33/365

I got an Aberdeen Uni hoody today! Feel like part of the team now. And it's purple!!!

I feel really poroud of myself as for once I had watched the film and done all the readings for film. It doesn't happen very often but we have to discussion posts now for it so I will every week. The film we watched was called Nenette. Nénette is a 2010 French documentary film about a 40-year-old female orangutan living in the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, (the zoo in Paris, France). The film, directed by Nicolas Philibert presents an intimate portrait of the ape, originally from Borneo, who has spent her most of her life in captivity. In accord with the Cinéma vérité style of Philibert's earlier works, the camera rests on Nénette and her son Tübo in their glass-fronted enclosure. We hear the conversations and see the reflections of the zoo visitors in the glass as they regard Nénette, a mother of four who has survived three mates

I think I am away to go and backe some Nutella cookies and see how they taste. If they taste good I'll post the recipe on here. I may sell these in my resteraunt/ice cream parlour that I want to open. Nobody seems to be taking me seriously with it but I am. I even created the wall that I would like and have the theme all organised.

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My uni is  like  castle!!! How cool is that?

Had my last exam today. Part one went really well! I wrote on The Virgin Daughters by Jane Treacy, but the second part didn't go quite so well. I'm worried now that I will have to resit my unit whichI really do not want to do.

Not quite sure what I will be doing today but really do not want to be sat at home all day on my day off! Not now that i do not have exams to revise for or work.

Edinburgh on Saturday! WOOT WOOT! Cannot wait. So much to do and plan!!!

23/365

First exam is over and done with. I wrote about Frankenstein in the first question and in the second one I wrote about Lyrical Ballads and Songs of Innocence and Experience. Film exam tomorrow and all I really need to remember is the Directors names which are Jane Treay and Michael Verhoeven and I should be able to ramble my way through the rest, or I'm hoping I can.

Since finishing my exam I have been a very busy girl! I made tea (pictured above) I got fuel, revised a little bit and paid off some more of my holiday.

 Am planning on reading some of the core texts as soon as possible so that I can be ahead of the game.

19/365

Hey everyone! I'm so excited because I have my holiday all sorted for my weekend in Edinburgh!!! Yay! Cannot wait to go down and see the PANDAS at the zoo! Been studying my butt off all day and listening to Glee as I did so. The song featured below is amazing and from the new episode which isn't going to be aired in the UK because Mad Dogs is on now or something like that. But anyway, check out Lea Michelle's version of the Usher song Without You below. I love the section where Cory Monteith's character, Finn realises how much Lea Michelle's character Rachel loves him and needs him. It's so sweet.

I bought my first bikini today for my holiday! EXCITED!!!! Also, I got my booklist for next term and my timetable for uni so I'm quite happy except for the price of one of the books. I really do think that £45 is well too much for a book I'll barely use. But yeah, a week on Monday I start my Victorianism unit at Uni and also my Creaturely Cinematics one.

PS note to self: book appointment to give blood

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Hey boys and girls! Did anyone watch Glee last night? I've seen snippets and all I can say is OMG! I was in tears!!! You guys should totally check out some of the songs/videos.scenes. I am a huge Finchel fan as many people know and there was some huge moments for them last night. Can't wait until it's on over here so I can watch it properly!!!

Today has been a day of revising. I finally got my Film essay back and I got a 13. I am a little annoyed though because originally I had a 14 but it's been scribbled out. (For anyone who does not know, Aberdeen uni does their grades out of 20)

Apart from revising I did a little bit of tidying up and also worked on a new hairstyle (pictured above) I have to tie my hair up for my job and am fed up of it just normal so I did it this way for a change. It's not quite long enough to do properly but it still works.

Anywhooooo, I have t go get ready for said work. Am hoping they let me away early so that I can come home and revise or maybe watch a film or something.

17/365

Hey everyone. So today I did lots. I did an hour of zumba and wii fitness! It was lots of fun and then I moved on to revision. I did some studying on a film called Walkabout. Definitely worth a watch at some point. 
*Spoiler*
A teenage schoolgirl (Jenny Agutter) and her much younger brother (Luc Roeg) become stranded in the wilderness after their father (John Meillon) goes berserk. After driving them far into the Australian outback for a picnic, the father suddenly begins shooting at his children. When they run behind rocks for cover, he sets the car on fire and shoots himself in the head. The girl conceals what has happened from her brother. After salvaging what she can, the pair head out into the desert.
By dawn the next day, they are weak, and the boy can barely walk. Discovering a small pool with a fruiting tree, they spend the day playing, bathing, and resting. Next morning, the pool has dried up. A young Aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil) appears. Though the girl cannot communicate with him, her brother mimes their need for water, and the newcomer cheerfully shows them how to draw it from the drying bed of the oasis.
The three travel together for several days, with the Aborigine sharing food he has caught hunting. The boys learn to communicate, using words and mime. While the Aborigine goes hunting, she swims naked in a deep pool.
A change of scene shows a research team working in the desert, all the men attracted to the only woman. One of them carelessly loses a weather balloon, which is later found by the three young wanderers. In some versions of the film, one scene depicts a Caucasian woman walking past the Aboriginal boy, speaking to him, and spotting the other children. They do not see her, however. When the boy does not reply, the woman continues walking over a ridge to a plantation. There, a white man is seen roughly directing a group of Aboriginal children, who are making plaster statuettes and other things. He calls a break and enters the house, where the woman awaits him on a bed.
The older boy guides the siblings to a deserted farm. He discovers a paved road while collecting sticks in the forest, and excitedly shows the brother. Soon afterward, he hunts down a water buffalo and is wrestling it to the ground when two white hunters nearly run him over in a truck. He watches them shoot several buffalo with a rifle. He returns to the house, catching the girl dressing. He courts her with an intense, silent dance. Although he dances outside all day and into the night until he becomes exhausted, she cannot or will not understand what he is after.
In the morning, the brother wakes his sister and tells her their companion is gone. After they wash and dress in their school uniforms, the brother takes her to the Aborigine's body, hanging in a tree. Not fully comprehending death, the boy offers the body his pen-knife. Before leaving, the girl wipes ants from the dead boy's chest.
Hiking up the road, the siblings find a nearly deserted mining town, where they are met by a surly white man who tells them of a place they can stay.
Years later, a businessman arrives at the home of the now grown-up girl; while he relates office gossip, she daydreams, imagining a scene in which she, her brother, and the Aborigine are playing and swimming naked in the deep pool in the outback.

Then we went and bought a bookcase which am putting together in the photo above. I also got some new trainers!!! WOOT WOOT!!! 

PS I'm excited about Glee coming back on Thursday!

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself

By the looks of it 2012 is going to be the year of the sequel or remake. As a film fanatic, I am not amused by this as you probably realised by my post Why, oh why must these film companies take everything too far and try and gain as much money as they do from overusing ideas. I mean there are sooooooooooo many ideas that could still be done but they decide to reinvent and add to films already made.

Anyway, moving on from this, there are lots coming out in the next year and this blog will look at some of the films that have the potential to be okay and that I will probably end up going to see anyway.

American Pie 4 

While details are still early, we are told that Seann William Scott is on board again, as is Jason Biggs, Chris Klein and Tara Reid. Matter of fact, the entire cast and crew is back for the newest American Pie Movie, and it's about time to be honest. After the disaster ofmsome of the recent spin offs that have been created American Pie 4 or Family Reunion as it is looking to be named should hopefully bring it back to it's best. In American Pie 4, the friends are all in their 30′s now, and we can assume the story will be centered around Jim and Michelle’s pregnancy. The friends all reunite for the birth and a weekend of memories, when all hell breaks loose.

Men in Black 3

The MIB duo of Agent Jay (Will Smith) and Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) are back in action. When the world is threatened by an evil alien, Agent Jay travels back in time to 1969, where he teams up with the younger Agent Kay to stop an evil villain named Boris (Jemaine Clement) from destroying the world in the future. Emma Thompson will play take-charge MIB operative Agent Oh, who is monitoring a prison breakout. My only concern is will the fact it is 3D, will they be trying to hard to make money and taking away from the content of the film?

Madagascar 3 

Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo, and Melman the Giraffe are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple and of course, King Julien, Maurice and the Penguins are all along for the comedic adventure. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent – Madagascar style. Katzenberg also said that Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa will probably spawn a sequel: “There is at least one more chapter. We ultimately want to see the characters make it back to New York.” But does anyone really care about a third Madagascar film? While I certainly understand the New York return story being a neat third act of the series, I’d much rather see a spin-off following the adventures of the penguins.

Ice Age 4 

It was only a matter of time before this film got made. In "Ice Age: Continental Drift," Scrat's nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he's been after since the dawn of time, has world-changing consequences -- a continental cataclysm that triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny, Diego and Sid. In the wake of these earth-shattering upheavals, Sid reunites with his long lost family, and the gang encounters a ragtag menagerie of colorful new characters determined to stop them from returning home.

The Dark Knight Rises 

Director Nolan was initially hesitant about returning to the series for a third time, but agreed to come back after developing a story with his brother and David Goyer that he felt would conclude the series on a satisfactory note. Filming has taken place across the world, including locations in India, London, Glasgow, Los Angeles, New York, and Pittsburgh. Nolan is opting to utilize IMAX cameras for more of the filming to optimize the quality of the picture. As with The Dark Knight, viral marketing campaigns began early during production to help promote the upcoming film. The Dark Knight Rises is scheduled for release in the United States and Canada on July 20, 2012, by Warner Bros.

Monsters Inc 2

The film has a University theme to it, but instead of Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) going back to school as professors (as some of the past reports speculated) this movie will be an origins tale. Crystal and Goodman are coming back as college years Sully and Mike. "The sequel will tell the story of Mike and Sully's first meeting at school. They couldn't stand each other, but they overcame their differences to become friends."

The Ring 3D 

THR says that David Loucka, the writer behind the Daniel Craig film Dream House, has been hired to write. He’ll likely work under producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, who produced the previous two US films in the series. Originally a DreamWorks series, rights to The Ring were left with Paramount when the two companies split. This is the first news on Ring activity since that point. All we know is that this chapter would “seek to reinvent the franchise” and that it is said to be “teen-centric.” Again, big surprise there. There’s no director set at this point and don’t expect to see Naomi Watts returning. And at this point we’re far enough removed from the last two films that there’s probably no point in wondering whether this will fit in as a continuation; it could well just trade on the basic premise. (For the record, the first US version was better than it had any right to be, but I can barely for the life of me remember seeing the second.) Given that the original premise involved a videotape that seemed to trigger the deaths of viewers seven days after they watched it, the obvious question is: what to do with the story now that few people actually have VHRs at home? Make it nostalgic, and rather like Scream? We don’t know, but THR says “one potential scenario involves teens finding a VHS player that still works.” I think that’s rather absurd — they’re not that rare.

I know, there are so many films coming out in 2012 and these are just the sequels. I think next year I may have to invest in an unlimited cinema card just so that I can see everything that is coming out.

“I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.”

So girls, it is time to grab your Jimmy Choo's out of the walk in wardrobe and grab your best girlfriends round for some cosmopolitans. Yep, that's right! The Sex and the City franchise is once again coming back to a screen near you, not just on TV (they are looking for a new outlet to be able to launch the series) but they are also planning on making a Prequel of the girls during their teenage days.

Candace Bushnell, who wrote the books that the series was based off of, has apparently stated that there are some people that she thinks would be ideal for certain roles within the film. “You know, I don’t know… casting is like kismet. I’m going to get into trouble for this, but I was looking at some pictures of Selena Gomez today and thinking she’d make a really good young Charlotte. She’s so pretty. I was like… gosh, wouldn’t she be great?” she recently stated.

Other people who are speculated to take the part of the loveable characters alongside Selena Gomez are Blake Lively as Samantha Jones, Emma Roberts (neice of Julia Roberts) as Miranda Hobbes and Elizabeth Olsen as Carrie Bradshaw, although this is yet to be confirmed. Now, after searching through the web I have found some information about some of the characters for anyone who is interested.  

the girls rumoured to be playing the characters

SAMANTHA
WHO: Blake Lively, 23 - made her name in Gossip Girl
BACKGROUND: Originally in a long-term relationship before going on the rampage, steady Samantha looks after a young Carrie when she first arrives in New York, showing her the ropes                             
THE LOOK: Think Eighties power dressing, shoulder pads and big hair.

CHARLOTTE 
WHO: Selena Gomez, 19 - Disney star and girlfriend of Justin Bieber          
BACKGROUND: Barely featured in the prequel books although she is sure to appear more frequently in the films, author Candace said of Selena: 'She’d make a really good young Charlotte’
THE LOOK: Good girl, fresh- faced

resemblance here is uncanny?

MIRANDA 
WHO: Emma Roberts, 20 - niece of Julia, starred in Scream 4            
BACKGROUND: Politically minded Miranda meets Carrie while she is protesting outside department store Barneys. The young Miss Bradshaw is on a shopping spree... Cue differences of opinion           
THE LOOK: Think lobbyist, student grunge

CARRIE 
WHO: Elizabeth Olsen, 22 - younger sister of twins Ashley and Mary-Kate        
BACKGROUND: Originally from the Midwest, a young Miss Bradshaw travels to New York as an aspiring writer - minus the Manolos, the girlfriends and tangled romances            
THE LOOK: Already noticed for her individual sense of style, expect the usual combos

Although, this prequel idea is something fresh and new for the series, which after nearly two decades of books and around 94 TV episodes, is still running very strong, many fans are not happy with this development...

What do you think fellow bloggers?  

Is it ever the end?

Now, don't get me wrong, I loved The Last Exorcism, but isn't that the point. That it is THE last one. So baring this in mind, why are the producers determined to make a sequel, isn't this taking it too far.

After the original film made more money than they thought it would (grossing $62.5 million worldwide) especially since it was made on the tiny budget of $1.6 million, is this sequel being made due to the profitability?  If this is the case, surely the film won't be as good.

Is anything ever final in the world of film?

Surely, by making this film they are going to have to create a whole new cast as everything was completed with the previous one? So Damien Chazelle may have a bit of a challenge whilst writing the script for the film which is due out in 2012.

It seems as if The Last Exorcism is going to follow in the footsteps of other "horror" films and join the ranks of  The Final Destination, Freddy's Dead: The final Nightmare and Friday the 13th Part 4 and proving once again that nothing is ever final.

My question is, with all this in consideration are they going to re-release the first one and call it The Penultimate Exorcism and cash in on even more money...?

General Update

I know not many people read this but for the few people I know do I will update and explain my new plan for my blog. It will be brief but it will do the job I am aiming for.

Part One:
I have just started my new job so I'm not sure how much time I will have to update with 2 jobs and Uni away to start back soon.

Part Two:
I am thinking about changing my blog so that it is solely based on films and TV series updates, spoilers and whatever bits I can get my hands on.

Part Three:
I am now a self confessed Gleek.

and that will be all for this blog.

See ya later, allegators.

First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes a little fanged creature in the baby carriage

So guys, the Twilight Saga will be continuing very soon and I know lots of people are very excited about this. I know I am, mainly as I am interested in how they play out the book as it irritated me alot and consists of lots of sex. Now, I know people say that sex sells film but seriously, rampant vampire sex, could be interesting to say the least and the normal family orientated films may have to be boosted in ratings.

Anyway, in a recent interview with Chicago Sun Times, K-Stew and R-Pattz, as they are now commonly known were interviewed on the film and I have chosen some of my favourite segments from the interview for you guys to read.

“I’m curious to see how it will carry out,” star Robert Pattinson tells the Sun-Times. “This movie is so different from the other ones. The stakes are so much higher because now it’s time to turn the entire saga upside down.”
And then there is the matter of Bella’s baby bump. “The birth scene is frightening,” Pattinson admits. “It’s a slap in the face. It’s failure to Edward, who has to choose between losing Bella and transforming her. It’s the toughest scene I’ve ever had to film in my career because this choice tears out my heart.”
Not since the Kardashian wedding has there been such a rapid tying of the knot. Stewart admits, “I was racing down the aisle during the first few takes because I was eager to get the two of them married.” Pattinson says, “We saved shooting the actual wedding for last because it was so important. We needed to be immersed in it.” 



I cannot wait for this, the only question I have is are they going to do the "Jacob" section? I'm not sure how I feel about this because the first time reading the book I thought it was completely unnecessary and to be honest I skipped it, but then went back and reread.

Below I am placing some of the stills because this is so exciting to me, so please enjoy.

 Hope you are looking forward to it as much as I am...