Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Rookie Blue (2010 - ?)

oh dang it... so yeah Lost ended up on hold... i am almost sorry... or.. well it is YouTube's fault.. i swear...


Rookie Blue is about approximately 5 young police officers fresh out of the academy... we follow them on their everyday life which is quite ehm filled with dramas.. main goal for the young ones would be the mantra "Serve, Protect and don't screw up"

so like i said it is YouTube's fault.. no seriously it is... (i might be partially involved though).. anyway.. there was these videos floating around and in the end i just had to watch.. funny thing is the videos about Gail (the pretty blond with the nice blue eyes) was what drove me to the series and i just hated her guts in the first couple of seasons.. like really really hated her.. she was so mean all the time... but on the other hand.. she has awesome humor...

my view on it all though is that a little less drama could do but still a great show.. i was very much entertained (which i believe is the point of these things) and like i said awesome humor... and to be honest favorite scene is when Andy (the brunette) hugs Gail (the blond one) and Gail just says "this isn't really how i communicate" really couldn't stop laughing..

so there you got my weird sense of humor along with it there.. goodie.. i'm just gonna crawl into some warm place now and i dunno sleep.. later :)

Monday, February 24, 2014

Sherlock (2010 - ?)

after i finished Crossing Jordan i was asking a buddy of mine what i should watch next since i wasn't really in the mood for movies and my series list is quite long and hard to get a good overview of. He was like oh oh you have to watch Sherlock I'm sure you would love it... well my buddy knows me well...

we have all been exposed to the stories of sir Arthur Conan Doyle the brilliant writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories... and don't say you haven't... Sherlock has been filmatized so many times... even Disney did their try on it.. (Oh admit it you knew Basil Mouse is a spin off of the great master) and one of the newest hits in the line must be the work of one Robert Downey Jr.... yes i love his work too ;)

so what is it with this series... it is of a newer note due to the fact that season 3 (currently the last but hopefully with a new one on its way)  aired no later than January this year (2014 if you were to be in doubt...) so yeah it is pretty new in it... it is also different than the others... the stories is set in the time where knowledge had no compare toward today's knowledge.. no computers no easy access and certainly no cellphones...  this series though has taken the stories to the 21st century where all those things are in abundance. Where the other side of the planet isn't further than a click away... just look at this blog as an example... i have no idea where you are from but while you are reading this you are getting the thoughts and words from a danish woman.. that is only possible because of the internet that hits us with so much information every second... more than we often know what to do with... anyway i'm pretty sure i'm getting sidetracked here...


I love the adaption they made with this one.. it is absolutely brilliant.. (i'm using that word rather lot these days...) i love the way they made it possible to take a so well known story and still make it new, different and very much entertaining.. i mean there isn't a lot of episode they are rather long but hell i would have watched them all in a days worth if i had the time for it.. It is funny and clever and filled with excitement that keeps you stuck on it and wishing for more and more.. oh yeah i'm not a fan of the "you might be lucky to get a season 4 in 2016" thing that IMDb is showing me... I WANT MORE....!!!

okay i sound like i need help now.. maybe i do.. anywho... what on earth am i gonna watch now?

"what did just happen... did i just text a murderer?"

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Crossing Jordan (2001-2007)

I am sorry for being so quiet lately... it is just that life altering, staying out of trouble and mostly watching series kinda make it hard on me to write all that much...

anywho... I finished Crossing Jordan today... again... i loved this series growing up and it is right there among my other favorite murder/crime series... i actually remember rushing home from school (at least when i went to school) just so i could catch the entire episode on tv.. what i love about it.. well there is the murder/crime aspect think we already established that i'm quite the fan of the genre but also the characters... mention this before to... you could have the greatest story in the world but if you don't have the characters to back it up it will fall through... and angry little girl like me loved the Jordan who clearly needed anger management and yet had this high amount of love and care for her family..

oh maybe i should explain what the show is about... just maybe..

Jordan Cavanaugh is a medical examiner who has meet well some difficulties in her job... luckily she gets a joboffering in Boston by an old colleague that know just how brilliant she is.. thing about Jordan is that she goes her own way and has quite the angry spirit.. probably because of her childhood trauma of loosing her mom... her brilliance in the job however is from her father the old cop who used to play murder/victim games with her to figure out not just who did it but why...

so there you have it.. that is basically what the show is about.. minus all the relations and stuff.. you have to watch that part yourself.. :P

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Angela's Eyes (2006)

The episode i'm on shouldn't in my current series didn't work...  so i had to occupy my time with something else and for some reason movies didn't seem all that interesting. so what is a girl to do.. well went on my wanna watch list and took a look on the series i put on it. Just for laughs (or something) i can tell that at writing moment it is on the small amount of 315 series... so yeah i went to the bottom of the list (seems easier since it has a bad habit of growing) and took a look.. and there it was Angela's Eyes

oh you never head of this one.. not that surprising... Angela's Eyes only aired one season back in 2006 and well i encountered a fair share of bad words about it... anywho i found it intriguing and why not watch it then? 

What is it about uhm well.. you have Angela, she's a FBI agent in a ehm special unit working with tough guy Leo and well geek boy Dozer... Angela is a kinda special agent though.. you see she can tell if you are lying (well on most parts) oh and she is the daughter of 2 of US's biggest traitors.. oh goodie


and nope there's no trailer for you this time.. there might be a few clips on youtube but what i have seen so far they aren't all that good at giving an idea on what this stuff is about..

anywho... i rather like the concept of this series.. reminds me of a nice mix between Alias and Lie To Me... i do give it people are right about the acting part however i am one of those extremely gifted people that can look beyond that fact if the story is good enough.. thing is that i since i was a little kid has been able to live myself into a story so full hearted that people sometimes makes fun and tell me i'm cute while watching stuff with me (or if i talk about it with them) because i am lost in it.. if the movie is interesting enough it is not possible to talk with me during it.. i just won't be listening.. anyway i got a bit of this while watching Angela's Eyes.. the story caught on something and i would have loved to see where the story would have gone after season 1.. this was however not to be and well i'm not gonna lye around crying about it.. there are a lot of other series that are better...

what this series did the most though was reminding me just how much i miss Lie To Me... sniffles...


Thursday, July 25, 2013

Wentworth (2013)

This is a result of how evil youtube can be.. you see i have been watching bad girls for a while now going on season 5 (it has some really long episodes and i just haven't been watching that many a day).. anywho... yesterday i was doing a bit of procrastinating on youtube (i was really trying to clean up my room though) and i just happen to fall over this cute little video that someone had made about wentworth and then the curiosity killed the cat... uhm i mean got the better of me.. i ended up watching this youtube-list of videos about the series and then one thing let to another and i just had to watch the damn thing...

so... i'm clearly not Australian.. or american for that matter... so i didn't know anything about an old Australian show called Prisoner... i do however think i need to do something about that in the nearest future.. anyway.. in Prisoner there apparently is this inmate, Bea that runs the prison Wentworth...

so far so good.. now Wentworth (the series) is about how Bea supposedly got to be just that... about what made her into a woman that could run the prison with an iron hand... (yeah i do a bit of guessing on the last part)


well it isn't hard for me to say i feel hard for this one.. as in I watched all the 10 episodes of first season over the course of an afternoon and evening... yep i was just caught on the damn thing.. the stories the secrets the pushing around with each other in this little game of control... i loooooved it... am looking forward to see if they come up with a season 2 as i seem to have read somewhere that they are cooking on... after all we do need to see if Franky gets the girl..

oh right you don't know who Franky is.. or the girl for that matter...

well we start out with Bea going to jail for attempted murder of her husband.. once in she meets Franky, one of the powerplayer in the prison... few days later we also meet Jacs the other powerplayer.. and then the dance begins.. Bea is trying to do right and she is trying (and miserably failing) to stay out of trouble.. as time goes by in the prison Bea ends up a more and more important piece of the powergame whether she wants to or not..

oh and the girl being the governess Erica that Franky does very little to hide her effections from.. basically Franky finds Erica hot and does a lot of pressure to see what she can get in return.. let's face it Franky likes to be in control ;)

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Despicable Me 2 (2013)

Gru is BACK!!!!

so yeah when i first heard of the coming of a second despicable me movie i had a lot of doubt... a lot!... i had a problem seeing how they were gonna pull it of.. giving the whole ending of the first one.. but then then the trailers started showing up... 

so according to the trailer... Gru has become the loving father of the 3 kids Margo, Edith and Agnes... and then he gets kidnapped by the anti villain league and then he is gonna save the world... with evil minions?


so as the good movie watcher i am i of cause roamed around youtube finding this little baby



so yeah screwed up as i am i loooooove this evil minion.. and the video above has given room for a lot of laughter... like i don't have to watch it anymore to be laughing way to hard... so yeah i was looking forward to these little guys making fun all over the screen...

sooo i was in the movies with my friends and trust me the movie is hilarious... i was laughing like a mad man throughout the movie.. 

just to clarify... Gru has gone legit, making jellies and jams... or well trying to.. then he do get kidnapped by anti villain league in order to offer him a job saving the world... he ends up taking the job being assigned the crazy kidnapping lady as his partner. during all of this someone decides to kidnap all the cute minions making them into evil minions.. 

so the evil minions in the movie was not as funny as anticipated.. to be honest i was a little disappointed.. but giving i was laughing my way trough it i have to admit that i truly loved this one.. it is filled with jokes craziness and so on.. and Agnes is just the most adorable thing in the world.. and there was a great story within it.. more than what i recall from the first one.. 

BANAHNAAA!

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Pineapple Express (2008)

so one down on that list of mine 668 to go :P

anywho Pineapple Express.. i have gotten so many different responses... some say it is great others that i should just stay away from it.. but it is on the list so yeah might as well make my own decision on it.

so Dale Denton (uh Seth Rogen) is a 25 year old process server dating a high school girl.. Dale has to serve his drug dealer's boss ending with him seeing le boss killing a competitor. Now Dale and Saul (dale's drug dealer) is on the run from hitmen and a corrupt cop. Sounds good doesn't it? oh yeah there was also something about smoking Pineapple express...




oh wow... so now i totally understand my friends being split on this one.. what an odd movie :S

so it has it funny moments.. truthfully it has a lot of funny moments but dang the story is just fucked.. i guess if you are high or just know what it is like to be high then it gets better but seriously... it is just way out there.. the whole drug war is like fake or something and what was the dealio with the drug lord and the female cop?

so yeah it is defiantly not a movie i plan on watching ever again.. wow i'm still amazed at how fucked this movie was.. really i'm not even sure i would recommend it as a onetime watch :S on the other hand if i had been wasted (which do happen from time to time) i would properly had laughed a lot more than i did.. i might  also have done a little more off that focus thingy that should be so healthy.. oh well one more off the list right :)



Saturday, January 26, 2013

4.3.2.1. (2010)

ha-ha it is Saturday and i have to work :( on the other hand i have just been sick for a week lying in bed all day being less than productive. surprisingly i haven't even been watching a lot of movies actually it has been a very  minimum of movies coming by me. Anywho yesterday i actually got out of my bed... mainly because i felt a need to communicate with ppl and sure enough as soon as BirthE my darling laptop got turned on i just had to find a movie.. so i went screenshopping for one.. and then it just hit me out of nowhere 4.3.2.1

I had seen the trailer for this one and at the time thought oh this looks interesting but getting from that to actually finding the movie some link must have gone missing.. but found it i did and well why not.. it couldn't be worse than the last one i saw.

so here is what it is about... well 4.3.2.1. is very short about 4 girls doing 3 days in 2 cities having one chance. So yeah that was VERY short XD

the longer version... you follow 4 girls, Shannon, Kerrys, Joanne and Cassandra. In the beginning they are out dining with each other and when they leave they get "hit" by a group of guys running down the street. They have their goodbyes and split up to live each their life. Over the course of 3 days you follow each girl through their events giving you a little more clarity for each story toward the big picture, starting off with Shannon and ending with Joanne. And wasn't there something about a diamond theft?


So to be honest about 20 minutes in I was really confused and yet I  could not stop watching. I just had to know how it was gonna end. And the thing is the story is very well build and the characters believable and even touching. The 4 girls how different they may seem they work well together. And as you get through Joanne's story it just makes it so much clearer what is going on through these 3 days. Because just like Shannon you as a viewer sits in this place not really knowing what the heck is going on or why people are doing the things they do. Simply because you need each part of the story to be fully for filled.

Anywho long story short I was on the edge of my chair the entire movie. Totally sucked in as i tend to do while watching movies. And i really felt each girls story. Also there was some fine eyecandy and some really cool action scenes and who am I to argue against that? To be honest my first reaction to this movie was to text my friend and tell him it was AWESOME!!!!!! second reaction was to figure out why half the staff looked so dang familiar XD found out.. IMDB is for the most part my friend :)

now watch watch watch.. this is true movie magic I swear :)

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

OMG i loved that :)

okay so this is gonna be a little different than what i normally do.. girl here has to do something to get back on that writing track also I just have to get it out there...

So a while back i watched  Lost Girl and just fell in love.. this is also why i have been waiting for a really really really REALLY long time like a little girl waiting for santa to come with her presents.. and then in the ending of December where i almost gotten calmed down to act well as normal as i can be again (this came with the aid of another series that i do adore.. anywho) where was i.. oh yeah ending of December.. they started teasing me :-o what cruelty!


yeah yeah she's been found.. wait found what.. suspense is killing me as it has been the entire summer hey hey don't leave me hanging here.. okay so you post another teaser.. lets have it 



oh how very kind of you ô.Ô 

so yeah i'm not that happy about teasers and yet i watch them... to be honest I kinda HAVE to... i simply put love this series and don't know how to survive the next week.. yes i watched the new episode today.. yeah yeah it premiered on Sunday but with time zones and me feeling a need to sleep before going to work monday (and afterwards) i had to wait until today... 

I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED!

I usually keep from using the term OMG (mainly because it seems kinda wrong when not believing in "the dude") but dang i loved that episode... it had everything... the long waiting for EVIL Bo and then more than one element of surprise and of cause that lovely sweetness I just love in this series XD

so if you haven't seen the new episode yet.. go do it.. really do.. 
if you haven't seen the first 2 seasons i really recommend you do.. 
need more info on what it is.. you could check my blog-entry about it right about here: Lost Girl
or maybe say hi to the official site:  www.showcase.ca/lostgirl/


Sunday, July 22, 2012

Freedom Writers (2007)

This is a movie I found on telly one night when I was really getting ready to bed. I off cause ended up watching the damn thing not going to sleep until 3am. I was amazed by the movie and have wanted to write about it ever since but eh stuff got in the way...

Freedom Writers is about a new teacher in a public school forced to do a integration program. She is given a English class filled with "low class" students that all have given up on getting anywhere else than the gang life they are already part of. The thing is so has all the other teachers. They see them as a scum that can't be taught anything. The new teacher Erin struggles with the class and in a moment of rage over a drawing she learns that the kids doesn't even know what the Holocaust is, giving her an idea toward how she should teach these kids.

This movie reminds me so much of Dangerous Minds starring Michelle Pfeiffer, a movie I has watched a lot. It is the same type of new teacher comes to town and teach young kids that every one else has given up on. Freedom writers however is more modern (to be fair dangerous minds premiered in 95) and it gives a lot more insight in the change in the kids. Erin gives the kids a change to be heard by giving them the assignment to write whatever comes to mind. This is also through this assignment we as a viewer gets to hear what is going on in the bright minds of the kids, how their lives works, how everything is ruled by the gangs. 

Not living in the US and not being confronted with the issue, because in my part of the country gangs aren't really a problem, I know next to nothing about it. But given I do know it's a problem I believe this movie is really good at showing in an entertaining way what is going on. Don't get me wrong I know that movies like this show a "romantic" side of the gang wars. After all the movie has to sell tickets. On the other hand the use of the words from the book gives it a more real feel to it. And i do find it that the use of the book works really well. 

I really recommend watching this movie. If it scares you it should. It is about real life and about real kids that society has just given up on. Simply just Watch it.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Lost Girl (2010 - ?)

Back to series land... as a movie-muncher I go through these WAY to quick... anyway series it is... seems like I have a thing for finding things where I end up having to wait for new seasons... oh goodie

Lost Girl is about the Fae world.. For those who doesn't know what Fae is I can tell that it is the world of mythical creatures... most know of these would be vampires and werewolf but there are a hell of a lot scary monster stories told to explain or keep people from doing stuff... In this series you follow Bo a Succubus that has been hidden from the Fae world since childhood. Therefor she has no training in controlling herself either... meaning bad things tend to happen... she gets caught by the Fae community after one of these "bad Things" and since she is unaligned she is put through the test after which she has to choose to be either Light Fae or Dark Fae... 

Finding trailers for shows proves to be hard.. finding one for a show that sadly has not been released on DVD yet even harder... this is a great fan-made trailer for the show.. enjoy

Let's start of by saying GO Canada! As they proclaimed them self "others got Vampires we got a Succubus"... It is a interesting show... with lots and lots of sex given we are dealing with a succubus.. And yes with so many vampire movies, series and stuff it is nice to get something else of the mythical world. Especially with the new standard of vampires (arhhh sparkling).. also the characters are just so neatly put together they fit in their own weird and sometimes awkward way (girl here loves her drama)... actually the crew is so great in this that i can't settle with one favorite character.. And in episode 9 of season 2 you get to see just how amazing a crew this is.. really amazing... it's a rare treat of the filmed world to see just that..

If I have to choose favorites though then I really like the doctor, Lauren, for well no good reason other than Zoie has this amazing smile and puppy eyes and I'm such a sucker for that...  also Kenzi is just adorable.. street smart and all she is so cute and comes up with the greatest comments ever... even when she is dead serious she tends to make you smile or giggle a little... thumps up for Ksenia Solo...

uh it is like christmas....

To point out just how great I think this show is I can end by telling you that it took me the time of about 4 days to go through all that has been aired so far.. that is with long shifts at work and stuff like that.. (so little sleep o.O ) and I have the feeling that September 2nd is a hell of a long way from now :) so really go Canada and pretty please give me some more of this stuff...

Monday, May 28, 2012

The Good Wife (2009 -?)

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

Monday, March 12, 2012

Rizzoli & Isles (2010-?)

soooo lost in series at the moment... maybe a way to keep my mind of the fact that i have to wait until the 19. for the next Castle episode... dang waiting time.. :(

Anyway doing some random searching on the big web i kinda fell over this series. As I have come to understand there's a lot of shipping going on about the 2 lead characters. Being all new to that term.. maybe I'm not a movie geek more a movie nerd since I don't really go into that kinda stuff.. though I can imagine why some people like to think they are a couple.

so this Rizzoli & Isles... what is it about... well it's your basic cop-series. You of cause follow Rizzoli and Isles in case you where doubting that. Detective Jane Rizzoli is a American-Italian chick who kicks ass every now and then. Dr. Maura Isles is an upper class nerd working in the coroner office. They are close friends and work together on different murder cases.

So why watch this cop-series over others? well it's different. It manage to stay interesting without the sexual tension that most hit series feed of. Not to talk bad about the others because I do like those to but I find it that most series try and survive on the sexual tension. That's why it is refreshing to find a series that are based on humor and the odd combination of characters. Jane and Maura is so different in upbringing and ways of thinking that is sometimes painfully funny. Jane being down to earth and very direct and Maura being this brainiac filling everything with complicated knowledge instead of simple answers. They complement each other quite well and yeah sometimes they do kinda act like a married couple.. hm what else to tell... well i find the stories built well. Already in the first episode you get a big chunk of history of the characters.. well mostly Rizzoli's history... getting you hooked on their stories..

so yeah I have very little bad about this series.. I do find it very sad that they don't stick with the ringtone joke from the first episode because it was funny and it would have been cool to keep that later on in the series. Also there was an episode where there was a fault in the solving of a case.. the biology knocked into my head over the years was screaming at me it was that bad.. but if you don't have the same level in biology that I do you wont notice it so i guess it's not that bad again just wrong... goes without saying you should not believe everything you hear....


Thursday, February 16, 2012

Lie To Me (2009 - 2011)

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

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Home Alone 3 (1997)

Alex Pruitt is 8 years old. He's unlucky to get the chickenpox and therefor must stay home in bed. When his mom steps out to get some papers at work Alex notices some shady type breaking in to a neighbors house. As the good kid Alex is he calls the police. However when they get there the thieves are gone. Next day it is dads turn to look after the kid and sure enough he has to step out to. Same thing, when the cops shows up the thieves are gone. Alex is trying to figure out what they are looking for and where they are gonna strike next. Since the cops didn't find any the 2 times he called nobody believes him and Alex decides to take matter into own hands and catch the thieves on his own with a camera and his toy car. Which happens to be what the thieves are after. Then of cause he has to protect his house and catch the bad guys (classic!)

Saying this is a home alone movie in line with the 2 first ones is almost a sin. It's fun and all but it is nothing compared to the others. Not the same type at story and everything.. not like they forget him at home they just don't believe him. Anyhow good things about the movie.. well even though the pranks are not all that cool the bird on the other hand is.. Alex's big brother has this talking parrot that I just love... it's funny and awesome..
"Houston we have a problem"

back to the movie.. well it's a onetime watch for sure but don't think it will end on anyone favorite christmas list on its own. You might like me just think hey lets see the whole bunch of Home alone.. but.. hm hope you know where i'm at...

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

The McCallisters is back. It's been 2 years since the McCallisters forgot their youngest son Kevin at home while going on Christmas vacation. This year they plan another trip, this time to Philadelphia. once again they oversleep and have to leave home in a hurry. This time they do remember to get Kevin in the car to. When they get to the airport they have to run to the plane. On the way Kevin gets his fathers bag to get new batteries in his camera. He the follows his father to the plane. When the family lands in Philadelphia they realizes that Kevin isn't there. Kevin has a similar experience when he gets of the plane in New York. Upside is Kevin has his dads credit card, making it a lot easier to make the Big Apple his playground... Downside.. well the notorious Wet Bandits has escaped and is in New York to get some cash.
So even before the movie starts you just know that The Wet Bandits are gonna be sorry. The Movie follows then first movie great. You get the moms worry about might forgetting Kevin again. And Kevin's face when he realizes that he got himself forgotten again is just priceless. I know that some of the things is quite similar to the first movie.. but it is just in such a nice wrapping that I for one don't mind.. Its a really nice sequel that I love watching just as much as the first one :)

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Crime d'amour (2010)

Yeah a French movie... I might have mentioned this a few times by now but I simply love french movie. Been watching a lot of them and most of them tend to end up on my list of favorites. This is no exception.

Crime d'amour or Love Crime, as the English title is, is a movie about Christine, an international business woman and her assistant Isabelle. Christine is the type to play with everything and everyone for her own pleasing and sure enough she is going to toy around with Isabelle to. Isabelle is exceptional at her job and seems somewhat in love with Christine and therefor willing to do pretty much everything to please her. One day however Christine takes credit for one of Isabelle's ideas in front of Isabelle and Isabelle is slowly beginning to see the game and that Christine might not be as good as she believed.


Okay so I kinda dig these movies where you see the human behavior at its worst (or should I say best?) The thing about humans is that we tend to like to see people at their worst behavior. Might be why reality shows are so in at the moment. Though I don't fall to the trend of reality shows I also enjoy watching this game that we play with each other even though most people wont admit it. This movie is a bright example of how cruel people can be and what effects it has when they are. How emotions blend in to whatever we do even when we hurt others. Off cause the title indicates that love is a feeling that we are gonna see a lot to in this movie. But there are so many types of love and most people don't realize how much love is a part of our life. Mainly because most people define love as a feeling you feel for someone else.

So rambling aside if you like french movies and/or movies with the content of cruelty of human nature this is one to watch. Some might say that some of the actors where stiff or whatever.. I must admit I don't usually notice this.. guess that when i do it's really bad ;).. and truly you could pretty much always say someone else would have done better, since it is a matter of taste. However I did noticed that maybe I should start watching more with Kristin Scott Thomas. I have watched a bit with her in the past and always found her a good actress. My amazement of her in this movie is that she can get so many different expressions without moving a muscle in her face but simply by the changes in her eyes. Love that in an actress :)