Frida
From my Netflix queue, I pulled this little jem. It's like a female, Joan Crawford biopic film pulled into the 21st Century.
Salma does a picture perfect job of this revolutionary artist. Embodied with all the spirit, love, and talent, we knew she had in her (you could tell there was a big hollywood actress behind those smoldering eyes).
Good job to Salma, Alfred, Antonio Banderas, and even Ashley Judd (makes a nice supporting actress actually), and of course good job to Julie Tamor the Director.
4 of 5 peaches
Monday, August 31, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Movie Review: Were The World Mine
Fun movie all around. A whimsical play on A Midsummer's Night's Dream with a cute, adorable cast, fun supporting characters, and some interested relationship twists.
Although the beginning is kind of skimpy on the love triangle between the main character Timothy, and his best friends, not to mention his cold to smoltering hot romance with Jock boyfriend Nathaniel David Becker (cute!), the musical overlay and the just downright hysterics brought on by Timothy's desire to fit-in in this town that appears to not want him, is very good.
It's rare in gay indies that I find myself laughing out loud anymore, or saying "awwww" to myself in my own living room while watching, but this movie does it.
4 of 5 peaches.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
TV Review: Top Chef Las Vegas
The new season looks really good. Some of the interesting highlights:
1. They have THREE chefs from Atlanta yay!!
2. The bitchy Jennifer Carroll - this girl has sas in a good good way for your palate.
3. The Voltaggio brothers - sounds like a Vegas act already, and they're smokin hot. Michael
& Bryan
4. Did I mention that there are THREE people from Atlanta? Eli, Hector, and Kevin
5. Gail is back! Gail is back!!
Sigh, I want to eat, drink and watch.
1. They have THREE chefs from Atlanta yay!!
2. The bitchy Jennifer Carroll - this girl has sas in a good good way for your palate.
3. The Voltaggio brothers - sounds like a Vegas act already, and they're smokin hot. Michael
& Bryan
4. Did I mention that there are THREE people from Atlanta? Eli, Hector, and Kevin
5. Gail is back! Gail is back!!
Sigh, I want to eat, drink and watch.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Movie Review: Sunshine - more like mostly cloudy
Danny Boyle is great with art, we get that. Slumdog, 28 Days, etc etc.
However, Sunshine was a bit TOO much of everything he's good at.
The overwraught drama of the weight of the many outweighing the needs of the few, the distraught looks between crew members of the ill-fated spaceship in this drama/sci-fi...oy.
I feel like maybe in his head somewhere, Boyle may have had about 20-30 minutes at the beginning of this movie, maybe where the crew members actually interact without dramatics so we get to understand their relationship, their role, but instead we go right into the drama.
The twist at the end (and no i won't spoil it) is overdone with dramatic camera work to the point I had to keep rewinding the movie because I couldn't tell what just happened.
I know Boyle has done better, and he obviously didn't phone this one in, but I definitely expected better.
2 of 5 peaches.
However, Sunshine was a bit TOO much of everything he's good at.
The overwraught drama of the weight of the many outweighing the needs of the few, the distraught looks between crew members of the ill-fated spaceship in this drama/sci-fi...oy.
I feel like maybe in his head somewhere, Boyle may have had about 20-30 minutes at the beginning of this movie, maybe where the crew members actually interact without dramatics so we get to understand their relationship, their role, but instead we go right into the drama.
The twist at the end (and no i won't spoil it) is overdone with dramatic camera work to the point I had to keep rewinding the movie because I couldn't tell what just happened.
I know Boyle has done better, and he obviously didn't phone this one in, but I definitely expected better.
2 of 5 peaches.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Review: X-Files2 - I Want To Believe...that this was a 2-part tv episode
Let me be clear, I loved the first X-Files movie. The underlying sexual attraction, the genuine, odd mystery, the familiar characters and some new ones for fun: It was good!
In this second installment, however, X-Files missed the mark.
X-Files: I Want To Believe spends waaaay too much time in the beginning with Mulder pleading with Scully, Scully pleading with Mulder, and back and forth...I was as bored as I would be watching a Junior-High-ish teen boyfriend/girlfriend flick. I wanted to pass them both a note in study hall that said - shut up and get on with the mystery!
The most interesting character, the priest with visions of death and bleeding eyes, doesn't really get much character development I'm afraid. He's relegated more to a TV character where you've got 1 minute to introduce him, 1 minute for him to speak brilliantly, and then 1 minute to die.
The initial mystery of kidnapping of FBI agents in West Virginia (what were they doing there anyway) is interesting enough, but I got so confused by introduction of creepy snowplow drivers, lots of barking dogs, and Russian doctors playing with severed heads...it was a bit too much of too little.
In the end, X-Files still keeps its brooding darkness feel, but without the fun and excitement of the first film. I hope it's a glitch and expect better from future installments.
In this second installment, however, X-Files missed the mark.
X-Files: I Want To Believe spends waaaay too much time in the beginning with Mulder pleading with Scully, Scully pleading with Mulder, and back and forth...I was as bored as I would be watching a Junior-High-ish teen boyfriend/girlfriend flick. I wanted to pass them both a note in study hall that said - shut up and get on with the mystery!
The most interesting character, the priest with visions of death and bleeding eyes, doesn't really get much character development I'm afraid. He's relegated more to a TV character where you've got 1 minute to introduce him, 1 minute for him to speak brilliantly, and then 1 minute to die.
The initial mystery of kidnapping of FBI agents in West Virginia (what were they doing there anyway) is interesting enough, but I got so confused by introduction of creepy snowplow drivers, lots of barking dogs, and Russian doctors playing with severed heads...it was a bit too much of too little.
In the end, X-Files still keeps its brooding darkness feel, but without the fun and excitement of the first film. I hope it's a glitch and expect better from future installments.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Review: Julie & Julia - Makes You Want To Go Home And...Eat Dinner?
Julie & Julia - released August 7, 2009
I went expecting a movie about, well, mostly food. Instead what I got was a movie featuring food but really about the intense, sometimes rocky, but well-done relationships. Meryl Streep is of course flawless as Julia Child as we have come to expect from this multi-oscar actress. Amy Adams seems to have no limits to her ability to make us giggle along with her, her presence on screen is as infectious now as years ago in Junebug.
The supporting cast, led by Stanley Tucci, is more than par for the job and in the tradition of great leading-lady movies, Chris Messina along with Tucci help propel these women into oscar-worthy roles.
Amy Adams, playing Julie, embarks on a journey to not just cook her way through a cookbook, but into a purposeful life. Encapturing the feelings of listless dreardom that many of us experience at age 30, we feel the ups and downs of career longings, relationship neglect, and a love of great food. Adams handles all this in stride, and even when she's covered in food crying on the kitchen floor in a narcissistic womp, we feel right alongside her.
Streep is endearing as Julia Child. She makes us WANT this woman to succeed so much. Child led a brilliant life abroad, infecting many with her charm and competitiveness, and refusing to give up on her dream of bringing French cuisine to the "servantless" American household.
Through the great recipes and food that will make you want to buy the cookbook and get into your kitchen asap, we learn that like any good meal with a recipe, life and its relationships require thought, planning, a little luck, and, of course, a great French cookbook.
Review - 5 of 5 Peaches
I went expecting a movie about, well, mostly food. Instead what I got was a movie featuring food but really about the intense, sometimes rocky, but well-done relationships. Meryl Streep is of course flawless as Julia Child as we have come to expect from this multi-oscar actress. Amy Adams seems to have no limits to her ability to make us giggle along with her, her presence on screen is as infectious now as years ago in Junebug.
The supporting cast, led by Stanley Tucci, is more than par for the job and in the tradition of great leading-lady movies, Chris Messina along with Tucci help propel these women into oscar-worthy roles.
Amy Adams, playing Julie, embarks on a journey to not just cook her way through a cookbook, but into a purposeful life. Encapturing the feelings of listless dreardom that many of us experience at age 30, we feel the ups and downs of career longings, relationship neglect, and a love of great food. Adams handles all this in stride, and even when she's covered in food crying on the kitchen floor in a narcissistic womp, we feel right alongside her.
Streep is endearing as Julia Child. She makes us WANT this woman to succeed so much. Child led a brilliant life abroad, infecting many with her charm and competitiveness, and refusing to give up on her dream of bringing French cuisine to the "servantless" American household.
Through the great recipes and food that will make you want to buy the cookbook and get into your kitchen asap, we learn that like any good meal with a recipe, life and its relationships require thought, planning, a little luck, and, of course, a great French cookbook.
Review - 5 of 5 Peaches
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