Movie Trailer Sunday (73)

This weeks trailers are about the CIA, a father reaching out for help trying to raise his five teenage daughters, an internship, tow mothers falling for each others sons and

The Numbers Station
Description: After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent (John Cusack) is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. His new assignment: guarding Katherine (Malin Akerman), a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA "Numbers Station" where encrypted messages are sent and received. When an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station, Emerson and Katherine suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death struggle against an unknown enemy. With the station compromised and innocent lives at stake, they must stop the deadly plot before it's too late.
Director: Kasper Barfoed
Starring: John Cusack, Malin Akerman
Trailer: Trailer "The Numbers Station"
Comment: John Cusack is back, hell yeah!

Mental
Description: The Moochmore girls are certain they all suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental illness, because if they're not crazy then they're just unpopular. Their mother Shirley (Rebecca Gibney), unable to cope with her demanding daughters and unsupported by her philandering politician husband, Barry (Anthony LaPaglia), suffers a nervous breakdown. After Barry commits his wife to a mental hospital he finds himself alone with 5 teenage girls he barely knows. Desperate, he impulsively picks up a hitchhiker named Shaz (Toni Collette) and installs her in his home as nanny to his daughters.
Director: P.J. Hogan
Starring: Toni Collette, Liev Schreiber, Anthony Lapaglia, Rebecca Gibney, Kerry Fox, Caroline Goodall, Deborah Mailman, Sam Clark
Trailer: Trailer "Mental"

The Internship
Description: Two old school salesmen find themselves suddenly unemployed and passed-by in the digital world, try to reinvent themselves by becoming interns at a major tech company.
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Max Minghella, Rose Byrne, John Goodman, Dylan O'Brien, JoAnna Garcia, Eric Andre, Josh Brener, Tiya Sircar, Tobit Raphael, Will Ferrell
Trailer: Trailer "The Internship"
Comment: love them both!

Two Mothers
Description: The story of two childhood friends and neighbors falling for each other's sons.
Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, James Frescheville
Trailer: Trailer "Two Mothers"
Comment: Excited about this.

If I Were You
Description: Madelyn Reid (Marcia Gay Harden) accidentally learns of her husband's infidelity when she saves his sexy young mistress (Leonor Watling) from a bungled suicide attempt. When her unsuspecting young rival suggests the two new best friends take each other's advice on everything. Madelyn sees an opportunity to seize the upper hand. But the plan backfires when the aspiring young actress insists Madelyn keep her end of the bargain�and orders her to star as King Lear in a very amateur production, with Lucy playing The Fool. Things really get out of control when Lucy starts giving Madelyn instructions on dealing with an amorous coworker and a handsome stranger (Aidan Quinn).
Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Starring: Marcia Gay Harden, Aidan Quinn, Leonor Watling, Joseph Kell
Trailer: Trailer "If I Were You"

In My Mailbox (84)

Eleven official postcards and one private swap. So, a good week for me as a postcrosser. The first postcard came from Banda Aceh, Indonesia. A wonderful postcard from the movie "Cinderella Man".

Sent: january 31st 2013
Received: february 12th 2013
Distance: 9,481 km (5,891 miles)
Travel Time: 12 days

From my neighbours in Belgium, Korttijk to be exact, I received this amazing vintage add. I happen to love Paris, so this is perfect.

Sent: february 6th 2013
Received: february 12th
Distance: 195 km (121 miles)
Travel Time: 6 days

From Bejing, China I got this gorgeous cat.

Sent: january 25th 2013
Received: january 13th 2013
Distance: 7,866 km (4,888 miles)
Travel Time: 19 days

From Hongkong I got this postcard. It's a tree and I think the sender made this picture herself.

Sent: january 29th 2013
Received: february 13th 2013
Distance: 9,292 km (5,774 miles)
Travel Time: 15 days

From my other neighbours in Germany, Heilbronn, I got this amazing fall postcard. It's my favorite of the week. The sender is a huge Keira Knightley fan, she's also one of my favorites.

Sent: february 9th 2013
Received: february 13th 2013
Distance: 325 km (202 miles)
Travel Time: 4 days

From Kaohsiung City, Taiwan I got these adorable panda's. The sender bought the card in a zoo, where she was taking a trip with her college class.

Sent: january 30th 2013
Received: february 14th 2013
Distance: 9,625 km (5,981 miles)
Travel Time: 15 days

From my own country, Groningen, the Netherlands, I got this late (or maybe very early) christmas card. Or I at least think it's a christmas card, because the deer is wearing an ornament in his antler. But a very nice card, even if it isn't Christmas right now.

Sent: february 12th 2013
Received: february 14th 2013
Distance: 248 km (154 miles)
Travel Time: 2 days

From Voronezh, Russia I got this unique and beautiful postcard with the turtle and butterflies. Sadly enough the card was pretty damaged. Lukcily the sender scanned the card, so this is how it looked when it was send to me.

Sent: february 5th 2013
Received: februari 15th 2013
Distance: 2,292 km (1,424 miles)
Travel Time: 10 days

A card from the US. Ozark, Alabama to be exact. It has been traveling for quite some time now. The flower on the card blossoms only once a year, at night. Pretty sepcial right.

Sent: november 29th 2012
Received: february 16th 2013
Distance: 7,482 km (4,649 miles)
Travel Time: 79 days

And two psotcards from Portugal on the same day. This one is from Leiria, Portugal. It's a Portugese monument.

Sent: february 7th 2013
Received: february 16th 2013
Distance: 1,713 km (1,064 miles)
Travel Time: 9 days

And the other one came from Santarém, Portugal. Typical Portugese clothes. The sender wrote his test in both English and Portugese.

Sent: february 5th 2013
Received: february 16th 2013
Distance: 1,753 km (1,089 miles)
Travel Time: 11 days

And again from my Russian friend Anton I received a nice postcard. This is already the third, but I saw he hasn't received any cards yet.

Thanks Ari, Anne Marie, Ruby, Smily, Julia, Quak, Alie, Julia, Jennifer, Pedro, Paulo and Anton for the postcards.

Movie Moments: Orange County

A breakthrough for Tom Hanks' son Colin Hanks, who I think is amazing and should get more attention. I don't know why, but I always loved this movie. I decided to rewatch it and make a list of my favorite moments.

Moment # 1:Meet Shaun
We meet Shaun Brumbder, who’s writing a letter to Marcus Skinner. He tells him about his life in Orange County and how he got the idea of becoming a writer.

Moment # 2: Lance watches Spongebob
Shaun is excited abot his letter from Stanford, but all his lazy brother Lance cares about is Spongebob.

Moment # 3: Wrong Transcript
Shaun didn’t get in to Stanford and he doesn’t understand why. He visits the students counselor and finds out she send in the transcript of a Shane Brainard. He, dumb as he is, did get in to Stanford.

Moment # 4: Visitors
Ashley arranged for Tanya’s grandfather to visit Shaun, he works at Stanford. Shaun gets one more chance to get in to Stanford. His mother is getting ready and puts on a dress that makes her look like a piñata. Shaun tells Lance he needs to stay in his room. When Lance asks him why, Shaun tells him he embarrasses him. When the guest arrive, Shaun’s mom Cindy acts weird and starts telling them her whole life story. Then Lance walks in in his underwear, Shaun’s friends shows up and Bob starts acting mad. Everything is going wrong and Shaun’s last chance is gone.

Moment # 5: Lance driving skills
Lance drives Shaun and Ashley to Stanford, because he can do it in 3 hours. But he’s an awful driver. He hardly pays attention to the road and when something happens he blames the other drivers.

Moment # 6: Lance sets a fire.
When Shaun got the dean of admission to put his name on the list of Stanford attendees and they arrive at the office, they see it’s on fire. Set by Lance.

Moment # 7: Shaun meets Marcus Skinner
Shaun is walking on campus when all of a sudden he sees Marcus Skinner walk by. He asks him about his story and Marcus says he enjoyed reading it. He invites Shaun to his office to talk about the story. He tells Shaun he doesn’t need to leave Orange County to become a good writer, he already is one.

Moment # 8: “You banged mom?”
When Shaun, Lance and Ashley return from Stanford, they see their dad. When he wants to tell them he and their mom got back together Lance asks him: “You banged mom?”

Moment # 9: Shaun stays
The trip wasn’t all for nothing, because Shaun realizes that his inspiration is right in front of him. Shaun decides to stay in Orange County and everybody is happy.

Favorite Moment: Moment # 4: Visitors

Top 5 Thursday: "Seinfeld" Moments

You remember "Seinfeld" right? Off course you do. It's a fantastic show. With some memorable moments. I listed my favorite five right here.

5. Puffy Shirt
Jerry really looks like a pirate, but he doesn't want to be one. The puffy shirt is almost historical. And it looks awful by the way. But hilarious and that's what counts.

4. Helloooooo!
You don't want to know how long me and my brother did this voice. We still don't get tired of it. Jerry made up this voice, for the bellybutton of his girlfriend. How funny is that?

3. George's Answering Machine
How can you not find this hilarious? When George isn't home you hear his answering machine, with a song sung by George himself. But he is home, sitting next to the phone eating popcorn.

2. The Moops
George lies about everything and he even cheats in games. Well technically he wasn't cheating when playing trivial pursuit with the so called Bubbleboy, because the card really said 'moops'.

1. Vandalay Industries
George makes this top 5. His top moment comes from another lie. He is the owner of Vandalay Industries, which off course doesn't exist and sells latex. Kramer doesn't really play along, he wasn't informed about the whole thing, so George tries to stop him. Just priceless!

They almost made the top 5: Soup Nazi, Jerry Becomes Kramer, The English Patient.

Pic Spam: Seth MacFarlane

I'm a bit obsessed with Seth MacFarlane. He's funny, charming, handsome and I wish the voice in my head sounded like him. He's going to host the Academy Awards and I'm very excited about that. But first some great pictures of him.

Weekly Photo Challenge 2013 - Theme 6: Film

MOVIES!!! I love them and I can talk all day about them.

So why not share the love of it with you in one photo. Here's my, still growing, DVD collection. And this is just the movies, my TV-shows are in another room. I don't know how many I have....

In the Picture: The Characters from "Les Misérables"

Because I recently both saw the movie and read the book, I think it's about time to take a look at all the characters from the marvelous story.

Jean Valjean
Played by: Hugh Jackman
Jean Valjean is a Frenchman who was in prison for 19 years, for stealing a loaf of bread, and finally released. Years later he has made a name, but he has broke parole and is still hiding under a false name. Valjean takes care of Cosette, who he adopted and now raises as his own daughter.

Javert
Played by: Russell Crowe
Javert is a police inspector. His whole life is dedicated to finding Valjean and imprisoning him once again. Nothing holds him back.

Fantine
Played by: Anne Hathaway
Fantine is a struggling factory worker and the mother of an illegitimate child called Cosette. She is fired from the factory, owned by Valjean, and is forced to sell her own hair and her body for money in order to keep her daughter alive. After Fantine passes, Valjean takes Cosette under his wing.

Cosette
Played by: Amanda Seyfried
When her mother is still alive, Cosette lived with an innkeeper and his wife. They didn’t care for her and treated her badly. After Fantine died, Valjean takes Cosette with him and she lives a safe life with him. When she’s older, she meets Marius and falls in love with him.

Marius Pontmercy
Played by: Eddie Redmayne
Marius is a student revolutionary. He lives for his live as a revolutionary, but when he meets Cosette he changes his priority. Marius wants to find her, whatever it takes.

Éponine
Played by: Samanta Barks
Éponine is Marius friend and follows him in everthing. Marius doesn’t know that she is in love with him, but Éponine is heartbroken when she realizes Marius has already fallen in love with an other woman. Éponine is the daughter of the Thénadiers, the innkeepers that used to take care of Cosette.

Thénadier
Played by: Sacha Baron Cohen
Thénadier is an innkeeper and also a fraud. He steals from his customers and lies about everything just to get money. He sold Cosette to Valjean.

Madame Thénadier
Played by: Helena Bonham Carter
She is Thénadiers wife and just as contrived. Madame Thénadier can put up an act, she can manipulate you. She pretended to care for Cosette so Valjean would pay her more money.

Enjolras
Played by: Aaron Tveit
Enjolras is the leader of the revolutionaries, and Marius’ companion. He has one goal and hates the fact that Marius isn’t all in anymore after meeting Cosette.

Favorite Character: Éponine