Bond Girl

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Here are some prompts and likes, hope you will find something you enjoy. If you see another story happening, please absolutely follow your muse! I very sincerely want you to have a good time writing!

( In the Mood for Love - Rivers of London - The Talented Mr. Ripley )

I'm done with the movie challenge, woohoo! June was the month when none of the movies turned out be what I thought they would be - mostly, for the best :) I enjoy writing these little reviews, so I might continue with that, but only for the movies that I absolutely adored.



37. A movie based on a play : ( Macbeth (2015) )

38. A movie with great cinematography : ( Alien (1979) )

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42. A heist movie: ( Hell or High Water )

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51. A movie chosen for you by another player : ( What About Bob? )

thank you, Peri ♥♥♥


Movie of the month ♥♥♥:

• Alien (1979) - so much more than the thing in the title!





| 2017 movie challenge|

I haven't had any feelings and thoughts about an SPN finale since S5!

( supernatural s12 finale : all along the watchtower )

7. A cult movie more than 30 years old : ( Stand By Me )

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8. A love story : ( Summertime )

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14. A very long (+2.5hour) movie : ( Kingdom of Heaven )

15. A movie with time travel : ( Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children )

16. A movie with a female lead : ( Bad Moms )

20. A top 250 IMDB movie : ( The Intouchables )

23. A European movie : ( Phoenix )

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28. A comedy : ( Bridget Jones's Baby )

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35. A classic crime mystery : ( Nemesis )

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39. An adrenaline rush movie : ( Deepwater Horizon )

41. A movie about a serial killer or a sociopath : ( Insomnia )

43. A spy movie : ( Jason Bourne )

50. A movie about college or school years : ( Remember the Titans )

Movie of the month ♥♥♥:
• Phoenix, a precise, gorgeous story of survival



Runner-up:
• Stand by Me, a perfect coming-of-age like they could only make them in the 80s




30/52 | 2017 movie challenge

2. A movie based on real events : ( War Dogs )

5. A British movie : ( Salmon Fishing in the Yemen )

6. A modern bestseller adaptation : ( Ender's Game )

9. A movie where the main character learns something new : ( Europa Report )

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10. A movie with animals : ( The Shallows )

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11. A unpopular movie that you liked : ( The Magnificent Seven )

18. A movie about making movies : ( Body Double )

19. A prison break/other escape movie : ( Watership Down )

21. A movie for a modern tech geek : ( Elysium )

22. A war movie : ( Hearts and Minds )

26. A biopic : ( The Revenant )

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32. A horror or a supernatural mystery : ( Wind Chill )

33. A movie directed by an actor starring in it : ( The Candidate )

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36. A movie with a quirky character : ( Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher )

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46. A movie with aliens : ( Starship Troopers )

49. A movie about an artist : ( A Bigger Splash )

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52. A movie to lift your spirits : ( Sunshine Cleaning )

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Movie I quit after 10 min and gave it a star:
• Sully (2016) - Because a) this was directed by Clint Eastwood whose clunky and portentous work I never like, b) I googled that unlike the movie pretends, the government investigation was NOT accusatory in tone. As I'm not feeling kind towards right-wing propaganda these days, I chose to spend my time to read about the actual and not ~alternative~ facts of the Miracle on Hudson.

Movie of the month ♥♥♥:
• The Revenant, holy f.



|17/52 for 2017 movie challenge|
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This sci-fi and fantasy challenge, on the contrary, is absolutely going to happen. The best thing is that this can be a book, a tv show or a movie unless specified otherwise.

[The original idea is from HERE].

( a sci-fi and fantasy challenge 2017 )

This is the second year of the Great Movie-A-Week Challenge by sladkoezhik!

I finished the 2016 challenge: HERE and I really got out of my comfort zone a few times: I watched an Indian and an Asian movie, and even a silent one; I discovered a new favorite director, Douglas Sirk, and two new fave movies, Tess by Polanski and In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai, and a mindblowing Moon landing documentary For All Mankind; and I had fun time writing all too few reviews.

The rules are simple:
• watch a movie that matches one of the 52 challenge items
• post a review; or group a few reviews in one post whenever you feel like it
• your interpretation of the challenge items can be as creative as you like; go wild!

The whole idea is to get out of your comfort zone and to make new discoveries. Join in!

( 52-in-2017 movie challenge )

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So, on the finale of Game of Thrones:

- my favorite house has been entirely wiped out from existence,
- my second favorite house (previously of one) doubled its numbers to the whole two people,
- people were baked into a pie,
- at some point, I began to wonder if anyone's making it to the next season.




This is a great New Yorker article on the parallels between the 2016 US presidential election and this season of Game of Thrones. I didn't agree with everything (because, opinions), but I think it's an interesting read.

This TV critic, Emily Nussbaum, won a Pulitzer this year for "for television reviews written with an affection that never blunts the shrewdness of her analysis or the easy authority of her writing." :)

( making sense is not the same as having meaning )

So, Civil War.

( It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, no. You move. )

I've just read something that I can really, really recommend.

Get in Trouble is a book of short stories by Kelly Link; a finalist in this year's Pulitzer's for fiction.

These are mundane stories in fantastic universes. These stories are full of dark whimsy and of genuine feelings often concealed from others, and they are often sexy. I don't remember reading anything like this since Roald Dahl's stories for grown-ups (Tales of the Unexpected). Talented storytelling, relatable characters - such a strong collection. Don't discount it just because the world of these stories is out of whack.

"These stories make you laugh while staring into the void." (Boston Globe)

Some teaser plots:

- waitress hangs out with her childhood friend who is now a world-famous superhero
- girl is indentured to look after a house full of mischievous creatures and doorways into another world
- in a modern world run on ancient Egyptian customs, two rich disillusioned teenagers go to a burial chamber
- gay couple go to a disastrous island wedding while their surrogate has pregnancy complications back home
- girl falls in love with her BFF's new robot boyfriend
- astronauts tell (really freaky) ghost stories on a spaceship
- woman with two shadows runs a warehouse in the Keys, at the end of times

There are character names rendered in cartouche symbols and ghosts living in robots; superhero conventions and demon lovers helplessly in love; murder art and a vanished nudist colony. I was blown away and I just have to pass this goodness along :)