Blogger Picks | January

Kayla | Not Your Standard - Laidback and Rejuvenated
Melissa | Media Marmalade - Tips For Shooting in Sunlight
Now that I have my new camera tips like these will really come in handy

Helena | Brooklyn Blonde - Getting Fancy and Winter Pastel

Amy | Salt and Chic - Ten Things To Do In Amsterdam In Winter
I'm off to Amsterdam next month so this is super super helpful
Georgia | Georgia Luisa Meramo - Packing for Berlin/Packing Hand Luggage
Another interesting read for my trip to Amsterdam because we're only bringing hand luggage!

Sarah | That Pommie Girl - Oversized
Sandra | 5 Inch and Up - Flowers In January

Fantasitc Four (Josh Trank, 2015)

Cast: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey

Summary: Four young outsiders teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe which alters their physical form in shocking ways. The four must learn to harness their new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

Watched: January 31st, 2016

I wrote in my Most Re-watched Films: Part 2 that I was super obsessed with Fantastic Four (2005) when it came out. I pretty much knew the whole script (I know I was quite a sad child), so when I heard that it was being remade I was pretty darn excited.

However after watching it I can safely say that I was quite disappointed, and in my opinion I think the 2005 version is a lot better although I can now see that some of the acting is absolutely horrendous.

I found it difficult to connect with the characters; I really struggled to understand them and their choices. I've never read a Fantastic Four comic but I'm pretty sure this is nothing like what happened in the comics.
It took a long time for the film to really get going, but it also felt like they were trying to explain everything and create relationships in about 30 seconds.
I really didn't like the film, it reminded me too much of Green Lantern (2011), which I hated.

Rating: 3/10
One Final Word: Rubbish

Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011)

Cast: Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Riley Griffiths, Bruce Greenwood, Noah Emmerich

Summary: During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery

My dad signed up to Netflix towards the end of last year and this film caught my eye.
I've already seen this film, it was one of the few films I actually went to the cinema to watch when it came out and I remembered really enjoying the film so I thought lets watch it again.

Boy oh boy this film is good!

I really love the relationship that Joes has with his friends and although his mom has passed away and that his dad isn't around much, he still has a family.

I think one of the reasons I really liked this film is because the kids are doing something that I really enjoy and that's filmmaking! I love it when a film makes me want to go out and get involved with something, and this film certainly make me want to go out and help make films again.

As much as I don't like to admit it, I'm definitely one for crying at films and this film certainly made me a little teary especially with the last few scenes.

Act Of Valor (Mike McCoy & Scott Waugh, 2011)

Cast: Jason Cottle, Rorke Denver, Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sánchez, Nestor Serrano

Summary: An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent.

Genre: Action, War

Watched: January 9th, 2016

I really, really enjoyed this film. It's not often that I choose to watch war films and to be perfectly honest this film had been sitting in my Netflix watch list for months before I finally sat down and started to watch it (this is after attempting to watch several other films first).

I was totally expecting this film to be a bunch of rubbish, but I was hooked from the word go! I even tried watching the film while making cupcakes, but sadly the film won. I thought the action sequences looked absolutely incredible and I loved the authentic military language.

The film uses real Navy Seals (hence the super authentic language) but that brings me to the biggest downside of the film, the acting. There are times (quite a few I have to say) when the acting is incredibly rubbish, because obviously the Navy Seals aren't real actors so some things come across as un-genuine and super awkward.

Terrible acting aside, I still really, really liked this film and I would watch it again.

Rating: 9/10
One Final Word: Very, Very Good

Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, 2007)

Cast: Jess Weixler, Hale Appleman, John Hensley, Lenny Von Dohlen, John Pais

Summary: Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.

Genre: Black Comedy, Horror


"That's what the ring is all about. The way it wraps around your finger - that's to remind you to keep your gift wrapped. Wrapped...until the day...you trade it in for that other ring. That gold ring"

I'd heard about this film from some of my friends back when I was in school so I thought I had a pretty good idea of what this film was going to be about, but it was after around maybe five minutes when I started thinking "what is this nonsense?".

After about 20 minutes I actually started to get into the film and I ended up really enjoying it. Everything I thought I knew about the film was completely wrong, I actually thought it was going to be this intensely dark horror film, but it turns out to be more dark humour then horror.

I really enjoyed how the students have a whole discussion on how its fine to show a penis in a sexual education book but it isn't okay for a vagina to be shown (which I thought was pretty outrageous). It also made me think of the whole argument of why it's okay for men to walk around topless but it isn't okay for women to do the same.

All in all, I think it's a pretty decent film.

Rating: 7/10
One Final Word: Very Good

Film | In the Cinema - February #2

February 19

Bone Tomahawk - Four men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers.

Freeheld - New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

How To Be Single - New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.

Chronic - A home care nurse works with terminally ill patients

Triple 9 - A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.

The Finest Hours - The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952


February 22

The Devil You Know - Kathryn Vale is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps.


February 24

Grimsby - A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother.


February 26

God's Of Egypt - A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

The Forest - A woman goes into Japan's Suicide Forest to find her twin sister, and confronts supernatural terror.

Secret in Their Eyes - A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

Exposed - A police detective investigates the truth behind his partner's death. The mysterious case reveals disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.


February 29

The Benefactor - A philanthropist meddles in the lives of newly-married couples in an attempt to relive his past.

Film | In the Cinema - February

February 5

Dad's Army - The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

Goosebumps - A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R. L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Delaware.

I Saw The Light - The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.

Trumbo - In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.

Strangerland - A family finds their dull life in a rural outback town rocked after their two teenage children disappear into the desert, sparking disturbing rumors of their pas

Point Break - A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists.


February 10

Deadpool - A former Special Forces operative turned mercenary is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopting the alter ego Deadpool.


February 11

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England is faced with a new challenge -- an army of undead zombies.


February 12

Zoolander 2 - Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip - Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami...and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother.

Concussion - In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.

A Bigger Splash - The vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter.


February 18

Lost In The Sun - The story of John, a small time crook, who finds an unlikely accomplice in Louis, a newly-orphaned teenage boy. As their open-road adventure progresses and John drags the kid on a string of robberies, the pair forge an unexpected and powerful bond.