Due to my busy state of affairs, most of which involve education, I've decided to quit blogging for the time being.

I'm not sure when I'll be able to continue, but most probably it will be when my college course finishes, which will be a few months from now.

Until then, Soli Deo Gloria!

*On a side note, do expect some posts to pop up once a while.

What I enjoy most about this movie is David Strathairn. He brings conviction and charm to his character. And that I liked.

But nevertheless, the story is good as well. It is based on Senator McCarthy and his accusations. I know very little about this event, so I can't say much. But certainly this movie has some parallels that can be found today.

It is shot in black and white, though the picture quality is so good they might as well shoot it in color, for all the realism it gives.

The movie focuses mainly on Ed Murrow's fight against McCarthy's injustices, but also on the consequences that come on the CBS crew involved. I think Clooney, the director, has accomplished a lot- the story and the acting all work out wonderfully.

Despite seemingly dropping off at the end, Good Night is a movie that is very satisfying and gives us a strong message. I think because of these two things, it certainly deserved the best film nomination at the Oscars.

As Hollywood would have it, we have Chinese actresses acting as Japanese geishas who have a remarkably good knowledge of English. Now, I do have some reservations about the films realism when it comes to language, but certainly one must always suspend disbelief in movieland.

Other than that, the acting is okay. But again, the fact that the majority of actors speak in heavily accented English does, I think, impede upon the effectiveness of their acting. It is certainly strange also to hear people speaking Japanese in the background while the geishas chit chat in English.

But the sets and props are very realistic, lush and beautiful to behold. No expense was spared, in this regard. That is, perhaps, the only part of the movie I like. (In fact the majority of Oscar nominations this movie has received falls in this area)

The story however was, in my judgement, not told very well (to add to the fact that it wasn't really good and only slighly interesting to begin with).

Another thing I'd like to note- the characters tell us that geishas do not sell their body. But they certainly do sell their virginity (I guess the both are not the same). The fact that a few sex scenes are thrown in doesn't help. Perhaps the producers do find and wish to show the inconsistency. I don't know, and I have not read Arthur Golden's book so I can't know for sure.

Regardless, Memoirs does have its entertaining and interesting bits- but not enough to change my perception that the movie does not work.

Joe Wright's film adaptation of Austen's novel is remarkably entertaining and interesting, to say the least. It is not boring (unlike other adaptations of other classics I have seen) and is certainly beautiful to watch. I might also add that it is well acted, though sometimes the acting amounts to a "so so" rating.

I have never had any interest in watching romance movies (and certainly I still do not have that interest), but the movie just doesn't focus on love and mushy feelings (we get very little glimpses of that, thankfully), but on something that I do like: everyday life.

Keira Knightley acts out her part quite well (though I'm a little puzzled why she got an Oscar nomination). The others, well, they do good as well- though sometimes their acting goes into the territory of "been there, done that".

In my opinion, this adaptation of Pride & Prejudice (the only one I have seen, in fact) is certainly rather good.