Monika’s Pensieve

When I reviewed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I criticized the editing for choppiness. Due to seeing some additional material from the film (this is something I found during my last Tom Felton phase but forgot to post earlier), I have more to add to that criticism now :]
I absolutely adored Tom Felton’s performance [...]

Before I get to the spotting part of the post, I wanted to recommend Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. It’s coming in on the 13th of November 2009. I saw it at the Planete Doc Review and reviewed it here. It’s even more poignant now after Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland.
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The Tibetan Book of the [...]

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Love Actually (UK/USA, 2003)
Seen: Tuesday, 13th October 2009 (VHS, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 135′
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Thomas Sangster, Alan Rickman, Lúcia Moniz, Billy Bob Thornton, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Olson
Production House: Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Working Title Films, DNA Films
Plot: (from imdb)
Follows the [...]

My apologies for being so bad with updating this blog of late :-/
First, the BA project got in the way. We were very tight for time and we didn’t get it done yet again would you believe! But at least this time we’ve certainly gone forwards and the quality of work is pretty good… or [...]

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Bridget Jones's Diary (UK/France, 2001)
Seen: Tuesday, 29th September 2009 (VHS, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 97′
Director: Sharon Maguire
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Shirley Henderson
Production House: Little Bird, Studio Canal, Working Title Films
Plot: (from imdb)
A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which [...]

I announced that I’m going through a Colin Firth phase, so I need to provide some proof ;-P
I don’t go through Colin Firth phases often, so the last time I actually actively looked for Colin Firth interviews was ages ago and there wasn’t much up at the time. It’s a very different landscape now though [...]

More and more clips of Tom Felton at DragonCon are popping up on youtube and it just defies belief lol It’s a really crazy interview. From what I can make out, at this time clips of two Q&A sessions have appeared. Two more sessions are still to come I think.
The first Q&A did not receive [...]

Tom Felton is doing publicity at Dragoncon in Atlanta at the moment. And finally the fans there have asked what I’ve always wanted to hear ;) Kind of amusing that he’s not had that question pop up in any of the interviews I’ve seen of his before (then again I’ve never heard Daniel Radcliffe being [...]

Amazingly enough as long as I was working on my BA project I was actually fixating on the project rather than on some random actor I like, but now that I’m having a bit of a break from the project and I’m supposed to be studying for exams (Artificial Intelligence is the one I’m pretending [...]

I am finally up to date with my film diary *grin* Which means I haven’t watched any films in over 2 weeks - my BA project is really taking too much of my time *sigh* No wonder I have withdrawal symptoms from not watching enough films…
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Ballet Shoes (UK, 2007)
Seen: Tuesday, 11th August 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: [...]