Monika’s Pensieve

I want to introduce a film rating system on my blog at some point in the future and was hoping for input :) I struggle with conventional film rating systems - they seem a bit meaningless. Rating a film out of 10 or 5 just doesn’t tell you all that much about what is meant [...]

Apparently, it was copyright’s 300th birthday 10 days ago! I thought this was a pretty cool article about the history of copyright and how different its original intentions were.
Also, there’s been an interesting development in the fight against piracy recently. The US government has admitted that most piracy studies are complete nonsense. More about this [...]

I discovered by accident that Kellan Lutz (Emmett in Twilight) is a rather amusing interviewee. Plus he has a very cool surname (for those who don’t know, a lutz is one of the jumps in figure skating :)). So in celebration of that, here’s Kellan Lutz on Ellen (he does some amazing push-ups ;)), but [...]

This is quite simply one of the most hilarious interviews ever ;) I don’t even want to say anything for fear of spoiling the joke ;)

It’s been almost a year since I spotted Cherrybomb and yet only now is it getting a release date in the UK. Still practically no news whatsoever about release dates elsewhere in the world.
On the positive side, a UK release date means a little bit of publicity, so at least there’s that ;-P
Clips
There’s a new [...]

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Savage Grace (Spain/USA/France, 2007)
Seen: Thursday, 25th February 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 97′
Director: Tom Kalin
Cast: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne
Production House: 120dB Films
Plot: (from imdb)
The true story of the beautiful and charismatic Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child is a failure in his [...]

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Amelia (USA/Canada, 2009)
Seen: Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 111′
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston
Production House: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Avalon Pictures
Plot: (from imdb)
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight [...]

I think I like him better in interviews than I do in films ;-P He’s really funny.
Anyway, this is part of the Leap Year promotion in which he talks a lot about drinking. And this is another one, in which he talks about being hungover. And finally this is like the only interview of his [...]

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Leap Year (USA/Ireland, 2010)
Seen: Saturday, 20th February 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 100′
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode
Production House: Universal Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment
Plot: (from imdb)
A woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, an Irish tradition which occurs every time the date February 29 rolls around, faces a major setback [...]

I just searched for The Hunchback of Notre Dame on youtube for no apparent reason and the number one result was my favourite ever Walt Disney scene. Apparently, it’s not just me - there’s loads of people who love this one *grin* What gets me about it is that it seems so totally inappropriate for [...]