Thank God That Deadlines and Exam Dates Correspond to Movie Release Dates!!!

With my hectic assignment deadline and exam schedule I forgot to thank you all, amazing people, who took part in my survey for the dissertation I had to submit in March. So there it goes: Thank you soooooo much!

I am glad to announce that the dissertation has been signed, sealed and delivered for nearly 2 months now.

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After all the sleepless nights I spent writing it, I rewarded myself with going to Oz The Great and Powerful, which incidentally was released the same day I submitted the dissertation!

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I recently had my first exam for this year and celebrated finishing it by going to Iron Man 3 - also released the same day (check out my review)!

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I am having another exam next week and the second it is finished I am heading to the movie theater to watch Star Trek: Into Darkness (again released the same day as my exam!)

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What I am trying to say is that I don’t know if it is a higher power at work here, but our world definitely works in mysterious ways if the films I am really looking forward to are released on the days of my exams!

All I have to do then is thank god (or you know, something/someone…the production companies/the distribution companies/the cinema chain…my university’s registry who set the exam dates???) for ensuring the presence of film-related rays of light on my darkest days!!! :)

Iron Man 3 Review: The Worthy Leader of Marvel’s Phase 2

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There is rarely something more exciting in the film industry than seeing an actor and a director click. On the occasions this happens, you know that greatness will follow. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are but a few examples of what the right combination of acting and directing can repeatedly achieve! This is why when Kiss Kiss Bang Bang duo Robert Downey Jr. and director Shane Black reunited for Iron Man 3, there was a huge relief that the epic franchise would be in safe hands. Indeed, the third instalment about the armoured super hero proves to be a complex, but well-oiled machine which soars between stunning visual effects, strong emotions and hilarious wisecracks to deliver a worthy leader of Marvel’s much-anticipated Phase Two. Continue Reading

Dissertation Help!!! (…or What Goes Around, Comes Around:)

Hello guys,

As I have mentioned I have been buried in university work lately, so I haven’t really been able to post so much.

The main reason is that my dissertation is due soon :(

Anyway, I need a questionnaire to be filled in by people so I can analyze the data, and since it is somewhat connected to film and it wouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to fill in, I thought some of you might be willing to help out :)

Plus, then you can always benefit from the good karma when it comes time for you to need someone else’s help (or suffer from the bad one, if you don’t help now…no, I’m kidding :D …or am I? ;)

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You can access the questionnaire here.

Pretty please!!! (puppy eyes) :D

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Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much in advance!!!

xxx

Django Unchained and Lincoln (5–Sentence) Reviews: The Two Faces of Slavery

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Apologies for not having written a post in ages! I have been overwhelmed with university work and since I only had time for one, I had to choose between watching movies and writing about them. So I chose watching them. Go figure! However, I felt compelled to write something about two films – Django Unchained and Lincoln. First, because they had such a huge impact on me when I watched them and second, because with all the Oscar buzz surrounding them, it would just be wrong not to. And since various publications, websites etc have already provided (too) lengthy (going-to-fall-asleep-before-I-finish-them) reviews and commentaries, I decided to tame my huge mouth (translated into what my itchy-to-write opinionated fingers want to type) and present you with two very succinct 5-sentence reviews (mind you I can write incredibly long sentences!). Continue Reading

Rise of the Guardians Review: The best Christmas movie…that is not set at Christmas.

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Christmas is never complete without a heart-warming festive film to put you in the spirit of the holiday and to excuse any extra mug of hot chocolate. This year, the ranks of vibrant Christmas animations, including The Polar Express (2004) and Arthur Christmas (2011), are joined by the latest from DreamWorks: Rise of the Guardians. Interestingly enough, this dazzling Christmas-flavoured animation doesn’t feature only the red-suited jolly fellow iconic for this time of year, but brings the Big Four all together – Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and the Easter Kangaroo…excuse me, the Easter Bunny, to battle every child’s biggest and darkest fear: the Bogeyman. Another curious detail? The movie is actually set during Easter time! Continue Reading

2013 Sci-fi films: 4 Lessons from the During- and Post-apocalyptic Earth Survival Guide

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Sci-fi had a pretty good run in 2012 with marvelous additions to the genre’s lines, including Prometheus, Looper and Dredd. Now, 2013 promises to be even bigger, better and bolder with four head-spinners about to hit the screens next year. Not surprisingly, considering the alleged Mayan prediction about the end of the world, all of the upcoming features are set either in the dawn or in the aftermath of an apocalypse. So, in the event of an apocalypse, here are some practical lessons. Continue Reading

Argo Review: A story so incredible, it had to be true!

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After building a name for himself as a director with his two acclaimed Boston-set crime dramas Gone Baby Gone (2007) and The Town (2010), Ben Affleck is back for his third directorial endeavour. Unlike its predecessors, however, the new feature called Argo takes us out of Mr. Affleck’s comfort zone, and on trip out of his favourite setting Boston…way out! Tehran, to be precise! The result is an intelligent and engrossing film, which walks the fine border between drama and comedy, reality and fiction, heroism and fear, without failing to keep audiences engaged for even a second. Continue Reading

My Marvel-ous rating system!

I don’t know if it is the coolest, but I think I might have created the most Marvel-ous rating system :)

Check out My rating system :)

My Movie Alphabet: A-Z Survival Guide of a Movie Buff

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My Movie Alphabet is a blogathon started by Mettel Ray, which truly exemplifies the concept of a ‘blogathon’, since it took me forever to compile this entry!!! I was massively entertained throughout the whole process, of course! I actually think I went a little overboard with this post, which word count is close to 3000 words – the size of one of my university essays! I know this is too long to read, so feel free to just look at the pictures :) So, I have not only included actors, directors, and movies, but anything which is connected to films and I cannot live without! What I have noticed, though, is that since the letter M is so Marvelous, I had too many things I wanted to include, so I ended up having runner-ups to the runner-ups! So, without further ado… Continue Reading

Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Review: ‘Cause when you Twi hard is when you die hard!

Three, two, one … (in)action! The Twilight Saga is back in theaters for its allegedly “epic” finale Breaking Dawn – Part 2. And while haters will probably still hate and Twi-hards will still love hard, there is no denying that The Twilight Saga has marked a turning point in the movie industry by being the first multi-billion franchise directed towards women. Yet, by breaking the series’ usual pattern of agonizing love triangle yearning, and by adding more gore decapitating action to the vamp-werewolf mix, this last installment proves to be a preposterous laugh-out-loud anticlimax, which can’t even boast the benefits of emo-teen-pleasing drama this time around. Continue Reading