by Nicholas Robinson
I have been a very delinquent blogger and I apologize for that. Today, I shall be posting all four of my end of the year Top Tens (WordPress allowing) starting with this, my Top Ten film scores. This year was a pretty bad year for film scores. I actually struggled to find 10 scores that I liked from this year but here they are without further ado.
by Nicholas Robinson
Once again, I sat down to watch the yearly awards so to see not only an appalling ceremony with very few good points (most of them due to Ricky Gervais) and snubbing abound. I have nothing more to say about this ceremony other than my predictions are in bold and the winners are underlined.
by Nicholas Robinson
I know I’m cutting it close, but I have just updated my predictions for tonight’s Golden Globes. I know that I haven’t seen half of the movies involved but you never know. I will make a results post tomorrow so anybody who doesn’t sit down for 3 hours to watch the Globes can be notified anyway
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Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives — and a Mississippi town — upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Viola Davis), Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, is the first to open up — to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories — and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly — and unwillingly — caught up in the changing times. – IMDB.com
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by Nicholas Robinson
Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and his longtime trusted associate, Doctor Watson (Jude Law), take on their arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), with the help of Holmes’s older brother Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) and a gypsy named Sim (Noomi Rapace). – IMDB.com
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A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary. – IMDB.com
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The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion, Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80′s, the film follows Senna’s struggles both on track against his nemesis, French World Champion Alain Prost, and off it, against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime, spiritual yet, on occasion, ruthless – Senna conquers and transcends Formula One to become a global superstar. Privately, he is humble, almost shy, and fiercely patriotic, donating millions to his native Brasil and contemplating a life beyond motor-racing. Yet he is struck down in his prime on the blackest weekend in the history of the sport, watched live on television by 300 million people. Years on he is revered in Formula One as the greatest motor racing driver of all time – and in Brasil as a Saint. – IMDB.com
Continue reading ‘Ayrton Senna Gains Pole Position on my List’
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Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete (Alex Shaffer) through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy’s mother (Melanie Lynskey) shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. – IMDB.com
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Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team (Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, and Jeremy Renner) are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt by the team to stop him at the Kremlin ends in a disaster, with an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF being implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to invoke Ghost Protocol, under which the IMF is disavowed, and will be offered no help or backup in any form. Undaunted, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks to Dubai and from there to Mumbai, but several spectacular action sequences later, they might still be too late to stop a disaster. – IMDB.com
by Nicholas Robinson
Many of you, my faithful readers, may have been wondering where I’ve been these last couple of months. Well let me tell you, med school takes up a hell of a lot more time than you’d think. But, exams finished up yesterday and I figured I would start back posting for this Christmas break with current events. I know I’m a week late but here are the nominees for the 69th Annual Golden Globes! As usual my predictions are in bold and I have not seen all of the nominations so this list will be updated before the Globes air on January 15th. Enjoy!
Continue reading ’69th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Nominations and Predictions’
