Dance movie: Step Up 3

Love watching dance movie. How they managed to dance so effortlessly yet with so much "oomph"!

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Bewitched by Vampires

Yesterday was spent in the company of vampires. We watch "The Vampire Diaries" & Eclipse.




I prefer the actors and actresses of Vamp diaries more than the Twlight saga. I didn't really thought much of it when Twlight was first shown, but after watching 2 diff shows back to back, I feel that somehow Rob Pattinson (Edward) fails to charm me as much as he did in Twlight. And Kristen Stewart (Bella) irritates me.




I need to google their actual names because they are not so popular in the media but gosh, the bad boy Damon is so cute in the devil may care ways and Stefan is so broodingly in thoughts. Well, Eleanor is the usual human amongst vampire and other lurking creatures (witches, werewolves) that are slowly revealed as the season moves on. She of course being a human needs lots of protections but she is not irritating and much prettier.




I'm going to continue watching Vamp D and be charmed by vampires. Also looking forward to the next instalment of Twlight- Breaking Dawn.

I also wrote something similar on ODL blog.

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2010 - Movies watched

Movies watched

Jan
1. Street Fighter: the legend of Chun Li
2. Ghost of Girlfriend's past
3. Passengers
4. The Lucky Ones
5. Transporter 3
6. The Lodger
7. Dance Subaru
8. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
9. Deception

Feb
10. Bangkok Dangerous
11. Julie & Julia

Mar
12. (500) days of Summer

June
13. New Moon
14. Whiteout
15. Flood
16. Alice in Wonderland

Jul
17. Valentine Day
18. Hachiku: A Dog's Story

Aug
19. Remember me
20. Love Happens

Sep
21. Land of the Lost
22. When in Rome
23. Obsessed
24. The Runaways

Oct
25. Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
26. The Spy next Door
27. The Last Song
28. Post Grad
29. Letters to Juliet

Nov
30. Dear John
31. Fireflies in the Garden
32. Into the blue 2: The reef
33. Harry Potter and the half blood prince

Dec
34. Rapunzel (C)
35. Harry Potter and the deathly hallows - Part 1 (C)
36. Despicable Me (P)
37. Eat, pray, love (P)
38. Tron: Legacy (C)

DVD series
1. The Closer 4
2. Gilmore Girls 7
3. Brothers and Sisters 3
4. Bones 4
5. The closer 5
6. True Blood 1
7. NCIS 1
8. The Mentalist 2

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Amanda Seyfried

Amanda is my current favourite young actress. Love her in "Mama Mia", in the recent "Letters to Juliet" and waiting for "Chloe" release in DVD. I watched "Dear John" yesterday. Channing Tatum is huge and very military like. As usual, I teared at the end of the movie.

Letters to Juliet has been added on to my list of fav movies. "You've got mail" is still my favourite and X'mas must watch movie... together with "Love actually".

Letters to Juliet- How I long to visit Italy and Rome

Colbie Caillat - You Got Me [From "Letters to Juliet" (Music Video)]

Sophie/ Charlie [LETTERS TO JULIET] "Lovestory " {Taylor Swift}

The Runaways

I wanted to watch this movie because the trailer looks promising and because there's Dakota Fanning (all grown up) and Kristen Stewart (Twilight). I have to say, this is good! and I was further motivated to find out more about the original rock group and do you know that Joan Jett is the songwriter for the famous "I Love Rock & Roll"? Kwool!

Kristen has so much acting potential. I have no idea why she signs up for Twilight and why did the producer from Twilight choses her. She does not portray the image of Bella very convincingly and received so many unfair comments about her acting. But when I watched The Runaways, I can imagine that's how Joan Jett was. Prior to this, her 2 other convincing role was Panic Room (2002) and Speak (2004).

Feast your eyes out. Here's the video of the remake of "Cherry Bomb" and the 1977 version of the original from Japan. (Hurrah for youtube!)

Criminal Minds and so much more

Criminal Minds 5 is showing on Fox now and I'm eagerly following every episodes. I watched the first few on the  flight to Perth earlier this year and I'm so glad that I do not have to wait any longer :)

Just watched 2 episodes of True Blood season 1 on DVD. Hmm.. very adult like, lots of cursing and blood and sex. Let's see how I feel after a couple more ep. Doesn't grip my attention but I'm compelled to know what happened next. so it's ok so far.

Also watching:

1. Castle 2 (Diva Universal -Ch 522)

2. The Mentalist 2 (Ch 102)

3. CSI: NY 6 (AXN- Ch 511)

4. CSI: Miami 8 (AXN- Ch 511)

Finished Ghost Whisperer 6 on Ch 102. Wondering if it is the last season.. everything is wrapped up nicely and the shadows and shinning are explained. GW always makes me cry.

In the US, fall TV season is always the highlight. In Sg, we'll have to wait around 6-8 months after the 1st ep debuts. Of course if you opt for Mio TV, you can watch it almost 1-2 weeks or couple of days after it's telecast in US. I'm in no hurry and I will wait though cliff hangers always makes me angsty for awhile. heh.

Oh ya, I'm watching re runs of The Closer 1 on Diva U. Fun to watch it all over again and see how their unity and loyalty for the team begins. (debut 2005). Every time I watches a crime series, I wished for such a working environment. Where everyone has your back and how their bosses are the super nicest people in the whole world where you will undoubtedly do anything for them, such righteousness and clam.

The Closer 5

Can't say why I love this series but I just do. It's not shown on any cable nor free to air here but after picking up the 1st season on DVD, I'm hooked! I can finished 4 episodes in a sitting, well I can finish many crime series pretty quickly. Great show, can't wait for season 6 on DVD and more Fritzy and Joel (the new kitty).

Read the review here.

2 movies

Remember me

the ending was unexpected and sad.

+++++

Love Happens

Hachiko: A Dog's Story

A story of love and devotion and everlasting loyalty. Animal movies always make me cry.

Fun facts: Hachi (meaning 8) has a statue being erected for his loyalty to his master. The statue is at Sibuya Station in Tokyo. I took a picture with it the first time I went to Tokyo cos I read about it and much to the amusement of K and friends and then BF (now hubby), I wanted to find the statue of this loyal dog. 

Valentine's Day

I love Jennifer Garner. She's kooky.

Funny reference to shopping at Rodeo Drive at the end of the movie.

Taylor & Taylor: one an almost bimbo, another sports jock . The bear is so cute and HUGE!

Alice in Wonderland

Hubby & I watched the movie on DVD last night. It wasn't as good as I imagined it to be. Hubby thinks it's quite silly. The fact is, it's not a remake of the book but an adaptation of how Alice is 13 years later when she returns to Wonderland. I missed the whimsical-ness of the AIW cartoon and storybook. Of course, I was warned that this movie is darker and not so "cute".

We were glad that we did not spend the $ watching it in GV Gold class ( I wanted to, then). I was kinda hoping to do so for Eclipse. hehe.

Next on the list, to continue my current obsession for alternate land behind doors, holes etc, I'm looking forward to Caroline. 

(500) days of summer

"This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know up front, this is not a love story."

This is a life story, different and kooky. I like it.

I am a TV addict

Currently following,

On TV:

1. The Good Wife, Ch 17

2. Glee, Ch 18

3. 90210, Ch 18

4. Terroir, Ch 56

CSI: Miami has ended and CSI is coming back after CNY... however, I felt something is lacking after Grissom left, like it has somehow lost it's directions.

On DVD:

1. Brothers & Sisters, Season 3

2. Bones, Season 4 (it's finally out on rental)

The Lodger

The Lodger is a great movie! It's full of suspense and the filming style is really the work of an artist. The dark, gloomy set, music and visual plays with the story line and created a film that was interpreted from the point of the viewers. From the start, I suspected who the killer was, but somewhere in the middle, I begin to suffer self doubt and wonders if it's too easy. Well, it was easy for me, but not so for the rest of the cast for they kept getting thrown off course and are deceived & misled by the murderer & clues.

Scenes were subjectivity played and viewers were encouraged to experience and feel what they want to feel. Scared, fear, sad, attracted, pity and even admiration for the murderer. Unlike Saw, blood and gore was not the lead, instead scenes were artistically filmed with intent of the murder that is happening. Through it, the viewers understand through the struggles, dragging of feet & blood trickling down the high heels, that the victim has died.

It's a great film! I watched mainly for Simon Baker (The Mentalist) but was amazed by Hope Davis the landlady. I hope for more art house film noir experience.

Amazon Review:

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Jack’s back, more or less, in The Lodger, a cleverly-plotted thriller-cum-horror story sporting a good cast and a nicely ominous vibe throughout. When Los Angeles Detective Chandler Manning (Alfred Molina) arrives at the scene of a prostitute’s grisly murder, the clues look awfully familiar. Seven years earlier, Manning had helped send to Death Row a killer whose M.O. was identical not only to this one, but also to that of the notorious Jack the Ripper, who terrorized 19th-century London but was never identified, let alone caught. Is this new monster, who goes on to kill several more defenseless hookers, a copycat? Or could it mean that the wrong man paid the ultimate price for the earlier crimes? Meanwhile, Joe and Ellen Bunting (Donal Logue and Hope Davis) rent out a room to a "writer" named Malcolm (Simon Baker), whose weird habits make him an obvious suspect. But there are several others as well, including Joe, who works as a security guard while Ellen nurses her active and rather twisted imagination, and even Det. Manning, a loose cannon type who may be a Jack the Ripper authority but whose life is a mess, what with an institutionalized wife and a daughter who blames him for her mother’s affliction. Adapted from a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, this tale was turned into a silent film by Alfred Hitchcock way back in 1927 and has been remade several times since. No one will confuse David Ondaatje, who wrote and directed this version, with Hitchcock, and those familiar with the genre will have little trouble predicting how it all turns out. Nonetheless, The Lodger is a good ride, guilty pleasure or not. --Sam Graham

The Closer & Castle

I love watching crime series, enjoyed how analytical and composed the polices detectives and investigators remains in times of danger and how in some episodes, the criminals out smart the investigators and escaping from the arms of justice.

Some criminals are so cocky and mean and so senseless in their violence that I wished they are shot instead of being arrested and further wasting the entire nation's times and resources. 

The Closer is one series that I've enjoyed watching on DVD with hubby. It's old fashioned interrogation and detective works. No mind boggling machines, DNA and computer ( We laugh when Tao swabs a suspect for gun powder residue- very unlike how our CSI teams does it). The interaction between the cast is very believable and human, the jokes are funny and I love how they do it with deadpan humor. There's only 15 episodes in this series and I'm so sad to complete it. I want MORE!

It's into season 4 and I hope hollywoodclicks would continue bring season 5 in.

Another new series to talk about. CASTLE. Chanced it on Starworld (CH18) and I'm hooked!

Here's a review from Amazon:

Amazon.com

One of the best shows to emerge midway through the 2008-2009 TV season, Castle has a cast and a sense of humor that set it apart from the normal police procedural. Nathan Fillion plays Rick Castle, a bestselling author of pulpy crime novels who's called in to assist the New York police when a serial killer begins committing copycat murders based on situations in his books. Castle helps crack the case, then decides to kill off his longtime character and create a new one, named "Nikki Heat," and research her by shadowing Det. Kate Beckett (Stana Katic). Much to her irritation, he pulls strings with the mayor's office to embed himself in the department, and helps her solve a wide range of whodunits, including a woman drowned in a bath tub full of motor oil, another frozen and suspended at a construction site, and a corpse stuck in a clothes dryer. To alleviate the grim proceedings, Fillion is in his element as the wisecracking Castle, while adding another ray of sunshine is Castle's impossibly likeable teenage daughter, Alexis (Molly Quinn), who lives with Castle and his mom (Susan Sullivan), a former Broadway star. Castle's circle of poker buddies includes veteran TV writer-producer Stephen J. Cannell and author James Patterson playing themselves. Like many (or most) he-and-she cop shows, there's an element of "Will they or won't they…?", but the beautiful Katic keeps Castle at bay by radiating cool. Clearly she's a woman who wants to separate herself from her emotionally draining and predominantly male job, so it makes it all the more enjoyable when she momentarily steps out of that mode, such as an impromptu appearance at his book signing. Much to the relief of Fillion fans who feared their man was a show killer after the aborted runs of such shows as Firefly and Drive, Castle was renewed for a second, full season. --David Horiuchi

The writing is good, lots of twist in each episodes and I enjoyed Castle's (Nathan Fillion) quick witted humour and sardonic jokes. And I think Det Kate is so pretty! Actress Stana Katic kinda of reminds me of The OC's Misha Barton when I first saw her. The characters are what make or break a series.

I'm so thankful to know that there's a season 2 because season 1 has only 10 episodes and it ended last Thursday.

There's also a book out - Heatwave by Richard Castle (to tie in with the show)

Here's a video highlighting season 1.

There's another detective series on Tuesday (CH5) at 12am. Titled Women's Murder club. It's not a great show adn it was cancelled only after 13 episodes. Loosely based on James Patterson's books characters, it tries to hard to be a soap series/ police drama. Each episodes are peppered with love stories of each characters and the highlights of the police cases are very few. I'm not to bummed that it was cancelled, but I watched it just for fun.