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06Dec 2011 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Romance, Schmo’mance?

Romance, Schmo’mance?

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Yesterday I read this very thought provoking article called, "You Can't Marry a Hot Vampire". The article starts with saying how there was another article that made the assertion that romance novels are to women what as pornography is to men, that they work the same because they are rooted in illusion. Interesting right? But WTF does that have to do with Vampires? So, the author then talks about how Twilight is the penultimate in romantic / emotional porn for women because of what it stands for. You have a woman who has two different archetypes of the embodiment of the type of man women want. You have Edward, the "Prince Charming"- he's well-bred, polite and sensitive with an air of danger (to quote the article). Then you have Jacob…

21Mar 2011 by Jakora Holman 1 Comment

i finally watched Precious

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The other night I watched Precious: Based on the novel by Sapphire for the first time and man, this movie really was as sad as people sad. I didn't watch earlier because people kept saying how sad the movie was. Plus, I read the book many years ago and I've been fooled by other book 'adaptations' in the past. So I wasn't eager. But the other night this movie was in my Top Recommendations on Netflix, so I laid down to watch figuring I'd fall asleep on it. But I didn't. I have to note, I vaguely remember the book-i remembered what it was about and how graphic it was, but not exactly HOW graphic or WHAT was graphic about it or WHY. When I told my friend I watched…

27Oct 2010 by Jakora Holman 3 Comments

The hills are alive . . .

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"Doe, a deer. A female Deer" [caption id="attachment_1990" align="aligncenter" width="538" caption="Image from TheDailyMail.co.uk"][/caption] Last night I had the opportunity to see * drumroll please* The Sound of Music for the FIRST time. Ever in life. The lovely ladies @KittyBradshaw, @Divasanddorks & @OsoChic and I settled in for an Anniversary showing @ the IMAX Theater on 34th street with free popcorn *yay* ( FYI: Me & D&D popped our Sound of Music cherries together! ) We saw people dressed as Nuns and people were singing along (it was like Karaoke) and reciting the lines before they came out the mouths, and I loved every minute of it! I can see why this movie is one of the most popular musicals of all time, the songs are simplistically divine. I knew songs…

01Jul 2010 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Eclipse, #TeamJacob

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Even though I know how the story ends, I swear I'm Team Jacob. Even though he's childish and tempermental and volatile. I <3 Jakeypoo! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE how 'IN LOVE' Bella and Edward are, but they are so mushy its disgusting. Eclipse was suuuccchhh a better movie than New Moon. But then again, New Moon was a horrible book- filled with Bella's brooding and crying. That's the great problem the creators of the movies have to deal with. I say that because these books are a bunch of teenage angst, so to take that and make it a motion picture that people swoon over is awesome talent. But New Moon was too heavy on special effects to make up for the weak story line. Eclipse had a story line +…

08Mar 2010 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Cleo Reviews: Alice in Wonderland 2010

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In case your new to this, you should know I have been looking forward to Alice in Wonderland for quite some time. Way back hen, in NVvember of 2008, i first came across the images on Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and began patiently waiting.. Then I came across these real scans .. and was in LOVE still. I watched every preview and eagerly anticipated my Imax 3D experience. So this weekend I did it. I sat there in front of a row of 8-year olds and watched Tim Burton bring it. And I think it was brought! Some reviewers online said that it wasn't good. I disagree. I think I had extremely high hopes for this movie, being the ultimate J.Depp and T.Burton fan. I know that because…

22Feb 2010 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Cleo Reviews: The Wolfman

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WolfMan!! "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright." It sounds like it should be scary, right? That's what I thought too about the move The Wolfman. All the previews made it look devilishly creepy and exciting. So, you can imagine that I was very excited to be creeped out at the movies last night. I should have known something would be amiss when the lady in front of me gave us a stank face when we said we were going to see Wolfman. It was that face like Nina gave Carrie in the bathroom.. Yeah, that bad. I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone, but I will…

21Dec 2009 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Back-up Plan?? More like a rerun!

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SdCy6-XLow&feature=player_embedded J Lo's latest movie is like a combination of Object of My Affection and Baby Mama. Been there, done that. Will I watch it, sure. Will I pay for it? NOT! I do have a guilty pleasure of watching movies like this on weekends or when I'm bored. You can kinda watch them without really watching them. I can turn on the tube and then play the Sims 3 or do other work and still feel like I know whats going on. They aren't that hard to follo: boy meets girl. something happens to stop the love. Boy and girl fix problem and live happily ever after. Or realize that they love each other despite the drama and live Happily Ever After ... What do you think?

23Sep 2009 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Cleo Reviews: The Informant

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Matt Damon starred as Mark Whitacre in Steven Soderbergh's newest. I kept seeing the previews and thought this would be a funny movie, how can it not be with a quote like, "Call me 0014, because I'm twice as smart as 007." The movie was pleasantly funny. The funniest parts to me are the Matt Damon voice overs. He goes off on random tangents about things like cheap ties. Whitacre is a middle America exec of a corn company who has their product in everything in the early 90s. (High Fructose Corn Syrup anyone?) Marc doesn't like how his company does business so he gets in cahoots with the FBI to bring them down. His ultimate goal is to be the "hero" and put the company back on track. The…

22Jun 2009 by Jakora Holman 2 Comments

Updated Johnny Depp Mad Hatter Pictures

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Oh hell yes! Remember back in Nov. I posted a picture that was supposed to be Johnny Depp in the new Tim Burton produced Alice in Wonderland. Well...these new and improved pics have hit the net and um.. yeah.. J. Depp looks straight up MAD LOL. It seems they haven't strayed far from what was leaked. I love the vibrant colors. He looks very Edward ScissoryHands and Willy Wonka mixed together. They also have some pics of Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway. I <3 Helena BC.. she plays weird oh so well.. Her & J. Depp do great work together as well as Tim. Did you know HBC was T. Burton's love thang? Well if you didn't now you do! Oh, can I say that A. Hathaway's makeup was…

08May 2009 by Jakora Holman 2 Comments

Summer Movie List!

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I love summer and not only for the warm weather and super tans I usually get. I love summer block buster movies. The biggest budget action films almost always come out in the summer months. In honor of the opening of summer season, I'd like to list the movies I'm looking forward to this summer, besides Wolverine. Ready?? 1. Star Trek: I've never been a Trekkie, but I love Zoe Saldana so I want to see her in action. Speaking of action, this movie looks packed with it. And YES I am only going to this movie to see her & the action. I can care less about Star Trek (please don't kill me Trekkies!!) 2. Transformers: OMG loved the first one. Me & my former roommate probably watched this…

05May 2009 by Jakora Holman No Comments

X-Men Origin’s: Wolverine

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OK, so I was going to do a review on this movie (or maybe just on Hugh Jackman's hot sexy nakedness, but then I read Jess's 10 reasons why you need to see this and after reading her's I don't feel there is much more I can add. I believe that it is a good writers job to know when they can add to the discussion and when are they just being pointless banter. So NOT to bore you guys anymore.. here you have it: Jess's 10 reasons to see X-Men Origin's Wolverine Wolverine is all angry and sexy in his clothes that just barely fit,yet at any second you’re waiting for them to just completely rip off *yes Wolverine Hugh Jackman is my white boy crush* Hello?! Mutant fighting!!! …

28Apr 2009 by Jakora Holman 1 Comment

Obsessed: Cleo’s Review

Obsessed: Cleo’s Review

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****Warning: MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS!!! **** Everyone went to see this movie to see how bad Beyonce's acting would be, and any one who tells you differently is absolutely lying. Ok, maybe not everyone, because there were plenty of Beyonce stans in there going crazy, but definitely the majority. I would have simply waited for the bootleg DVD copy, but my friend is one of the latter so we had to go -- on opening night at that. I wasn't really happy with that, but I can say, I was pleasantly surprised with how mediocre her acting was. She wasn't good, but she wasn't overly horrible either. So that says a lot. Plot: Truth be told, the plot wasn't anything we haven't seen before. Crazy woman sees unattainable (married) man and…

28Jan 2009 by Jakora Holman 5 Comments

Random Ramblings

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What better way to talk about random things than with a Far Side comic strip... Random Ramblings.. 1. I commute now to work since I recently moved. I noticed a few things, besides the fact that most people cannot drive. -yellow cars almost always drive fast. If ever you are in a rush-get behind a yellow car (not to be confused with a taxi) -People do NOT know how to merge. Merging creates the absolute worse traffic congestions. I avoid routes with heavy mergers because I hate sitting in traffic and I don't like to let people in front of me. -living farther away I am actually more punctual for work than I am when I lived ten minutes away. Go figure. -I'm overly aware of rises and drops in…

22Jan 2009 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Review: My Bloody Valentine

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So, with all the movies I want to see I ended up at the movies on Saturday seeing my bloody valentine because my friend saw everything else. MBV is a 3-D Slasher film, however we weren't able to see it in 3-d we had to settle for regular. If a movie is released in 3d all theaters should have to honor that. But I digress.. Here is my review, I will try not to spoil it for everyone... too much.. The only person I recognized fully in this was the guy Kerr Smith, who was on Dawson's Creek and he was on Charmed, so he stood out. All the others had faces that looked familiar, but I couldn't place. Although the main character was definitely sexy, his voice was yummy!…

15Dec 2008 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still & Keanu Reeve’s acting

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They don't make movie posters like they used to, lol! I went this Friday, opening night, to see Keanu Reeves star in The Day the Earth Stood Still and I can say that overall it was a decent movie. I didn't see the original so I have nothing to compare it to, except my movie criteria as a 20 something. To sum up the movie: there was some OK acting, some good special affects, a sub par plot, and Keanu Reeves. Keanu Reeves as Klaatu was remarkably unbelievable. The concept of Klaatu that I believe he was meant to portray was an alien who was sent to Earth to judge us. Klaatu needed to make the decision of whether humans deserved to be saved or was the earth better off…