Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette the story of the Austrian girl who by the age of 19 became France’s Queen.
I love watching period dramas…partly because I love their beautiful period costumes. Marie Antoinette is one of the latest period dramas coming out in October….I’m not sure when it will be released in Singapore though…maybe several weeks later…I [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
I don’t like this one. Well mostly I just don’t get it. The only reason I watched it is because I’ve heard quite a lot about it…so I wanted to see it for myself. I don’t really find it funny…again because I don’t really quite get the jokes. The characters look like blur [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Rumour Has It (2005)
If you haven’t watched or read the Graduate you probably wouldn’t really understand some of the stuff the movie is saying. I say go and watch the Graduate first. It’s this really good…and funny movie about this young graduate having an affair with an older woman and later falls in love [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
From Print to Screen
Three novels that I’m eagerly anticipating their screen adaptations are Atonement, The Lovely Bones and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Atonement written by Ian McEwan is the story of 13 year Briony whose imaginative mind has resulted the imprisonment of Robbie, her sister’s Cecilia lover, due to allegations she made, that she saw [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Forrest Gump (1994)
“My momma says life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you’re gonna get” I always thought…what??…you’re gonna get chocolate of course from a box of ‘chocolates’. It was only when I was older that I realised that Forrest’s mother was probably referring to the types of chocolate that has [...]
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