Category Archives: film & television

Park Shin Hye and Lee Jong Suk

film & television December 17, 2014 Comments: 2

PARK SHIN HYE AND LEE JONG SUK PINOCCHIO

Because I’m obsessed with Pinocchio, one of the more gorgeous, light, addicting romances I’ve come across in recent years, have some insanely pretty pics of the leads, most from a campaign for casual clothing line Jambangee.

The two won the Best Couple Award at the 2014 SBS Drama Awards and have been nicknamed the “Darling Couple” for their chemistry. At the awards show, the MC asked Lee Jong Suk, “I heard that you and Park Shin Hye share skinship even when the camera isn’t rolling. Is this true?” Lee Jong Suk answered immediately, “Yes.” See also the Pienocchio tumblr for an adorable GIFset of Lee Jong Suk rambling about how lovable and pretty Park Shin Hye is.

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ABC’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ (Finale Screencaps)

film & television December 15, 2014 Leave a comment

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Korean Drama Review: Pinocchio starring Park Shin Hye and Lee Jong Suk

film & television December 12, 2014 Comments: 4

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Pinocchio is a currently-airing Korean drama starring Park Shin Hye and Lee Jong Suk.

Ha-myung (Lee Jong Suk) has a photographic memory (he has to see something only once in order to remember it) and a happy family – his father is a firefighter captain, his mother a loving parent, and his brother shares his gift. One day, however, his father leads his squad into a terrible factory explosion, and when it’s over, most of the squad is dead and Ha-myung’s father has disappeared. The media, grasping hold of the story, sensationalize it as an irresponsible captain killing his squad and then disappearing out of fear, and Ha-myung and his family become nationally despised.

Ha-myung’s mother decides to kill herself and jumps with him into the sea, but Ha-myung is rescued, miles away, by the kindly, elderly Gong-pil. Gong-pil, who has a few screws loose, decides that Ha-myung is his oldest, long-dead son Dal-po, and adopts him. Ha-myung gladly accepts the identity, and is raised alongside Gong-pil’s other son Dal-pyung and his daughter In-ha (Park Shin Hye). The two grow up together and ultimately enter the world of journalism as newbie reporters.

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I can’t say enough about how deeply lovable Pinocchio is. I had a good feeling from the first episode, when it started out quick and charming and assured…

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“Still Alice” Official Trailer

film & television December 11, 2014 Leave a comment

This film, shot in three weeks, has been building an incredible momentum, and Julianne Moore is the easy frontrunner right now for Best Actress. I’m so excited to see it.

Miles Teller and Gugu Mbatha-Raw

creativity, film & television December 10, 2014 Leave a comment

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Miles Teller and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in the New York Times’ inspired “The Year’s Best Actors: 9 Kisses” video series.

Movie Review: Cypher starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu

film & television November 30, 2014 Leave a comment

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Sometimes, in my quest for action films/thrillers I have not yet seen, I dive deep into the IMDB archives. Which is how I came up with Cypher, a 2002 spy film starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu. Of course with that cast I had to watch it, and it obtained a not-negligible 6.9 rating on IMDB, so I thought, how bad could it be?

Alas…it was awful. I’ll spare you the details, except to say that the entire film was shot in muted sepia tones, as if attempting to give some noir-ish credence to a very silly plot that draws heavily on post-Cold-War paranoia in a story about brainwashing, double agents, and corporate espionage. Morgan Sullivan leads a very dull suburban life until he’s recruited to act as a corporate spy…and then recruited by that company’s competition. Morgan quickly adapts to his new identity, taking up smoking and switching his alcohol to “Scotch…single malt…on the rocks” like any good Bond-pretender. However, not all is as it seems…

And it wasn’t even so bad it’s good, it was just ludicrous and boring, an odd catch-all of Bond films, noir spy conventions, and Walter-Mitty surrealism. However. The cast is stunningly good-looking (I would positively kill to see them paired in some other film), so have some screenshots to please your eyes.

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Romance Recommendation: Love Takes Wing

film & television November 28, 2014 Leave a comment

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Belinda Simpson is still grieving the death of her husband when she arrives in a small Missouri town to take over as town doctor. An infection is rapidly spreading through town and the townfolk blame the children at the orphanage; Belinda must do all that she can to find a cure and protect the children, aided by her friend and fellow doctor Annie and the young blacksmith Lee Owens.

The Love Comes TV movies (I believe there’s six now) are based on a series of romance novels by Janette Oke, and they’re all sweet, cliched, delightful little romances with absolutely zero surprises and no particular inspiration, but plenty of frontier and midwest romance between strong-willed women and reserved, humorous men. They’re essentially one step up from Hallmark movies. The first two in the series have been the best so far – Love Comes Softly and Love’s Enduring Promise – with the others variations on the same theme and growing more and more uninspired – so I was surprised to find that this, the latest, is very strongly-written and just as good as Love Comes Softly. It’s also a cut above acting-wise – part of why Love Comes Softly worked was Katherine Heigl’s performance, and Sarah Jones in this delivers the role of extraordinarily stubborn, kind, tempestuous Belinda as  if it was made for. Haylie Duff co-stars in a long line of random semi-famous stars this series has managed to pull in. For unabashed romance lovers. vlcsnap-2014-11-28-14h25m09s239 vlcsnap-2014-11-28-14h29m28s23
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Thanksgiving Movie

film & television November 27, 2014 Leave a comment

I’m watching Night at the Museum for the first time and it’s unexpectedly pretty and heartwarming. vlcsnap-2014-11-27-11h03m01s47

The 100 Bellamy Clarke Fanfiction – Reunion

film & television November 26, 2014 Comments: 2

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A few weeks back I wrote my first (and so far only) fanfiction. What is it that inspired intense enough passion in this girl to lead me to finally turn to fanfiction after years of writing other formats?

The CW’s The 100. Which has turned out to be so much better than it has any right to be,a dark, gritty, romantic survivalist tale of four young people who blossom into leaders, fighters, and fierce defenders of the remnants of the human race left on earth. I highly recommend it if you haven’t tried it yet (the first two episodes are okay but not great and then it hooks from there) – even critics who initially ignored it are slowly picking it up and becoming fans, including NPR Pop Culture Hour‘s Joanna Robinson. The show it reminds me of most is Lost, though it’s (obviously) not nearly as brilliant.

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Clarke saw him across the clearing and something inside her seemed to come suddenly to rest. He was covered in dirt and blood but the same driving force of will, the same steadiness, that had made her trust him before against all her better judgement, still hung on him, as he stood steady as a rock, taller than anyone else, his dark, broody eyes searching the scattered crowd.

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Pan Official Trailer – Starring Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara, Garrett Headland

film & television November 25, 2014 Leave a comment

Joe Wright is a master of bringing a cohesive, deft magic to updated versions of old stories (Pride and Prejudice anyone), so I’m excited for this. Stars Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, Rooney Mara, Garrett Headland and Levi Miller.