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Bones 8.01 Go On 1.01 Revolution 1.01 Go On 1.02 Go On 1.03 The Mob Doctor 1.01 X Factor USA 2.01 X Factor USA 2.02 X Factor USA 2.03 X Factor USA 2.04

29 Saturday Sep 2012

Posted by Joanne in bones, Go On, tv series

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The fall season has finally started. It was really hard for me to deal with my TV withdrawals. This week I have watched one show per day and it was not enough, I was still bored all the time. Some of these I found watched in August and some this week.

Bones 8.01

I have just moved and left my notes at home, but I will upload them in November. Hodgins is capable of killing, Mac wanted to kill and it was a very good episode. I loved how Sweets went along with all of this, how he protected Brennan. I cannot get over how bad the new theme song is. The old one always gave me goosebumps and was comforting when an episode was a bit weaker. This had a few twists, and I have never been Clark’s fan so no I did not get all emotional, but when Bones said she loves crime I was all happy. Does that mean Clark is off the show? He’s my least favourite intern. I want him to be their only intern and Though Arastoo is great too. Wendell and the new kid are annoying me too. I am not even going to start on Casey.

8/10

Go On 1.01

But there is no way she’s 60.
Oh my God, there’s a new person!
That’s the fun part!
The new guy, I don’t know who you are, but yes.
Who’s thing is the worst.
Screw what Laura…
Everyone exited.
More sadness.
I can’t, I like to watch.
I’m sure you do.
What a Cinderella story.
I’m sorry, but you’re young, a lot of bad stuff is gonna happen to you. You’ll be back.
Bettie from Starved aka Amaro’s wife is the therapist!
To sing, to dance…
To swim.
Less so.
Hug.
Let’s pretend like we hear.
Let’s kick the grave.
Ann, you’re a cool, very angry lady, does all the talking help? Why not try boxing? When was the last time you hit someone.
It’s been a while.
Exactly.
I’m just saying, enough talk, oh, do something.
That sounds just as meaningless as transitions or groups for mindful journey of the wonderment of wonder.
Called?
Huh?
Lauren?
Weight watchers.
The only thing you’ve ever lost was 30 pounds.
40 pounds and I kept it off.
How strong are you?
You okay? You just kinda exploded.
I’m sorry she’s still dead, but be sure to check back tomorrow night.

10/10

Revolution 1.01

Liz Mitchell in the opening scene.
What do you mean Elizabeth’s character died?
When the man on the horse came It reminded me of Terra Nova, not Lost.
Didn’t it look like the son shot the father.
They took the kid with them.
Well, it’s your funeral.
Probably, yes.
It’s all gonna turn off and never turn back on.
Plane crushed and the cars stopped working.
Some guys attacked them and tried to rape the girl.
Asthma kid tried to escape.
Walking through devastated Chicago.
Uncle does not want to help Charlie and does not want to go with them.
The woman did not help him.
The fighting scene was impressive.
We’re all gonna wake up with our heads on a stick but you’re welcome.
5.5/10

Go On 1.02

Faster!Faster!Faster!
I hate old people and I hate sick people.
Eeeeee.
Dumb him! Dumb him! Dumb him!
That everything funs stops?
Action! Action Action!
Someone stole his signed ball.
Don’t feel. That’s when we get bagged down. You and I are doers. What do you wanna do?
It’s too sexual.
Whoever that is, it better be a woman.
Ah, that was so cute.
Run!
5/10

Go On 1.03

Hola, Miguel. Such a nice day, I figured I’d sneak out my window and… pretend I’m a snake.
I don’t want to sit next to him any more.
1:23 am. Every night, 1:23 am Janie used to roll over in her sleep and slap me in the face and scare the living hell out of me. So I used to wake up at that exact moment every night, you know, to brace myself. And I still do. And now her oddly strong little arm doesn’t come. And I realize that she’s gone. Again. And it’s lonely, you know, It’s 1:23 am and there’s no one to call.
Random group of people I saw walking.
Did he just walk away?
Yeah he did.
He actually did this thing with gardener’s face.
Why didn’t this asshole introduce us to his friends?
You think we’re all losers?
Well, technically we’re in a support group for loss so…

Well, my new porshe does come that night.
I need a hug| e stick to beat you with.
I kinda abandoned them tonight. They had this group outing, bowling and I didn’t handle it well.
Oh, it’s so fast.
People driving his car.
They all came at 1:23am!
I took prescription sleeping pills, I have no idea what I’m doing here.
Is this a group, you’re singing and crying?
Stephen, there are my friends.
What am I doing here?
They all slept at his place.
8.5/10

The Mob Doctor 1.01

Again, I left my notes at home, and will update later. It was generally bad, the only good thing was the flashbacks at the beginning and end and that this guy killed her dad.
2/10

X Factor 2.01

I liked just these four: Paige Thomas, Jennel Garcia, Emblem 3 and Jillian Jensen.

‘I wanna know who let you on stage.’ ‘Your singing came in and it wasn’t very nice.’ I think your confused with your direction.’ It’s Britney, bitch.

X Factor 2.02

I liked: Jason Brock, Carly Rose Sonenclar.

X Factor 2.03

So many talents this episode, liked Tate Stevens the most, then, Vino Alans, Cece Frey, Rizloe Jones, Diamond White Jessica Espinoza, Sister C and Panda Ross.

X Factor 2.04

Can Britney say something else than ‘Definitely yes?’ ?

It may be too soon to tell, but I have already decided that I will give a chance to Go On and quit on The Mob Doctor, when it comes  to Revolution, will watch it till I find out what happened to Elizabeth’s character, so probably just watching in the background while doing something else.

Hilary and Jackie. The Hours. Carnage. The Beaver. Little Man Tate. Foxes. The Iron Lady. Erin Brockovich. North Country. Frozen River. Winter’s Bone. In the Bedroom. Plain Truth. Breathless. The Grey. Dead Man Walking.

15 Saturday Sep 2012

Posted by Joanne in Jodie Foster, Kelli Giddish, movies, Oscar nominee, Rachel Griffiths

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As I am moving out, and the Internet connection is not going to be as good as it should be, I will not watch much films, and only have time to watch my tv series and comment on them each week.

Hilary and Jackie

I cannot imagine how hard it must be to be compared to a sister, all the pressure and competition. When Jackie said she wants to sleep with Hilary’s husband, just because they share everything, that was just devastating. Hilary finally allows her sister to do so. What a beautiful and extremely painful movie. She is sleeping with her sister’s husband and she is mad at her for sleeping with her own husband.

I’ve given you everything you’ve asked for. For everything you’ve asked for I said yes.

The truth is you’re not special.

She can’t possibly be Jewish, she’s blonde.

If you think that being an ordinary person is any easier than being an extraordinary one, you’re wrong.

7/10

The Hours

There was so much beautiful pain in this film.

It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It’s what you can bear. There it is no one’s going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life.

There are times when you don’t belong and you think you’re going to kill yourself.

I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

But I still have to face the hours.

Always giving the parties to kill the silence.

Would you be angry If I died? I think I’m only staying alive to satisfy you.

I’m saying that even crazy people like to be asked.

It is possible to die, if it is a choice between enrichment and death, I chose death.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

9/10

Carnage

Best film of the year and Jodie Foster, ladies and gentlemen, and that performance, enough said.

Why can’t things be easier? You know? Why does everything have to be so exhausting.

At least our kid isn’t a little wimpy ass faggot.

The truth is that nobody here cares.

I’m glad our son kicked the shit out of your son!

You’d known her 15 minutes and you already knew she was fake?

I saw your friend Jane Fonda on TV the other day. Made me wanna run out and buy a Ku Klux Klan poster.

I don’t have a sense of humour and I don’t want one!

She doesn’t care any more than you do.
Mmm, that’s true.

Don’t you tell me about Africa. I know all about suffering in Africa.

How could you be so openly despicable?
Because I feel like it. I fell like being openly despicable!

Zachary is not a maniac!
Yes, he is.

Nobody told you to listen to my conversation.
Well nobody said you should have it under my nose.

I got no patience for this touchy feely bullshit.

I am a short-tempered son of a bitch.
We all are.

She keeps calling me a doctor.

It could be the cobbler. That much I know.
It’s not the cobbler.
Do you think it was the cobbler?
Of course it was.

9.5/10

The Beaver

The scene when Meredith is trapped between her son being hit and her husband depression. She has been very understanding, it is obvious she snapped. What I cannot believe is why did not she call the doctor earlier? The writing is exceptionally good. Oh how people underestimate depression. How his mind is his biggest enemy. The cutting  the arm off was absolutely unexpected and so real and good at the same time. How we see his son is following his fathers steps.

Probably sleeping, that’s all he does.

Nobody wants to feel pain anymore.

8/10

Little Man Tate

The kid is a little autistic, if you ask me and the character of Jane is super annoying, she just purposely wants to take the kid away from his mother and she is basically acticng all ‘I’m your Mommy.’ and Henry Junior Connic character was first super sweet and then turned out to be a jerk. Other than that, amazing film.

Can I have a coke?
Absolutely not.
Kid pukes.
Now can I have a coke?
In a fridge.

7/10

Foxes

7/10

The Iron Lady

Meryl’s performance is astonishing. The film itself is a little chaotic, the flashbacks appear to often. I think it should be more like I admire how t starts with first, what is now part and then we go to the past, I do believe the story would be more moving if after all her success we were hit with the present. Switching the voices and learning how to sound like Margaret require a lot of practice, and not everyone would be able o do that. What I cannot understand about Meryl’s choices of roles, is how lately she goes from dramatic ones to comedies. I always feel like she’s wasting her incredible talent in comedies. Films like, Devil Wears Prada, Mamma Mia, Julia and Julie, It’s Complicated and now Springs. After Carnage, my second favourite film this year and a well deserved Oscar.

9/10

Erin Brockovich

The love part was a little too much, other than that a very inspirational story and a good film. I’m a fast learner. Show me in a lab once and I’ve got it down.

For the first time in my life, I got people respecting me. Please, don’t ask me to give it up.

Oh, you fucking piece of CRAP with no signal!

Ed, have a fucking cup of coffee.

I don’t need pity, I need a paycheck. And I’ve looked. But when you’ve spent the past six years raising babies its real hard to find somebody who pays worth a damn, are ya getting every word of this down honey or am I talking too fast?

Are you going to be something else that I have to survive? Because… to tell you the truth… I’m not up to it.

NOT PERSONAL! That is my WORK, my SWEAT, and MY TIME AWAY FROM MY KIDS! IF THAT IS NOT PERSONAL, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS!

Annabelle Daniels: 714-454-9346. 10 years old, 11 in May. Lived on the plume since birth. Wanted to be a synchronized swimmer so she spent every minute she could in the PG&E pool. She had a tumor in her brain stem detected last November, an operation on Thanksgiving, shrunk it with radiation after that. Her parents are Ted & Rita. Ted’s got Crohn’s disease, Rita has chronic headaches, and nausea, and underwent a hysterectomy last fall. Ted grew up in Hinkley. His brother Robbie, and his wife May and their five children: Robbie Jr, Martha, Ed, Rose & Peter *also* lived on the plume. Their number is 454-9554. You want their diseases?

Well, um, seeing as how I have no brains or legal expertise, and Ed here was losing all faith in the system, am I right? I just went out there and performed sexual favors. Six hundred and thirty-four blow jobs in five days… I’m really quite tired.

Like I was saying, I thought that the number you proposed was inappropriate, so I increased it.

7/10

North Country

I was nicely surprised with this one. I was shocked how they made it seem like the guy raped her, and at the end we find out she was raped by a teacher. The son pissed me off through the entire film, ungrateful son calling his mother a whore, that was just really hard to look at.

8.5/10

Frozen River

A baby in that bag, I did not see that one coming. The thing is, the film still does not have enough suspense, but still is very good. The kid burned the house down. The ending was a twist, she gave the kids away, that was just surprising. The film would be better if the kid died.

Count it.

8/10

Winter’s Bone

It was fine, until the torture porn started, aka finding her father’s body, that’s when the film got excellent.

What are we ever gonna do with you, baby girl?
Kill me I guess.
That idea’s been said already. Got any others?
Help me. Nobody’s said that idea yet, have they?

8/10

In the Bedroom

Did you do it?

7/10

Plain Truth

Boring with a nice twist at the end.

5/10

Breathless

The opening, Deter like, which is always good, though this one may be a little too Deter like. As a huge horror fan I enjoyed it just a little too much, the humour is good and the film is simply prefect, until the third act, when it all falls apart, when the private detective comes and ruins the story entirely. The film would be so much better if it just ended like they cleaned everything up and escaped, or got caught and shot the police man and then escaped. I really enjoyed Kelli’s character, more than Lorna. Tiny was just excellent, and when she started cutting Dale up, that was just breathtaking. The self defence scene was great though. I liked the idea that Tiny would kill them all. Am going to buy it on DVD and replay the first two acts.

I didn’t think there was that much money in the whole state of Texas.

Oh my God, Lorna, Oh my God.

Holy Jesus, Dale’s dead.

We’ve got a hell of a situation on our hands, Lorna.

Now, that’s a bit better.
Better? That bag does not change the fact that there’s a dead man underneath it.

We’re in Texas, there are no accidents, there’s alive and there’s dead.

I didn’t kill nobody.

What happened?
Bugs.
Bugs? No kiddin.
Never knew bugs could do that.
Earth to earth, dust to dust, all that.

With the turkey knife?

I ain’t cutting no man into pieces.

You what?

Hell of a good time we havin, ah?

I guess I always kinda liked cutting stuff up.

Does blood make me look fat?

Instead there’s poor old Dale… While you gals are having the time of your lives.

Figured it was self defence.

Abso-lutely.

Even a good woman has got a breaking point.

How do you think you’re gonna get out of this one?

8/10

The Grey

The plane crash was intriguing, it was very smart of him to fasten all three seatbelts. You’re gonna die, that’s what happening, sounded a lot like ‘You’re are about to be kidnapped.’ This is Fuck City, population 5 and dwindling. There are many beautiful scenes, the last scene when he’s looking at all the photos in the wallets, really moving. The way I see it, he died, I do not believe the ending means he won over the wolf and is resting, he’s dying along with the wolf, that is what happened. I do not like the idea of purgatory some people are giving, this is not lost people. He did not commit suicide, they all suffered and were killed by wolves. The lucky ones, died in plane crush. The title does not mean purgatory, it means hanging between life and the inevitable death, because they all are going to die. In the beautiful mountains, in the cold, eaten by wolves.

Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I’ll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day.

Do something. Do something. You phony prick fraudulent mother fucker. Do something! Come on! Prove it! Fuck faith! Earn it! Show me something real! I need it now. Not later. Now! Show me and I’ll believe in you until the day I die. I swear. I’m calling on you. I’m calling on you! Fuck it. I’ll do it myself.

We’re going to get a large branch and sharpen the end of it, and we’re going to shove it up this thing’s ass. Then we’re going to eat it.

Who do you love? Let them take you.

Don’t move. Stare right back at them.

Fate didn’t give a fuck. Dead is dead.

There’s not a second that goes by when I’m not thinking of you in some way. I want to see your face. Feel your hands in mine. Feel you against me. But I know that will never be. You left me, and I can’t get you back… I move like I imagine the damned do, cursed. I feel like it’s only a matter of time… I don’t know why I’m writing this, I don’t know what can come of it. I know I can’t get you back. I don’t know why this has happened to us. I feel like it’s me. Bad luck. Poison. I’ve stopped doing this world any real good.

I got a book. It’s called “We’re all fucked”. It’s a best seller.

A job at the end of the world. A salaried killer for a big petroleum company. I don’t know why I did half the things I’ve done, but I know this is where I belong, surrounded by my own. Ex-cons, fugitives, drifters, ass-holes. Men unfit for mankind.

It’s good. It’s good that it hurts.
It’s good?
It’s good, yeah.
Oh well then I’m fuckin’ fabulous.

I just had the clearest thought. I’m done. I’m done.

Is that it? You’re just gonna sit there? Is that what you want?
Yeah.
After what we survived?
That’s exactly why. What I got waiting for me back there? I’m gonna sit on a drill all day. Get drunk all night. That’s my life. Turn around and look at that. I feel like that’s all for me. How do I beat that. When will it ever be better? I can’t explain it.

8/10

Dead Man Walking

6.5/10

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Chase

15 Saturday Sep 2012

Posted by Joanne in Kelli Giddish, tv series

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Chase follows the lives of US Marshals and is one of the shows that deserved more than just a one season. Why? Well, how about a bunch of breathtaking chases? The writing is compelling too, the action is extremely high and Kelli Giddish did all her stunts by herself (and she’s not licensed).

Chase 1.01

The chase.
Didn’t your mother tell you not to play with guns.
My mother died when I was 8, so no.
Nice job, Boots.
Guy shoots the whole family.
It’s the famous Annie Frost.
Now here’s the difference between us and the police, they care about where his been, we care about where he’s going. Now, who’s ready to go hunting.
Let’s shake some trees.
How she thinks like she’s the prep.
Is your dad still alive?
I don’t know.
How she makes a connection with the girl.
She knows the song.
I’m gonna catch him, so you can sleep at night instead of wondering.
I really thought he would kidnap the kid, or kill her.
Killed the girlfriend.
He actually talks to her.
Are you a cowboy too, Annie Frost, or are just looking for one?
I’ve ridden a few bulls in my time.
I like you what do you look like, are you a blonde?
Why won’t you turn yourself in and find out?
Goodbye, Annie Frost.
Ouch, no long enough.
They go to the woods by a helicopter, and it’s not him.
The woods search scene.
Annie jumps off the helicopter.It’s not him.
I did not see that one coming.
Yep, let’s sing Armed and Dangered.
They find a girl in a yearbook.
Will you marry me?
Thought, you’d never ask.
Ahaha, Nick escorted the guy of the motel!
He’s gonna use her anyway he can, I know what I’m talking about.
I used to cover for my dad too.
She jumped after him and he tried to drown her.
Nice job, Boots.
Deal is a deal, right?
Thanks, Annie.
This is Annie.
8.5/10

Chase 1.02

Let’s catch ourselves a wolf.
I didn’t ask you where he ain’t, I asked you where he is.
You should have made me an offer.
Wife being all yeah he’s in the back, talking with some guy.
Guy selling the car is amazing.
You don’t speak English?
Guy hides money under the tracks.
How the girl dropped her shopping bags.
This couple is incredible.
Don’t they all?
5/10

Chase 1.03
Jimmy, I want my damn clothes back.
Why does he always have to…
Jump?
What the hell Jimmy, I would have made that.
No you wouldn’t.
Okay maybe not, but I would made it further than he did.
I probably would have twisted my ankle.
You would have broken both of your legs, maybe even neck.
You know we both take risks, Annie, it’s part of our job, but your pushing you luck.
How else am I gonna catch the bad guys?
You didn’t catch him, you caught yourself.
Your luck is gonna run out.
You’re not your father, Annie.
The sandwich, eat it.
Good rough or bad rough?
I just heard breathing, people usually say hello when they call you, yeah?
Guy kicks the guy into the pool.
Annie’s all He’s reloading, so she runs like hell risking her life.
You ever think what getting yourself killed would do to the rest of us? If I step back, If I allow that to happen, that’s on me.
Don’t apologise to me, I’m not your family.
5.5/10

Chase 1.04

Woman runs with a kid.
Everyone listening to Annie and Jimmy’s conversation.
Jimmy and Annie talking.
Annie and Daisy talk.
His motel room?
What this good Samaritan looked like?
Next time let the kid use the restroom.
There is no kid.
She’s talking to herself?
Dakota Ray is dead.
She kidnaps the kid.
You’re name is not Bella, it’s Dakota Ray.
Annie hanging from the truck.
The truck hanging.
Annie being pulled up on the helicopter.
Truck falling into water.
7.5/10

Chase 1.05

Riding that elevator.
Ben hits on Annie.
Annie tells the woman to jump out of window.
I couldn’t do it, not even for you, Gorgeous.
She’s hanging from the plane, again.
Who puts their own picture on their own phone?
3/10

Chase 1.06

The chase at the beginning.
See you around, Annie.
That was a hell of a boom.
How about, I don’t date bounty hunters?
Especially once with Kesha on their cellphones. Really?
The place blew up with Annie.
Annie all vulnerable lying in the exam room.
Let me help you.
All the evacuations.
Daisy saves the day.
He bought her a new phone and put his photos on it.
Getting hurt makes you feel vulnerable.
I’m not the vulnerable type.
Ben putting Annie into his car while Jimmy watching.
5.5/10

Chase 1.07

What an intense opening.
Father heard his daughter being shot.
Guy pretends to be a US Marshall and actually recruits people.
He did not just give his alleged badge number.
He’s at Annie’s home.
Annie freeing herself.
US Marshall, US Marshall, get out of the car! Give it to me. Get Out.
She got pulled over.
He actually hanged a guy by his legs.
4.5/10

Chase 1.08

Is he running, or is he hunting?
Girl trapped in the doors.
You did so good. You heard him, you won.
Annie helping Mason.
See you soon, Annie.
2/10

Chase 1.09

Annie’s responding to her posts.
Crap you believe when you’re sixteen.
The call.
Are you the one that’s been writing to me?
It’s me, it’s me, Annie.
They cannot cross the border.
You call me If I can help.
One day I will leave this place, a woman, not a girl and I’ll go to the ocean, put my feet in the waves and I’ll remember you, Mom. Everything you taught me, everything I didn’t listen to but should have.
4/10

Chase 1.10

Annie didn’t make the jump.
Son of a bitch, tore my heel on your damn face.
That shot was beautiful, how the blood covered the back windshield, where wife’s face was.
What’s your middle name? Nolan.
She kissed her and then punched her face.
Thank you for showing me I’m not stuck like you.
The coin has heads on both sides.
She almost fell of the cliff.
Cause my dad gave them to me. I don’t know where he is.
4.5/10

Chase 1.11

Annie offered to help the guy and then he got killed.
Annie standing on the cab.
Truck in the way. Keep moving.
Oh, all the chasing.
He may not be violent, but his fast.
What? Boom.
He looked at me the way you used to.
Shit, he turned off all the lights and all the patients die.
All you. Looking at all the dead bodies.
She’s throwing Annie all over the room.
Then he threw Luc.
Way to go Luc!
Daughtry- Learn My Lesson, what a lovely song.
Oh poor Annie.
I don’t decide when you become a part of this team. You do.
Okay, so then give me the damn coin already.
Why me?
Cause… you got her number.
Wait, you know about that? Who else knows? Does everybody know?
7.5/10

Chase 1.12

She is not asking Annie for an opinion.
Anything happens to my wife, and I’m blaming you, Deputy Frost.
Everybody’s got a price.
Phone is buzzing for no reason.
Oh, what a shooting.
Annie’s down.
It’s nothing that a really hot bath and a little bit of whisky won’t cure.
Nice jar, Annie.
Annie’s car got hit.
And she got abducted.
4.5/10

Chase 1.13

Annie got pushed into the truck and they put ethanol on her face.
She kicked his nose.
Where is she? Where is my partner?
She’ll be eaten by a tiger.
Annie’s been kidnapped.
Where’s Annie Frost. Where?!
You want Annie killed? Then go blow the whistle.
Guy got eaten by a tiger.
There’s a young kid one the other side of the wall.
Deputy Frost is alive, but she’s not in the country anymore.
Bastards think they can just flight down to Mexico and kill Annie. Let’s cancel their flight.
Annie pretending to hung herself.
Taking the air out of robbers.
Kid threw a little stone at her.
That was a smart move, thank you.
Luc get over yourself.
Jimmy and Marco kidnapped the guy.
You think I’m stupid?!
They find us in here, you die.
Annie’s on the phone.
Get back in the house!
Annie Frost? I have a message for Boots!
Marco, you’re so cute.
I thought I lost you.
You almost did.
You didn’t do anything you regret? Did you?
I got no regrets. You’re back aren’t you?
10/10

Chase 1.14

Listen, there was never even a choice.
I thought that I was never gonna see you again. And um…
What? What are you thinking?
Nah, You know what, just forget it. It’s fine.
I don’t wanna forget it.
I’m just glad you got back in one piece, you know?
There was a moment there that I didn’t think I’d see you again either.
Oh the killing part was amazing.
Did Justin ever touch you?
Ouch he’s going to abuse the kid.
Daisy telling Annie about the kids abuse.
He’s gonna do it again.
The tickets trick.
You want to be widowed or divorced?
Was the girl uhm?
Oh the man took the girl willingly.
Because she thinks she’s in love with him.
She thinks that everyone is wrong and that the relationship that she had with Tate is special. They guy brain washed her. We’ve gotta find her, Annie. She doesn’t know how much danger she’s in.
I’m gonna show you the world. No one will ever come between us.
Hand over the girl to a paedophile in a bright day light, Annie.
Do you even know what you just did? The girl was twelve years old and it happened right in front of you and you didn’t do a damn thing to stop it.
Haha, Annie got stopped by a police man, again.
Annie got hit by a car.
What a chase, she almost got run over and hit again.
Number one a bitch list.
Didn’t work, Hope.
Daisy was abused.
9.5/10

Chase 1.15

Daisy’s been drinking.
Daisy’s in jail.
The search.
I was molested, for 6 years. It started when I was 9. My music teacher is a family friend. So here I am.
Woman lied about who raped her.
I should have known, nobody’s ever nice to me.
He didn’t rape her.
How could I tie you to that bar when I can’t even reach it.
It’s not my concern, Ma’am.
Power, for these minutes, hours, he’s a God.
The father/daughter reunion.
I just wanna be there for you. Don’t shut me out.
Thank you and I won’t.
That was harsh. Her niece going to the same teacher.
Said that you were his best student and that I remind him of you.
7/10

Chase 1.16

Annie and the rest of the team work as airport’s service.
Competition!
1 fugitive, 1 point. At the end of the day the team with the most points wins the trophy.
Good luck, happy hunting.
Say panties.
Guy hid in a washing machine and Jimmy turned it on.
Smile. Number 1.
Big guy kicks Marco and Luke’s asses.
Say cheese.
W’re just getting started. Come on Luke, let’s go.
He touched me Mark, for almost 6 years and I didn’t tell anyone, I didn’t tell mom, I didn’t tell dad. I thought it was my fault. I should have sone something cause maybe he’s still.
W’re missing a hell of a game.
I’m missing the game to clear a misdeminer? I hope he stole a flatscreen.
Boom.
So much for the easy point.
Can’t tak me to jail like that.
Say ketchup.
Don’t eat him, he’s not real.
So much for the easy point.
Marco all dancing.
He’s not my boyfriend, we just screwed sometimes.
You hook him up.
You hook him up.
Hey, I can just go.
Cuff yourself.
Daisy wants to record the teacher’s confession.
Every child has their own gifts.
You’re the best student I’ve ever had.
Daisy smashing the recorder.
Daisy walking into the room.
Daisy talks with the girl.
She needs to talk about it, she can’t keep it bottled up.
I am not turning Clara into a victim.
She already is a victim.
I am not gonna let this define her life, Daisy.
If we don’t stand up he’s gonna keep doing this to other girls.
It’s a nice hit, Boots.
Annie and Jimmy win!
Daisy asks for her last picture.
Luke, I know this letter will come to you as a shock, but it’s the only way that I can explain and do what I need to do without you trying to stop me. For years I’ve been living with something that I thought I had control of, but now I see that it controlled me. It’s why I filled my life with distractions. I thought If I could keep it away, then maybe it wasn’t there. Maybe It didn’t even happen. But it did. And instead of dealing with it, I was running away. But I’m done running. I am done thinking that was my fault.
I tried to get him another way.
I know you did.
Your letter.
I had to say goodbye, cause I’m going away for a long time.
Oh God, Daisy.
37 girls. He won’t be hurting anybody anymore.
Annie realizing Daisy was abused.
No he won’t.
What the hell is going on?
Jimmy there is no fcing this.
Why didn’t you come to us? Oh, Marco,
Because there is nothing that you could have done.
But Daisy, we’re family to you. We could have been there for you. I could have been there for you.
And you are.
It’s okay. I’m free now.
That picture is beautiful.
10/10

Chase 1.17

What a beautiful dream.
How long was I out?
About 15 minutes.
I’m sleeping like crap, got an hour last night.
You were talking to yourself. Was I?
Yeah, you said Jimmy and Ben.
No I did not.
He tore his pants and couldn’t get of that fence.
It’s not even lunch.
Everybody get in the damn car.
Guy shot the phone.
Guy came and hit the guy.
Annie comes to Ben’s.
Annie and Ben kiss.
I think you should take off the badge and stay for a while.
Dream again.
Oh, hell.
Jimmy kisses Annie.
Annie slept with Ben.
Weren’t you wearing the same clothes yesterday?
Stories.
I heard you haven’t been sleeping much.
There is nothing wring with a good old sex dream from time to time.
First of all, it’s none of your business, second of all they’re not sex dreams. You kissed me so.
Oh yeah, how was I? Good?
I think the wedding’s off.
You didn’t have to kill Ben, you can just marry me.
Jimmy is a free man, what are you gonna do now?
Are you a policeman or are you a robin’ man?
Family, you can’t chose it, can’t escape it.
Guy shot Marco.
Jimmy covering her with a blanket.
Annie sees her father.
Why did you send this to me?
You know why, something bad is about to happen.
9.5/10

Chase 1.18

Oh, come on, Kelli was 9 in ’89 not 13 or whatever.
She’s going undercover in a miniskirt.
What are you looking at?
She found her father’s boat.
Local Girl Annie Frost at Air Force Academy
What are you talking about, sunshine, you’re already a star.
That’s William Frost, Annie’s father.
All the stuff that we’ve gone through together, you can tell me anything. Good or bad.
No more secrets.
I don’t want this to be my goodbye to him.
Ah! What a beautiful place!
Don’t ever let fear hold you back from something you want.
She came to this place!
Just close your eyes and make the leap.
Look at you, US Marshal.
You still have the boots I gave you.
There wasn’t a day that wasn’t an adventure, remember?
You used me to pull off your stupid cons.
What are you talking about we were a team.
Until we weren’t.
I wanted something better. You never did have a plan, did you? It was just pull off a job, blow through the money, and move out, right? Town after town.
They got kicked of the road.
She uncuffed him!
We had good times, huh? It’s what makes the rest of it worth it.
Annie, what we got is better. Believe me.
How much longer do we have to keep running?
Running? We’re not running.
Yeah, we are. And never to anything.
Ouch, that was painful.
Keep running you mean, Dad? Just like old times.
I did not see this one coming, when I was watching it for the first time.
I eneded up in a hospital and by the time I got out they already had you living with aunt Claudine.
Why didn’t you come get me?
I did, sunshine, first thing. When I got there you were playing in the front yard, you were playing soccer with all these girls, just like you wanted. And I just, I decided to let you be.
I would have given hell for them.
I know you would have, that’s why I drove away.
You’re okay?
Glad to see you.
I was worried about you.
Get out of here, before they come back for you. You’re gonna keep looking over your shoulder, but it’s not gonna be me that’s chasing you.
Any chance you’re coming with me?
No.
It has something to do with that young man I just met, doesn’t it?
I don’t know about that just yet. Goodbye dad.
But Where am I gonna go? Hey what would you say, you’d pick out for me, just for old time sake?
Your boat is safe, I didn’t tell anybody about that.
I have to move there anyway.
Maybe you’ll come stay with me there sometime.
Maybe.
Hey, guys, thank you.
Any time.
You got it.
Where’s your dad?
Got away.
They kiss walk away, and end of the series, damn.

10/10

Total grade: 6.5/10

I may have actually been writing this post for almost two months. I have been busy with all the uni, work, apartment stuff, but it is ready now.

The Big C Season 3

14 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by Joanne in Laura Linney, The Big C, tv series

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There is no show that is more perfect than The Big C, both writing and acting are marvellous. Seasons one and two were absolute masterpieces, but season three started off at the same high level, but then got a little disappointing. I feel like instead of getting to know Cathy better, we dealt with Paul/Joy, baby and Sean crap all the time.Shame, the show’s absolutely genius. I love how at the end Cathy’s left all alone. I was very hard to stand Paul and Adam this season.

  1. 1
    I would marry Helena Bonham Carter and kill Lady Gaga.
    The only problem with your London pub, is that there is not enough Londoners in it.
    Well, no one would leave winters out there and Minneapolis where it’s even colder.
    Excellent point, prime minister.
    It’s not actually as late as you think. That clock is on bar time.
    What’s bar time?
    Bar clocks are set 15 minutes fast to make sure we don’t serve anyone after curfew.
    You mean everyone who leaves here gets more time? This is a magical, magical place.
    Are we gonna see you tomorrow, Alexis?
    Most likely.
    I feel the need to write it all down while it’s still fresh.
    Safe? Ha, I had a heart attack at the Christmas party, what’s safe?
    If Paul has another heart attack or if my clinical try stops working, we want you to be Adam’s guardian.
    I think I’m flattered, but too cold to feel my feelings.
    You have so much to offer him.
    Streets smarts and above average sense of morality.
    Your insurance bills alone give your husband a heart attack.
    It turns out, if you’re gonna have a heart attack, having one at insurance company holiday party is a great idea. They’re being very generous with us.
    Clearly my meds are talking, they make me sound so bourgeois.
    But I don’t want to be a principal.
    You hear that ?
    Yeah, key fob is my friend.
    No, keep it with you at all times. Did you guys get that? So you might wanna ask Paul regularly if he has his key fob with him.
    Yeah, that won’t be annoying for anybody.
    To test press question mark. If yes, press bolt.
    It’s like a horse kick to fucking chest. If possible lay down before you shock yourself, distract yourself, think about sports kittens, whatever.
    Wow, another reason I’m glad I’m not you, Paul.
    We just asked Sean to be your guardian buddy in case something happens to me and dad.
    Okay but I’m not living in the woods with you.
    We don’t have to if you don’t want to.
    It is more than I though, I need about 15 bucks.
    Got it!
    Don’t take that personally, white man destroys everybody.
    I was in Ghana, and I was so sad and mopy, but there were these amazing African woman who smelled really bad and didn’t have clean water and some of them even had Aids, but they were dancing and singing around the fire and they were just so strong and joyous. And I just thought if they can do it, I can do it. I can be that strong.
    While you were gone, dad had a heart attack and died for a little while.
    Way to drop my vacation story, Mr J.
    Who’s that?
    Jesus, you ever heard of him?
    Yeah, but I’ve never heard of a black Jesus.
    Do you see what I’m dealing with?
    Are you eating chips for breakfast?
    I’m having a salty stress craving.
    No, No! I can’t intentionally hurt you!
    Give me the damn chips, Paul.
    This is not funny! We are sick people, Paul! We are two sick people living in a cold sick place. But everyday we stay alive is a day that Adam has two parents.
    I thought you out of all people would know that that white light is waiting for us whether we eat chips or not. We’re all gonna die, honey.
    I became a flight attendant because I thought it would be glamorous to travel around but now I want some control over where I’m going.
    Whatever the hell the left wing is.
    You’re past is always a part of you Ababu, just like you’re African roots.
    You’re smiling, you never smile. Ha, I knew it, I knew it, I’m a dead woman. The tumours are growing again, well it is what it is.
    I can’t smile because I’m happy?
    I don’t know, can you?
    Laura’s reaction!
    I think I said Holy fuck when I read your scans.
    So I have more time?
    Good news, good news, good news, I’m less cancery than I was before.
    That’s great.
    A lot less.
    Hell yeah, yeah!
    You write a lot.
    Guess what, Andrea, Ababu, I am a blogger.
    Good news!
    Aaaa! Oh, fuck me!
    For a big man you can really move.
    Get your wedding dress, Ababu, let’s go.
    We are moving on Ababu, we are moving on.
    Ababu and Sean dancing around the fire.
    Kathy almost drowning!
    We’re unkillable!
    What were you sweeping the ice?
    10/10
  2. 2
    You had a fucking affair?
    Where’d you hear that?
    I didn’t hear it anywhere. I read it on dad’s blog.
    With all the lectures and bullshit I’m done listening to you, you’re a fucking hypocrite.
    Check this out, my latest blog post had got 59 page views, that’s 30 more than the last one.
    Your son is one of them. He knows about my affair. He read about it on your blog!
    Holy shit, Adam saw the blog?
    It’s on the Internet, Paul. Everyone can see it.
    Why didn’t you just skip all of it?
    I’m telling my story, Cath. I mean, It’s incredibly cathorgic for me and people seem to like reading about it. You know how I saw the light and the detail of my near death experience and I can’t really do that without explaining what came before. Like your cancer and your Lenny.
    So I caused your heart attack.
    No, life did and you’re the part of my life.
    This ain’t no hobby, this is my culture, bitch.
    Today I’m getting a job and a phone, tomorrow I’m on the Internet, before you know it, I’m e-filling my taxes and tweeting pictures of my taint to villagers in Assganistan.
    You were in prison. My mother warned me about guys like you.
    Rela, I just robbed the liquor store.
    Oh see, that almost makes you sound soft. You know you can get those things removed now.
    Why would I want to do that? I’m proud of them, It’s my story.
    If you can read this the bitch fell off.
    Those little lipstick kisses you live on the mirror in there are pain in my minimum wage ass.
    Tell your story in detention Andrea.
    It’s Ababu, damn it.
    I wanna talk to you.
    You might wanna talk to a mirror first, you look like a freaking crazy woman.
    Look, I don’t give a shit what I look like. Look, I am tired of you shutting me out. I had an affair. It was last summer, it lasted a few weeks, it was with Lenny the painter.
    Ok, yeah, that’s great. Feel better?
    Maybe when I’m done, cause now that I have your attention, I’m gonna tell you everything, everything. I’ve done drugs, when I was seventeen I smoked pot for the very first time and when I was nineteen I was arrested for peeing in a public park, and I’ve shoplifted. There was this great pair of guest jeans, and I got so drunk at my college orientation that they had to pump my stomach and that was after, after my friends, they found me passed out in this guy’s bedroom, and I could not find my bra, and that prick he give me s and I was so stressed out from having the rush down there, that I missed my period, I totally though I was pregnant…
    Just fucking shut up.
    I’ve made mistakes, I’m gonna make more.
    All of you are gonna make a shitload of mistakes too.
    It’s not fucking funny. Fuck off, Ainhole.
    Mrs Jamison, Fuck off Ainhole.
    Oh hell no, look at you fools, do you think this is a joke? This is eactly where people epect you to be. Don’t be where people epect you to be. You can give me another detention, or whatever, but right now I gotta say some shit. Now, I posted signs, I’ve asked your assess nicely, I even got over the intercome and screamed it and got a detention for it, but I can’t get threw you. So guess what, we’re gonna have group meeting right now. Welcome to the black students association and I’ve changed the name of the group, it’s ‘Afro’ Africans for rediscovering overselves, do I gave your attention?
    This is not a meeting, this is detention. Sit down, Andrea.
    It’s Ababu.
    But what am I supposed to do?
    That’s why they pay you the big bucks, Connie, to take care of shit like this.
    This is not funny, Cathy. Do you realize you are the third person from your house in my office today? You are a teacher. Certain rules need to be followed, certain behavior is epected. And today’s behaviour was not it.
    You know, I’m not particulary proud of myself, but I’m an adult, so you can stop wagging your finger at me.
    Is that alcohol on your breath?
    Excuse me? You have to give me here a little more credit, Connie. For your information, what you’re smelling is medicine that I’m on for my clinical trial. Medicine. You have got to help me out here, Cathy. I think the school has been very good about giving you the time and space you need to deal with your illness. I only ask for a little proffessionalism in return.
    You want professionalism. He’s wearing a tie. Is that proffessional enough for you?
    I told him my story. I told him everything, I think It was the right think to do. The way I did it was… questionable.
    Honey, have you been drinking?
    I have. And I will probably be drinking more later. I’ll see you at home.
    Listen, don’t, I was just…
    Wasting a perfectly good cigarette?
    Life sucks.
    So what do you think Alexis, you like it?
    I love it.
    10/10
  3. Cathy writing, Shit happens and Fuck winter on walls.
    I thought I had lost the time, you know to be the kind of person who could go out and buy the colors and try them out, pick one and then actually paint the room. You know, it just seems so…
    Clinically fucking insane.
    No, something that healthy people do. But you see now, I have the time, I’m lousy with time. I mean I might just redo the whole house, by the time I get to the attic, I might figure out what to do with the rest of my life.
    Fucking Alec Baldwin, listen to his last tweet ‘Tomorrow’s Valentine’s Day, won’t you get my 1mln follower? Why the fuck does he do that. I have 7 followers, and I’m related to half of them.
    He is famous, Paul.
    Yes, but was he clinically dead for 3 minutes?
    So this is your bigger purpose in life? To get more twits then Alec Baldwin?
    Tweets, gonna finish my blog, does Alec Baldwin have a fucking blog?
    I have no idea.
    Mine’s better.
    I can’t keep painting the walls, Paul. I need direction, I wanna be a different me now. And look, she is a little woo woo but maybe we need a little woo woo.
    Did you just orgasm with my syrup?
    I’m running a gay phone sex businesses. Go ahead. Judge away, judgerella.
    Actually I’m too stunned to judge. I’m exceptionally good at it. I found my calling, Cath. Gay Phone sex worker.
    This crazy Joy thinks that dancing and juicing cured her cancer. Yet she has 23 000 followers.
    Rocks, this is a super crappy gift.
    How come I have more rocks than you do?
    Isn’t the real question, what are we doing paying good money to carry around the bag full of rocks.
    Holy molly.
    23 000 fucking followers.
    Juice is not food.
    Well, This explains one for two pricing.
    I breathed, I breathed for the first time, I breathed. And I realized that all of the fucking stress and all of the complaining I had given myself cancer. I mean, I had nobody else to blame, but myself.
    You may call these my fuck me shoes. But you know what I call them? I call them my fuck you shoes. Fuck cancer. I fucked cancer. And now I am fucking life. And I wake up every morning orgasmically happy. It’s ironic, isn’t it? That cancer would show me that I can take control of my life and that I can follow my dreams.
    Laughter bits the shit out of crying.
    Don’t apologise to me. You’re the one that’s letting yourself down. You’re the only one that’s gonna stop you from your joyful path.
    How do you know I have cancer?
    I read your husband’s blog.
    Really?!Your blog is inspirational. You’ve got a knock for story telling, you gotta use that.
    Thank you,
    You should now, I don’t think joy can kill my cancer.
    Then you should know that attitude is probably gonna kill you and this is for you, for giving up.
    Et fast.
    You don’t have to tell me twice.
    What the fuck, holy shit it’s a ring?
    He’s proposing.
    Ababu, you are the fire in my heart, the light in my loins, you make me wanna set my hair on fire with desire, you complete, you make me feel like dancing. You had me and hello, marry me, my African queen.
    Yes!
    Okay, let’s shake you booty, everybody dance, even you Cathy.
    All right, Cathy. What’s going on?
    What’s going on is I’m calling bullshit. The juice, the joy the stupid fucking bags, I’ve had it. I’m done.
    Cathy, good for you. You got it. You got it. She got it, people! That bag is your old baggage. Why were you carrying it, because I told you to? Because society made you. I mean, you were ready to carry Paul’s bag. You cannot move forward if your shit is still pulling you back. You’re not your past. You are limitless future. Good for you, good for you. Good for you, Cathy.
    I knew you would be the first to get it.
    Holy fuck, holy fuck!
    What?
    I have 2 000 followers. Joy just tweeted my address. Check out this guy he’s got a great message. Holy shit.
    7/10
  4. Why won’t you just come back and see us when you’re cancer free?
    What? Are you off your meds?
    All at once? That’s too many things up my ass. Too many, too many things up my ass.
    If he could maybe leave out the part about me still having cancer, that would be great.
    Cathy eating candy, and her’s We are worthy.
    Sean’s Polly, Polly! and ‘Sure’.
    It’s not just when you die, it’s here, I think it’s all around us and it’s just waiting for us to tap into it. I might have died and wake up, but you don’t have to. You don’t have to.
    Yeah, Polly!
    You seem to have no shame.
    Well, thank you.
    I want to adopt a baby, but apparently nobody wants to give a kid to the cancer lady.
    No, they hear cancer, people think you’re the boogieman.
    Can’t say I blame them. I know it sounds stupid but I just, I just thought if maybe I got a baby it would somehow magically guarantee I’d be around to take care of it.
    It’s not stupid. If you want something, if you really want something, you don’t ask for it, you demand it. You shout it out to the fucking universe, because you deserve it.
    There, now you’re wearing my lipstick.
    Do they wanna meet us? Oh, they wanna meet us!
    6/10
  5. They’re talking to a younger couple? What kind of bomb it is to drop? How are we supposed to compete with younger? This adoption just turned into a contest and we are in it to win it.
    Suck in. I am. Oh, shit.
    It’s not fair to compare you to some younger mama, everybody knows that blonde ladies don’t age well.
    How does this grab you? Paul Power.
    Neeh.
    Fuck me with the stick.
    Or as I say, Oprah who?
    There’s some hot chicks in that group too, turns out God is good.
    What are you doing and what happened to your face?
    Paul having a heart attack on stage.
    Sad about the past? Flip that switch. Scared about the future? Flip that switch. You’re ready to love your life? Flip that switch!
    That’s just my brother, It made it sound even worse, didn’t it?
    Am I allowed to eat like I’m about to have a baby, or do I actually have to be pregnant?
    You can eat whatever you want, as long as I can too.
    I told them you’re a great mom, I lied.
    Good news we can have another one of those.
    5/10
  6. I’m gonna need some caffeine to continue this conversation.
    Liquor and summer camp helped take the edge off. Getting a second kid is gonna be a great excuse to double my drinking.
    Close the fucking door.
    I wanna make a movie based on your life.
    You’re gonna ask Sandra Bullock to play me?
    Who’s asking? She’ll do it. She owes me, I gave her a fucking horse when she moved down to a ranch.
    I have some ideas, Beyonce, Queen Latifah, Meryl Streep, cause that bitch can play anybody.
    But she’s not dead.
    Oh, honey, it’s called dramatic license. Plus we all know there’s no cure for this.
    The movie has to end somehow, this is Hollywood, guys, that’s the way it works.
    Terms of Endearment, Titanic, Gladiator, Common Denominator, death, and huge box offices.
    You can take your joy and you can shove it and you, you can kill somebody else off in a movie.
    That woman wants to kill me. The issue is my future which I happen to believe in. I don’t want them making a movie about my dying when I’m trying to stay alive. Every time someone sees it, I’ll die. When When I do die, it’s gonna be once and it’s not gonna be in front of the whole world with everyone saying, oh she died so much better in the movie.
    Oh the final scene is absolutely breathtaking, Cathy’s making a huge whole in the wall, that is finally so The Big C!
    5.5/10
  7. It was very painful to watch Adam do that to Cathy.
    It’s for future, it’s for when you’re older and I’m dead.
    What the hell was that?
    Sorrow you can drown, rage floats.
    Good, I shot winter, I’m sick of fucking winter.
    The secret to shooting is patience.
    Well, then I’m fucked, cause patience is not something I have hell lot of now.
    Let’s blow shit up.
    I don’t let anyone guilt me into shit. I am not afraid of anything or anyone.
    Oh, no she didn’t, she is shameless. Joy has a package she wants to come and get in her room.
    Aha, I knew it! Is this a package you want Mrs J to come down here and get? I’m returning it due to lack of interest. Shame at you girl, standing here with all your lady business hanging out every which way.
    Look this is photo-booth discrimination. Who do I complain to? Jesus?
    God be with you! She actually drove away in her car!
    Poor Cathy! But the couple did look a little off from the beginning.
    5/10
  8. Cathy drags them into the woods and makes them turn off their clothes.
    Why? Why would you do this? Why would you promise a baby to someone that didn’t exist? That is not a rhetorical question!
    Doing what you had to do to get by?!
    Take off your clothes! Take off your fucking clothes! I don’t have a whole day and It’s cold out there.
    How ya feeling? A little exposed? Stupid? Welcome to the club.
    Seriously, seriously you thought someone would give their baby to a woman with cancer?
    I wanted to believe that it was possible! That someone could see the love and care that I could give a child, despite my diagnosis. I am the good one in this situation. So I say, yay for fucking me!
    In the meantime, I’d start walking.
    Truth be told, I haven’t felt like myself in months. I need a drink.
    Sweetie, What have gotten into you recently? It’s like your not thinking straight. Drinking in the middle of a day, getting tattoos, I mean, what the hell Cath?
    I said I’m sorry.
    Do I smell pot? Are you smoking pot?
    Yeah, I am.
    So you’re smoking pot now.
    Mom, you should keep smoking your pot, okay?
    Sh, sh, sh, too loud!
    You’re high.
    I’m very high.
    Is this you high, just giggling?
    I’m going to flip your switch.
    Right now I need you to break one and tell me Joy Fucking Climond’s room number.
    Where do you suggest we go to talk about you wanting to fuck my husband?!
    Have I fucked your husband? No. Would I be surprised if he fucked someone else? No. Because frankly Cathy, you are a downer. Your whole life is about nothing but you. Granted, I understand, cancer sometimes makes people very selfish.
    All of that negative energy and all of that anger. You keep it up, your cancer is gonna just pop right back, Missy.
    I did not gave myself cancer, the sun gave me cancer. It’s a flaming ball of radiation. Not my anger, not my energy, the sun. That’s it. I’m not done with you. You are a bitch.
    The lipstick on the wind-shield!
    Some people miss the bus, some people not so much.
    9.5/10
  9. Appearing live, not so much.
    Yeah, she goes by the name of Alexis.
    Do you think she was in pain?
    She was hit by a bus, so guessing, yep.
    Is everyone up but me?
    By the way, the pillow bar does not serve drinks, only pillows, I asked.
    Otherwise we take to much nitrogen into our system and we might feel like you’re drunk.
    A! Like the sound of that.
    So, Pablo Jamison 😀
    Thank you translation app!
    Damn, she’s having a PTSD.
    Why is there a broken Joy in our room.
    Why do you care, I’m dead to you anyway, right, Alexis?
    Everyone was nice, I was stressed, it was just a place where I could blow off some steam. I had a few drinks, maybe a cigarette. With all the crap that’s been going on in my life, I needed a place where I could be free.
    Thats what makes you being sick, okay, because even if you do go, it’s not the end. I’ll meet up with you there.
    I’ll probably at the all night pie eating place, check there first.
    I just got some grave news in the graveyard.
    Ernesto, if I see you up there, I will return the favour.
    Instead of saying that you’re 46 years young, it may have said that you’ve 46 anuses.
    Feel free to fuck around.
    Cathy and Sean showing themselves a finger.
    Why you’re really here? Something made you wanna try something different today. Maybe you’re stuck or afraid and you’re sick of it. You had a hunch, that maybe your life can be different. It can be different. We’re all alone out here, people. You’ve gotta put yourself first. It is time that we own our own destinies, anybody who’s gonna get in a way of our joy, we’re tell them to go fuck themselves.
    10/10
  10. I left my buddy.
    Where did you leave her?
    There-ish.
    Denero?
    Or is it Deniro? Robert DeNiro. You talking to me?
    Please don’t look directly at my thighs.
    Everyone has more history, good and bad than they can wear on their bodies. Why not wear it it your heart? Just my advice.
    Andrea is Andrea, again.
    Adam is finally acting like a Christian.
    I should have been protecting my buddy, but I was following my dick instead.
    Sean fighting over a rubber dinghy, a big yes. Get the fuck out, fuck off me.
    It’s a C for Cathy, and for cancer.
    I have cancer. I wanna say I had cancer, but I can’t.
    My doctor called me yesterday, told me my tumours are growing, again. Which really sucks, cause I’ve been doing this treatment and everything has been going so well and I really thought I was gonna beat this thing. Do you know what I think Angel, I think I’m gonna die within a year.
    It feels so good to cry. I’ve been trying so hard just to find my Joy, because I thought I was supposed to  be happy, or I was supposed to make other people happy, or I was supposed to make my kid think I’m happy, but… I just should have cried more. I should just cry more.
    Everyone screaming and complaining, and quarrelling, a kid hating his mother, Cathy running back to Angel, what a beautiful scene.
    I love how Cathy’s left all alone.
    9/10

Total grade: 7.7/10

Welcome to ReviewThisFilm

This website started as weekly reviews on movies and tv episodes, and a diary of the 700 new films I watched every year. Today it’s a place for me to write a few words on films and tv shows that leave some sort of impact on me. I no longer write in depth reviews, partially thanks to bad habits gained by spending many hours a day on Letterboxd, and partially because of my demanding day job.

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I just really love movies and watch 700 new ones a year.

My favourite actresses have always been Jodie Foster, Sally Field and Julianne Moore.

Favourite actors: Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Vincent Price and John Candy.

Favourite Directors: Brian De Palma, Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Thomas Anderson, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Wes Craven.

dysfunctional families | troubled childhoods

psychological | independent | drama | horror

At the pictures 10 times a month. I rate films within genre. I watch all interesting titles about to expire on Netflix and HBO Go. I’m nostalgic and reminisce a lot. Over the years I’ve seen 140 TV Shows.

26. Polish-British and proud of both of my citizenships.

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About me

I am the dark and twisty Meredith Grey, the mad Dexter Morgan, hoping to grow up to be a little more like the wise, but fun Nora Walker. I am an aspiring filmmaker. My favorite actresses are Jodie Foster, Sally Field and Julianne Moore. Favorite genre – psychological drama. I watch anything with a sexual or mental abuse plot. I used to be a horror freak. I am obsessed with Grey’s Anatomy, SVU and many more. My other interests include making oil and pencil portraits and wildlife conservation. I cannot say no to beautiful landscapes, travel, Aussie accent, TV/film quotes and avocados. I have recently moved back from Australia to the UK. I’ve been running this blog for the last 9 years. Here I comment on films and episodes I watch. Enjoy! – Joanne

The 140 Shows I’ve watched and am writing about

  1. Private Practice
  2. Greys
  3. SVU
  4. Bones
  5. Desperate Housewives
  6. Gilmore Girls
  7. Dexter
  8. The Big C
  9. Friends
  10. Judging Amy
  11. Parenthood
  12. Brothers and Sisters
  13. Cougar Town
  14. Castle
  15. Shameless
  16. Full House
  17. The Middle
  18. Revenge
  19. Bates Motel
  20. Orange is the New Black
  21. Lost
  22. American Horror Story
  23. Fuller House
  24. Downton Abbey
  25. The Killing
  26. Chase
  27. Sex and the city
  28. The Good Wife
  29. Six Feet Under
  30. Switched at Birth
  31. My So Called Life
  32. Nashville
  33. Party of Five
  34. Suburgatory
  35. Surviving Jack
  36. Scandal
  37. Big Little Lies
  38. Camp
  39. The Carrie Diaries
  40. The Goldbergs
  41. How To Get Away With Murder
  42. Everybody Loves Raymond
  43. Married With Children
  44. Scream
  45. Younger
  46. Grace and Frankie
  47. Freaks and Geeks
  48. When Calls the Heart
  49. Arrested Development
  50. Pretty Little Liars
  51. Past Life
  52. The Simpsons
  53. Bunheads
  54. Puberty Blues
  55. No Ordinary Family
  56. Weeds
  57. Sharp Objects
  58. Bad Judge
  59. Awkward
  60. Go On
  61. 30 Rock
  62. Dirt
  63. Close to Home
  64. Thirteen Reasons Why
  65. This is Us
  66. Modern Family
  67. Riverdale
  68. One Day at a Time
  69. Top of the lake
  70. The Leftovers
  71. Ozark
  72. Killing Eve
  73. Good Girls
  74. 911
  75. The Resident
  76. Crikey! It’s the Irwins
  77. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
  78. Veronica Mars
  79. Dead to Me
  80. Schooled
  81. The Handmaid’s Tale
  82. Station 19
  83. Red Band Society
  84. Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
  85. Little Fires Everywhere
  86. The Act
  87. The Morning Show
  88. Everything Sucks
  89. Mad Men
  90. For the People
  91. Unbelievable
  92. Bloodline
  93. Gypsy
  94. Liar
  95. The Insatiable
  96. Carol’s Second Act
  97. Chernobyl
  98. When They See Us
  99. The Society
  100. Girlboss
  101. When We Rise
  102. Locke and Key
  103. Russian Doll
  104. The Loudest Voice
  105. Soundtrack
  106. Sugar Rush
  107. V
  108. Grandfathered
  109. Faking It
  110. Secrets and lies (only season 1)
  111. Eye Candy
  112. The Whispers
  113. The Slap (AU)
  114. The Good Place
  115. The Good Fight
  116. Hollywood Darlings
  117. Off the Map
  118. Scream Queens
  119. Friday Night Lights
  120. Thirteen
  121. The Family
  122. Absentia
  123. F is for Family
  124. Starved
  125. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
  126. Fargo (only season 1)
  127. 90210
  128. Dead of Summer
  129. Amber
  130. Degrassi Next Class
  131. Looking for Alaska
  132. The Catch
  133. Mr Mercedes (only season 1)
  134. Light as a Feather
  135. American Crime Story
  136. 23.11.63
  137. Divorce
  138. American Crime
  139. The Politician
  140. Ravenswood
  141. Save Me
  142. Wet Hot American Summer

currently following on tv

currently (re)watching

return to eden
six feet under season 2
last man standing season 3

shows I need to catch up on

Feud
Transparent
Killing Eve
This is Us
The Good Fight
Gentleman Jack
I Am the Night

films that have been on my watchlist for years and years

The Rose
Agnes of God
Music Box
The Golden Pond
Rambling Rose
The Contender
Airport
Women in Love
The French Connection
California Suite
Chariots of Fire
Amadeus
The Accidental Tourist
A Woman under the Influence
The Happy Ending
Travels with My Aunt
Sounder
Hedda
The Turning Point
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Last Summer

will watch at the cinema

unhinged

Last films watched at the pictures that I loved

the hunt
the lighthouse

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my twitter bios

15.04.2011 ‘You forgot the number one rule about remakes: never fuck with the original.’ (Scream 4)

01.06.2011 ‘We need to become doers.’ 2×16 ‘You’re a doer, remember?’ 5×22 (Greys)

5.08.2011 “It’s just… Meredith always makes me think screwed up people have a chance.” (Greys)

9.10.2011 ‘You be wowed, I’ll be drunk.’ (The Big C)

10.11.2011 ‘George is dead and Izzie is gone and we’re all different. We’re different.’ (Greys)

17.12.2011 ‘I thought I was headed in the right direction. My Dark Passenger back behind the wheel. But if I was so sure I knew where I was going…How did I get so lost?’ (Dexter)

23.01.2012 ‘You’re drowning, Grey.’ (Greys)

18.11.2012 ‘You’re a serial killer and I’m more fucked up than you are.’ (Dexter)

7.05.2013 ‘I think my antidepressants just kicked in.’ (The Big C)

10.05.2015 ‘The sad widow is my friend. My best friend.’ (Greys)

My tumblr titles

10.10.10 – ‘Like I said, I’m screwed.’ (Greys)

15.04.11 – ‘It’s just a good story.’ (Greys)

22.06.11 – ‘I should have fought for you, Violet.’ (Private Practice)

20.12.11 – ‘I am a father, a son, a serial killer.’ (Dexter)

8.08.12 – ‘You have to pick the girl who lives.’ (The Big C)

5.10.12 – ‘You are my person. You will always be my person.’ (Greys)

10.11.12 – ‘Thirty second dance party. Dance or you’re fired.’ (Greys)

19.02.13 – ‘There’s nowhere on Earth I’d rather be right now.’ (Castle)

29.07.13 – ‘The family that kills together.’ (Dexter)

15.01.15 – ‘Let’s go home.’ (Parenthood)

20.05.2015 – ‘The sad widow is my friend, my best friend.’ (Greys)

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favourite film and tv quotes

‘When I lived in Porpoise Spit, I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to ABBA songs. But since I’ve met you and moved to Sydney, I haven’t listened to one Abba song. That’s because my life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.’ (Muriel’s Wedding)

‘I used to think about
your life in New York. I tried to imagine your room. I kept track of the time difference, so I  knew when you were awake and when you were asleep.’ (Disobedience)

‘Nothing’s clean, Howard. But we do our best, right?’ (The Aviator)

‘No, I’m not quitting. I don’t quit things.’
‘No, actually you do. Your mother quit your father. Your father quit you. You quit your boyfriend and if I read your hospital chart correctly you quit your life momentarily on a couple of occasions. You quit. It’s what you know how to do.’ (Greys)

‘Where the hell was I that year?’
‘Your were watching television’. (Everybody Loves Raymond)

‘It’s impossible to worry about anything else when there’s blood coming out of you.’
(Short Term 12)

‘I wanted it to happen. And when we were girls… Even then, it was the same. It’s always been this way! I have always wanted it.’ (Disobedience)

‘Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes you play games in your head. You make up someone, someone good.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a moment when our lives change forever. The moment we admit our weaknesses, the moment we rise to a challenge, the moment we accept a sacrifice, or let a loved one go. And sometimes the change in our lives is an answer to our prayers.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Yesterday I went to the movies all day by myself. One after the other. I’ve never done that before. I had a really happy day.’ (Doing Time for Patsy Cline)

‘I just need something to happen. I need a sign that things are going to change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope. And in the absence of hope, I need to stay in bed a feel like I might die today.’ (Greys)

‘She saved me my whole life. Without her, I’m nothing.’ (The Favourite)

‘Don’t wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don’t. In face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that make us hold it together.’  (Greys)

‘Bree sobbed quietly in the restroom for five miutes, but her husband never knew, because when Bree finally emerged, she was perfect.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘I am not food, you cannot just eat and eat.’ (The Favourite)

‘I don’t love him.’
‘Of course you do.’
‘No!’
‘Don’t take me for a fool Olive,  I’m many things but I’m not a fool.’
‘I know that, you’re brilliant.’
‘Don’t you see, it’s over. Whatever this is, was, it’s over.’
‘I love You.’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing, is reason enough to celebrate.’ (Greys)

‘Many years ago, a neighbour and a good friend of ours took her life, and that left us all heartbroken and perplexed. But somehow, when I was alone in that hotel room, I forget about all the pain that she caused. In those awful moments, I thought maybe she had the answer.‘ (Desperate Housewives)

‘What happened last year when you fell in the water?’
‘I almost drowned. Do you think I did that for kicks?’
‘You put your hand in a body cavity that contained unexploded ammunition.’
‘I was trying to save a patient!’
‘Why is it that every other person in that room had the sense to hit the deck? You know people run away from this line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You’re careless with your life. You’re not slitting your wrists but you’re careless. Probably because your mother told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is you believed her. And if you don’t want out one of these days you’re going to die because of it.’  (Greys)

‘This is the street where I used to live and these were the people with whom I shared my life. I met them the day they moved in. And I saw what they brought with them. Beautiful dreams for the future. And quiet hopes for a better life. Not just for themselves, but for their children, too. If I could, would I tell them what lies ahead? Would I warn them of the sorrow and betrayal that lie in store? No. From where I stand now, I see enough of the road to understand how it must be traveled. The trick is to keep moving forward, to let go of the fear and the regret that slow us down and keep us from enjoying a journey that will be over too soon. Yes, there will be unexpected bends in the road, shocking surprises we didn’t see coming, but that’s really the point. Don’t you think?’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Was your life not working when you let that slip out from under you?’
‘When are you going to stop suggesting that I’m suicidal?’
‘When you start acting like someone that wants to be alive.’
‘Give me my chart.’
‘Why?’
‘Because I’m not suicidal, and if it says that I am, then it’s wrong.’ (Greys)

‘There is nothing wrong with me.’
‘Then show me your arm.’ (Degrassi)

‘Look, my whole life, I have been the freak. The girl who nobody picked for dodgeball. The girl who didn’t have a mom. The girl who dressed funny because it was her dad buying her clothes. And then, tonight I looked at these people, and I thought maybe there’s a future where I don’t have to be a freak. Maybe I can be who I am and that’s okay.’ (Everything Sucks)

‘Dr, I have been this way since…since I can remember. There is no cure.’ (American Horror Story)

‘He was so crazy about me, I couldn’t breathe. So we tried drinking our way back into love, but it never made sense in the morning. So I ran. And every time I came back, he was here. And he was still crazy about me.’ (My Blueberry Nights)

‘Bree van de Kamp had always wanted to live her life with elegance and grace. That is also how she wanted to die. Her plan was to pour herself a glass of her favorite chardonnay, put on her most stylish nightgown and leave behind a note on embossed stationery.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘All we have is this moment. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So be… here…. now.’ (Six Feet Under)

‘On the train coming here, we were in the same cart, I saw you, you were reading and you feel asleep. I didn’t dare to look at you, you were so beautiful, it was scary. Afterwards,  I couldn’t stop thinking about you. It made me smile. Then I thought of all the men who would get to hold you, who’d make you laugh. How lucky they were.’ (Enemy at the Gates)

‘It was a good day. Maybe even a great day. Even when it was hard, I was the me in my head. There was a moment when I thought I cant do this, I cant do this alone. I close my eyes and imagine myself doing it, and I did, I blocked out the fear, and I did it.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a time when we must expose our weaknesses. When our secrets can no longer remain private, when our solitude can no longer be denied, when our pain can no longer be ignored, but sometimes we feel so alone that a weakness we thought we’d overcome suddenly becomes too strong to fight.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Why did you get married, Esti? Why didn’t you just leave? So everything was all right when I left?’
‘No. I was ill.’
‘What sort of ill?’
‘In my head.’
‘If I had to sleep with a man, why not with our best friend?’
‘Oh, Esti…’
‘It hasn’t been a complete disaster.’
‘And that’s enough?! Do you have to have sex every Friday?’
‘It’s expected.’
‘It’s medieval. What happened to you?’
‘Nothing. You happened to me. And then I started teaching and that became important. I give them ambition.’
‘To do what? Push out seven babies and be a good wife?’
‘Don’t. Don’t. I help them to value themselves.’
‘Okay, but what about you?’
‘That is me. And you? Are you happy?’
‘Yes, I am.’
‘Have you been with other women?’
‘No. Not really. And you?’
‘No.’
‘But, Esti… Do you still
only fancy women?’ (Disobedience)

‘OK, then, listen. Let’s not get caught.’
‘What are you talkin’ about?’
‘Let’s keep goin’!’
‘What d’you mean?’
‘Go.’
‘You sure?’
‘Yeah. Yeah.’ (Thelma & Louise)

‘She let me live at Nora’s house. She let me believe that I was a part of their family. I fell in love with that family. What am I supposed to do, just sit there, pretend I’m related to them? I was happy. For the first time in my life I was happy.’ (Brothers and Sisters)

‘You will be left all alone with your bitterness and your rage and your knowledge that you loved her and she loved you and you threw it away for them.’
‘Do you love her?’
‘Yes.’
‘And Have you always?’
‘Yes.’
‘So then ask her.’
‘Olive, will you forgive me?’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘No razors, no scissors, no fucking freedom.’
(Short Term 12)

‘You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone.’ (Six Feet Under)

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