In case you missed it: Meshing "The Hobbit" and "The Office"

Ever wanted to know what would happen if you mixed The Office (U.K.) and The Hobbit??? Here ya goes!

Done with Gone Girl

I'm just going to start by saying I did not like Gone Girl. This film featuring Ben Affleck, Rosamond Pike, and Neil Patrick Harris was not short of great performances by any means. Rosamond was even nominated for an academy award for best actress in this film, but it simply comes down to the fact that it was an hour too long. That being said, the whole story would have changed. We find out that Nick, played by Affleck, was actually the victim of Rosamund's character, Amy Dunne. We are expected to believe for a while that Nick killed Amy but then we obviously find out her little scheme. It should have ended there. At this point in the film, we hated Nick and how he treated Amy in the later years of their marriage and she just wanted a way out. Imagine the ultimate revenge against him would have been plotting your own murder and him getting framed for it. In the scene where we see her driving off into the sunset and she starts unfolding everything that happened to her, just imagine the movie ending right there. It would have been such an amazing plot twist that Alfred Hitchcock himself would have turned over in his grave. I mean I sat there watching this movie with my sister and we both agreed that the ending to this movie was psychotic. Is is supposed to be that way? Definitely. It

is solely based off of Gillian Flynn's novel of the same title. I just can't stop thinking about how awesome this story could have been if it ended an hour earlier. Amy would be a hero to women across America who have been abused by their husbands! There would be an epidemic of women trying to send their husbands to jail for their murder. Maybe that's far fetched but who knows in this day and age. Anyway, I feel like this story was meticulously drawn out into a beautiful crystal vase only to be knocked down and broken into a million skin slicing pieces and we are left to bleed across the floor. Flynn is a critically acclaimed writer and I'm sure the movie does not give the book any justice, but I'm a watcher and I would like to see more of her novels come to the silver screen... so long as they don't get weirdly psychotic at the end. I mean who stays with their wife when you know that she murdered some other guy and ruined another guy's life? That part just doesn't make any sense. I demand a new ending and since that isn't going to happened I get to put my big spiel online for no one to read anyway. As always, I recommend everyone to check this movie out and create your own opinion.

Enjoy

My Night With Colin Firth

There comes a time in one's life that I believe you
have to spend an entire night watching chick flicks. Tonight was the night and it just so happened to be
with a beautiful trio of Colin Firth films. Consequently, two of them involved the lovely Hugh Grant, and two of them the grim Alan Rickman.  I started my evening with the movie Love Actually. This film was filled with beautiful actors and actresses like Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Andrew Lincoln (Rick from The Walking Dead), Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, Martin Freeman, and for some comic relief from the romantics, Rowan Atkinson. This movie was in perfect timing for Christmas but it got me in the mood for more Colin Firth movies.

So, I streamed onto Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. As I'm writing this I had just found out that this is the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary and it made sense to me why I didn't know the backstory on Bridget and Mark's relationship. However, BRIDGET JONES IS MY HERO! Everything about this movie was fantastic. First of all, you have Colin, then you have Rene Zellweger's spinster character that any woman living a strong independent life strives not to be. I have to admit, Bridget is kind of this ditzy character that can't seem to make it on her own emotionally, but she keeps the attention of literally everyone around her. If there is one thing that I found wrong with this movie, it's how everyone constantly nagged her about her weight. Why? She was in no way overweight. She is full of life and energy that her weight is the last trait that anyone should have noticed. In the end, I thought she was going to end up with Hugh Grant's character but no. I definitely need to watch the first movie to better understand these characters but hey, I was only in it for Firth.

I finished that movie around 3 A.M. and decided to keep going for another Firth movie to add to my mental library. This time I decided to watch Gambit considering the fact that The King's Speech wasn't on Netflix. This crime comedy that I will now refer to as a crimedy was fun. I love little independent movies like this that have strong actors such as Firth, Rickman, Cameron Diaz and Stanley Tucci. It reminds me of my all time favorite crimedy, Flypaper. I have had this on my mental but not physical watch list. I haven't seen a Cameron Diaz movie that I have not enjoyed so with a roundup like this, I knew I had to finally watch it. Although the plot isn't as clever as Flypaper, it was original and hilarious to see Colin as the low man on the totem pole and Rickman as Colin's over-exaggerated pompous boss... and well Diaz with her over-exaggerated Texan accent. I don't want to spoil what happens even though it was unexpectedly expected. Diaz and Firth made for a great duo that continued to thrill till the end.

Watching all of these films so late at night was worth it because it is getting me hyped for this coming February when Firth debuts his new film,  Kingsman: The Secret Service. After watching the trailer for this, words cannot express my level of excitement. In the photo on the left is something I have been looking at on display at my local theatre and at first glance, it doesn't tell you much. For a few months all I knew from this was the title but then a few weeks ago I finally found the trailer and it makes more sense. The lineup in this movie is impeccable ranging from Firth to the ever-so-classy Michael Caine, and then to the soulful Samuel L. Jackson. To get you just as pumped as I am, I highly recommend watching the trailer I have inserted for you here. Click it!!!

Enjoy

My Murderlicious Theories

This fall season has brought back some of television's greatest shows but it has also found some of the next greatest series. My favorite shows like Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Blacklist, and more have already hit like a bang, but my new favorite show has to be How to Get Away with Murder.

I want to dive right into some of the plot points that have made this show so very interesting to me. First of all, the first three episodes have all started out with the same theme, a college pep rally-bon fire. Knowing the title of the show, I knew there would be a body in that fire, however, we haven't seen that happen yet.
Next, the "murdered girl" Lola hasn't been verified as the dead girl in the water tank. Secondly, we know that the murder that the interns are trying to get away with is in fact Sam Keating, the husband of Viola Davis' character, Annalise Keating. We also know that Wes Gibbins' neighbor, Rebecca has been arrested for the murder of the "missing girl" Lola, but according to the foreshadowing scenes, the interns were covering up for Rebecca because she may have been the one that actually killed Mr. Keating. The first episode only shows us that there was someone murdered and that Annalise's interns were the ones trying to cover it up and destroy all the evidence along with the body. We didn't learn who was killed until the second episode. Along with that information, we see that the Keating's are having trouble in their marriage, Rebecca more than likely killed him, and we are still trying to learn where Lola is.

The plot of this show has already become pretty complex after just three episodes but things are slowly starting to unravel after each episode. From what I've seen so far, I have a few theories of how this show might go along...
1. Rebecca is actually Lola.
2. Mr. Keating had an affair with "Lola" and after something went wrong, she murdered him.

We know that Mr. Keating has had a problem in the past with his students and it comes as no surprise to Annalise to think that her husband had an affair with Lola. However, we are missing a connection between Rebecca and Mr. Keating and why she would have to murder him. It only makes sense to me that she, as Lola, went missing after their affair, killed him, and then is disguising herself with the darker hair and facial piercings. I feel like I may be going out on a limb with this theory but if it pans out, it would intensify the plot.

Anyway...

If you don't have basic cable, you can tune into huluplus and watch this show every Friday or the first episode is free on imdb.com. Hopefully you have already been watching so I didn't spoil anything for you :)

Fun Facts!

You make have recognized a few faces. So did I!

ALFRED ENOCH'S CREDITS:

Harry Potter, How to Get Away with Murder, and Sherlock




MATT MCGORRY'S CREDITS:

How to Get Away with Murder
           &
Orange is the New Black 

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Hemlock Grove: Honestly Disappointing ***SPOILERS***

The arrival of Hemlock Grove season 2 was much anticipated by
Netflix subscribers but I don't think it really followed through. In the ten episodes produced, only three or four of them were worth watching. What made the first season so great was the dynamic duo between Roman and Peter... oh and the fact that Roman got turned into a vampire by his own mother. The second season started slowly and dragged on for more than half of the season before anything worthwhile happened (i.e. Shelley comes back to the tower, the baby turns out to be some kind of telepathic baby Professor X killer and Olivia kills her sister in law). Thank goodness we learned some backstory on Olivia because she seems to be the only character running the show. Peter turned several times against the moon cycle and Roman almost destroyed his only ability to become something other than a spoiled brat. Everything that made the show great was turned against the characters and made into a hinderance for us to watch. Don't even get me started on the family doctor that turned into some freak-bat beast in the finale. The ending to the first season was so mind-blowing that this made the whole show turn to ash before my very eyes. If they make a season 3, I'll be keeping it on the back burner of my list for a while until I can come to terms with being disappointed again.

My Affair with Scandal

First of all, I don't want to spoil anything throughout this post and secondly, I'm not really sure what made me finally sit down to watch this show but I don't care. I get up to this show and I fall asleep to this show. I'm pretty sure I've even had dreams about this show. I love how one minute I'm predicting what will happen and then it turns out to be the complete opposite. Getting into it was easy. The story of a woman that's had an affair with the President is always interesting but what's even better is that it's so much more than that. Each character of Olivia Pope's firm has a back story that reels you in for more. Then, there is the story of "Defiance." We don't get this story until a little later but we were shown bits and pieces of the characters that originated this conspiracy pretty early. Those are all the story lines that go between the ever struggling relationship between Fitz and Olivia. If you love to watch a show that has deep, intertwined stories with characters that are strong and even flawed, this will quench your everlasting thirst for an interesting watch.

Sherlock Series 4: Undoubtedly Precedent

It's happening! Finally a conformation for the fourth series has been announced. After watching series 3 in March (after the blue ray release) I have been avidly looking up to see when Moffat and Gatiss were confirming for the fourth series. Months have gone by and nothing. In American television, this process doesn't take very long because there are so many shows being produced on so many different networks that this kind of information is kept up to date. I mean, we literally have events called the "Upfronts" that tell us what shows are staying alive or getting axed, and what new shows will be premiering in the fall. When it comes to British television, we just have to sit and wait until the producers can confirm whether or not a series is coming back. Obviously we didn't have to worry about it because the show is globally acclaimed, so it was just having to wait out the rumors that there would be a movie instead of a series or it would take two years before they could all get together and make this thing... blah blah.

Here are the facts of series four:
1. There will be three full episodes of series 4.
2. There will also be a "minisode" beforehand like in 2013.
3. Premier date will be in 2016.
4. It will be everything we never expected.

The fact of the matter is, if you're not excited about this, go home and get to watching. It's all on Netflix and worth every minute to just sit there with your jaw to the ground because this show is without a doubt a jaw dropping, eye piercing, amazing piece of art.

Enjoy

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