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Free Ride. Buried. Hush. Allegiant. Earth To Echo. Boo.

10 Sunday Jul 2016

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I am so happy Mel Gibson is back. Go see the trailer for Blood Father. William H. Macy is in it too! While growing up all my dad talked about were Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson, it’s good to see Mel again, I only watched The Beaver since his 2004 films, and he hasn’t been in much since then.

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Free Ride

More or less by accident I have seen all films starring a rising young actress Liana Liberato. I loved her performance in Trust, a very important film about sexual predators online, directed by David Schwimmer, yes that’s Ross from Friends. It’s one of my 100 favorite films and I rewatch it on DVD every couple of months. I have been following Liana’s career since 2010, so when I saw Free Ride expiring on Netflix, naturally I had to see it. Free Ride is a true story of the film’s director and screenwriter’s mother, who was a drug dealer. Yes, when you think about it, it is real time Weeds. Free Ride lightly covers sad life of a drug dealer and their loved ones. Anna Paquin’s friend was annoying as hell, why does half of the films feature an annoying best friend. The film wasn’t groundbreaking at any point, but it’s always fun to watch a film actually based on true events.

7/10

Buried

I don’t get the puff is about, I have been meaning to watch it for ages, and I was extremely disappointed. Buried was boring, and definitely not thrilling. Go watch Brake with Stephen Dorff and Chyler Leigh it’s very similar, but much more suspenseful that this.

3/10

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Hush

It wasn’t that good, why is everyone so excited about it. The neighbor’s boyfriend was so dumb he believed the killer was a policeman and gave his phone to him. They cast a hearing person for a deaf part, when there are so many unemployed deaf actors. I am not happy with this. This wasn’t some big production to show off a famous actor’s abilities. The one thing I liked about this was that the writer wrote down her last words to her parents the very last minute, I thought that was nice. There are tons of good horror films out there and this is not one of them. A special point for Derek’s killer finally getting what she deserved.

3.5/10

Allegiant

Oh boy, this series again. I started watching it for Naomi Watts, and I did like the first one. It gets worse and worse with each installment. Not true though, the second one was much worse than this one. I wish they could do 7 Hunger Games and just one of Divergent. I do remember there was a fun song in end credits.

4/10

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Earth to Echo

I think I mistook it for some other sci-fi kids film, and it wasn’t Super 8. I remember seeing Super 8 at the movies. I think it was called Wall-e something like that. I chose to watch this because I thought oh yeah It was Oscar nominated so why not. Earth to Echo will only make any impression on you if you’re a primary school kid. It tried to be Goonies at parts, it tried to be E.T. and it failed. The ending was a bit moving, but that’s all because of music. I think if you have kids you should show it to them, if you don’t, don’t watch it.

4/10

Boo

Apparently it was so bad, I can’t recall what it was about.

1/10

Lianna. Naomi And Ely’s No Kiss List. Insurgent. The Search for Santa Paws. Santa Paws 2. Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas. The Veil. Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story.

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

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Quick reviews of some films I’ve seen around Christmas time.

Lianna

Everyone who liked Carol has to see this film. It’s a story about a teacher who has an affair with a married student. It’s so good, you will not want it to end.

8/10

Naomi And Ely’s No Kiss List

The problem with Netflix is it mainly has films you wouldn’t bother to see otherwise, like this title. It was too dramatic and self absorbed, and I wouldn’t recommend it. I had more fun watching that Halloween film with Victoria Justice called Fun Size than this.

3/10

Insurgent

Much worse than the first one, but I did like when Naomi Watts’s character shot Kate Winslet. I am still not a fan of this franchise, and honestly I only watched Divergent when I heard Naomi Watts was going to be in the second one, and I still waited half a year after it came out to watch.

2.5/10

The Search for Santa Paws

Cute and funny, perfect family Christmas film.I thought it would be really bad, but when it was leaving Netflix a month before Christmas, it was just the time to watch it, as I was just getting into my pre-Christmas spirit. The little girl’s singing and all the cuteness was a little too much for any sane adult person, but I understand we were not the targeted audience.

6/10

Santa Paws 2

The sequel is a mistake that should have never happened.The series (I heard there’s a third one!) tries to be Homeward Bound and it just never will. I was checking my instagram and twitter the whole film. I bet little kids would be disappointed too.

1/10

Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas

It gets Christmass-y over here. Another film that Netflix removed before Christmas, I didn’t get the chance to see that other Mickley and friends special. This one took me back to my childhood while I laughed like a crazy kid. After three month, I still remember the 2 stories that I liked, first, when Donald’s nephews wanted to get on the good kids list and  second, when Snoopy ruined Christmas. Definitely seeing that other one someday.

6.5/10

The Veil

If you’re looking for a film about a prophet or a cult, do yourself a favor, go see The Sacrament. I saw The Veil for Lily Rabe, and it the film was just awful. The Sacrament is a masterpiece, this is simply horrible.

2/10

Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story

I don’t even remember this one, other that I really hated it. Don’t watch.

0.5/10

Driving Miss Daisy. Bad Santa. The Pacifier. Apollo 13. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2. Because I said so. Kon-Tiki. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. The Clearing. Sweet November. Plots with a View. Lucky 13.

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Very quick reviews, as I owe you so many of them.

Driving Miss Daisy

A magical experience, everyone needs to encounter.

10/10

Bad Santa

Hands down the best Christmas film. Very dirty. My kind of humor.

I’m on my fucking lunch break, okay!?

8/10

The Pacifier

Cute kids films I’ve seen when it came out.

6.5/10

Apollo 13

A great film, yet lacking something.

9/10

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

A girly film I have always had on dvd, yet always pushed it away. You know middle school, whatever girly, may kill you. My mom liked it much more than I did.

5/10

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2

Worse than the first one, my mom still liked it more than anything else.

4/10

Because I said so

The last scene with the cake falling on the pedestrian’s head is worth seeing the whole film.

3/10

Kon-Tiki

The scenery is everything in this film.

7/10

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

Surprisingly well done.

8/10

The Clearing

Average.

6/10

Sweet November

What a mess.

3/10

Plots with a View

Funny, very British in a good way.

5/10

Lucky 13

If this was supposed to be sweet, it was not.

1.5/10

Philadelphia. Quartet. The Painted Veil. When Harry Met Sally. Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Fireflies in the Garden. Evil Dead. Evolution. Sixteen Candles. Pregnancy Pact. Body of Evidence. Octane. Mirror Mirror. Life-Size. Prosecuting Casey Anthony. The Cat in the Hat.

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Philadelphia

A wonderful film, rewatched to use as reference to The Buyers Club. Fifith favorite Tom Hanks film, I know he’s got that many great ones in his filmography.

Sir, wouldn’t you be more comfortable in a study room?
No. Would it make you more comfortable?

10/10

Quartet

Seems pretty damn excellent and so bloody British to a person who lives in UK and bumps into a Brit person once week. Where did all the English people go?

I’m going to say something very rude to you: Fuck you.

This is not a retirement home, it is a madhouse!

I was pissed.

8/10

The Painted Veil

I was postponing watching this one as it seemed like Love in the Time of Cholera and it was nothing like it, not that it was a good thing. The film had three good scenes and the rest was slightly boring.

For God’s sake, Walter, will you stop punishing me? Do you absolutely despise me?
No. I despise myself.
Why?
For allowing myself to love you once.

It’s raining cats and dogs. I said it’s raining cats and dogs.
Yes, I heard you.
You might have answered.
I suppose I’m not used to speaking unless I’ve something to say.
If people only spoke when they had something to say, the human race would soon lose the power of speech.

You can’t be serious about taking me into the middle of a cholera epidemic.

Please, Mother. The idea that any women should marry any Tom, Dick or Harry regardless of her own feelings is simply prehistoric.

7/10

When Harry Met Sally

Has the whole opposite sexes cannot be friends down very well.

10/10

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Funny is one way to describe it, insane is another.

9/10

Evil Dead

A good remake, a different ending and Jane Levy nicely surprised me.

7/10

Octane

Worst film I’ve seen all year? What is it with the 21st century and vampires anyway? In twenties we had Nosfratu, all the Draculas and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now we have ten shows that are all the same.

Do you know the words of Jesus Christ?
Do you know the words FUCK OFF?

3/10

Mirror Mirror

I feel like everything that was supposed to suck, sucked, also extremely boring.

Ten years passed, and Snow White grew older and blossomed. But the kingdom fell into an icy despair, and the queen realized that if she wanted to remain the most beautiful woman in all the land… well… Snow would have to do what snow does best. Snow would have to fall.

Snow White is dead. One of God’s great mysteries is his plan for each and every one of us…
Speed it up.
Snow White lived, she died, God rest her soul, Amen. There will be a buffet lunch served at two.

3/10

Evolution

Ridiculous, would have turned it off after 5 minutes if i could live without seeing every single Julianne Moore movie.

3/10

Sixteen Candles

More of a teen movie than a coming out one. It’s difficult to rate something that’s too girly for my taste.

I can’t believe this. They fucking forgot my birthday.

That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call ’em something else.

Ahh, eat me.
Who was it? Well what did they want?
Sex.

9/10

Pregnancy Pact

One of the latest Thora Birch films. Remember The Hole or American Beauty or Ghost World or Homeless to Harvard or that film with the monkey that stole stuff. This one was nothing like these. Very uhm, lifetime’y.

So this is what it feels like to be Jamie Lynn Spears.

3/10

Life-Size

Never seen it before, very artificial, not appropriate for children and bad in general.

3/10

Body of Evidence

Was i just watching porn for two hours?

3/10

Prosecuting Casey Anthony

A mediocre documantation of the story we all know and despise to think of.

4/10

The Cat in the Hat

Not bad, for a 5 year old. Never read the book and first time i’m seeing this.

4/10

Howards End. The Bridges of Madison County. Ironweed. Inside Daisy Clover. Eastern Promises. Out of Africa. The Last Picture Show. All is Lost. Deliverance. Timepiece. Silkwood. The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Non-Stop. The Assassination of Richard Nixon. Acceptance. Fireflies in the Garden. The Ladies Club. Vacancy.

20 Tuesday May 2014

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Howards End

Emma Thompson’s acting is always so profound and the film is excellent. Helena Bonham Carter and Anthony Hopkins accompany her just as good. The book is a must read.

10/10

The Bridges of Madison County

Just a love story, but what a good story it is. The scene where Meryl’s character  sees Clint’s character from her truck and knows she chose wrong and falls apart in the car and her husband is irritated with her having a meltdown, a beautifully heartbreaking scene. Fits every relationship where one simple got away. Clint does a spectacular job as a director.

10/10

Ironweed

They sure seemed very homeless. I bought it at once, the plot was all I needed and Jack and Meryl were unrecognizable. One of my favorite scene was followed by my OCD kicking in when she washed her hand in holy water, absolute perfection. This is exactly why we should not go to churches.

10/10

Inside Daisy Clover

Too teen for my taste, but it has Natalie Wood and Robert Redford in it. Although the scene where she burns down the house is a masterpiece.

6/10

Eastern Promises

I did not like it as much as I thought I would. For me it was just another Russian mafia movie, just more intriguing and has Naomi Watts in it.

You were not in fucking KGB!

6/10

Out of Africa

One of the best films ever made. What a story, the film just as good as the biography. Meryl’s Norwegian accent leaves us in awe.

10/10

The Last Picture Show

It was amazing, my favorite role of Cybil Shepherd. Oh how her character messed with boys’ minds. And how losing virginity was so important, we had to witness the nasty but in a sense relatable pool table scene, when she seduces her mother’s boyfriend. God, I just got distracted thinking of The Accused, but nothing beats The Accused. One of the best coming of age films.

9/10

All is Lost

When I heard this film was being made, I was ecstatic. Robert is finally back from his retirement/doing crappy films and it is good. Just enough symbolism in my mind to get me going. Still trying to figure out what the shoe container meant.

10/10

Deliverance

Watched it again, as I can never skip it. One of my favorite films. The rape scene leaves the viewer exhausted and angry at the world, which is just as it should be. This is exactly how low budget films should go. Watch to see excellent acting from the main four Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox and John Voight.

10/10

Timepiece

It sure had it’s atmosphere. A lovely drama, very good for Christmas.

5/10

Silkwood

Favorite Meryl Streep film and one of the best films ever made. Every single scene is breathtaking, what a heroine Karen Silkwood was. A very realistic presentation of working at a power plant/factory. Exactly the conditions you would expect in a radioactive environment. Plus Cher kills it.

10/10

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

One of the very few Meryl Streep films that I just don’t get what the buzz is about.

6/10

Non-Stop

It was all I hoped it would be. All I need is seeing my favorite actors doing everyday life things. Seeing Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson flying in economic class, sleeping on the plane and generally behaving like every other person was extremely entertaining. One of my most favorite thrillers of this century. I even stopped comparing it to Flight Plan, which is just the most addictive film for me along with Panic Room. Non Stop will be played non-stop at my house the minute I buy it on Blu-Ray.

10/10

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Lacked something, but the failed assassination and the motive of Sean Penn’s character make it worth watching. For me personally the film just needed more Naomi Watts.

6/10

Acceptance

A disappointment, but Joan Cusack kept it funny. A very light view on college admission process, a satisfying ending.

3/10

Fireflies in the Garden

Eight months after watching it and I cannot tell you much about it. That’s how unmemorable it was. All I can tell you is that Julia Roberts played a deceased mother and there were some flashbacks. Just an average drama.

5/10

The Ladies Club

Excellent take on rape and revenge genre. Extremely underrated.

6/10

Vacancy

Lacking something, but in the end good enough.

5/10

 

The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio. A Map of the World. Laws of Attraction. Don Jon. Carrie. Next. Rommates. The Shipping News. Diana. Mysterious Skin. The Best Little Girl in the World. Clueless. Kramer vs Kramer. Gravity. Say anything. Girls just want to have fun. Loverboy. Ice Princess. While you were sleeping. Arthur Christmas. Trust the Man. The Sounds of Music Live Musical.

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The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio

Every single scene of this movie, especially the one when she falls on the glass, amazing. I know it was a small film, but Julie should have been nominated for an Academy Award for her compelling performance.

10/10

A map of the world

What a beautiful movie, all of it. Even the awkward kissing the neighbor was in place. Julianne Moore and Sigourney Weaver in one film, yeah It could not get better.

10/10

Laws of Attraction

One of my favorite romantic comedies. It lifts me up, like nothing else. I’ve seen it 5 times this week.

What is this, medical waste in a glass?

10/10

Don Jon

Yes, it was Julie Moore week. Don Jon is slutty, but funny, and it ended just like I wanted, with him picking up the right woman, not the slut.

I’m sorry this may be rude but were you just watching people fucking on your phone right now?Did you just called me lady?

I just thought you could use something better than that shit you’re watching on your phone, am I right?

It’s actually pretty good. It’s pretty hot.

If you have a girlfriend, why are you watching dirty movies?

You’re fucking weird, you know that?
I don’t entirely disagree, but you’re the one who’s gonna go pretend to be texting while you watch people pretend they’re fucking on your phone.

Of course they are.

I swear to God I just fell asleep during that entire class. The whole fucking thing.

I really shouldn’t get so high after launch if i’m gonna be coming here later.

It is pretty boring, don’t you think?
I said this class is pretty fucking boring.

They give awards for porn too.

This fucking lady.

10/10

Carrie

Woah the Margaret’s self harm scenes and the last one of Margaret and Carrie on the floor. Every scene with Julianne actually, I am so happy I got to see it at the movies! Judy Greer’s character was fine too. For some reason so different from the original, Julianne’s Margaret completely fresh, and everyone thought that would be impossible to beat or show differently, and did I mention the self harm scenes?

10/10

Next

Loved it, and if you like people who can see into the future, then you will too. Being an FBI agent just suits Julie.

8/10

Rommates

‘Would it help if I cursed at you in Polish?’

Oh yes it would.

Weird representation of Polish people, but an okay film after all.

7/10

The Shipping News

The rape scene and when he comes all wasted and tries to make a move at her, and the house falling apart and her husband leaving all so good.

If I end up with strechmarks I’ll sue his ass.

Why are we talking about my husband?

When someone hurts you that much how do you…does it ever go away? Is it possible?

My father rapes his little sister and then he taught me how to swim.

You’re always sorry.

8/10

Diana

I am so disappointed with this one, when I heard Naomi would portray Diana I thought Yay she’s finally getting an Oscar, and even though her performance was great, the film itself was not good enough to get any recognition, it was crushed by critics, actually and I cannot really argue. If it was any other actress as Diana I would still watch it, just to see how Diana’s life was portrayed, but most of all how they decided to show her death. Here it was really tactful, they did not show the actual crush and I am not sure if I am disappointed or think it was a really respectful ending. Is Naveen Andrews really the best Pakistani actor out there? I never see any other Pakistani actors turn up in more than one movie. I wonder why they decided to show the love affair that was just so boring and did not draw any conclusions as to why she was killed. I may be talking about possible conspiracies, but they did not show how her death affected the world, that it would mess up military plans, that Clinton decided to vote against and that she did not marry a Pakistani, which would have been a scandal, but would change the position of other Asian countries, even though we see Pakistani own everything in the UK now without Diana’s help. I did not see it at the cinema, I was not sure if I should go or wait and I am not mad at myself that I didn’t. I am sad that one of the two films with Naomi I really looked forward to this year, turned out to be a disappointment.

5/10

Mysterious Skin

I actually saw it before Don Jon, I did not even think I would see Don Jon a month later, but the film was truly incredible. Better than Don Jon without a doubt, shows sexual abuse with so many little details. The Ufo talk was slightly getting on my nerves, but it was absolutely understandable. All the flashbacks were shot very beautifully.

10/10

Kramer vs Kramer

There are so many films like Kramer vs Kramer, where people fight custody, take it to court and the one person that the judge decided should get a kid and of course it is always the wrong one, decides to not take the kid. I am not thinking of I am Sam at this moment or oh Judging Amy even came to my kind while writing this, but really every family movie.

10/10

The Best Little Girl in the World

Not my favorite ED movie, and why does every ED movie end with a girl eating what she would consider a binge food and why does in every ED film the girl’s friend have to die and why cannot every ED film be as good as Sharing the Secret or The Secret Between Friends?

8/10

Clueless

I just love this movie, everything about it. The way Alicia Silverstone talks and acts in this film is amazing. I wish she did a similar role to this one in the 90s.

10/10

Gravity

Not as great as Contact, but okay. Loved the scene after she passed out and saw George’s character and I thought Sandra gave a fine performance.

Na zdrowie.

9/10

Girls just want to have fun

Fun at parts.

7/10

Say anything

Yes, 80s teen films are the best! Great, but could be better.

7/10

Loverboy

Hilarious, especially the parts where his parents think he’s gay and find all the evidence to prove that.

Our son is a flower.

8/10

While you were sleeping

Great romcom.

8/10

Ice Princess

A cute family movie, Joan Cusack killed it, as always. Kim Cattrall was fabulous to.

7/10

Arthur Christmas

Long and nothing special, why cannot every Christmas animated movie be as good as The Polar Express? Watched it only for Laura Linney.

4/10

Trust the Man

I am not enjoying Bart’s films, I have seen three so far and every single one of them lacks in writing and wit and the story line is always just bearable. The only good scene was the one when Julie was narrating the porn film with the worst stage direction she’s seen. Can we talk about the guy who was always touchy feely with her? I know it is not usually the case and young actors try to behave themselves not to ruin their carrier, but here he always found a way to get close to her. In real world is different, because when we see a guy like that we just tell him to get lost and he usually loses interest, but in the movie business, I do not know why she did not mention that to director and I cannot even imagine how terrible that must feel. I am biased because I am not sure if I am happy with it, as it showed how exhausting life an actress can be or disappointed because we did not get to see how this story line ended and she did not tell him to piss off.

3/10

The Sounds of Music Live Musical

Audra, Carrie and Laura killed it. There is this one scene that bothers me, and I know it should not, because it is a family musical, but my mind always ends up going there; when she comes back to the sisters all crying wanting to come back and the sister does not ask her if something happened to her, if maybe possibly the captain tried to take advantage of her, or she did not ask if she even likes him, she just says that having a man is better than being a sister. The kids were not annoying at all surprisingly, not as good as the movie, obviously, but a nice way to spend a cold evening.

7/10

Ellie Parker. Catching Fire. The Outsider. The Shaft. King Kong. Bermuda Triangle. My father the hero. I heart chuckabees. Movie 43. Children of the corn IV. Tank Girl. The Others. A wish upon the star. Pretty Persuasion. Eden Lake. Jewtopia.

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Ellie Parker

People who don’t like it clearly haven’t been struggling actors. Painfully true and relevant.

8/10

Catching Fire

10/10

The Outsider

Oh I just love this one.

9/10

The Shaft

Oh I loved it. Every little piece of it.

7.5/10

King Kong

What a great remake.

10/10

My father the hero

7/10

I heart chuckabees

Hilarious.

8/10

Bermuda Triangle

6/10

Movie 43

3/10

Children of the corn IV

9/10

Rabbits

7/10

Jewtopia

5/10

The Others

7/10

Eden Lake

9/10

Pretty persuasion

7/10

Wish upon a star

7/10

Tank Girl

3/10

Index of all the films reviewed on this blog.

08 Sunday Sep 2013

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Index, starting with the latest and ending with the oldest. All the films reviewed since October 2010. I will make an alphabetical index soon.

Vera. Jury Duty. Defiance. Joy Division. The Perfect Husband. The Laci Peterson Story. Converstations with Other Women. A Case of You. All Roads Lead to Rome

The Girl in the Book. Lions for Lambs. Gone. My Sweet Audrina. Admission. Charlie’s Farm. Containment. The Abandoned.

Fathers and Daughters. Anesthesia. Miss You Already. Max. The Barefoot Executive. Bushwacked. The 33. Vacation. Wicked Little Things. The Killing Room. Charming Christmas. Indigenous. Jamie Marks is Dead.

Me and Earl and The Dying Girl. House Arrest. The Little Rascals. I Spit on Your Grave 3. Hocus Pocus. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Shutter. Window Wonderland.

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Paper Towns. The Man Who Knew Too Little. When Calls the Heart. Hidden. The Visit. The Gift. The Gallows. Sharknado 3

Driving Miss Daisy. Bad Santa. The Pacifier. Apollo 13. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2. Because I said so. Kon-Tiki. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. The Clearing. Sweet November. Plots with a View. Lucky 13.

Little Miss Sunshine. This is Where I Leave You. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The Myth of the Fingerprints. Titus. The Assault. My Sister’s Keeper. Evan Almighty. Violet & Daisy. Annabelle. The Purge 2 : Anarchy. Deliver Us from Evil. Poat Grad. Mr Woodcock.

The Help. Everybody’s All American. The Babadook. Take Shelter. Night and the City. The Guilt Trip. Before I Go to Sleep. If I Stay. As Above, So Below. Snakes on a Plane. Ouija. Horrible Bosses. Into the Storm. The Turning. Stage Fright.

Now And Then. The Manchurian Candidate. The Proposition. The Maze Runner. Child’s Play 3. The Dorm

Spy. The Fault in Our Stars. Tomorrowland. Insidious 3. Recess: School’s Out.

Clouds of Sils Maria. Clockwatchers. Manglehorn. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.

Delivery Man. Bad Words. Lemon Tree Passage. The Alphabet Killer.

Little Birds. Cape Fear. The Secret Lives of Dorks. Swiss Family Robinson

Hope Floats. American Reunion. Independence Day. Parental Guidance. Yours, mine and ours. Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th Remake. It Follows

Flash of Genius. Heller in Pink Tights. Ghosts of the Abyss. Nightwatch. Mixed Nuts. Grease 2. The Bling Ring. Jesse Ston: Thin Ice. First Daughter.

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade. American Pie. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. Who is Clark Rockefeller? Rachel Getting Married. The Wedding Pact

Welcome to the Dollhouse. At Middleton. The Calling. Mom’s Night Out. The Family Stone. Babysitter’s Black Book. Nothing Like the Holidays.

Birdman. Cake. Paddington. Alexander and the Horrible Terrible Not so Good Nad Very Bad Day. The Gambler. Adult World. The Notebook. The Best of Me. Dear John.

The Theory of Everything. Boyhood. The Imitation Game. Unbroken. Whiplash. Big Eyes. Into the Woods. Selma. Inherent Vice.

The Goonies. The Apartment. Jaws. The Social Network. Along Came A Spider. Death Valley. Wind Chill.

Gone Girl.

Mockingjay Part 1.

Philadelphia. Quartet. The Painted Veil. When Harry Met Sally. Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Fireflies in the Garden. Evil Dead. Evolution. Sixteen Candles. Pregnancy Pact. Body of Evidence. Octane. Mirror Mirror. Life-Size. Prosecuting Casey Anthony. The Cat in the Hat.

The Heat. Europa Europa. Blue is the Warmest Color. Standing Up. Speed. Speed 2. Freaky Friday. Children of Men. Freedomland. Very Good Girls. Dead End. Stuck in Love. Miss Congeniality. Miss Congeniality 2. The Haunting in Connecticut 2. A Daughter’s Nightmare. Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. All About Steve. Texas Chainsaw 3. The Possession. Oculus. Candleshoe. All about Steve. But I’m a Cheerleader. Consent. G.B.F. Tarzan. Starving in Suburbia. Haunt. Blindness. Excision.

Absolute Power. The Details. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Sometimes They Come Back Again. Thinner. Cat’s Eye. Inside Man. Twelve Monkeys. The Governor’s Daughter. Closet Land. Being Flynn. The Big Lebowski. Marie and Bruce.

Howards End. The Bridges of Madison County. Ironweed. Inside Daisy Clover. Eastern Promises. Out of Africa. The Last Picture Show. All is Lost. Deliverance. Timepiece. Silkwood. The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Non-Stop. The Assassination of Richard Nixon. Acceptance. Fireflies in the Garden. The Ladies Club. Vacancy.

The Way We Were. The Electric Horseman. An Unfinished Life. Ordinary People. Educating Rita.

The Good Student. I Know What You Did Last Smmer. Flirting. Helter Skelter. The Crush. Unlawful Entry. Helter Skelter. Can’t Buy Me Love. The Babysitter. The Crush. The Simpsons : The Longest Daycare. Frozen. Monsters, inc. Toy Story 3. Dear Dumb Diary. Lipstick.

Captain Phillips. Dallas Buyers Club. August Osage County. Saving Mr Banks. 12 Years a Slave. Her. The Wolf of Wall Street. American Hustle. Revenge. Blink. China Moon. Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio. A Map of the World. Laws of Attraction. Don Jon. Carrie. Next. Rommates. The Shipping News. Diana. Mysterious Skin. The Best Little Girl in the World. Clueless. Kramer vs Kramer. Gravity. Say anything. Girls just want to have fun. Loverboy. Ice Princess. While you were sleeping. Arthur Christmas. Trust the Man. The Sounds of Music Live Musical.

Ellie Parker. Catching Fire. The Outsider. The Shaft. King Kong. Bermuda Triangle. My father the hero. I heart chuckabees. Movie 43. Children of the corn IV. Tank Girl. The Others. A wish upon the star. Pretty Persuasion. Eden Lake. Jewtopia.

Saving Private Ryan. Heavenly Creatures. 3096 Tage. Fast times at Ridgemont High. Adore. The Girl. Jaws 2. Carrie. We Were Soldiers. Mary and Martha. Avenging Angelo. Bad Girls. Short Cuts. The Addams Family. The Addams Family 2. Crazy in Alabama. Curse of Chucky. Resident Evil 2. Revolutionary Road. Vampires. House of cards. White Squall. The Way Way Back. Cherry Falls. The Happening. The Sleepwalking Killings. The Blue Eyed Butcher. Static. Ramona and Beazus. Pora Mroku.

The Breakfast Club. Terms of Endearment. Lost and delirious. The Departed. Insidious 2. Mama. Cracks. We’re the Millers. You’re Next. Don’t say a word. I Spit On Your Grave 2. The Interpreter. Something Borrowed. License to Wed. Resident Evil. Made of Honour. Perfume: The story of a murderer. A Fish called Wanda. This Means War. Scary Movie 5. Albino Farm. Train. Fun Size. Liz & Dick. Dark Tide. Kraken.

The English Teacher. What Maisie Knew. Children of a Lesser God. Restless Virgins. Blow Dry. Me myself I. Hotel New Hampshire. Mental. Muriel’s Wedding. Maverick. The Conjuring. Elysium. Trespass. The Departiate. The Descendants. Frequency. The Suicide Shop. Simpsons The Movie. Frankenweenie. Easy. The Space Between.

Lincoln. Silver Linings Playbook. Not Without My Dayghter. Mrs Doubfire. Catch Me If You Can. Sinister. Nine Miles Down. Taken 2. The Assassins. Losing Isaiah. Unknown. The Cave. Freshman Fall. Little Black Book. Girl Fight. The Internship. Rogue. Bunnyman.

Stoker. Contact. Hitchcock. The Laramie Project. Anna and the king. Smokey and the Bandit. The conjuring. The Purge. The Call. The Big Wedding. World War Z. World traveler. The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Benny and Joon. Monsters University. Enchanted. Snow White and the huntsman. Hangover 3. Spring Breakers.

The End of The Affair. Hannibal. Psycho. Crazy. Stupid. Love. Savage Grace.

Midnight Cowboy. Lost in Translation. The Kids Are All Right. The Truman Show. Martha Mary Marcy Marlene. Sala Samobójców The Suicide Room

The Morning After. The China Syndrome. Interiors. Testament. The Day After Tomorrow. Missing. Fargo. Capote. The Graduate. Megan is Missing.

They shoot horses, don’t they? Les Miserables. The Impossible. Hyde Park on Hudson. Jindabyne. Maze. Coming Home. Tommy. The face on the Milk Carton. On the Edge of Innocence. Daughters. Confessions of a Go-Go girl. Why my daughter? Selling innocence.

Trust. Poker House. The Perfect Family. The Prime of Miss Joan Brodie. Sinister. The Hunger Games. Eye for an Eye. Punchline. Kika. The Perks of Being A Wallflower. Augusta, Gone. The House at the End of the Street. The Pitch Perfect. Beyond the Blackboard. ATM. The Crazies. Underground The Julian Assange Story. Mom at Sixteen.

Born on the 4th of July. Klute. Chloe. Schinler’s List. Loving Annabelle. Far From Heaven. Magnolia. A Single Man. The Unforgotten. Shelter. The New Daughter. Game Change. Elevator.

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.

Steel Magnolias. Enter Nowhere. Sybil. Carriers. Detention. The Art of Getting By. The 19th Wife. Brake. The Awakening. Doubt. Funny Games US. The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer. Mulholland Drive. World Trade Center. The Accused. Taxi Driver. Nell. The Dangerous Lives of the Altar Boys. Flight Plan. The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane. The Brave One.

Secretary. A Lonely Place To Die. Norma Rae. Painful Secrets. Carjacked. The Yellow Handkerchief. Welcome to the Rileys. The Messagner. The Woman in Black. Panic Room. Chernobyl. The Treatment. Silent House. The Innkeepers. I Don’t Know How She Does it. New Year’s Eve. Head Of State. The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker. Invention of Lying. Piranha 3DD.

Very Annie Mary. Cabin in the Woods. Hell. Beautiful Kate. Seven Below. Off The Map. Lake Placid. Butterfly On a Wheel. History of Violence. Answers to Nothing. Blood Runs Cold. Kaboom.

Cold Creek Manor. Devil. Anonymous. The Human Stain.

Feast of love. For Lovers Only. Stiletto. Bond of Silence. Angel’s Crest. Remember Alice Bell?

Dream House. Contagion. Hidden 3D. 21 grams. Stay.

Kinsey. You can Count on Me. Squid and the Whale. The Mystic River. The Savages. P.S. The Other Man.

Downloading Nancy. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her. Mother and child. Shark Night. The Runaways.

Valentine’s Day. PuppetMaster. Life as we know it. Gifted Hands. 27 dresses. Easy A. Anacondas Haunting for the Blood Orchid. The Resident. Conviction. Chopping Mall. Insidious. Step Up 3. The Amityville Horror. Village of the Damned. Jawbreaker. 30 days of night. Triangle. Frozen. Stake Land. The Shrine. The Reef. The Ruins. Case 39. Final Destination 5. The Betrayed. Choose. Held Hostage. Derailed. Piranha. When a stranger calls. The quiet. Speak. She fought Alone. Eat Pray Love. Rec. Quarantine. Mr. and Mrs. Killer. Road Train. Don’t be afraid of the Dark.

I Saw the Devil. Harry Potter 7 part 2. Monsters. Somewhere. Tomorrow when the war began. Old school. Cyberbully. Moonlight Mile. Daredevil. Fright Night. Night Fright. Sleepaway Camp. Super 8. I spit on your grave. Descent. Creepshow. Descent 2. Last House on the Left. Last House on the Left remake.

Hanna. Black Swan. Rest stop. The Strangers. Secret Window. The Age of Innocence. The Uninvited. The Hills Run Red. Valentine. The Mesmerist. Alice Sweet Alice. Pleasantville. Maniac. Devils rejects. Night of living dead. Basket Case. Grinhouse, Planet Terror. Sugar and Spice. Melancholia. Larry Crowne. Donnie Darko. Soul Surfer. Bubble Boy. Odd Girl Out. Saw 5. Minority Report. Ice Cream Man. The Haunting In Connecticut.

Dead Silence. Fame. Water for elephants. Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Evil Dead. Silence of the lambs. Exorcism of Emily Rose. An American Haunting. The Orphan. The Ward.

Scre4m. Just Go with It. The Switch. Little Nicky. Red Eye. Ghost World. Cursed. The Dark. The Husk. My soul to Take. Lymelife. Broken. Butcher House. Imagine me and You. The Haunting. Hatchet. Blair Witch Project. Lost things.

How Do You Know? Hit and Run. Amusement. Insane. The Cycle. Glory Road.

Boogeyman. It’s kind of a funny story. Birds. I Spit on your Grave. Tourist. Harry Potter 7.

Black Christmas. Happy Hell Night. Slaughter High. Under the Tuscan Sun. The Heat. Nancy Drew. Santa Claus 3. The Proposal.

American Psycho, The Shortcut, Night of the Demons, Asylum

Ring. Ring 2. Silent Hill. Grunge. Flock.

Daylight. Wit. 88 minutes.

Not Another Teen Movie, Repulsion, Forget Me Not, Prayers for Bobby, 4.3.2.1, Antichrist

Hills Have Eyes, Resident Evil, Legion

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This website started in 2010 as weekly reviews of 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, mostly thanks to bad habits gained by spending many hours a day on Letterboxd.

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I rate films within genre. I watch a lot of films on Mubi, Filmbox Arthouse. My favourite directors are Yasujiro Ozu, Ken Loach, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Zhang Yimou, Roberto Rossellini, Ingmar Bergman, Brian De Palma, Vittorio De Sica and Andrzej Wajda. My favourite actresses have always been Jodie Foster, Sally Field and Julianne Moore. I’m nostalgic and reminisce a lot. I’m at the cinema 10 times a month. And I’m a Polish-British millennial.

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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

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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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