Week in Review #4

Hei hei guys, 

Once again this week I've just been working and studying. It hasn't been too bad, it's just been really long. Here's what has been getting me through this week:

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(Loved) Reading: This week I read this piece by Iona McLaren for the Telegraph which basically sums up all my feelings about Skins in one article. I watched Skins from the moment it came out in the UK because there was a new girl at my school who was from London and she told to watch it. The rest, as they say, is history. I became addicted, I loved all the characters, watched it religiously and I now consider it one of the vital parts of my teenage years. That all changed with Season Five. That wasn't Skins, not the Skins I had known and loved. Hearing that there was to be a Season Seven, the final season, I was curious but also doubtful. This article restored my hope and I downloaded it tonight. Look out for my review later in the week. 

(Loved) Television: So although I only started this on Friday but I have been loving it for the past three days and that is Orphan Black. It is absolutely amazing. I know I wrote about it for my last post so I won't rave on about it too much, but seriously, it's amazing. A must see. 
(I wasn't going to mention Teen Wolf but I can't help it! It's just so addictive, so I've been watching an episode a night as the last thing I watch before I go to bed.)

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(Loved) Film: As a treat to myself for working so much this week I've been buying myself DVD's. I have literally bought eight DVD's this week alone and so I've just been watching some of those. The one I totally loved was Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Of course, I've seen it before but it was nice to have a re-watch, especially because I'm getting more and more excited for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug everyday.

(Loved) Random: I was trying to think about something random that I've been loving this week and all I could think of was this song which I have just been playing literally on repeat all week. It's called Resolution by Matt Corby. He's an Australian guy who actually came really close a few years back to winning Australian Idol. The work he is producing now is absolutely beautiful but I just feel like Resolution is that one step further. I cannot stop listening to it, he just has the most amazing voice.  

Let me know if there is something else I should be reading or watching and as usual let me know what you guys have been loving this week, I would absolutely love some suggestions!

Orphan Black

Tonight I wanted a little bit of a break from Teen Wolf, mostly because I feel like I'm rushing through it and I want to savour it more. So on a whim I decided on a whole new show altogether and that was Orphan Black. 

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I've heard a lot of things about this show and all of them have been good.
Naturally, I decided to check things out for myself just to make sure. 

From the opening scene in this drama I was hooked. I wanted to know more. I needed to know more.
I went from one episode to the next and had to stop myself from watching the third one, otherwise I was going to end up in the same situation I had just tried to avoid with Teen Wolf. 
Before I wrote this, I just wanted to do a little bit of research on the show, only to find a few reviews that stated that everything really begins in episode three. So this is more of a post to say that if everything does really begin to unfold in the next episode then I'm amazed because I'm not sure how much better this show could get. The suspense from the first two episodes is already killing me, and so is watching the actress Tatiana Maslany. She is absolutely perfect so far and it hasn't really even delved into the whole twin story yet. 

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I can't wait to see where this show goes, I'm both nervous and excited. I know what I'll be watching tomorrow night. 

Have you guys finished Orphan Black already? Should I be pacing this one too or is it just too good to resist? 

Man of Steel

You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive to.

You know those movie’s you just know you’re going to love? Well this was definitely one of them for me.

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What is there not to love? I’m a sucker for all superhero movies, Henry Cavill, and anything Christopher Nolan has his name on.

Sadly, I couldn’t see this movie when it first came out (the downsides of Europe, eh?) so I feel like this review is a little pointless but if you haven’t seen it yet: try and find a cinema where it’s still showing and go or definitely start looking forward to it coming out on DVD.

When I was talking to Jess after we saw the film, I said that it reminded me of Nolan’s Batman Trilogy. She agreed, and then added “but a lot cheesier”. That is something I definitely noticed too, and there were times during the film I felt it was a bit lame and other times I kind of liked it, and I swooned like a little school girl falling easily for the cheesiness of Henry Cavill’s lines and wishing desperately that I was Amy Adams.

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At Comic-Con a few weeks ago, they announced the Man of Steel sequel, which is to feature an established, older Batman too. Rumours have already started circling about who is to play Batman including Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin and my favourite of the rumoured: Tyler Hoechlin from Teen Wolf. Personally I am very interested to see who ends up with the role. As a huge fan of Christian Bale, whoever ends up in the role has massive shoes to fill in my opinion. It is set for a 2015 release.

What did you guys think? Did you love Henry Cavill as the latest Superman? Are you looking forward to the next instalment? 

Trailer Tuesday #3

Who's the master: the painter or the forger? 

David O. Russell's latest project, The American Hustle trailer came out last week and I watched it with eager anticipation. Like his previous work, Silver Linings Playbook, the cast for this movie looks absolutely amazing. Christian Bale is the main drawcard for me, and then there's also Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams,  Jeremy Renner and Robert De Niro to add to that too.

The trailer includes very little speaking and gives so few details of the actual story away. It's kind of refreshing seeing a trailer do that these days, seeing as most of them today just give the whole plot away in the one and a half minutes they have to entice you to see it. I love the music they used for the trailer, Led Zeppelin's 'Good Times Bad Times' which is the perfect song for the era of the film and is such a perfect focus the trailer seeing as there is so little dialogue. On the other hand, the trailer left me with absolutely no idea what the movie was about. I googled it, and it turns out it's based on a real life FBI case known as 'Abscam' which was an investigation of corruption in the U.S. government.

What do you guys think of the trailer? Like or dislike?

Week in Review #3

Hei hei!

This week has been my first week back at university, but it's actually been a pretty nice one and I'm still really in holiday mode because there isn't much uni work to do yet! The next three weeks are going to be so hectic though because I've offered to just take heaps more shifts at work (trying to think of the DVD's I can buy with the extra money!) and I know uni work is just going to pile up like crazy. Anyway, because it's Sunday night, I've written a post to finish off the week about all about the things I've been loving for the past seven days: 

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(Loved) Reading: I've been reading a few more things online lately rather than reading Mortal Instruments and that's because I got a new Macbook Air! I can't stop using it - I've been going to bed so late since I bought it because all I've wanted to do is use it. First off I love this article, which is all about the character Margaery Tyrell (from Game of Thrones) costuming in the series. I feel like it sums up every one of her costumes perfectly and it was such an enlightening read. Secondly I found this website which I have just been trawling through for hours on end. There is just so much information, statistics and graphs about Lord of the Rings I cannot believe it! 

(Loved) Films: I finally saw Man of Steel on Monday. I hadn't been able to see it due to the fact that I'd been traveling when it was released and I finally found the time to go earlier this week. I'm currently writing a full post about it, which should be up sometime in the coming week. Basically I loved it, and I knew I was going to love it. That's a pretty lame review, but seriously, there isn't much more to say than that. Go and see it if you haven't yet!

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(Loved) Television: This week the only television I have been watching is Teen Wolf. I've just finished the first season and tonight I went straight on to the second one. My best friend is all up to date so I want to catch up as soon as possible so we can talk about it - I feel like there are going to be a lot of late nights this week! Also, last night I started re-watching Season One of Misfits, which had me laughing out loud in the first ten seconds. It's still just as funny as I remember it and it's so good seeing Nathan (Robert Sheehan) in it. I feel like the show started going downhill the minute he left (although I did like his replacement, Rudy, and I do think Season Three is one of my favourites). 

(Loved) Random: I am loving my new Macbook Air this week. I bought it on Wednesday and it is all I've been on since. I have actually wanted to do uni work this week just as an excuse to use my computer (I'm pretty sure that won't last very long!). Also, I'm up to level 41 on Candy Crush which was my Random love from a couple of weeks ago. I feel like it's getting harder and harder, but I'm kind of determined to get to at least Level 100. 

Let me know in the comments what you've been loving this week!

The World's End

What would you do if you came back to your hometown only to find everyone had transformed into robots? Finish the pub crawl of course!

This is why I love Simon Pegg films: it’s because they’re so crazy and unpredictable you always end up in stitches laughing. I will forever remember seeing my first Pegg film “Hot Fuzz” in the cinema when I was about fifteen. Jess and I couldn’t stop laughing, and then we were screaming, and the whole time I was thinking just what kind of movie was this? There are far too little sci-fi comedies.
llenge that they had attempted when they were younger but never managed to actually finish. Returning to their old town they find it has become inhabited by “robots”.

At World’s End is about a group of men going back to their hometown to finally complete the “Golden Mile” Pub crawl cha

Surprisingly, this movie has a lot of serious undertones to it. Pegg’s last speech to the robots reminded me a lot of the one Nathan Young (played by Robert Sheehan) makes in the final episode of Season One of Misfits on the rooftop: “we were so beautiful!”. 

I felt the beginning got off to a slow start, and there weren't too many laugh out loud moments, but I found myself getting into the film much more once they had actually realised something was wrong with the town. The ending is a bit weird too (but I loved the end to Martin Freeman’s storyline, I personally thought that was the best part), and I never actually found myself taking a liking to any of the characters very much.
It’s got a stellar cast though, with people like Pierce Brosnan and Bill Nighy making appearances, along with Rosmund Pike (who has been confirmed to play Amy Dunne in David Fincher’s Gone Girl), Martin Freeman and David Bradley (who has been popping up everywhere lately, from Broadchurch to Game of Thrones). 
I definitely recommend this film for those looking for a good laugh with nothing better to do on a Friday night (don’t cancel your plans or anything) or if you've seen the other two in the so-called "Cornetto Trilogy" (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are the other two) then you should definitely finish it. 

Teen Wolf

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My best friend, Jess, started watching Teen Wolf about a month ago (which was during exam period, a time where we both always seem to find new shows to start . . . weird, huh?) and said that I should check it out. Convinced, I started it a few weeks later, watched a few episodes and thought "yeah, that's alright" but never got around to continuing it. If you've read any of my posts from the last couple of weeks you'll have noticed that I've pretty much solely been watching New Girl and Luther. Tonight I thought I would mix it up a little and try Teen Wolf again. It wasn't that I hadn't enjoyed it, it was just that I felt there were more interesting programs to watch. I had a little bit of uni work to do and thought this was a show that I could put on in the background and get some of my readings for astronomy done. Now I have a whole different view. Around episode four of the first season, this show heats up. The storyline takes a more dramatic turn and there is suddenly a story arch that I'm invested in and want to keep watching to find out the answers. So now I've accomplished absolutely no university work tonight but I am just past half way through season one and so excited for tomorrow night when I get home from work and I can sit down a watch the rest of the season. I can't wait to see where this show goes. 

Am I a little late on the Teen Wolf bandwagon? Do you guys already watch it? Let me know in the comments!