Monika’s Pensieve

{FILM SPOTTING}
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (USA, 2009)
Release Date (Poland): 5th November 2010
Release Date (worldwide): 16th January 2009
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz
Plot: (from TMDb)
Set in Harlem in 1987, claireece “Precious” Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would [...]

I’m ditching my film spotting rating. It adds complexity rather than clarity. What I do want to stay with though is the practice of listing films that I’m in two minds about seeing (or in other words I’d probably see the film if a friend wanted to and/or if there was nothing else interesting [...]

{FILM SPOTTING}
Even more format changes ;-P Am still using the rating system from last month, but have foregone 0 and -1. Feels like overkill. Am staying with the +0.5 rating though, at least for the moment.
- - - - - - - - - +1 - - - - - - - - -
Tetro (USA/Italy/Spain/Argentina, [...]

{FILM SPOTTING}
Wild Target (UK/France, 2010)
Release Date (Poland): unknown
Release Date (worldwide): 18th June 2010
Runtime: 98′
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Cast: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett, Martin Freeman, Gregor Fisher
Production House: Magic Light Pictures, CinemaNX, Isle of Man Film, Entertainment Film Distributors, Matador Pictures, Cinema Four, Regent Capital
Plot: (from imdb)
A hitman tries to retire but a beautiful [...]

{FILM SPOTTING}
Rise of the Apes (USA, 2011)
Release Date (Poland): unknown, but summer 2011 sounds like a likely bet
Release Date (worldwide): 24th June 2011
Runtime: unknown
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Cast: James Franco, Tom Felton, Brian Cox, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Andy Serkis
Production House: Chernin Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Plot: (from imdb)
An origin story set in present day San [...]

Should have posted this ages ago :] For continuity’s sake, it’s in same film review format as the other Due South reviews, but I think I’m going to make yet another change of format soon as this one just isn’t working *sigh*
{FILM DIARY}
Note: Please refer to this post for more details and links to other [...]

I’m not sure all my attempts at mixing things up are going that well (I think my film diary format change is actually worse than what I had before ;-P). But I’m doing some further experimentation this month anyway.
So firstly, I’m introducing a “how much I want to see the film” rating:

+3
Very excited!
I’ve been obsessively [...]

Hopefully, this list will be a pleasant contrast to the villain one *grin*
Originally, this was supposed to be a list of characters in the “knightly honour” sort of vein. The trouble was, I could think of only two characters that fitted all the criteria I was looking for, so I dropped the “knightly” part and [...]

{FILM DIARY}
Note: Please refer to this post for more details and links to other Due South reviews.
"Due South" (Canada/USA, 1994)
Viewed: Late May & Early June 2010
Rating: +3 (All-time favourite)
Video

Episodes:
- 14: The Man Who Knew Too Little
Fraser has to safely escort Ian McDonald, a key murder case witness and a pathological liar, to Canada.
- 15: The [...]

Last week marked 60 years since the Korean war (1950-1953) broke out. As Al Jazeera aptly points out, it has largely been forgotten in the West despite the huge destruction and death toll it caused. Around 4mln people died in the three years in which the fighting ensued, around half of them civilians. Apparently, the [...]