Movie : Easy A

Saw this the other day and it was very good for a coming-of-age high school movie. Basically, it's about a "good" girl who accidentally portrayed herself as "bad" and then kept doing it as she found herself becoming increasing popular. Kinda funny, plus Stanley Tucci is in it. He stole my heart (not in a he's-so-hot kinda way) as Richard in Murder One many many moons ago.

Now I can't get this song from the movie out of my head:

An Education

Watched An Education with Viv on my laptop tonight. Well, i watched it. She played Cafe World on her laptop which was right next to mine. I have been wanting to watch this ever since it came out but none of the people around me wanted to. Sigh.. so I waited till i can download it. I pay a monthly membership fee so don't give me that judgemental look!

An Education has an arthouse feel to it, ie not your typical blockbuster. It has had great reviews from everyone and Carey Mulligan who played the lead role was excellent. The movie is based on the early life of a journalist, Lynn Barber.

She was a 16 year old student bound for Oxford when she met a mysterious suave older gentleman. He swept her off-course and managed to win the approval of her silly strict parents. He exposed her to exciting adult things (to her naive 16 year old self) such as clubs, art auctions, slightly dodgy property deals, etc. Basically he brought color to her previously dull life. She was going to abandon her previously well-structured life and marry him when she found out that he was in fact already married. So she turned her back on him and went back to Oxford. Anyway, I really liked the story and Carey really was perfect for this role.

By the way this is the real Lynn Barber. Hmmm yupp, i can definitely see the striking resemblance to Carey. By that logic, I guess Angelina Jolie would be playing me in my life story. Heheh....

Alright alright, that wasn't very fair. This was Lynn back in her Oxford days.

PS Hope everyone had a great Christmas. Was Santa good to you? He was excellent to me!

Girls' Day Out + Andrew

In honour of the girls getting married at the beginning of the year, Viv's birthday and me being my awesome self, Mel and Andrew shouted us all to dinner at The French Cafe on Saturday night. Since everyone was up, I thought we should all go and see a girlie movie. But Fiona the hypochondrianc had an eye appointment and the Js were lazy buggers who were oversleeping in Hamilton. So Mel, Viv, Andrew the honorary girl and I rocked up to the 12.30 session of 500 Days of Summer in Sylvia Park. Suffice to say Mel now has another new toy boy to youtube and google about... she is such a hussy that one. Tommy is like 20 years younger than you!



Anyway, go see it... it's a quirky boy meets girl, girl is ambivalent about boy, boy lurrrvvves girl type of movie. It has been getting consistently good reviews too if you are like someone I know and read up on movies on rotten tomatoes first. Get a life, Ah Here!


Andrew cried so that just shows how good the movie was... ok, maybe I made that up.