More Garbo Fake Criterion
Yay! I’m done with the Garbo films that come on the TCM Garbo Signature Collection. On this batch there’s Queen Christina — my favorite just because of the line about being a bachelor xD — then there’s...
View Article31-Day Movie Meme: Anomalous Edition
Ahh… I hope I can finish this post in less than 30min. LOL Or sure I’ll be whining with the people at Anomalous Material for posting so many Memes xD But we’re lazy, so we’re doing a 31-day Meme into...
View ArticleThe Girls – Sappho Goes to Hollywood – Diana McLellan
My fascination with Greta Garbo made me pick up this book. Author Diana McLellan – a writer of the Washington Post, hence… journalist? – tells me she’s written the book with accounts of stars’ memoirs,...
View ArticleWhat I Like about Hollywood Movies
Following AM’s advise on better blogging, I thought it’d be cool to follow through with my post on “What I Like about Japanese Cinema” which I wrote for the J-Film blog-a-thon last year. So now I’m...
View ArticleFaces: 105 of Cinema’s Most Beautiful Close-Ups
After some flame from their compilation of 135 Shots That Will Restore Your Faith in Cinema [1], Flavorwire is back with a new compilation~~~ this time around focusing on faces, their emotions and...
View ArticleSusan Lenox vs. Possessed – FIGHT!
Both films featuring Clark Gable, released in 1931, and having a leading lady of rather humble beginnings that manages to rise to the top using her… er, skills. Of course, both Susan Lenox and...
View ArticleBhangra Bistar – Dil Bole Hadippa
When women play tomboy girls or girls who have to pretend to be boys on screen is hardly believable, mainly because mainstream actresses are normally TOO pretty and productions wouldn’t bump the...
View ArticleTop Flicks About Chicks
I really can’t remember exactly when I started out the Top Flicks About Chicks list on MUBI, but it must have been around the same time I wrote how Chick Flicks was a doomed genre in regards of...
View ArticleQueen Christina vs. La Monja Alferez – FIGHT!
Oh.mah.gosh. It’s a battle of the horse-riding sword-brandishing tough ladies that -actually- existed in real life, with lives brought onto the silver screen, beautified while being personified by THE...
View ArticleThe Show-Off Film Collection List~
Oh, Happy Chinese New Year! Let’s start my (supposedly) bad-luck Goat Year with the now-mandatory Letterboxd list of my film collection~ I have a really weird history with films– born in the late 80s,...
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