Date, anyone?

This is one movie you wouldn't want to miss. I like how they were able to portray the common scenario in a married life where the passion is lacking and the couple just fall in to a comfortable routine. It's so real What makes this movie great are their chemistry and intelligent& funny lines. I couldn't stop laughing! I think I had a lockjaw from all the laughing. :)

It opens tomorrow, April9. Be sure to catch it. Watch the trailer here.

*Thanks 20th Century for the press screening tix. :)

Barcelonuuuuh!

I remember getting excited when the trailer of Vicky Cristina Barcelona was first released on Apple Movie Trailers. I couldn't wait for it to be released. Then, life got in the way and I totally forgot about the movie until I saw it from Ivee's movie list.

Life is the Ultimate work of art

First five minutes of the movie and I was all inspired and the dreamer in me was aroused. I've always thought I was a European soul. ;p When I was young I used to watch this travel show on Discovery Channel. I always tell my mom that when I grow up I want to be a travel show host and travel all over the world. But I would definitely live in Europe. I'm inlove with their culture. Their lifestyle. Their eccentricity. The country-side. The architectures. Their beautiful homes. The vineyard. The food. The music. The chateaus. Even with the flowers. Their weather. And the fact that trench coat and boots are fashion staple. Lol

I think Spain is one of the most beautiful countries. We were under the Spaniards for more than 300 years, why weren't our ancestors able to adapt their love of art. Our country was given a shot to have a culture as beautiful as theirs. (I know, I know it wasn't all beautiful when we were under their influence. But still. ;p)

I could just imagine myself having wine while a guitar is playing on the background. Going to all the museums. Taking photographs of beautiful buildings. Biking in the countryside. Taking a stroll in the cobble-stoned streets wearing a very thin dress and no one would care. Dining in al fresco restaurants. Having coffee with an artist talking about love and life. Listen to their poems. I may not be able to understand it, but the way it sounds is just beautiful. (I took Spanish in college, but I could never get the accent right. On top of that my professor always mocks the way I say ‘R’. Lol) It seems like everything is romantic. You can see art in every corner. Who wouldn't want that everyday, right?

I think I’m more of a Cristina. Or maybe, I want to be more like Cristina. Because her character is appealing. An artist who has a twisted view on love. Lol. Seriously though, my view on love and relationships are now so different compared to a year ago. I’m still a hopeless romantic, but I don’t look at love in a rainbow-y and flying unicorn way. And I wouldn’t mind being whisked on an impulse by a strange artist. I feel lost and always in a search of something I don’t know.

I'm going to watch it again as soon as I DL subline.com. Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are arguing and speaking in Spanish. I can't understand a word and yet I didn't mind 'coz it was just sounds beautiful.

Dreaming of Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona. Seriously, nakaka-LSS. Lol. My goal before I turn 40 is to go backpacking around Europe for two months and immerse myself in their culture. That would be the best! :)

On Percy Jackson, Julie & Julia, etc

I gotta say, this movie was better than I thought it would be. Or maybe because I didn't give it too much thought until I was handed the free tickets. (By the way, thanks to 20th Century for the free tix.) I've been seeing the books in bookstore for the longest time but I thought it was like a Harry Potter copycat coz the book cover sure looks like Harry Potter's. Well, the concept of half-blood is there. In HP it's called muggles, in Percy Jackson it's called demi-gods. Oh yeah, instead of wizards, there's Greek gods and myths in there. Sounds interesting, eh? The movie was entertaining, it has its moments and I'm actually interested in reading the series. :)

I've watched Meryl Streep movies on dibidi, like, two weeks ago. I just couldn't wait. And once again, she deserves to win the Oscar's this year. As much as I want Sandra Bullock to have her moment, Streep's performance in Julie & Julia was just A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. The movie wasn't the best, but her acting is on a totally different level. It's just superb!!! Watch It's Complicated (I feel like she was playing herself with that movie. Lol), then just right after that, watch Julie & Julia and you'll just be amazed by her. Then go back to one of her old movies, Postcards from the Edge, and you'll end up wondering if she's a real person. She's bigger than life. I love her!!!

A friend also gave me a dibidi of The Lovely Bones. It will be released in cinemas next week, but I checked the first few minutes of the movie when he gave it to me but the copy is pretty really clear. Well, it was released in the US earlier this year (was it? It was, right?) I'm so tempted to pop that dibidi in the player, but I want to watch it (for the first time) on the big screen. I've been waiting for the movie the moment I flipped the last page of the book. Fine, fine. I'll wait for it on the big screen. Ilang tulog nalang!

It's the Oscar season again. What sucks is that some of the movies won't be shown in the big screen until after the award show is over. But..but...but...I have friends who already have the movies. So, it's burn-me-a-DVD season. Yeah, I do piracy, sue me!

Ooops, I take that back. Please don't! Lol. :))

A rare case

There was a time when I was a Twilight fanatic. And was so crazed when I got tickets for the premiere night. Man, I was all about Edward & Bella. Then I read New Moon, and I wanted to kill myself while reading it. It was one of the worst book I've read. Ever. (Sorry Twilight Saga fans). You would think I'd stop reading the whole series, eh? But no, I still read Eclipse. Its the most dragging book ever. I continued just for the sake of finishing, although I skipped a lot of the pages because the story was going in circles. SM redeemed herself though with the fourth book, it was a BIT better than the other two. Not best, but good enough. Anyways, what I was really gonna say is about the upcoming movie, New Moon. I wasn't really keen on watching it (although I'm pretty sure I'm going to watch anyway for the heck of it. Lol). Until I saw this trailer. This is the best of the three trailers. And I'm also excited in seeing Dakota Fanning, its been a while since I last saw her in the big screen. Am a big fan. So maybe this will be one of those rare cases when the movie adaptation is better than the book. Coz if not, then the movie would suck big time. Except for Twilight Saga uber fanatics, of course.

An excerpt

When you are a kid, you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you're born with, and eventually lose. Everyone under the age of seven is fluent in Ifspeak; go hang with someone under three feet tall and you'll see. What if a giant funnelweb spider crawl out of that hole over your head and bit you in the neck? What if the only antedote for venom was locked up in a vault on the top of the mountain? What if you lived through the bite , but could only move your eyelids and blink out an alphabet? It doesn't really matter how far you go; the point is that it's a world of possibility. Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

-Anna Fitzgerald, 13

My Sister's Keeper

The Lovely Bones

Oh yes, oh yes! I can't wait for the movie. I loved the book. One can easily assume by reading the back panel of the book that it's depressing, but it isn't because the voice of the narrator is not melancholy at all. Reading the book is like having a rural 1970's neighborhood and heaven come alive in your head. Sebold could take you to heaven and back with how she coined each word. And there are a lot of good lines from the book, here are some of my fave:


"When the dead are done with the living, the living can do on to other things, "Franny said. "Whay about the dead", I asked, "Where do we go?"

"I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it."

"How to commit the perfect murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away."

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

Read the plot of the book here!

Trivia: Alice Sebold draws personal experience from when she was raped in college.

I got free ticket! I got free ticket!*

*in Patrick's voice!

I got free ticket for tonight's showing of Transformers! Yey! Getting freebies like this makes me love my job even more!

Although, I've been reading bad reviews in the net. Nevertheless, free ticket is free ticket! Lol!

There is no evidence. There are no witnesses. But for one, there is no doubt.

I watched Doubt this weekend, and I fell in love with Meryl Streep all over again. She's like the greatest actress of all time. Okay, one of the greatest actress of all time. With every move of her eyes, twitch of her lips, and clasp of her hands I could totally feel the emotions of Sister Aloysius Beauvier. If you haven't watched Doubt yet, I suggest you do. I'm now trying to get a hold on some of her old flicks like Postcards from the Edge, Out of Africa and Sophies's Choice.


I've recently watched The Reader too, and there's no question Kate Winslet deserves that Oscars. Although I think that her performance was more intense in Revolutionary Road. The judges were probably thinking about that too when they voted her for Best Actress. Milk and Rachel Getting Married are next on my list! Never too late.. :-))