United States of Tara is about Tara and her family.. and well the other sides of Tara. Tara has multiple personality disorder and along with her family she has decided to drop her meds as they make her drowsy and basically not herself. This of cause means that the personalities show up every now and then... so lets meet T, Alice and Buck. Tara's main sharers. T is a 16 year old horny teenager which only Tara's teenage girl find kinda fun as she can go shopping with her. Alice is a 30's housewife who is going for being perfect. And Buck well Buck likes to kick ass when Tara wont do it herself. All the personalities has a purpose, a way of protecting Tara. But family life isn't all that easy when half the time you can't remember what you have done or been saying.
I Love Toni Collette for making this. First of like wow the talent. Its one thing to play one character
on a show but to play four right of the start is nothing short of amazing. Anyway the show is funny and enlightening. It takes a fun spin on a psychological disorder an topic that tend to be taboo. All while showing a lot of other subjects that all in all makes a family.
So if you want a fun easy-going show with a pretty good and deserving topic this is one that truly deserve a look. It has a good flow and let you get a glimpse of what this disorder can do to a family.
Erica Strange's life sucks big time.. i mean she is 30 and just got fired from telemarketing for being to smart... oh and to top it all of her boyfriend is sorta breaking up with her over the phone in the middle of the rain... wauw.. Erica, sad and wet, seeks refuge in a cafe that offers her a free latte.. yeah... downside is Erica is allergic to nuts so a hazelnut mocha latte is usually a bad idea...
So all and all a pretty bad day... Waking up in the hospital she meets Dr. Tom, a Therapist. Erica is convinced she do not need a therapist... well until a little family get together gets a little much and Erica decides to escape through the window in her pajamas.. oh yes... and then we realize that Dr. Tom is not an ordinary therapist.. no he is a time traveling kinda therapist helping Erica to settle old scores with her regrets in life..
and all that it takes is to see the therapy to the end...
so i got recommendation for this one somewhere.. not sure where... doesn't matter either.. anywho... going into this i thought it was just a girly thing about a 30 something doing a kinda diary stile thing
... let's just say i got a bit of a surprise... i loved it though especially the concept of going back not to necessarily chance the past but to come to better terms with the regrets we all have.. like i wish i did this or i wish i didn't do that.. and learning on the way that the choices we make chances who we are.. it makes us and without these choices we would be some one else completely..
so conclusion is; this is a really awesome show and it is sad that it ended in 2011... could have done with just one more season but hey that's life right... it is still a pretty girly series though, but different... in a very good way.. ;)
uh lets take one from the shelf... i have been going through a small pet project of getting through my movieshelf.. can tell you that i'm near the first 50 movies... and i'm not even close to being halfway through.. ah it is good to be a moviemuncher...
so why Julie and Julia... well after watching a few action movies and not getting much done I figured that a movie about my subject would help.. thing is i'm in school at the moment and well the homework load is kinda high.. like way high.. like in i have even less social life than i do when i'm working... soo yeah well that would be why it has been a while since the last post.. anyway home work.. movies.. got a red string in this somewhere.. i hope..
Julie & Julia is about well Julie an almost 30 woman who feels stuck and uninspired at work and well only comfort she does have is cooking (i know that feeling)... then the thing happens.. the thing that puts everything in motion. One of Julies friends writes a horrible article and follows up with a blog.. Julie, who is in reality a writer who can't get published, is talking about that she could write a blog on her own... her boyfriend agrees and after a short assessment time they agree that Julie could write about cooking. Julie then decides that in order to actually stick to the blog she has to have a goal.. goal being going through all of the recipes in Julia Childs Cookbook. (which i'm kinda dying to get a hold of) in the course of one year.
so given this is on my shelf and i already clearly stated that i do not buy unless i like.. it would be fair to assume that this is one i love.. and i do..
as an aspiring cook myself (this would be the school part) i love pretty much everything about food.. much like Childs (or at least the portrait of her from the movie) i love the learning process the little tricks you get along the way and of recent even the designing of a plate (which i apparently have a small talent in) so the relations between both Julie and Julia is there for me.. and that it is a big big part of my love toward the movie
also i love the jump between Julie and Julia.. the thing is that both of them goes through a development throughout the movie.. Julie through her project and the small meltdowns along the way.. Julia through the process of first off getting allowed into the cooking courses in the first place (cooking like chefs were dominated by men...women was expected to stay home and look after their husbands and the itty bitty ones) and to starting the cookbook (which needed some reducing along the way) to actually being know and respected in the world of cooking.. and may i just add?... both Meryl Streep and Amy Adams are wonderful in this movie.. i do adore and admire both of them to begin with but that does not make this movie anything less..
well let's just end this with the wises words ever to be said...
18 year old virgin... is about.. Kate... Kate is a 18 year old virgin (didn't see that one coming right). we step into the story last night before graduation and yes you guessed it we are at a party... well THE PARTY... anywho.. Kate has this huuuuuuge crush on Ryan who is well the pretty boy of school.. however Ryan do not sleep with virgins due to some unfortunate happenings after the last time he nailed a virgin. So what do Kate do.. right she uses the party to try and lose her virginity... sound stupid well it is...
so along to help her is a very slutty (and slightly cute) best friend that keeps convincing her to go back in and try after way to many failed attempts. And truth be told this is not really a noticeable movie.. i remember watching it before and the plot twist was way to obvious and well.. just don't
so what is wrong with it.. you mean beside the poor sense of a story line... well this is a really good example on a chick flick wannabe laddish and therefor ends in between and sadly flops big time.. It is like they decided to take a chick flick and then squeeze every type of sex scene possible into one movie.. and well they got all that and really i don't even think guys find it enjoyable.. it is just painful and not really funny..
and really who the hell uses raw chicken breast to stuff their bra so it looks like they have a bigger cup size.. really it is just gross... yuk
oh i thought this one was on the list... it wasn't.. oh well
so after spending the week watching a few series (oh who am i kidding i watch a whole season) and stuff i needed to get my mind of things and chose a thriller as my tool. Thing is today (friday) i'm gonna start at a new place as a trial thingy and i am nervous as hell... anywho
in Orphan you follow this family who after the loss of an unborn girl choose to adopt a nine year old girl Ester into the family. But as soon as they have welcomed her into their home they start realizing that Ester is not like most little nine year old girls...
so i have to get this off right away... this movie has the creepiest start i have ever in counted.. seriously i was almost ready to just turn it of right then and there... luckily i didn't :)
so i know i don't post a lot about this type of movies.. and that is even though i truly love watching them.. the thing is spooky movies is in my opinion best when watch with others.. the thing is i'm pretty sure i'm kinda a pain watching these movies with.. main because getting that adrenalin shock, that these movies are design to give, makes me laugh XD i rarely get scared just hm startled... that on the other hand is something i do a lot in... playing girls actually got me jumping O.ô
so why did i enjoy this one so much.. well i tell you (that i believe is the point of being here) it is quite unpredictable.. and it has a lot of twist that you might see coming but they don't really turn out as you thought they would.. that is in my beliefs the ultimate goal for any thriller or horror...
also that nine year old girl Ester.... (very talented played by Isabelle Fuhrman)... she was creepy as hell... i mean it... it got to a point where a friend i was writing with asked me if i was aware that she was fictional XD i was but yeah well
on a other note.. just to point out how much i recommend this one.... this is one of the few in this genre I actually wanna buy and keep on my movie-shelf... that tells a lot more than most would think...
The Good Wife is a lawyer series about a woman named Alicia Florrick, who starts in a lawfirm after 13 years of the market due to her being a stay home mom for her 2 kids that she has with the former state attorney. Alicia goes back to working after her husband has been imprisoned for a corruption scandal in order for her family to stay afloat. Besides Alicia you also get to follow Peter Florricks political fight, Diane Lockhart and Will Gardner, the owners of the firm, Alicia's competitor Cary Argos and the investigator Kalinda Sharma who Alicia becomes friends with. See more about that in the "trailer" below...
So nothing like a little bit of drama. This series has a lot to show for in that apartment. It's intriguing and actually manged to get my mind of the season break in Castle. That's a big thing for any series to do. And i'm even sad that this is yet another series i have to wait for the next episode in. I like want it now.. work my minions work...
so to no surprise to any of my friends my favorite character in this series is Kalinda. Archie Panjabi is just awesome in that role.. total kick-ass in leather jackets and miniskirts... Yummi!... and i for one just love peeling of layers.. Seeing who she is beneath all that attitude...
this is just such a cool promo i had to put it on... love cartoon style!
Of cause i fell in love with the series during a box showing on TV (they are awesome when fighting a small hangover just so you know) and started in the middle of the series before getting my act together and take it from the top.. making me read between the lines of something i wasn't supposed to know yet. Which is why i can warmly recommend seeing it more than once because so much more makes sense when you have the later knowledge.
And now i'm back to the waiting game... but yeah if anyone ask this one is definitively going in my collection
one sunburned girl out looking for a new series later ppl
So I have been off the planet for a while... doing well stuff >.<
So i haven't seen any movies you think nah i watched plenty even celebrated the father and creator of something i hold very dear... The Addams Family. But I'm not back to talk about them... much anyway... can say if you are not familiar with this sweet morbid creation you should check out The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) both staring a young Christian Ricci (SOOOOO cute)
Really the reason I'm back here is because I actually have ended up missing the rambeling about movies toward whoever... That's you by the way... also i can you the opportunity to tell you people that you can follow my blog with Bloglovin... muhahahah got that solved quite easy didn't I
Now to the goodies... A friend has been talking a lot about this series Lie to Me, telling me it is a awesome series... so i figured why not after all I'm trying to cut down in my wanna watch list (believe me when i say it is a long long long list) so i might as well start here.
Lie to Me is about Dr. Cal Lightman, a scientist that owns a corporate called the The Lightman Group. The Lightman Group has specialized themselves in the art of reading lies on peoples face. Throughout the series you follow Cal and his team solving pretty much any type of case by telling weather or not the involved parties are lying through their teeth (which they often are)
So yeah I was a bit skeptical on this series in the beginning. I found it to be way to showing in the beginning not giving me much of a mystery to solve through the episodes. Luckily this changes the longer you get.. a bit like the first 3-4 episodes were testings and then they figured out that they had to make it a bit harder to see. The truth is I have come to love this series a lot and are sad to learn that they choose to cancel it.
Another thing I just love about this show is the drama (yeah I know I'm such a girl) The connection between all the characters builds up some of the want to watch the next episode. Wanting to see if they figure out just how much they all care about one another.
So there you have it the first words from me in 2012 hope it was worth it... otherwise i'll be back
So my friend, yeah I spend quite a lot of movie time with this friend.. :) Anyway when we first met he told me he was gonna "teach" me to watch horror movies. The thing about horrors is that I truely belive that it is a group activity... also I have this thing about laughing in really inappropiate moments... :P So we havn't really watched that many in the time we spend together.. don't get me wrong we have fun making good food and watching different movies. So we desided in the spirit of the upcoming All Hallows Eve to go all in.. So this weekend we did... some good food... the try to make a little scary food and some horror movies... The choice of food fell on a chicken burger-sandwich thing... soooo good.. really yummy. And for well it was dessert.. like a couple of hours later... we had this tombstone/graveyard mud thing we found right around here... the thing is being danish the american measurements don't make much sense. Actually I'm fairly sure we did something very wrong in the translation. Which is why I kinda renamed it to Death by Chocolate. It wasn't bad it was just really heavy and it took some time to get through.. and you'd get a bit of a sugar rush.
so to the movies.. :)
After.Life (2009)
I really like this one. It is more a thinker than a scary one, but that should not stop you. Anyway the movie is about funeral director, Eliot, who is preparing a young woman, Anna, for her funeral. Doing this Eliot is talking with Anna, telling her he has a gift to talk to the dead. Anna however doesn't really believe that she is dead. Giving the interesting question and plot of the movie.. Is Anna dead or not?
So no surprise i wanted to watch this one because of Christina Ricci. I think she is a great actress and I am actually ashamed to say that I haven't seen all that much of her later work. Ricci was the actress I grew up with watching her in Casper and The Addams Family. Remembering her like this has in some ways made it a little difficult seeing her as an adult especially because she is so damn tiny.
Anyway I loved her in this one. I felt like I got the same quirkiness I remember from The Addams family.. but an adult one. You know?
Back to the movie. I was really intrigued by this one. Basically I love movies where I have to think about it, where I can't figure out what exactly is the truth. And this is definitively one of those movies.
Insidious (2010)
Insidious (good thing I'm writing cause I have no plans on pronouncing it.) starts of about this family of five moving into this big ass house. Now like any half descent horror movie of cause the house is scary. One night the oldest son climbs to the attic and falls down, alerting the house with his scream. Next day the boy won't wake. And then really weird things starts to happen...
So even with my lack of knowledge in the horror genre I know that this is the way a lot of horrors goes. I liked most of the movie. It was interesting and the effects where spot on and somewhat spooky. But in some way i guess it just didn't fit together. Like the movie was trying to be to much. know what i mean? Well I just believe that this is one of the movies where the "less is more" would have done so much for the movie. As we got along in the movie I got the feel that it was explaining to much. I generally just really like to think for myself and i felt like it was not that big an option. Now you might think I hated Insidious. I didn't, I actually liked it. I was entertained, I got my small jolts of shock, I even had a descent story to follow... it just could have been more by using less.
Trick 'r Treat (2007)
Trick 'r Treat is 4 (well 5) stories put nicely together as one. It tells the story of Halloween tradition (like trick or treating) and what happens when you don't abide to the rules of tradition....
So this is a really bloody one.. lots and lots of lovely blood (yes I'm a creepy one). Loved Trick 'r Treat for the fact that even though it is smallstories it actually fit together... It is these small stories and one big story all wrapped up in one :) ... So get your costume on light your jack o'lantern, find a plate of spooky treats and put on Trick 'r Treat... if you dare!
So this is another weird movie, but at the same time one of those you just simply can't take your eyes off. I mean as the movie got along i started hating some of the caracters and care and love others. Like really getting into the story. And the absolute best part is that at no point did i feel like it was getting to predictable on contrary i was hoping what was going to happen next wasn't really going to happen. (really really hoping) Which to me just makes a movie so much better.
So Cracks is about a bunch of girls in a british elite bording school in the 1930's. This particular bunch has a very special relationship with a young teacher and don't really socialize outside the group. In the beginning of the schoolyear the girls are told that they have to welcome a spanish girl into their group, not something the girls are rather fond of. However the spanish girl gets accepted, that is untill unwanted attention and jealousy gets into the scene.
So if you didn't catch it in the beginning, then i am gonna say it flat out now. I loved this movie. The quirkiness, the thrills and the cruelty of human beings is something that never ceases to amaze me. And this movie has plenty of it all. This is also thanks to the actresses that does the amazing job of protraying things we humans rarely want to admit exists in all of us.
This is however somewhat a chick flick. It is about the cruelty amongst girls (a thing i noticed very few boys know that much about) I do mean though that boys could enjoy this movie if they are into watching movies about human natures darker side.
This is the story of a perfect family. Steve and Kate Jones is moving into a nice neighborhood with their 2 children, Jenn and Mick. Right from the beginning they show off their perfect life to everybody. Only thing is, the Jones family isn't real. Instead they are a group of people hired to sell trends in the suburbans.
As you might have guessed the Jones family can't stay perfect as people just ain't perfect. Steve is new to the job and has a really hard time setting off trends, keeping his sales minimized. Also he is in love with Kate. Their boss is after Kate for choosing a "rookie" for such an important job and she is therefor kinda on the line if Steve doesn't improve. Furthermore all the little things of human nature starts tearing up the perfect picture. For instant Jenn is having an affair with a married man and Mick turns out to be gay. Not even close to the picture of a perfect family.
Generally I find the plot extremely well thought and interesting. It attacks the modern problem of all of us wanting something bigger and better than the people next door. And the fact that we can't afford it doesn't seem to stop us. Therefore the idea of a "showroom-family" actually doesn't seem so far off. And with this kind of story line I feel that you get a good sense of the consequences of this type of society where the material things means everything. And also of how money and lies takes lead and ends up destroying all sense of love and friendship. Just because we can't admit that we are in over our head in dept.
