Keira Knightley is a Fair Lady

Keira Knightley has won herself the rol of Eliza Doolittle in the remake of My Fair Lady. She will be re-teaming with Joe Wright, with whom she has made Atonement and Pride and Prejudice. But My Fair Lady is a musical, and I have yet to hear Keira's vocals. She has been reportedly taking singing lessons and so winning the rol from Scarlett Johansson.

I'm not a great fan of remakes. Especially not if it's a remake of a movie with Audrey Hepburn. Keira is a fine actress, but she isn't Audrey. So I have yet to decide if I want to watch this particular remake. If someone does and it turns out great, please comment.

Film News

James Mcavoy as Sir Ian Fleming?
Is it true that James McAvoy will play Ian Fleming in the movie? Read about it here

Woman arrested for filming Twilight: New Moon
A woman was arrested because she had filmed three minutes of New Moon. Read about the director's reaction here

Keira Knightley is a Fair Lady
Keira Knightley is cast as Eliza Doolittle in the remake of My Fair Lady. Read more here


Wolf Action In Twilight New Moon
There's a new clip from Twilight New Moon made public, watch it here

New Twilight Posters
The new New Moon character posters are public. See them here

Julie & Julia

Last night I went to see the Julie & Julia in the cinema. I don't know what I was expecting but this movie came to me as a surprise. I loved it. I loved it so much. Meryl Streep's performance was excellent once again. She absolutely nailed all the characteristics from Julia, her enthousiasm was contagious. If you ever watch it think about me when you watch the scene with the onions and the one with the lobster. i shall never forget Amy Adams' face when she had to put living lobsters into boiling water.

Before I start spoiling more fun bits, let me tell you the story. Amy Adams plays Julie who has a crappy job and lives with her husband in a crappy apartment in Queens. Her husband suggests that the starts a blog. So she does, she cook all the 524 recipes from Julia Childs cooking book. While doing that she starts to learn from Julia and her life is looking up again. Meanwhile we follow the real Julia while she starts her own cooking adventure, and we discover similarities between Julie & Julia's life on the way....

I don't know if I have anything to say except that this is a must see for anyone who loves Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, cooking, eating and movies.

Just make sure you have some good food with it, because it's a guarantee that you'll get hungry.

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep is just the greatest living film actress. She is such a perfectionist in her craft, always preparing endlessly for her roles. The first movie I probably saw her in was The Devil Wears Prada (scandalous I know, but I was young) and I loved her so much that I started seeing more. I wanted to write about her because I bought a new movie yesterday called Postcards From The Edge, when she's starring with Shirley McLaine, a great movie by the way. I can list her best performances, but her problem is that her every performance is superb. Her, in my opinion, best movies (from imdb.com, look there for more)
Julie & Julia
Doubt
Mamma Mia!
The Devil Wears Prada
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Manchurian Candidate
The Bridges of Madison County
The River Wild
Postcards from the Edge
Out of Africa
Falling in Love
Sophie's Choice
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Kramer vs. Kramer
Manhattan
The Deer Hunter

My New Addiction: The West Wing

I don't know if you bloggers ever heard of this magnificent show called The West Wing. If you haven't, shame on you! (although I only recently discovered it too)
It's a TV show with seven seasons. It follows the ups and downs of events in the West Wing of the White House. It follows several characters, like the president, chief and deputy chief of staff, press secretary and communications directors. It sounds extremely boring and intense, but I think it's one of the best drama shows that those Americans have ever made. (it's a tie with Gilmore Girls in my list) There's really no way to describe the show except as excellent and superb. Just trust me and watch it.

(I am on tv.com and saw this about the west wing: http://www.tv.com/story/18688.html?tag=hotspot;gumball;1 )

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Introducing the film fanatic

Hey to all you bloggers,

I'm new to this whole blogospere, but since I'm such a movie and tv fanatic, I figured I could try out my own blog. I write in English, but I'm from the Netherlands. I live in Rozendaal to be exact, look it up on google maps. I'm sure you will notice that yes, it is practically the smallest town in Holland. We have zero shops and traffic lights. We do however have a castle! (there's no logic in it)

On this blog I will be posting movie reviews, movie websites, movie news and I will bore you with my talk about TV shows.

Bye y'all,
Justine