Mean Girls (2004)
Okay, I know… Lindsay Lohan is a messed up girl. Mean Girls is still an awesome chick flick. Tina Fey wrote it. How can it be anything less than hysterical? It can’t be, that’s how.
Sure, we’ve seen the story before – misfit, outcast girl becomes one of the popular girls and turns her back on her old friends only to have a change of heart and try to bring everyone back together again. I don’t think that story has ever been done as well as it is here.
The cast is excellent – Lindsay and Tina might be the most well known but Amanda Seyfried’s deliciously empty-headed Karen is definitely the standout. “It’s like I have ESPN or something. My breasts can always tell when it’s going to rain.” No matter how many times I watch Mean Girls (probably at least ten times now) that line always cracks me up.
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17 Again (2009)
Now, how can anyone complain about a movie that features a shirtless Zac Efron within the first five minutes? Not me, that’s for sure! What a friggin’ babe! How old is he again? Oh who cares, it’s not illegal to look! Vanessa Hudgens is a lucky, lucky (and frequently naked, apparently) woman.
So, aside from the gorgeousness of Mr. Efron, there are plenty of reasons to watch 17 Again. Hi, Matthew Perry. I love you. You’re so funny. Let’s have babies. Oh, and the movie’s pretty good too.
The cast – both lead and supporting -deliver believable and convincing performances and the script is witty and sharp. For those that don’t love darling Zacey-Pants, watch 17 Again anyway. You won’t be disappointed. I can’t wait to see the career choices Zac makes. He’s a decent actor and if he manages to get away from the whole pretty boy, Disney thing, he should have a promising future.
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13 Going on 30 (2004)
13 Going on 30 is one of my favorite romantic comedies. It has everything going for it. Fun music, a familiar but always entertaining premise, love and romance, an awesome villain to loathe (Judy Greer’s snobby and conniving Lucy Wyman) and the adorable Mark Ruffalo to root for. I don’t think I even need to mention the sheer enjoyability of Jennifer Garner’s performance as time traveling Jenna Rink. It’s just so much fun to watch Jennifer in this role because it’s so obvious she had a blast doing it. C’mon, watch the Thriller dance scene and tell me she wasn’t loving that!
13 Going on 30 is clearly not the first movie to use the premise of a teenager wishing to be older and waking up in the morning to find that they are (Hi ‘Big’, I’m talking about you, here), but what it lacks in originality it makes up for with heart. You are practically on your knees in front of the screen begging for the happy ending you know you’re going to get. You fall in love with the characters and the movie rewards your affection.
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Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
I just want to start this out by saying that Amy Adams should win every award that can be given in the field of acting – best supporting actor and best actor included – because this woman is amazing in everything I’ve ever seen her in. She’s beautiful, talented and just generally awesome.
Okay, now that I have that out of the way, Amy Adams is just one of the incredible performers that make up the cast of Sunshine Cleaning. Little Jason Spevack is adorable as Ocsar and Alan Arkin is brilliant as family patriarch and perennial screw up, Joe. Emily Blunt (whom I first fell in love with as Emily in The Devil Wears Prada)… what can I even say about Emily Blunt. Her performance as Norah in this movie is absolutely heartbreaking.
I had some problems with Sunshine Cleaning – namely the ending. Sometimes a more open, unresolved ending works, but I felt there needed to be more here. I wanted to know what happened with Rose, Amy Adam’s character, and the one armed model builder Winston. Surely it was love? Am I wrong here?
Aside from the unsatisfying ending, Sunshine Cleaning may have been one of my favorite movies this year. Just a word of warning though, considering the premise of the movie (two sisters need money and start a bio-hazard removal service, which basically means they ‘clean up’ crime scenes etc, after the body has been removed) there is a fair bit of blood. If you have a weak stomach you might have a hard time with this one.
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lady gaga hermaphrodite
By now we’ve all heard the rumor: Lady Gaga hermaphrodite. Youtube is littered with video ‘evidence’. So, you ask, what do you think, Kitten? Is Lady Gaga really Lord Gaga? Is there a little something extra in the undies she’s always flashing?
Who cares??? I mean really, don’t we have anything better to do with our time than try to figure out if a musician has boy and girl parts? The Lady – be she completely lady or not – rocks. The Fame is one of the best pop/dance albums released in a very, very long time. Poker Face, Just Dance, Paparazzi? Classic dance songs.
I absolutely adore her and in this day and age, would her being a hermaphrodite be that big of a deal? If you answered yes, then I’m sad for you – really and truly I am.
The supposed proof and my rebuttal after the jump.
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Hairspray (2007)
Oh my GOSH! This cast! John Travolta (Grease), Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes (She’s The Man), James Marsden (The Notebook, 27 Dresses), Queen Latifah (The Secret Life of Bees), Brittney Snow(John Tucker Must Die), Zac Efron (17 Again, High School Musical), Allison Janney (10 Things I Hate About You, Juno, American Beauty), Nikki Blonsky and even Jerry Stiller are nothing short of amazing in their roles and help make Hairspray one of the best musicals ever!
Director Adam Shankman expertly directs this adaptation of the original 1988 screenplay by the legendary John Waters and Leslie Dixon without losing the spirit and fun that we all loved about Hairspray to begin with. It might be a bit more mainstream than Waters original, but it keeps its biting satire and above all else, entertains and delights. This is a good, fun, watch for movie fans and musical fans alike.
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Moulin Rouge (2001)
Moulin Rouge is one of my all time favorite musicals. Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet) gives us a bold, imaginative and visually stunning movie that goes above and beyond what we’ve come to expect from musicals and movies in general.
The entire cast is incredible, but Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor give knock out performances that left me awestruck. The music is great – fun when it needs to be fun and emotional and heart-wrenching when it needs to bring tears to our eyes.
Moulin Rouge isn’t really for everyone. Some were put off by the fast paced editing, but I thought it was marvelous. My eyes were glued to the screen for the entire duration of the movie.
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The Cake Eaters (2007)
Directed by the incredible Mary Stuart Masterson, The Cake Eaters isn’t just a great chick flick, but a great movie overall. Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays Georgia, a young woman with Friedreich’s ataxia – a disease that causes nerve damage and eventual heart disease – beautifully and it’s impossible not to love Elizabeth Ashley as Georgia’s free spirited grandmother. I absolutely loved this movie, although there was one serious flaw, so let’s get to that now.
The Cake Eaters was written by Jayce Bartok who also plays the completely unnecessary role of Beagle’s older brother Guy. I kept waiting for something to happen with his character that factored into the story, but it never amounted to anything. He shows up, does his thing and is in the final scene of the movie, but he really has no impact on the movie at all. Jayce gave a great performance in the movie and wrote a great script but his character seemed to be written in as an excuse to cast himself in the movie.
Aside from that, I really have no complaints about the movie. Some people are frustrated by the ending (which I won’t ruin here) but I love a movie that doesn’t wrap everything up in a neat package and lets you draw your own conclusions. If that isn’t your thing, you might want to skip The Cake Eaters.
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RIP Patrick Swayze
Such sad, sad news to post about today, ladies. After a two year battle with cancer, Patrick Swayze has passed away.
I would normally write more, but honestly, I’m a little at a loss for words here. While he has been sick, it’s hard to imagine him being gone. He has been such a part of pop-culture since Ghost and Dirty Dancing. In a year when we’ve already lost Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, it’s hard to lose another icon – and Patrick Swayze cemented his place as a pop-culture icon the moment he uttered the words “Nobody puts Baby in a corner. He will be dearly missed. Let’s keep his family in our thoughts at this time and appeal to the press to let them deal with his passing in private.
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Ghost (1990)
September 15, 2009 by kitten
Filed under Tearjerkers
Oh Ghost… what a beautiful, amazing, moving, touching movie. Ghost features my favorite performances ever by Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. This is what love stories are all about!
The idea that two people could be as in love as Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen are in Ghost is so powerful. That’s the kind of unconditional and allconsuming love us ladies dream about. The pottery scene… oh goodness! That may possibly be my favorite love scene in any movie ever.
Ghost makes me a sappy, weepy emotional wreck and that’s why I love it so much. It cuts right to the core of your soul and holds tight. It is the ultimate chick flick, the ultimate tearjerker and the ultimate love story.
