Archive for March, 2009

27
Mar
09

2008: A Year in Film Part 6

[sorry for the long break. finally continuing this so...]

FAVORITE PERFORMANCES:
1. Sally Hawkins as Poppy in Happy Go Lucky – few characters in film are this lovely (irritating cheeriness and all) and she played it perfectly, effortlessly balancing Poppy’s lightness and weight.
2. Michelle Williams as Wendy in Wendy and Lucy
3. Kate Winslet as Hanna in The Reader
4. Kare Hedebrant as Oskar and Lina Leandersson as Eli in Let the Right One In
5. Ralph Fiennes in everything he’s been in this year, namely as  Michael in The Reader (remote and devastating), as Harry in In Bruges (foul-mouthed, hilarious) and as His Grace, the Duke of Devonshire in The Duchess (cold and forbidding)
6. Anne Hathaway as Kim and Rosemarie DeWitt as Rachel in Rachel Getting Married
7. Lee Pace as Roy and Cantinca Untaru as Alexandria in The Fall

NEXT: Favorite films of the year

26
Mar
09

Can I Say It Again?

Adorable.

24
Mar
09

Where the Wild Things Are

Never read the book (my only Maurice Sendak is an illustrated collection of Grimm’s fairy tales.) But oh my, so effing adorable. Reminds me of Hayao Miyazaki’s Totoro and Cat Bus (in My Neighbor Totoro). If there’s one in all of us I so want to meet mine.

21
Mar
09

BEST NEWS EVER!

Citizens rejoice! Your Lord and Master John Simm is returning to Doctor Who!

OMG! OMG! OMG!

[excuse me, I have to go fangirl now.]

Rose (Billie Piper) is also returning as are the other former companions Martha (Freema Agyeman) and Donna (Catherine Tate) for the 10th Doctor’s final episode [no news about Jack (John Barrowman) though :( ] After that, Matt Smith takes over for David Tennant and Steven Moffat takes over for Russell T. Davies…not to mention a full season of Doctor Who again. Yay!

Of course the important question is, will he do another sexy dance routine?

Please say yes. Please…

18
Mar
09

Disney Reveals New Prince…

…and he looks like a jerk. Meet Prince Naveen from the upcoming Princess and the Frog:

He’s giving major “Gaston” vibes. And even Gaston was more handsome. Forgive me if I prefer my Disney Princes more like this:

Prince Adam, Beauty and the Beast

or like this:

Prince Eric, The Little Mermaid

Prince Eric, The Little Mermaid

or like this:

Prince Philip, Sleeping Beauty

Prince Phillip, Sleeping Beauty

I know, I know. Kinda gay but still hot. For more Disney-Heroes-as-Underwear-Models visit David Kawena’s deviantart gallery. (You have to be a member though. If you’re not, there’s always google. ETA: here’s an almost complete summary.)

16
Mar
09

OMG

so I stumbled on this funny video in smart bitches (one of the blogs i regularly lurk in) and found it hilarious and looked up the production details and apparently the pirate is…

…Alain Delon’s son!!!!

who isn’t as handsome as his father but still (I mean, Alain Delon’s a hard act to follow.)

Haha, wala lang. you all know of my undying love for Alain Delon so just had to blog it.

10
Mar
09

So I Watched the Watchmen…

…and I’m still ruminating over it…which is both good and bad, I guess. Needless to say, I didn’t like it as much as the novel (duh) but I didn’t really hate it. I am disappointed however because somehow the whole thing just fell flat (compared to the novel, of course. I can’t speak for people who haven’t read it. Although the ones I have talked to had a lot of questions about backstory, etc, which is understandable.)

What I hated the most were the minor dialogue changes (“your hands, my perspective” to “your hands, my pleasure”; “I did it thirty-five minutes ago” to “I triggered it thirty-five minutes ago”) that somehow lessened the impact of their respective scenes (on the other hand, the scriptwriters kept a few lines that were better read than said.) I especially hated the way they turned Silk Spectre II into a walking hair commercial devoid of an actual personality (probably the fault of both scriptwriters, Zack Snyder and Malin Ackerman combined.) Dammit Hollywood, why do you hate women so?

Anyway, let me ruminate futher. I’m planning on watching it again, on a pirated copy so I see it in it’s entirety (In the Philippines Watchmen was cut down and rated R-13…in order for it to make more money. [rolls eyes]) but the bottom line is (which has been the bottom line all along) read the novel because it rocks.




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by Chelsea Handler
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Recent Songs

Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves
by Seanan McGuire
(2008)

Wendy played fair, and she played by the rules that they gave her;
They say she grew up and grew old -- Peter Pan couldn't save her.
They say she went home, and she never looked back,
Got her feet on the ground, got her life on its track.
She's the patron saint priestess of all the lost girls who got found.
And she once had her head in the clouds, but she died on the ground.

Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in,
A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin'.
She made her escape, went from gray into green,
And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean,
But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas sky
Where color's a fable and freedom's a fairy tale lie.

Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane,
Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names,
All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain
And chose to go back on the shelf.
Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree
You have to break rules if you want to break free.
So do as you like -- we're determined to be
Wicked girls saving ourselves.

Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can't blame her;
They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her.
They say she went mad, and she never complained,
For there's peace of a kind in a life unconstrained.
She gives Cheshire kisses, she's easy with white rabbit smiles,
And she'll never be free, but she's won herself safe for a while.

Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly.
They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly.
They never once asked to return to their lives
To be children and chattel and mothers and wives,
But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned;
And one queen said 'I am not a toy', and she never returned.

Mandy's a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries,
And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries.
Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks,
While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks,
And the rules that we live by are simple and clear:
Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear --

For we will be wicked and we will be fair
And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care,
So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes,
There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains,
And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost,
But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost --
We won't take our place on the shelves.
It's better to fly and it's better to die
Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.