Posted in Books, Movies on January 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s been almost a week since I’ve seen this movie, and I meant to write about it right afterwards, because the Coen Brothers have once again created a masterpiece, but I’ve been so bad with keeping up-to-date with posts. Then I was going to write about it again after the “Golden Globes”, a.k.a. a glorified [...]
Posted in Art & Fashion, Books, Movies on January 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
13-year old Briony Tallis is a budding writer with a dangerous imagination, one that causes her to mix up fantasy and reality, one that causes a lie that destroys the lives of Cecilia, her sister, and Robbie Turner. Wrecked by guilt, it is only years later that Briony seeks atonement.
I first read the book Atonement, [...]
Posted in Books, College, Life, Movies, Travel on December 27, 2007 | No Comments »
it’s been a few days since I’ve posted, but there’s not much to update on. New York was pretty uneventful, except that I’ve never seen a store more packed than the Apple store on Fifth Avenue on Christmas Eve. Perhaps I’ll post pictures at some point later on during break (since boredom will probably set [...]
Posted in Movies on December 1, 2007 | No Comments »
I watched this a while ago but I still think it’s worth it to say that this is my new favorite movie.
Ryan Gosling’s performance was brilliant; his Oscar nod was well deserved. Throughout the movie it almost felt like it wasn’t him…he was so convincing in his role, which was incredibly different from any other [...]
Posted in College, Life, Movies on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
“Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.”
I wish I had time to watch V for Vendetta today but I did an atrocious job on my bio lab writeup and I have lab this afternoon during which we are dissecting earthworms and electrocuting their nerve [...]
Posted in Movies on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Control: a biopic about Joy Division’s late singer Ian Curtis, who tragically committed suicide at the age of 23. This is director Anton Corbijn’s, of photography and music video fame, first attempt at a full-length feature. The film is based on the book Touching from a Distance by Curtis’ widowed wife Deborah and was shot on black [...]
Posted in Movies on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I first saw this film two years ago, during the fall of my junior year in high school. Our school’s book club (which was really more like a small group of people who enjoyed reading than a club) had been binging on some existential lit. and thus we thought it appropriate to watch Bergman’s classic [...]
Posted in Movies on March 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Well here’s my short review: 300 was homoerotic and had too many titties. Yes, that’s a bit obscene, but so were the battle scenes (which, by the way, were epic-ly exciting and managed to keep me entertained, in a sick, twisted way, throughout the 2 hours). Character development and depth? Who needs it? Leave that [...]
Posted in Movies on March 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Hands down, the best movie I’ve seen in the past year, probably in the past 2-3 years. Come to think of it, I’m sort of blanking on any movie I’ve seen recently that’s been better or even close to being better than it.
Two words: Clive Owen.
But even besides that, the acting all around was superb. [...]
Posted in Movies on February 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Even though I’ve waited patiently for 2, 3 weeks? to watch this movie, because ALL of the copies were out everytime I went to Blockbuster, my excitement to watch it yesterday was still slightly overshadowed by certain reservations I had: Jessica Biel, Jessica Biel’s acting, Edward Norton’s silly facial hair, and the good but not [...]
