True Grit

Just watched it the other day.

Well... if you like westerns.. you may want to see this movie. Otherwise.. I'm not very sure.

There's been a lot of marketing done around it to get you to the cinema. There's also a bunch of good actors in it, but overall it remains a western movie like all the others of it's genre.

I would watch this movie because it's nominated for 10 Oscars and already won 1 BAFTA prize...

The storyline goes something like this:

"Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested. (written by Jim Beaver).

And here's the trailer:

The movie won 1 BAFTA prize (for Best Cinematography) and Hailee Steinfeld, who played the role of Mattie Ross, won 8 prizes by now for best supporting actress. It's also nominated for 10 Oscars.

Revolutionary Road

"Tell me how, by any stretch of imagination, you can call yourself a man?!"- this is what April tells Frank on the first few minutes of the movie REVOLUTIONARY ROAD.
We are watching... enjoying if I may say... the troubled life of a couple... a couple like any other couple, some may say from the 1950's, a story about truth, marriage, infidelity and much much more.
He wants more from life, so does she... they understand each other... but what makes them different after all, when did it all stop being romantic, fun and it got to being so...serious?
I have seen this movie 4 times and I still can't get enough. It is deffinitely among my top 10... Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio have immense chemistry on screen.

After seeing this movie for the first time... I decided to read the book REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates. It blew me away. The book sheds some light on why the characters act the way they do in the movie... so it is much more complete...and therefore you can understand them better and empathyse.
All I can advise you is to watch this movie and have an open heart and mind while watching it.
ENJOY!

500 days of summer

A nice, Sunday-night movie to watch with friends over a nice glass of wine.

I particularly enjoyed it as it is not the average romantic Hollywood movie.
It is a movie about chance, choices and coincidences...

On a scale of 1-10 i would rate it as a 7.5.

Seven Pounds - definitely a must-see movie

The only minus (if you want) of this movie is that you guess it's end a couple of minutes earlier BUT I can assure you that you'll want to watch it till the last second. Because it's not always about how well can the director hide the end from you, but it's about the essence of the story that is shown to you.

When I watched this movie I was so impressed that even today I recommend it to any person that asks me about a good movie to watch. It's one of my favorite movies.

One of the best films of 2008, Seven Pounds it's an amazingly moving drama, a movie that makes you look at life from a different point of view. A movie that will make you more aware of your own life and the lives of those so dear to you. I'm not going into details about the action of the movie since there are hundreds of reviews out there that give you that information. 

I've never been a fan of Will Smith but I must say that in Seven Pounds he's way far beyond what he has shown us before. 

This movie will touch your heart in ways you never thought it's possible. So, if you haven't seen it yet, better late than never.