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Film Reviews: I Care a Lot. Kajillionaire. Amy. Tales From the Darkside. Strange Planet. Across the Universe. Return to Horror High. R.L. Stine Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls. The Expecting

20 Thursday May 2021

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I Care a Lot

This could easily be mistaken for a sequel to Gone Girl. Rosamund sounds a lot like Geena Davis in this film. Pike has been in so many good movies since I first saw her in Pride and Prejudice. I was also surprised to see Alicia Witt in a non-Hallmark movie. I didn’t know being a legal guardian is an actual job, or that someone could be a legal guardian of someone they don’t know personally. Maybe we should all consider it.

‘You’re my guardian robber!’

8/10

Kajillionaire

I would watch more than fourteen episodes of Jane the Virgin if it was this gay. Seeing characters who cannot afford to shower never have greasy hair is one of my biggest pet peeves.

This is the 5000th film l’ve logged on Letterboxd!

7/10

Amy

This is touching, funny and very Australian. The script is flawed, the last 30 min has two extemely random and unnecessary plots, a drunk chasing the girl and random youth trying to kidnap her. I have now seen almost everything Rachel Griffiths has been in.

7/10

Tales from the Darkside

I’ve been watching reruns of Tales from the Darkside and thought I’d re-watch this in between. Julianne Moore stars and shines in the first 40 minutes of the film. While some stories are clearly better than others, it’s still an entertaining ride.

6/10

Strange Planet

I tried buying this on DVD five or six years ago, I got it on Ebay and the film I received was a different title (it was Next with Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore, which I already had on DVD). I never complained, because I only paid a couple of quid, but it took me this long to reach for the film again.

6/10

Across the Universe

Some songs worked better than others, the film’s version of Come Together worked extremely well. The film looses its plot, literally, and turns into an abstract piece no one asked for. The differences between the US and the UK are jarring. Who would want to live in our tiny semi-detached UK houses, when there’s all that space in America? When this came out, my middle school English teacher spent a good month telling us about this film, and yet it took me 14 years to watch it.

6/10

Return to Horror High

This randomly played on TV and it seemed exactly like something I would have loved as a teenager. I loved 80s slashers, so I decided to watch this. Young George Clooney stars in a tiny role and his character is the first person to die. I was expecting something similar to Slaughter High, but got a very average horror instead. It still made me want to check out the first Horror High though.

5/10

R.L. Stine Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls

There are three Fear Street movies coming to Netflix this summer and I’m looking forward to them. Goosebumps was my life as a kid, both the TV show and books. I have about 30 books somewhere in my parents’ house I will never give away. Letterboxd doesn’t even credit R.L Stine with writing the novel this was based on and I completely forgot this existed until it appeared on Netflix earlier this week. I will forever watch anything R.L. Stine. I remember watching the Haunted Mask and Slappy episodes of Goosebumps, among many others, like it was yesterday.

6/10

The Expecting

This was directed by Mary Harron, who directed American Psycho? I never would have guessed. I also would not have guessed that this is the role AnnaSophia Robb shaved her head for. The scene in the bathroom with blood dripping down AnnaSophia’s legs reminded me of the scene with Hilary Swank noticing blood dripping down AnnaSophia’s legs in The Reaping, 14 years ago. Also, Cassie from Skins is also in this.

First and last Quibi original I’ll ever watch. RIP, Quibi.

4/10

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist 1.01. The Simpsons 31.11. Carol’s Second Act 1.11. Grace and Frankie 6.01-6.06. When We Rise 1.03-1.05. Modern Family 11.11. Modern Family 11.12. The Goldbergs 7.11. The Goldbergs 7.12

26 Sunday Jan 2020

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New year, same old me. My family and I are rewatching Desperate Housewives and I’m honestly so happy. This show has been a part of my life for so many years, and this refresher was just much needed. It will probably take us 6 months to watch it all and I cannot wait for these Wednesday and Sunday evenings. Back when it was still on air, my favourite characters were Lynette, Bree, Edie, Katherine, and Andie. We’ve only rewatched season 1 so far, but I seem to like Bree more than Lynette now? It’s been 9 years, which is more than enough perspective and even though my goals haven’t really changed, I have learned a lot about myself in those 9 years, I now know what I want from life, and I know what makes me happy. I’m also healthier, and as a result, happier, which is the most important thing in the world.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist 1.01

Gilmore Girls’s Lauren Graham and Suburgatory’s Jane Levy are back on my TV in this musical comedy. Lauren’s character’s name is Joan and action takes place in my favourite city,  San Francisco, so I’m sold. Lauren and Jane work at a start up and Jane is hoping Lauren’s character promotes her to a managerial role. One of the characters is going through a rough patch, and sings ‘Mad World’. The main character’s dad had a stroke and cannot communicate or react to anything that’s going on around him. It’s quite predictable, as her gift lets her know what her dad is feeling. It’s hard to rate this episode, because I…cried through the entire thing? The depression and dad’s health issues storylines moved me.

Why are you singing to me?
Child, I’m completely baked. I got nothing going on in my head now.
The song he sang only to you may have been his cry for help.
We live in a really mad world, but if you open up and express what you’re feeling to others then it’s gotta be better than what you’re doing now. Living you whole life in your head, like this prison my dad is in now, it’s torture.

6/10

The Simpsons 31.11

I have watched all 31 seasons, and it struggles to find new storylines and be funny at this point. In this episode, Marge’s ex-boyfriend emerges and builds a robot that looks exactly like her and then attempts to marry her.

Don’t you see why I hate this?
Because you hate everything?

1/10

Carol’s Second Act 1.11

I was really disappointed to learn there’s no episode this week. This episode wasn’t the show’s best though.

They don’t just care, they care intensively.

3/10

Grace and Frankie 6.01

Grace has secretly gotten married and is moving out.

If it helps, I’m giving you away now.

5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.02

Frankie’s smile when she saw Grace’s name come up on her phone. Frankie getting Grace off the toilet is ultimate friendship goals.

Give me a hug.
Hi Mom!
I don’t even let my kids call me that.
Tell me why we should keep this Happy Meal toy from 1988?
It’s a collector’s item.
What about these welding woman magazines from the 1970s? Do you weld?
Not as much.
Where would be a good place for it?
The floor? But I know that’s not right.
How many necklaces do you need?
Some of them are belts.
If you were a good teacher, you would know every child learns differently.

6.5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.03

Death row inmates are entitled to their last meal.

5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.04

Princess stuck on the can.
The bottoms up.
Designed to gently lift you with a single touch of a button.

5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.05

I told you I’m not gonna do a sex podcast with you.
I wouldn’t know, you won’t let me see you perform.

5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.06

The response from customers at Costco.
Where is the chicken in that place?
Shitter beat toilet.

5/10

When We Rise 1.03

Rachel Griffiths and Mary-Louise Parker star as grown up versions of the main characters. When Parenthood’s Sam Jaeger’s character dies, his family kicks his partner out of the house. The third main character looks after a baby, and when he wants to foster him, social workers find his HIV medication and take the baby away.

I am proud of my son and his friends.
The president and Mrs Clinton.
You sir can end this.
We’re lesbians.
We support students of all backgrounds.
When did we become such dykes.
We were always dykes.
His wife took him this morning.
We have to take this baby.

8/10

When We Rise 1.04

Did you travel abroad?
I traveled with a broad.
Take a lap around this ward.
We were in love. The kind of love that makes people cross the oceans, have babies and grow old together. And if we were straight, we would have designed our entire lives around that. But two women, then, we had no words for it, no paradime, nothing and you’re right. It’s my lack of vision that’s kept me from having this, a family. The truth is we’re not done yet.

6/10

When We Rise 1.05

This generation has grew up with Ellen and Will and Grace.

10/10

Modern Family 11.11

Finally a fantastic episode. This show is so much better without Phil and Claire’s kids. Phil’s dad dies and he never met his great grnd children.

All this childhood memorbilia.
But there’s no room for my baby teeth.
When all the dogs get back their income tax return.
I just came through the unsecure back door.
BJ – Blue Jeans.
I see light. Should I go towards it?
I was ready to bite my own arm off.
I still have the tooth you lost to a marshmallow.
Oh so that one you kept.
Your mother could have been a competitive eater. No foof ever expired in our house.
Guys I just saw a ghost.
Oh, girls, grab your things, we’re going.
11 year old Manny would feel disgusted by me.
Well now you know how 12 year old Lily feels.
A swooper.
A swooper? Lily grab your things. Not a smoke demon that terroroses farm children.
Back up, back up. Keep going.
Joe save up 6 months allowance and donated it all to charity. It’s one of those rare moments as a dad when you realise you really dropped the ball.
How you survived the golden age of bullying I will never understand.
I can get into this CSI train.
Locating my diary from ’83.
Everybody warned me this would happen.
Hi Cam.
You wish.
I never even saw Gloria go into the dressing room.
Maybe you should try the dress on that lady’s wearing.
You paid the speech specialist to shame it out of me.
Not the hot one.
Will you throw in a puppy?
It’s a miracle you didn’t need police escort to school every day.

10/10

Modern Family 11.12

And…. we’re back to mediocrity.

I came in here to die.
He’s making plans for the future.
That’s why you have rivals, it’s something to live for.
Hold on, let me write this down.

1.5/10

The Goldbergs 7.11

Murray learns he’s actually a year younger than he thought he was and celebrates his 50th birthday, once more. Surprisingly good, the show hasn’t had a good episode in a while, so this was a nice surprise.

10/10

The Goldbergs 7.12

And we’re back to it being bad again. I didn’t even write anything down about Schooled, because it’s not memorable at all.

Jodie Foster?

0.5/10

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.

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Captain Phillips

10/10

Dallas Buyers Club

10/10

August Osage County

10/10

Saving Mr Banks

10/10

12 years a Slave

10/10

Her

8/10

The Wolf of Wall Street

7/10

American Hustle

7/10

Blink

8/10

Revenge

8/10

China Moon

8/10

Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Good until she married the old guy. I really thought it was going somewhere.

4/10

Fall TV Season

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

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I am so ready for the fall season to start. I hope I will be able to mourn Dexter but still get excited about other shows. I have made my peace with The Big C ending and Cathy dying. I still haven’t seen the finale of Private Practice, I’m still too fragile to say goodbye. I am waiting for some special occasion, but yesterday was my 20th birthday and the finale was right there on my dvr and I chose to watch earlier episodes of the season instead. I’m starting to think I’ll never be ready. I just think It needs to be a special day, and I simply haven’t had one since January. I miss Addie and Violet and seeing Kate and Amy on my screen. I hate that so many of my shows are ending, like I haven’t had enough changes. I have said goodbye to The Big C, I still haven’t recovered from The Killing cancelletion. I truly don’t feel like starting a new show. There are too many changes and disappointments in my life right now. Private Practice, The Big C ended. Dexter ends in 2 days. Go On, not the best, but my favorite new show of the fall 2012 got cancelled. The Killing, a great show that I have started watching less than 2 months ago got cancelled. Camp, a cute and fun summer show won’t probably make it and a half of the shows I watch don’t come back till January. I was desperate to find a new show to fill this empty space and started watching shows I promised I never would and there are only two shows still on air that I love unconditionally and never fail to surprise me. And I hate that. I hate changes, feeling like I’ve failed at life and have no purpose and most of all, I hate being an adult.

Camp Season 1

14 Saturday Sep 2013

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What a great show, hoping for the second season. A great companion for summer 2013. It was a sweet show and seeing Rachel Griffiths back on my screen every week of the summer was amazing and if there won’t be a season two, and summer ahead will always feel like it is missing something.

1. 10
2. 6
3. 3
4. 10
You made a mistake. But this isn’t who you are, don’t let it be.
Is it better to regret the things you did or the things you didn’t?
5. 10
6. 10
7. 3
8. 4
9. 10
10. 5

7.1/10

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

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.

05 Thursday Sep 2013

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I am going through some serious withdrawals, and I’m forcing myself not to start a new show. Thankfully I finally have time to watch some films, better or worse ones, still make me incredibly happy.

The English Teacher

What does he think of all this?
He said I should go to law school. I have to do something and law school is something.
Oh no.
So I’m probably gonna do that.
Oh Jason.
All great art comes from pain, remember that.
You can’t go three feet in this school without hearing about you and Shakespeare doing it in the classroom.
Hey, Miss Sinclair, I wanna bend you over your desk.

6.5/10

What Maisie Knew

I need the soundtrack.

8.5/10

Children of a Lesser God

10/10

Restless Virgins

The final monologue was amazing.

I watch a lot of Grey’s Anatomy.

It’s not often you have a moment when you actually feel yourself throwing up, figuring out that what we wanted was less important than who we were. I wanted to get into an ivy league school, but not at the cost of my soul.

Now none of us new exactly what the future held. So much for the five year plan. Although maybe that was the best that come out from all of this. Figuring out that life doesn’t stop just because plans change. George Bernard once wrote ‘Youth is wasted on the young’. Hey George, you can have it.

7/10

Blow Dry

Excellent.

9/10

Me myself I

It reminds me of Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow, where she did and didn’t make it to the train, it’s just better.
When is mommy gonna be home.
It’s like another life.
Sure seems like one.
Damn you, cannot take away her life.
Absolutely loved it.

10/10

Hotel New Hampshire

What a great movie.

8/10

Mental

Hilarious.

5/10

Muriel’s wedding

So much love for this one.

Now my life is as good as dancing queen.

10/10

Maverick

The poker parts and the wit.

8/10

The Conjuring

7/10

Elysium

Without Jodie this film would suck, and why the hell did they kill her off?

4/10

Trespass

Loved it.

7.5/10

The Departiate

Fine, but nothing special.

4/10

The Descendants

A fine film.

7/10

Frequency

The flashbacks and the calls were great.

4/10

The suicide shop

Loved it until they all decided to live happily.

6/10

Simpsons The Movie

If only it was realistic.

7/10

Frankenweenie

I haven’t seen the original so I can’t compare it to anything, but the Tim Burton drawings and the creepy atmosphere were truly intriguing.

5/10

Easy

The low budget screams through the movie, but it was not that bad. I was streaming take off that neck thing through the entire film.

Shes the one and in just an easy chick.
I just don’t wanna do what I ve been doing it hurts too much.
Im celibate.
What’s that like?
Remember you showed me your lisense you looked like homer Simpson.

5/10

The Space Between

Good, though at times too slow.

You wanted a happy lady you should have hired Mary Fucking Poppins to take you home. Yes I know I said a bad word.

7/10

Dexter 8.03. Dexter 8.04. Dexter 8.05. Dexter 8.06. Camp 1.05. Switched At Birth 2.19 Pretty Little Liars 4.09

07 Wednesday Aug 2013

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Dexter 8.03

Harrison ate all the popsicles and it looked like a crime scene. Late night eating, we’ve all been there.
Deb keeps getting wasted.
Exactly what my reaction would be if I hit that pole.
It’s just so unusual.
Are we done I need a fucking nap.
How do you know I’m hangover?
Awesome, fucking awesome.
Fuck Dexter I don’t have time for this, you know? I have to find out if some rich asshole is banging some chick which he probably is so that I can tell her and she can get a killer divorce settlement and they can move on with their stupid fucking boring lives. And I can move on with mine. Cause this is my life now.
He could be hunting me right now or he could be selling fitness equipment at the mall.
Yeah its really fucking classy.
When your sister found out who you were and what you were doing why didn’t you kill her?
I would never kill Debra, she’s my sister, I love her.
Selfless love is hard enough for typical people and for psychopaths it’s impossible.
I want you to revel in what you are. I told you you’re perfect.
You’re perfect as a psychopath, all this talk about helping Debra and loving her is like you’re Michaelangelo trying to play banjo.
What the fuck are we doing in this hell hole?
I’ll take a bourbon neat.
You’re a good person. You brought a lot of good to the world.
Have a nice day at the mall.
She just didn’t wanna see it. People get used to living in denial. Its just easier you know.
That’s why the kitchen is so clean, it’s a kill room.
Wasn’t checking my body fat for my own fitness, he was checking to see if I was fit to have as a main course.
Fuck Deb confessed to killing La Guerta.
When Debra killed LaGuerta it was real selfless love. She sacrificed everything she believed in for you.  Can you see that?
That was interesting.
Hold this.
I am perfect, but only at one thing.
You’re disgusting, cannibal consumer of human flash.  There was a time when I couldn’t imagine anyone being what you are, doing what you do, but now I realise I’m just like you, I consume everyone I love.

10/10

Dexter 8.04

Dexter’s need to kill was born in a container much like this one. And he’s been trapped inside its walls ever since. As a psychopath he will never be able to break free, but you can by reliving the events of that night over and over again.
There are countless ways to inflict physical trauma on a human body and sometimes the deadliest wounds are the ones we barely see they run deep like the ones I inflicted on Deb.
Dexter is fucking Dexter.
That night in the container Dexter was exactly who he was meant to be and so were you the loving sister.
Now that mirror is cracked an the only reflection you see is one of darkness.
You are no monster, you never have been.
Anyone on my table would disagree.
Dexter. Monster by definition is outside of nature but you’re a part of natural order of things.
I’ll still want her in my life.
Want her but not need.
Dexter can’t help who he is. He has no conscience Unlike you. You knew the moment you pointed at gun on La Guerta it was wrong and still you pulled a trigger. You shot a woman in cold blood you let her bleed out and did nothing. You shot an innocent woman for simply doing her job.
Because of Dexter.
And that’s what terrifies you the most. You so desperately want to believe that if you had just shot dexter then you wouldn’t have to face the hard truth. That if you had to do it again you’d still choose him, because in your heart you know you’d always choose Dexter.
How do I make it right?
By finally accepting that you are a good person who was forced to do a terrible thing. And that you made the best of an impossible situation. You can walk out that door, you can move forward, the choice is yours it always has been.
Masuka has a daughter!
Somehow he’s deluded himself into thinking his feelings for his sister are genuine unaware there are no real emotions behind them.
Do you understand or do you need to write it down?
I don’t think I can live with this.
Fuck and i’m supposed to?
Vogel believes I’m just like all her other experiments, psychopath who can’t form real connections but she’s wrong, Deb isn’t a prop like Yates’s father was to his son. She’s more than a mirror. She’s family. if I have a purpose, and value and a right to exist, so do my feelings for Deb.
The body forms scar tissue to close a wound. Has my sister began to do the same? Eventually scars fade. Who knows, with enough time you may not even remember how you got them.
Did dad killed himself?
Yeah. He od’d on his heart medication. Thought he created a monster.
I think I know how he felt why he killed himself. But he only got it half right.
Nothing says family like shit.

10/10

Dexter 8.05

So I’m not perfect.
You are not even listening to me. You don’t understand I’ve been trapped in a fucking fog.
I’m stupid that way I’m limited.
I don’t hate you.
Why did you save me, why didn’t you let me drown?
I saw the car go into the water I knew you were gonna die I couldn’t imagine my life without you in it.
I was expecting that.
Yeah we’ll get him. Dexter will.
Serial killer bested by 100 pound nanny.
That’s why he’s taking the shoes.
Which little piggie won’t be making it to market?
She slapped him around like his mother used to.
It’s a search for the same connection.
Poor boy.
Fuck you, Dexter.
Debra, are you okay?
I’m good really I’m good.
We’re the family that kills together.
You’re doing well Debra you’re very resilient.
You never gave up on her. I’m impressed I know Harry would be too. He was always concerned that as you grow older you may drift apart.
We never really had a choice. If anyone ever really knew us they’d run screaming.
A few days ago everything seemed hopeless between me deb a d me but through Dr Vogel and Yates I’ve got my sister back. Not like things were before. Its something different, but for now its enough.
Its beautiful out here Dexter.
I like it. It’s peaceful, alone on the water.
Tonight you brought us.
Yes. Why?
I wanted to be with family.

10/10

Dexter 8.06

He’s drawn to blood like me.
I remember that feeling ‘oh’, wonder, it only fed the urge.
What do you like to do for fun?
You know normal stuff.
That’s it?
That’s all I can tell you.
Dating is harder than I remember.
Families fuck you up that’s just the way it is.
He treats the blood like a swim suit model.
Wow very colourful.
Forgot it’s a crime scene. Keep thinking that dead chick spilled all that blood just for me.
He’s streets smart.
Just like old times, huh?
It was worth living for.
He’s 4, duffus.
Jesus Christ how many pictures of fucking women in tights does this pervert need?
Someone’s shitting is somebody’s cheerios.
How weird was that she confessed to killing La Guerta?
I should have stayed in my office.
You look incredible.
Don’t look so fucking surprised.
I just don’t wanna touch anything i’m not supposed to.
He deserves nothing but my table.
To take a living person and make them dead, imagining that you can actually hear the moment when their heart stops beating, smell the blood as it pulls across the floor.
I can’t help it, it just builds up inside me all these years.
How was it once you killed her.
It felt like this huge weight was lifted off my chest. This release of something horrible inside me.
Like you’re finally in control.
Yes just go ahead and kill me
Why?
Because if you don’t, I know I’ll do it again. I don’t want to be like this but I can’t help it. I just am some kind of freak.
Monster.
Yes.
You never had a harry. Someone to talk to. Someone to teach you.
Some things happen to us by accident others are choices. There are parts of me that I can never share with my own son, but with Zack, could I teach him? Am I ready for this? To be a spiritual father?
He likes me cause he doesn’t know a fucking thing about me. Yeah I killed two people and tried to kill myself and my brother i’m sorry what kind of wine would you like to order. I mean what the fuck.
but Hey life is good i’m feeling optimistic for a while i’m even thinking about taking on a kinda intern.

10/10

Camp 1.05

Sorry, grown up stuff.
Hey mom look what dad got me for my birthday he must love me so much.
At least my other parent cares.
What can I do? Get a little jerk a better present.
Shopping I love shopping.
No you don’t.
The way he grabbed her.
Yeah we all remember valentine’s day.
I’m asian adopted and my parents are gay how do you like that kind of pressure?
Who looks great? My dads do.
Also grace honey you should probably go through vocabulary again when you get a moment.
What about an electric guitar?
Are you ready to listen to smells like teen spirit at a 1000 dwxiblws?
Have you eaten today?
No why? Cause You’re getting a little irritable.
A pop singer. Super bubbly. Hopeless romantic. Rights songs about her breakups.
Katy perry. Kelly Clarkson. That awful girl that broke Justin Bieber’s heart.
No she’s dated literally every guy under 30 in America. She wears sparkles and too much red lipstick. Kanye west stole the microphone from her.
Britney.
What kind od a gay are you? Taylor Swift. Pick up a people magazine why don’t you. Taylor swift. It’s Taylor Swift you idiots.
You’re right food does help especially this crap. Which is awesome. Double cheese I dont eat like this anymore.
Every day I like to have 3 awesome things to happen.
why life is hard. It just gets harder and harder.
Life is awesome Mac. Focus, 16, what you were doing when you were 16?
Me? Getting high, roaming around the mall looking for posters trying on clothes. Go to the arcade. God it was so fun.
Of course we’re playing truth and dare.
I think its my second awesome thing.
The fact that its your second awesome thing make s it my second awesome thing.
Sure you can afford this. You’re not using your food money or anything.
What are you my mom? No im not using my food money.
I was born cool.
And you’re stoned. You guys got stoned together.nice thats fun isnt it getting high at work?
Follow me stoners.
This leather is so soft which is a total deal breaker I don’t know why so many animals need to be killed to make car seats.
Parenting advice from a childless man.
The white gay dude got stung by a bee.
Okay I ship them.
And them too.
Clearly that had to happen.
Would have been criminal if it didn’t.
You really made lemonade out of that leukemia.
You made my crappy day awesome.
Oh oh what’s happening.
Can You hear that? I don’t like it.
Happy sweet sixteen man were gonna die!
One time I list him at the mall.
When?
It doesn’t matter.
Yesterday was still fyn though. I like three awesome things every day.
Why not?
All kinds of reasons.
Let me know when you think of a good one.

I haven’t have so much fun all summer or even a year.

10/10

Switched at Birth 2.19

Ask the right parent.
John and Regina.
Remind me to thank him.
You should go with your stomach next time.
Sure I’m good down here.
I don’t have the Kennish gene for atlethics, okay? I don’t.
Can you ask Daphne?
There is a special place in hell for boyfriends like you.
Because of what happened with Chef Jeff.
Melody and that doctor.
We’re very 2013.
You jump.
Bay almost shat herself.
Not surprised she got pissed.
Shit, it didn’t work.
This is sound, Darling.
Emmett’s father is my favorite character together with Melody.
‘Hello’, I can hear that.
I’m the wizz with the copy machine.
I don’t know who I’m more scared of you or him.
Bay mentioning the helicopter that went down.
She’s broke her ankle.
Emmett’s dad listens to him play drums.

7/10

This was simply the best episode of the second half of the season. It is probably worse because it’s not based around school or Bay’s art anymore and girls don’t live together and Angelo’s child storyline is not very solid.

Pretty Little Liars 4.09

Ezra’s watching Aria and his girlfriend’s going to Washington.
A bail of 1mln dollars.
I was wondering where did the preacher go.
Preacher posted the bail!
Take Malcolm and get back with Aria.
What if he takes the paternity test and it turns out he’s not his father.
He was a corrupted cop, Ashley.
Everyone has their limits.
Jenna got thrown into the pond.
It was Ted.
Maybe you could let someone navigate for a while.
I knew it was Cece.
Mona’s back where she feels most comfortable.
And we know Jenna is not A for sure. Shonna isn’t probably either.

3.5/10