FINALLY!!!

Thrilled to hear that Kathryn Bigelow (love her!) took home the BAFTA for Best Director! Yessssss! The Hurt Locker also won Best Picture and Best Screenplay yesterday. A total of six awards. First female EVER to win a BAFTA in its 63 years of existence. All I can say is it's about effing time and suck on that James Cameron! Seriously, if he wins the Oscar I will vomit. The Hurt Locker was one of the best films I've seen in a while. So completely riveting and suspenseful. If you haven't seen it already, what are you waiting for? Now is the time for Kathryn to become the first female to take home the Oscar for Best Director. Best Picture would be sweet too. Enough of the boys club already. It's so old and boring.

The hills are alive and I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

Merry Christmas Eve!

It's that time of year again!!! Eeeeep! I get to watch my top two Christmas movies of all time, The Sound of Music and White Christmas. They just don't make them like that any more. I saw (and happily squawked along to) The Sound of Music last week and had the most fun ever (thanks to Jenn and Jean, who can actually sing). It's been a long standing tradition in my family to watch White Christmas on Christmas Eve. So tonight it's all about Danny, Bing, Rosemary and Vera-Ellen. Oh yes indeed. Below are both trailers.

How could I forget...

these two movies??? With the best trailers of the lot. They both look so intriguing.

A Single Man. Starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore!
Directed by Tom Ford who teams up with Mad Men's production designer Dan Bishop. So you know it's going to look goooood.

Comes out in December.


And Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces. He's one of my favourite directors. With Penelope Cruz in the lead role...oh yes.

Also out in December.

To the movies!

I've been sick all weekend so I'm filling my time reading, sleeping, sulking, drinking soooo much tea, watching movies and blockbuster movie trailers. Who doesn't like a good blockbuster every now and then? Here's what looks good to me.
*Double click on the video to view full screen*

Love Roald Dahl, love this book, love Wes Anderson and his humour, perspective, casting, set design..everything. I'm beyond excited for Fantastic Mr. Fox! It looks like such a work of art. The amount of time and detail that went into this film is incredible. There was a great article about Wes Anderson in The New Yorker a few weeks ago. Comes out soon, November 25!


I'm eagerly awaiting The Young Victoria. Emily Blunt is supposed to be astonishing in this role. December 18.


Sherlock Holmes looks funny and creepy at the same time. And who better to play him than Robert Downey Jr? December 25.


The Road looks less fun, but I still want to see it. Though I should probably read the book first. It's been sitting on my bookshelf for months. I've heard it is brilliant but depressing, seeing as it's about the end of the world and all. November 25.


Alice in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp directed by the crazy genius that is Tim Burton....YES! March 2010.


And of course I will pay to see Salt, starring that very pretty lady whose name I can't quite remember. Summer 2010.


For something easy and funny there is It's Complicated. Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin...done and done. December 25.

Sweet Crude

The documentary Sweet Crude looks incredibly powerful. I'm really looking forward to seeing it.



Sweet Crude is a documentary film about the Niger Delta of Nigeria -- the humanitarian and environmental devastation there in the wake of 50 years of unregulated oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest by Niger Deltans demanding control of their own resources and the emergence of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
Want to get involved? Click here.

You're broke? Come again now?

I recently watched Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens for another time. Really great film. She is such an iconic photographer with an extensive body of work and a career spanning over 40 years. And now Leibovitz is $24 million in debt. It's hard to believe actually.

Fascinating article in New York Magazine here.

Coraline in 3D!

I recently saw my first 3D movie, Coraline! What have I been waiting for? 3D is where it's at! A totally trippy, dream-like experience...the opening credits alone were incredible. Coraline is the first stop-motion film shot entirely in 3D. It's a mesmerizing, creepy fairy tale that really pulls you in. Definitely not just for kids. The cast was perfect. French and Saunders! Ian McShane! And I was actually impressed with Teri Hatcher and Dakota Fanning. The thing that blew me away was knowing that almost everything I was seeing was made by hand and the entire process takes years to finally come together. Directed by Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach) and based on the book by Neil Gaiman.

Check out their fun website and the Coraline trailer here. But it shows a lot of the movie, so if you'd prefer to be surprised, then don't watch.

Plus, we got hilarious and snazzy 3D glasses to keep.
Thanks for the movie passes Dad!