Little Talks

So now that Christmas is through, the next thing to look forward to is New Years. And with the new year comes...a new episode of Sherlock! So here is a Sherlock Holmes quote.

I have a nice long shift tomorrow, plus it's the holidays, so this may be the last post I do in a while just because I (like many of you) will be celebrating Christmas with my family. So, if I don't post again then I would just like to take a moment to say "Merry Christmas!" Argo is based on a true story about the 1980 escape of six American embassy workers from Tehran after the embassy in Iran was attacked and all of the people were captured and/or killed (except for the six who escaped). The small surviving team found safety in the home of the Canadian Ambassador (played by Victor Garber, who is actually a Canadian!). Meanwhile, in the U.S. a CIA agent (played by Ben Affleck) devised a plan to get them out by pretending that they are Canadian filmmakers scouting out a location for a new sci-fi movie. In order to make it authentic, a studio had to put all of the proper processes to do the work on this film (which they never actually intended to create). Of course,...

Singin' in the Rain is more than a romance. It is actually about the invention of talkies (movies with sound). This gives some good insight into the shift that happened in the movie industry at the time. The movie shows us the struggle of one of the industry's most popular acting duos: Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont (completely fictional people, not actual Hollywood stars). Lina is a good actress, but the problem is her voice. When the studio wants to make a movie full of speaking and singing, Lina doesn't understand why she is no longer suitable for the part. Meanwhile, Don has met and begun to fall for Kathy Selden, a stage actress. The two of them, along with the studios musician (and Don's best friend), Cosmo Brown, devise a plan to record Kathy's voice for the parts instead. You can see what problems might come from that. Things I remember thinking during this movie: Kathy and Don fell in love ridiculously fast. Cosmo's dance number was crazy (in a good way)....

Well I can't believe it, but it's almost Christmas. In the spirit of the season, today's Sunday Sayings will be about the holiday.

This movie is really just something to watch if you want an easy plot and some goofy humour. The minions are still their adorable selves, and for the most part the humour is rather childish. This movie is about the minions' search to find a boss before they worked for Gru. Three of them end up working the world's most popular villain, Scarlet Overkill. I really don't have much to say about this. For myself and my friends who really enjoy the Despicable Me movies, we found Mionions to be a bit of a let down. For my friend who, for some reason, didn't really like the Despicable Me movies, this was apparently an improvement. One thing I will say is that we brought my friend's 7 year old brother to the theatre when we watched it and e quite enjoyed it. He was very nervous because he thought (as children do) that maybe Kevin was not going to be okay. But family movies always end well. A really good movie for kids, or maybe fun to watch once in a while if you just want so...

For the next week, leading up to Christmas, I would like to do one blog post a day to make up for my long absence, and as a Christmas gift to you all (because I just know this is what you've always wanted 😜). So I watched the first two Jurassic Park movies not too long before I saw the new Jurassic World. My fisrt impression was that the dinosaurs and the environment were much better quality. Not that the originals were extremely fake, but the dinosaurs in Jurassic World were monstrous and very well made. They got much more screen time, which actually had quite a different impact on the feel of the movie. Instead of the whole thing being psychological like the original movie, where you are watching the people enter dangerous situations and waiting for the dinosaurs to appear and strike, this took the gore and jump scares of the second movie to a whole new level. The technology allowed for the dinosaurs to be on screen far more, and to do much more than before. This leads me to my ...

So I don't know where time has gone. It appears that exams and assignments just eat up the hours, days, and weeks. By the time I realized I was neglecting this blog, I was too busy to post anything to make up lost time. But now I'm back, and I would like to make it up to you by doing a little retrospective look at season 5a of Once Upon A Time. And I will do my best not to spoil things for you. I would like to begin by saying that Eddy and Adam are back and they mean business! I have always loved the writing of this show, but they had me hanging on at every turn, never knowing quite what to expect. Some plot twists I saw coming, others I would never have picked up on. They write the characters so well that after 4 seasons I am sure I'm not the only fan who can often predict what characters are going to do just because we've gotten to know them so well. But Adam and Eddy also realize that people are only human, that people have flaws and act selfishly and go against th...