, at least for their names, on Disney characters like Belle, Chip and Mulan. Pretty much the same with the names but not with the look and the bright eyed child innocent looks.

Snow White is the main character post her marriage to Prince Charming. The evil queen, her step mother, cast a spell to banish them into the real worl, Storybrook, Maine, USA. Yes she didn't fall off a cliff push by not-so cute as you think forest animals. And yes they are Americans not French or Europeans maybe they actually come from Orange County, California.

To cut the long story short, after a  first season and a few episodes in for the second, the spell was broken, and many back stories have been told. The magic has returned and some how events have confused me what happened then and what happened when as the story goes back and forth from the old days to the present. Also plost get twisted and somehow confusing.

In this plot, a fictional character, hence the black and white appearance in the old story comes to get involved. Frankenstein is in present day as a doctor and the premise of people coming from the outside world would be a possibility. I forget some of the details but Hook and the Evil Queen's mom come to Maine to wreck havoc. And the many characters and how they somehow change sides from time to time adds to the confusion.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

19 - The Cloud Atlas (Jan 19)

Sad to say I wasn't watching this film with very good attention. A far as what I see its a film with different characters and stories. The same actors play different roles in the different stories and on different times. It is not like the usual movie that they all end up interrelated or find each other in the end. Maybe that's the premise but given the time setting of the different stories and the characters being played by the same actors popping in and out of the different stories they all somehow to be existing in different parallels or dimensions.

Production wise its very interesting and the stories need patience to grasp as each story doesn't develop that much. The flaw is it transfers from one sub-plot to the next without giving you a clue where this will be heading. It all looks confusing and tends to distract you easily.

This is made by three directors, two of which are the makers of the Matrix. the ensemble cast is amazing. It is based on an impossible book. Must take a second peek at it, for another three hours or so.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

18 - The Life of Pi (Jan 18)

Get swept by this tale that is engaging in every picture shown on screen. Based on the charming book that is somehow adept for young adult readership. The innocence of this story has revealing truths about self, faith and the human courage and strength. This is a wonderful adventure brought more to life in the screen by Ang Lee with sweeping visuals, colors and cinematography.

Based on the book by Yann Martel about a young boy discovering life lessons in his childhood growing up in India. His learning about faith and his own strengths and passions then faces a tragedy that his young life will have to deal for him to survive. He survives a ship reck, loses his family and battles days to survive in a life boat with live Bengal tiger.

This amazing capture of this story will live through your mind as a unique cinematic adventure and experience through music and stunning images. Truly remarkable and unbelievable, of stories that can only be believed with a true heart of adventure and spirit of will and faith.

My only problem is how the narration is weaved through the dreamlike retelling of the bo'ys story. Somehow his recounting as a grown man don't weave through the main story told in the film, the transitions should have been made to look to mold or swift into a story telling state, it was not dramatically transcribed.

17 - Lincoln (Jan 17)

Its a long historical film about Abraham Lincoln and his fight to pass the 13th amendment in the US government during the American civil war. To be honest I found it boring and too long with to many dialogues and not a story line to keep the viewer interested. I actually slept through some portion in the beginning after literally taking two cups of coffee and a cup of tea prior the film. I managed to watch through it but my mind wasn't  able to glue its attention to the story in the film.


The film is a showcase of how brilliant Daniel Day Lewis can perform but there was not enough story to make it a great acting job. This was an acting vehicle for Sally Field as Mrs. Lincoln and Tommy Lee Jones as Mr. Steven, a character I half hazzardly took as a pivotal role in the passing of the amendment. Both Fields and Jones were nominated with Day-Lewis for acting Oscars along with any other major award giving ceremonies. This film also casts a number of almost all of Hollywood actors playing 19th century legislators and soldiers. Not to mention who's who this character is again of the many beards and hats seen in the film.

Maybe I can watch this film with much gusto and energy another time. Wish this film luck and hope to that. They say its a strong contender on major categories on the Oscars against the previous film reviewed, Silver Lining Playbook.

16 - Silver Linings Playbook (Jan 16)

This is a film about people, crazy people to be exact. To be more specific crazy beautiful people. David O. Russell brings this story with interesting characters, good script and brilliant acting delivery by its cast. Its a story of real people dealing with hang ups, so we see real back drops of homes, streets, cars, clothes, food, location. There are no glamorized to make it look artsy and award wining but realistic and relatable.

If you watch this film and take your attention by any distraction which would be impossible to happen, but in any case, when you watch any part of the film there would be no dull moment or scene or line in it. The shear lines and delivery are well played and the scenes are simply engaging. I really like this movie, funny, real and brilliant, a wonderful story a great watch.

Jennifer Lawrence is a gift to watch something like a Barbra Streissand type of movies in our generation. This movie would take her to that kind of ride, strong and identifiable. Bradley Cooper turns in a solid performance, as a weirdo and versatile conflict of character both charismatic and worthy portrayal. Rober De Niro is usually funny and well performed turning in a brilliant job. Jacki Weaver's performance was just charming but forgettable makes you wonder how come she got nominated in some acting categories like the Oscars. Anybody could do her role exactly the same way even Justin Bieber can do it.

So watch this and enjoy, its not your typical sex laden romantic comedy but enticing, sultry, cool and sexy.

15 - Kon Tiki, 2012 (Jan 15)

IThis adventure film is based on real events made by Thor Heyerdahl to cross the Pacific Ocean on a ancient design raft to prove his theory of first settlers in Polynesia from Peru. He is a Norwegian explorer and navigator who stayed in Fatu Hiva in Polynesia before the voyage across the Pacific in 100 days. With him were 5 other men; his childhood friend who was an expert on something and who had been actually been to the sea before, an engineer, 2 navigators or a person who operates the radio and a videographer (a person they call a camera man back in the day), on his boat to Polynesia and shoot a documentary while doing so.

This extraordinary true story takes you in account that real adventurers sans the fictional Indiana Jones really do exist. That they rely on heir spirit and skills to venture into the unknown and jump with brave intuition but nourished with courage and faith on believing in something bigger than themselves and plunge into the unknown, towards something no one has ever been or done before. This adventure takes you to thrills and surprises of the beauty of a journey of the wide menacing ocean. It also shows how men in their doubt cling to ones strength in faith to survive.

This is Norway's nominated best foreign language film for the 2013 Oscars. Its very well made, technically in cinematography and in effects with amazing locations and  performances. Also the story didn't rely on Hollywood formulas as we see in Survivor or some schemes one can see in a Brad Pitt or celebrity flick, annoying and over acted. It relied on their challenges and the journey that was their biggest fear.

I would not want to tell how this turned in the end. I tried to get a download with English subtitles but disapointingly didn't have English translations for the epilogue in the end. A great watch and truly a flm to treasure, something you would treasure a true find different from the films you see in Hollywood mainstream but equally made in production and technical aspects, and a well written script.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

14 - Suits Ep 11 S02 Winter Premiere - Blindsided (Jan 14)

Epic comeback episode of Suits resuming this winter with a case to blow mind after mind like is Mike Ross gonna be a more superhero compass from now on. The clear debacle between law and morality comes to play. We see Mike battling it out his demons and his past.

This new episode really makes you recall how things were from when they stopped the last time.  They still decided to put Luis in to annoy many of us. The tirade of Mike's secret slipping from Donna, Jessica and Harvey himself.  So the stakes are all out to play.

Mike and Harvey gets to defend a run away hit and run driver but gets a spin off at the end, How will they deal with it. Of course new and attractive lady lawyers come on and play, from Centerstage's lead as we may recall. Interesting to see a bit of a love angle here for Specter but really short lived.

In the bottom line Mike ends up going nuts, gaga and over the top pn his de-humanizing himself, struggling to be the ace first year associate while being the idealist that he is not. He may find out to go and make himself into a big a-hole because he can't be both.

13.5 Enlightened Ep 1 S02 The Key (Jan 13.5)

Enlihgtened is back on ist second season. Laura Dern and Mike Whites reprises their role on and off camera as the lead tandem in this short episode per episode HBO comedy series and as writer, creator and executive producers. Dern's mom is back too. So all is there as they left off from season 1, the damaged car, her bright outfits, her mom's kitchen and her impossibly flawless facial skin glow finished with a shinny lip gloss.

So now she is set to wreck havoc on her company. And the question is how and what. And most importantly why? Is she serious or is she just crazy. We don't know but she is taking this head on and on for the nest episodes for the new season. The wonderful music is back too and the hopeful, non-traditional feel of this show is definitely in and back on. But again I guess she's just a little bit crazy and not right on the head. Anyhow is she crazy or something? Tell me.
13 - The Contender (January 13)

A political thriller based on the American government around the year 2000 post Clinton political/ sexual scandal and pre-911 terrorism. The vice-president has died and the President is left the task to appoint a new Vice President. The Democrat president was played brilliantly by Jeff Bridges. His possible appointee and favored Senator Laine Hanson played by this Academy award nominated performance by Joan Allen. Then the appointee get to be confirmed under the congress lead by a Republican leader played by Gary Oldman.

So the nominee in questions got a blow from the committee, throwing her under the fire to confirm allegations from her past. Her whole political career and principles gets into the close public eye. The movie is a political debate on agenda, moral and history while interlacing on the mechanics of US politics and values. Its interesting to see how people try to put down other for power and how people with dignity fight it over.

This film was nominated for Allen's lead performance and Bridge's supporting role. Bridges charismatically played the part of this idealistic president showing a good confidence and rapport with Allen's character. Its also a good reminder how Jeff Bridges looked astonishingly attractive when well done, way better if you put him against Christian Slater.

Did I just screw this up?

Last time I wrote on this film/ movie blog was last Saturday, January 12. It was about the phenomenal Tarantino latest Southern flick Django Unchained. Now its Thursday, the 17th and I am 5 days lagging on movie updates to see. I did try to watch  Robinhood, the Russell Crowe/ Cate Blanchett/ Ridley Scott yesterday but didn't pay enough attention to make up a sensible review about it. Now I need to watch 5 movies to make up of this big time before I screw this.

I became busy with other stuff like class work and baking. Hope I can catch up soon.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

12 - Django Unchained

This is one of the 4 films for an Oscar Best Picture that didn't get a nomination for Best Director for its director. Then you ask, why. Maybe one of the answers would be Quentin Tarantino. Aside from him playing a cameo among notable actors doing so like Jonah Hill but credited in the end, this would be the subtlest Tarantino flick. I say that because its not as confusing a script and has a brilliant story told in a fluently fluid way one can sit back and get entertained with an amazing script written by the director. Tarantino is a one in ten thousand story teller.

The story, a highly moving narrative of revenge and tale of western adventure is not as pain staking as watching another season of Revenge on TV to have it culminate. The story unfolds on an adventure and eventually of love lost and vengeance brought on the bad guys amid the unexpected turns how the story will go. Which made it a hundred percent exciting. It started off on the right foot then turns into saving the wife and suddenly turns a page in a single shot of a scene into the signature gore, blood and splatter. Maybe the academy would vouche this as significantly brilliant trademark that is Taratino style. Maybe they would like Tarantino to direct a Jane Austen film next then they would hand him the Oscar gold. Well this is wonderful Tarantino style and brand. The best and most enjoyable to date, amongst his similarly token films. But this is a success how this director uses a certain age, period and era into a great agent to deliver his story.

It starts off with great charisma from Christophe Waltz. I would say a role would make up an Osacr win and I am putting my bet on this one for Waltz. Then we are introduced to Django in a low key super hero main event star of the film. A slave, beaten by abuse and lost his wife bound to find her, but a natural and exactly the person to aid the bounty hunting dentist. Then an adventure begins with a blue suit and a bow like a 19th century super hero. Then we have Di Caprio plantation owner character. Just saying leonardo Di Caprio's name is enough to entail curiosity on the role. He does just wear one costume like a main bad villain, well written for his part. But how many Di Caprio charactres do you say lives to the end of the movie and doesn't die - The Beach, Reservation Road and Inception?

Then they take on the winter scenes, the white and the landscapes of the west both sweeping and enigmatic. This part is good. As to parts making the film brilliant in making and production. The costumes for the coats and the club prostitutes were beautiful. The sets or production design of the Candie land plantation house and the Cleopatra Club were detailed and captivating.

In the end the story both gripping and entertaining takes you to how the story unfolds, the dialogs, the subtitles and the different characters unexpected to turn up. It a well made and well written Tarantiono film that didn't fail to amuse. Bravo - a word that would resound with a silent D - Django!

11 - Zero Dark Thirty

Is a retelling of a CIA's agent hunt for Usama Bin Laden (UBL). She was actually plucked out of high school to join the US intelligence. The movie also shows several cameos of some known Hollywood actors. Jessica Chastain plays Maya, the CIA lead agent to look for UBL.

It is an inside look on how the US intelligence got into looking for the person, the most wanted person in history. This film is far less interesting than Bigelow's The Hurtlocker, because it lacks more of  human angle, it more of a narrative of the documentary on the real events based on the book.

Friday, January 11, 2013

10 - The Impossible

Based on a true story, of one family who survived the deadliest tsunami tragedy in history. Naomi Watts and Ewan Mcgreggor plays the parents of three young boys on a holiday in Thailand when this catastrophe occurred. The first scenes,the resort, snapshots of flowers, insects, animals, and the pristine coastline and clear blue waters, its a paradise.

Then the shock of an event no one saw to happen. Everything turns into a big whirl pool. A washing machine. This scene was like the movie Hereafter, but longer and harder to observe. Imagine yourself in current, heavy waves, trying to get afloat, swallowing water, earth, rubble and what not. Anything you can imagine. Its crazy and scary.

The film traverses to the impossible, literally, that all of them survived. This was done in less drama but the visual to real and unbelievable to talk it to be impossible too. So the impossible happened and this was not short of a miracle.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

9 - Hello I Must Be Going

This is another divorcee lady finds romance in a younger guy. Sounds like The Rebound huh? Okay she has been wearing one shirt and shirts all over again... to dates, to the gym and sometime borrows clothes from her sister in law or her mom. Why? MAybe her husband threw her out of the house like Sharon Cuneta's movie Babangon Ako at Dudurugin. No that's a movie too depressing about a woman divorced, left by her husband. Oh its about a lady scorned.

Well its good she has a sister in law. It just takes away the ideal (elder) sister syndrome. She has a brother and middle class parents who takes her back in the fancy house with great water views.

OKay she wasn't thrown out she just forgot to pack her clothes. She was able to bring along her projector of post-grad photos in photography did I say post-grad. Or did she just stash it away when she left off, dropped her life and married a rich celebrity lawyer.

OKay enough talking about this girl. Oh she's the other step sister in Ever After, the good one and the sweet best friend from Cayote Ugly. She is pretty and cute enough as for the last note on her even though I don't know her name and she's one of those actresses who got a not-so perfect teeth.

Meet the boy - a supposed to be 19 year old actor against the 35 year old to be divorcee, who looks quite exotic and mixed looking. he is the guy from Girls, one of the dumped boyfriends. He looked more preppy and mature in that show, more sexier. her he looks juvenile and boyish, too boyish with a grown crew cut and Prada glasses, so they succeeded in that department. BUt he still looked rthnic, mixed than what he did on Girls.

The movie is about an affair where two people find comfort aside from horny charades of sex despite the odds. She finds renewal and finds dillemna in cavorting with a teen despite her family's unknowing eyes. It also shows family ties and relationship but beyond that they just find each other, a more meaningful relationship that what was unexpected.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

8 - The Road

A sad apocalyptic film that shows you a bond of a father and son. Moving performances by 2 actor encountering to defend their life, food and survival. Supporting and cameo roles by Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce. Its suspenseful yet its not all I Am Legend type but more of A Beautiful Life. Somehow it didn't explain how the end came to be - a massive earthquake or Earth shattering movements and shakes (everytime somebody gets murdered - thunders and tree falling). This moved me to at the end tears. But despite the depressing states the film ends in a high positive note. This is the kind of love that I would believe to proclaim. Eat that Amour. Honestly.

Monday, January 7, 2013

7 - Anna Karenina (2012)

Come and ti's the season for awards. The Golden Globes this Sunday and the Oscar nominations ushers in the cheery mood of film merits. Anna Karenina of 2012 is the ambitious retelling of the irreplaceable Joe Wright hauling its heavyweights of this big shot adaptation of Leo Tolstoy tragic heroine of love and a victim of her circumstance and of her own choices. 

This new film, thankfully, can be reliably viewed from a good at least DVD copy for awards consideration. On this case for one subtle review. From what I see it doesn't look like any other period film with costumes and character names you cannot tell from the other. It is a novel set on a stage to look like a musical orchestrated not by it's dashing symphonic score but by scenes, evolving backdrops, elaborate costumes, chandeliers, doors and paintings. Their dance of scenes and script make it all theatrical. Its like almost looking like a dance, a concerto, a ballet or almost an MTV music video. All in all you can say that life is a stage and everyone mere players in Imperial Russia when people don't seem to ever get sober enough.

The DVD copy is a limitation for this wonderful piece of art. It deserves to be seen in all ist 1080p or extended accolade of scenes and shots. It stands there among many ambitious films such as Moulin Rouge, a classic film that takes you over the edge of grace and artistic cinematic experience.

Bravo!

Amidst all this artistry, the heavy tones of a period film lifts up with color and production design, telling you of a story that has undertones of love, choice and reality. This echoes upon the viewers a mirror, that is set upon the female protagonist to circle around the characters in the novel and pick on the question we do ask ourselves in watching this film. Embrace yourself fro a truly filmatic surprise and take a grand ride into the vission of Joe Wright's Anna Karenina.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Random Movie Posts

Just Random movie posts of movies and films I have seen on a single date. Not the ones I have already or chose to see in the past days before 2013 began. Titles such as - The Impostor, Amour, The dark Knight Rises, The Beginners, 360, Les Miserables, The Words, Pitch Perfect...

6 - Alex Cross

This is a film about an assassin and a police officer and detective who crosses paths through a series of murders targeted to big business mogul. In turn their encounters turn into personal vendetta. The assassin gets annoyed by this prying detective. He then turns to victimize the detective's family. This then becomes a sensitive matter for the detective and take into dramatic turn of real enemies made by grudge between the two. In the end they are victimize by the real villain that made the assassin.

Its a usual police suspense drama with Tyler Perry doing action and Matthew Fox donning a skinny look. Edward Burns plays the detective's partner/ colleague with a love angle on the side that the movies just left behind or it was just an unnecessary sub plot.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

5 - Knocked Up

Back in the day when this movie would just be another chick flick with that famous (pretty) actress from that doctor TV series that gets a break into the real movie business. But when I saw this today for its subsequent spin off or sequel, no its not. It is a classic comedy, with great funny parts, funny characters and tell of weird stuff, situations, unconventional but real about life, love, family and friends. Movies about babies always feel good despite of the F+in words said n it.

Katherine Heigl looks incredible as the expectant mom and Seth Rogen plays the undeniably lovable uneasy accidental dad. This movie will be in the ranks of Fools Rush In and Father of the Bride 2 even Look Who's Talking (anything about babies, getting pregnant etc.)

The sequel/ spin off This Is 40 lacks what it has from Knocked Up. It just has to much swearing and vulgarity and less and less interesting characters and sadly no story to boost, its just overdone.

4 - The Giant Mechanical Man (January 4)

This movie stars one of the new actors I find very attractive, Chris Messina. Topher Grace also stars as the annoying with a ridiculous hair other guy. The lead actress I haven't heard of or seen. Her younger sister is played by that girl from Rock of Ages. I almost forgot the title of that Tom Cruise rock musical. Oh yes I am right and she's that Canadian actress.

This is a relatively simple love story. Two people who struggles in avery convenient life without the drama or burden of having a feeling of heaviness due to its reality. Fairly its very light comedy, romance of finding their way into not knowing what exactly what to do in life. Until they meet that special someone. Which echoes the main idea of romantic movies which is very highly debatable that one's sense of life depends on finding a partner or love or a boyfriend/ girlfriend.

he is a struggling street performer (as the robotic giant man in stilts), dumped by the girlfriend who relatively lives a spacious warehouse apartment. She is broke and forced to live with her controlling and ideal sister. And both find each other and finally gets some sense in their life, a direction and meaning. It is that simple and light.

3 - After Fall, Winter (January 3)

A writer, suffering from depression and debt, comes to Paris after a friend invites him to spend Christmas holidays. He is struggling after several passes on his new manuscript for his novel after years since his last three works were published. He meets a Parisian girl, who he encounters on some occasions and admittedly got smitten by.

She is a dominatrix and a care giver for people with terminal diseases, dying people. She loves two things who don't lie to her; pain and death. He on the other hand turns to SNM to cope with his secret depression. These are the secrets that they keep as they develop and fall in love with each other.

There conversations and relationship is not the conventional one. It may turn to sadistic and even very vulgar confessions but never revealing there hidden dark secrets. Basically they fall into the entrapment of just finding the right person when you meet someone. But it fiction and they are bound to discover the secret and smashes this relationship into a hopeless tragedy.

The film leads us through a thought that this may be very fictional in sense and sake of a narrative. But the drives of attraction and trust evolves into this simple and meaningful relationship that one finds luckily but once in a life.

Truly an honest work from actor director Eric Schaeffer whose works I am not so familiar with but accustomed to his annoying very American accent. I will check out his other works the one familiar If Lucy Fell from the 90's and his recent somehow (I guess) related work Fall.

Somehow the films that I see are in timely fashion as to the current season. In this case Christmas. This film is not your conventional love affair.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

2 - Butter

BUTTER is a family movie that is not so good for the whole family. It is because of its hardcore theme and wild characters that involves sex and swearing. Fairly enough its an unheard of movie that has a stellar cast of interesting stars with equally brilliant characters. We have in the cast Jennifer Gardner, that guy from Modern Family, suprisingly Alicia Silverstone and Hugh Grant who did a funny semi-cameo role. So we have in the characters a prize winning butter sculpture artist dominated by his obsessive red neck trophy wife, a hooker, a typical happy married couple, a brilliant black orphan girl and a comedic ex-boyfriend who is not so smart as you think and a stellar bunch of other characters.

This is a movie which is the Ateela and the Bee but with Butter sculpture competition. It is a charming story about people, almost like a modern day fairy tale with the funny and adult humor that is not necessarily for children's entertainment but intended for the more mature and adult audience.

Since I do not know some of the lead characters I did a bit of researching. This movie is from 2011 and released in 2012. Ty Burrell is the actor who plaved Bob Pickler, the butter artist who won 15 years straight in this competition. he is the Modern Family guy. Another actor isrob Corddry as the adoptive dad who awkwardly supports but very sweet to the young talent. Olivia Wilde, plays the hooker. This actress I must say is interesting seeing from the string of movies and variations of roles she did from them.

Definitely a good movie to see and an enjoyable watch at that. Just watch out for the not so wanted scenes that could spoil the younger audience's viewing like the hooker's dance, her swearing and her smooch with that girl from Twilight.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

1- The Soloist

First movie for 2013.

A film based on the book written by LA Times journalist Steve Lopez played by Robert Downey Junior. I was curious of this film since I like films about classical musicians/ or music. The cello prodigy Nathaniel Ayres was played by Jamie Fox.

A familiar name at the end directed this film Joe Wright, maybe a note worthy name to remember. The cast with Catherine Kinear made it impressive how they can look as ex-couple with Downey.

Basically the film tackled the relationship between Lopez and Ayres with flashbacks on Ayres past and a side story of Lopez that was equally laden with personal issues. This was a balance shown that both the sane and the mentally ill have both things to patch up.

In the end was a dance were friendship can heal and make things better. It is also realistic look on the sad side of the homeless and disturbedof Los Angeles. This was not made into a cute, funny comedy or romantic psychological movie to make it amusing but almost realistic to make us look on the troubles these kind of people make.

It made me think, can anyone just spark a friendship with a mentally ill person regardless if they are special or not. In the end they are as lonely anyone can be. May I go back in my first statement. They are special. That is where we can measure the braveness and kindness of our hearts.

In this movie it was his talent that bridged a light a helping hand to come along. Music indeed is a powerful force.

Interludes of orchestra playing segments of classical numbers make up parts of the films in either a dance of colored lights or flying city birds over greater Los Angeles.


360 movies and films that I will watch for 2013

I will try to post about movies of films that I wil watch for 2013. One movie or film to post for one day. One TV Episode would be 0.5 of a post and oe whole season would be equal to 1 post.

Here goes. Goodluck to 2013 folks.