Movie Moments: "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy"

I already spotlighted the characters once so now I'm sharing my favorite moments of "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" with you.

Moment # 1: Introduction
We meet Ron Burgendy and we see how he works. We come to the conclusion already that he’s not your typical anchorman. We also meet his newsteam, who tell us what they have to offer. The Channel 4 newsteam is a funky bunch.

Moments # 2: Ron meets Veronica
When Ron meets Veronica, he tells her she has an absolutely breath-taking heiney and that he wants to be friends with it. Ron starts bragging about how important he is and when he realizes he screwed up, he starts over. When he does, he tells her he wants to be on her. Smooth…

Moment # 3: Brick ate a candle
During their staff meeting, after the party, Brian and Champ tell the others what happened to them in the morning. Appearantly Brick ate a red candle.

Moment # 4: The toilet store
The Channel 4 newsteam meets up with the Evening news team and they starts insulting each others clothes. Brick asks them if they got their clothes at the toilet store.

Moment # 5: Party in my pants
Brick tries to invite Veronica to the pantsparty. He means the party in his pants, which Veronica doesn’t want to go to. Next he asks Ian the same question, which tells us Brick doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Moment # 6: Massive erection
Veronica and Ron are talking to each other when she tells Ron he has a massive erection. He says it’s an optical illusion, because of the pants.

Moment # 7: Ron plays jazzfluit
Ron’s friend Tino asks him to play the jazzfluit. Ron says he’s not prepared and than he pulls out the fluit from his jacket. The weirdest performance ever! But people actually give him a standing ovation.

Moment # 8: I love lamp
The newsteam is talking about love and what it means. Brick starts naming objects he loves, like “I love lamp”.

Moment # 9: Afternoon delight
In that same conversation, Ron tries to explain it and the newsteam starts singing “Afternoon Delight”.

Moment # 10: Glass cage of emotion
After an angry biker kicked his dog Baxter of a bridge, Ron calls Brian to tell him about it. He can’t really talk because he keeps crying. When Brian asks him where he is, Ron tells him he’s in a glass cage of emotions.

Moment # 11: The fight
The Channel 4 newsteam meets up with the Evening news team again. The Channel 2 news team, Public newsteam and Spanish language newsteam join them. They start a big fight with only one rule: No touching of the face and hair. They have all sorts of weapons. Brick even has a handgrenade. He’s just standing there with the grenade in his hand and all he does is scream. But Brick is eventually the only guy who actually kills someone.

Moment # 12: Ron vs. Veronica
Ron and Veronica start insulting each other. Ron calls her a silly pirate hooker and Veronica says he looks like a blueberry. When Veronica says he has stupid hair, he really gets angry. They start fighting each other.

Moment # 13: News team assemble
Ron gets a phonecall from his boss that they need him for the news again. He uses a seashell for a horn to call out for his newsteam and yells: “Newsteam assemble”! The team has been standing behind him all that time.

Favorite Moment: Moment # 11: The fight

Movie Trailer Sunday (5)

This weeks trailers are about a kid on a journey, a killer in Texas, friendship, crime and a rebelious girl.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Description: Oskar (Thomas Horn) is convinced that his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock) and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.
Director: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, James Gandolfini, Viola Davis, John Goodman and Max on Sydow
Trailer: Trailer "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
Second Trailer "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Comment: I read the book, it's beautiful. I hope the mvie lives up to my expectations.

Texas Killing Fields
Description: We follow Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call "The Killing Fields." Though the swampland crime scenes are outside their jurisdiction, Detective Heigh is unable to turn his back on solving the gruesome murders. Despite his partner's warnings, he sets out to investigate the crimes. Before long, the killer changes the game and begins hunting thedetectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When familiar local girl Anne (Chloë Grace Moretz) goes missing, the detectives find themselves racing against time to catch the killer and save the young girl's life.
Director: Ami Canaan Mann
Starring: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jessica Chastain and Stephen Graham
Trailer:Trailer "Texas Killing Fields"

I Melt With You
Description: Richard (Thomas Jane), Ron (Jeremy Piven), Jonathan (Rob Lowe) and Tim (Christian McKay) are old college friends that gather annually for a week in Big Sur to celebrate their friendship and catch-up on each other's lives. They seem like typical men in their forties - all with careers, families, and enormous responsibilities - but like most people there is a lot more beneath the surface. As the week progresses, they go down the rabbit hole of excess as mountains of drugs are consumed to a blaring rock 'n' roll soundtrack. Parties with much younger women spin out of control. Exhausted and run ragged, they bare their souls to one another revealing the disillusionment with their lives. As the truth emerges, the reunion takes a much darker turn when a promise from their past is brought to light.
Director: Mark Pellington
Starring: Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe and Christian McKay
Trailer: Trailer "I Melt With You"

Contraband
Description: Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best--running contraband--to settle Andy's debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Caleb Landry Jones, Diego Luna, Lukas Haas and J.K. Simmons
Trailer: Trailer "Contraband"

Dirty Girl
Description: Danielle (Juno Temple) is the dirty girl of Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, circa 1987. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to a remedial class, she is paired on a parenting project with Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), an innocent closet-case with no friends. Danielle is determined to get to California to find the father she's never met, and Clarke is desperate to escape being sent to military school by his homophobic dad. Together, the mismatched misfits light out for California, and discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship.
Director: Abe Sylvia
Starring: Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam and Jeremy Dozier
Trailer: Trailer "Dirty Girl"

50 Books Challenge 2011 Update - September

I only read 4 books in september and it wasn't the best month either. No books with 5 stars. But I did finish my goal of reading 50 books this year. YEAH! I decided tot just continue and keep you updated on the books I read and give you short reviews of those books. Here are the books I've read this month.

# 48. Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
# 49. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
# 50. Lock & Key by Sarah Dessen
# 51. The Reunion by Simone van der Vlugt

Favorite of the month: "Mockingjay"

I just started reading "Minding Frankie" by Maeve Binchy. I'm hoping to get some books for my birthday and I really want to finish rereading the Harry Potter series this month. So maybe I will get to that too. I'll keep you posted!

50 Books Challenge 2011 - # 51: The Reunion by Simone van der Vlugt

Title: The Reunion
Author: Simone van der Vlugt
Story: When Isabel disappeared, Sabine was fifteen, isolated at school and tormented by her former friend. She remembers nothing from that hot May day. Nine years later, unbidden memories are returning to Sabine. What if she saw something the day of Isabel's disappearance? What if she could put a name to the shadowy figure in her dreams? And what if her knowledge was dangerous?
Start: september 26th 2011
End: september 30th 2011
Comment: Van der Vlugt is one of the best thriller writers of my country. I already read some of her books and they were all pageturners. And this wasn't any different. You get sucked into the story pretty quickly. And together with Sabine you're trying to figure out who killed Isabelle nine years ago. You really get to know Sabine, the way she lives and works and how she became the woman she is now. As the story developes, Sabine's memory is coming back piece by piece. She's starting to remember things from her past, but doesn't know if it is real or that she dreamed about it. And neither do you. There are a lot of questions in the story, you want answers to. That's what makes this so good and interesting from beginning to end. And the end had a fascinating plot twist. It was one of the possible scenario's in my head, but towards the end I didn't expect the story to go in that direction. I can recommened this to anyone!
Rating: 4/ 5

Best of... Toni Collette

Yesterday I went to see the new "Fright Night" which also starred Toni Collette, who I think is an underestemated actress with a lot of good films and tuns of talent. So here is a list of her best movies, in my opinion.

"Muriel's Wedding"
The plot doesn't really sound very special, but it has an incredibly moving performance by Toni Collette. This is a feel good movie for the outcast of the world.

"Emma"
Jane Austen stories are always great. Not my favorite story or movie, but it's such a joy to watch. Gwyneth steals the show though.

"The Sixth Sense"
I think this movie got her her fame. She played Cole's mother, who's trying to deal with her troubled son. Great, solid performance.

"Shaft"
This movie isn't great but very much OK. Enjoyable and very cool. Samuel L. Jackson is a good "Shaft", Christian Bale a believable villain, Toni is just there and does a great job, as always.

"About a Boy"
I think I like the book a little bit more, but this movie is so much fun too. Hugh Grant's performance is a little different from his other. Not the clumbsy, sweet and romantic guy. Toni is the titulair boys mom and does what she's good at.

"The Hours"
The way this was told. The novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, who all had to deal with suicide. Toni isn't one of those three women, but Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep are so good in their roles."

"In Her Shoes"
Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz play sisters and, as in real life, they are each others total opposites. Especially Toni's performance is strong. An amusing film and very feel good.

"Little Miss Sunshine"
My favorite of her list. This is one of my all-time favorites! Great story and fantastic, quirky characters. Toni plays mom Cheryl, who doesn't know if she hates or loves her family.

"The Night Listener"
This was actually a very weird movie. Strange role by Robin Williams and Toni Collette's character was very weird as well. I thought it was a pretty good movie, not that well known, but good.

"Evening"
This movie had a great cast, though not all A-listers. Claire Danes, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson and Toni Collette, but also Glen Close and Meryl Streep. This movie was overlooked and very much underrated. I think this movie was so good, great performances and a fantastic story.

"Fright Night"
My brother is a huge fan of the original, so he was a bit sceptic about the remake. He thought it was very good and so did I. Colin Farrell is a very charming and sexy, though pretty scary vampire. Very believable as a villain. Toni plays the mother of Charly, the ones Jerry the vampire moves next to. Very good horror movie.

Top 5 Thursday: Movie Trilogies

I thought this was going to be a walk in the park, but it wasn't. I realized a lot of good series aren't trilogies anymore. Like the "Indiana Jones" series or "Die Hard". I managed to make a top 5 and here it is.

5. “Toy Story”
When “Toy Story” came out in 1995, it was highly anticipated because it was the first fully computer animated film ever made. I was sceptic at first, because I loved the hand-drawn animation so much. But after seeing it I forget about it immediatly. “Toy Story” is in fact one of my favorite Disney movies. And all three are great. I can’t pick a favorite of the three. OK, probably the third.

4. “Back to the Future”
Time travel movies are always fun, but no one ever made a better one than Robert Zemeckis did. And with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd starring as two of cinemas most beloved movie characters. For some reason the second movie has always been my favorite, closely followed by the first.

3. “Bourne”-trilogy
I recently rewatched the complete series and I reminded myself of how good this trilogy is. Matt Damon is so good as Jason Bourne and all films are extremely exciting. The last one is my favorite, than the first and the second installment was my least favorite.

2. “The Godfather”
This series is epic. The first two are equally as good, though I do prefer the first because of Marlon Brando. And I also like the third, but even I see it didn’t fully live up to the standard of the previous two films. But all in all it’s a fabulous trilogy.

1. “Jurassic Park”
Who doesn’t love dinosaurs? And you don’t have to be a nerd because of it. “Jurassic Park” was such an experience for me when I saw it for the first time. I was nine and I was completely blown away by this great film. The second one was also amazing but I missed Sam Neill and I also really liked the third movie which brought Sam back. Just a great series and therefor my favorite.

They almost made the top 5: “Lord of the Rings”, “Spider-Man”, “X-Men” en “Ice Age”

In My Mailbox (3)

I received another card today. From Portugal. Lovely card, but I think it was one of those free ones. That's just lame... But I like the postcard anyway. Here it is.

Sent on: September 21st 2011
Received on: September 28th 2011
Distance: 2,895 km (1,799 miles)
Travel time: 7 days