Don't be a Plum

Sometimes people really piss me off…. and then I watch a movie

Archive for 2009

How to Steal a Million (1966)

I’ve been watching so many girly movies lately, but I want to talk about this film that has Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole.
Nicole Bonnet (Audrey Hepburn) is a young aristocrat whose father is eccentric and even though he doesn’t need the money, forges famous works of art to sell them to other aristocrats. He begins [...]



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Precious (2009)

This film is a really good one. It’s got lots of celebrity cameos in it, including Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz. The main characters in the film are called Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) and Mo’Nique (her mother). It was produced jointly by Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey.
This film is definitely a tragedy/drama. I’ll just tell you [...]



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Moral Panic: Quadrophenia (1979)

Before I get into this week’s movie review, I also want to ask everyone’s opinion on something.  My mom says I should be getting privacy education because of the internet. She is reading this book on reputation and the internet and says I should read it too because what I do, like having a blog, [...]



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La Boulangère de Monceau (1963)

This movie is called The Girl in the Monceau Bakery in English, and it’s directed by Eric Rohmer, and it’s a study in morality. It’s only 22 minutes long, but it’s a classic case of the girl who you want and the girl who’s easy to get. A lot of guys can definitely relate.
So this [...]



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Praise (1998)

I saw this film which is based in Australia. It’s another film that doesn’t really have a lot happening on the outside, but it has a lot happening on the inside of the characters. I’m really interested in those kinds of films at the moment.
There is a man named Gordon who lives in a kind [...]



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Accident (1967)

I watched a really interesting film called Accident this week. It was filmed in 1967 and directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter and based on a book by Nicholas Mosley. It’s all about this man named Stephen who is professor at Oxford and what his life is like.  So here’s a short [...]



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Woman of the Year (1942)

Woman of the Year was the first movie that Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy did together. They eventually made 9 films together, and in real life, they were in love and a couple for decades. They kept their romance hidden away in real life, but onscreen, they were one of the most dynamic and best [...]


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10 Films I WANT to see

I thought it would be a refreshing change for me to list 10 films I haven’t seen that I want to see, since I’m always writing about films I have already seen. Some of these I might have already mentioned, and others I have just hoped to watch for a while. For each film, I’ll [...]



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Kramer vs. Kramer

Movies in the 70s were quite cool.  I’m keen to watch all the films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, so the 1979 movie Kramer vs. Kramer was squarely on the list. The film, which stars Meryl Streep Dustin Hoffman, examines the phenomenon of divorce’s increased frequency and its affects on the nuclear [...]



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3D films

There seems to be a huge buzz around 3-D cinema at the moment. New films like ‘Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs’ (what a stupid title!), and ‘The Final Destination’ are getting advertised all over the place, and there’s even a 3D re-release of Toy Story coming out pretty soon.

The thing that I don’t get [...]



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