One and a half years ago we saw Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the 74th annual Hunger Games, pissing the President off in the way. Katniss’ action at the end of the game saved both her and her lovesick friend Peeta’s lives, but with what cost? Now both of them are living rather peacefully… Read More The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
MOVIECUBE — OCTOBER 2013 — ADAPTATION Charles Howard is working in a quiet bicycle shop when he is asked to repair a man’s car—at that time a brand new technology. Not only is he able to repair it, but he also ends up improving it, and being good with machines as well as words, Howard… Read More Seabiscuit (2003)
MOVIECUBE — OCTOBER 2013 — ORIGINAL Small town attorney Mike Flaherty is having a hard time keeping his business afloat. Sharing an office with an equally worn-down accountant Vig, they curse at how much it will cost if they want to have their old, about-to-blow-up-anytime boiler fixed. However, both Mike and Vig have something they… Read More Win Win (2011)
MOVIECUBE — SEPTEMBER 2013 — DOCUMENTARY Bill Cunningham exits his crammed apartment, located on the upper floors of Carnegie Hall, locks the door, and retrieves his beloved bicycle—his 28th, with the previous 27 having been stolen—from a small store room just beside the elevators. He then goes out to the streets of Manhattan and does… Read More Bill Cunningham New York (2010)
MOVIECUBE — SEPTEMBER 2013 — ADAPTATION Andrea Sachs, or Andy, has just graduated from Northwestern University. Aspiring to be a journalist, she came to New York hoping to find a job in publication. Yet unfortunately, the only job interview she managed to score is one for the position of a second assistant to the editor-in-chief… Read More The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
MOVIECUBE — SEPTEMBER 2013 — ORIGINAL Royal Tenenbaum has not been a loyal husband, and his wife Etheline is kicking him out of the house. The care of their three children—Chas, Margot and Richie—falls into the hands of Etheline and she puts their education as her highest priority. All three turn out to be exceptional… Read More The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
“I know they love me. Even though they don’t know me, I know they love me,” says a teenage girl, one of millions that worship the pop boy band One Direction. For these girls, Zayn, Harry, Liam, Niall and Louis might as well be gods. “They say what we want to hear and what no… Read More One Direction: This Is Us (2013)
MOVIECUBE – AUGUST 2013 – REMAKE/FRANCHISE/DOCUMENTARY Lately it’s been getting more and more difficult to see releases of original movies and instead, we are always bombarded with sequels every year. Well actually not just sequels, but third, fourth, fifth or even sixth installments. Frankly, they are tiring—a complete torture. Watching the third Transformers or the… Read More Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
MOVIE OF THE MONTH – AUGUST 2013 Out of Jupiter’s 67 moons, four of them are much larger than the others, and the smallest of those four is Europa, named after a lover of Zeus—the Greek version of Jupiter. Europa has long been on the radar as one of the most likely places for extraterrestrial… Read More Europa Report (2013)
From the 1950s to 1970s, Liberace was the world’s highest paid entertainer, even higher than, they said, Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra. His legacy, though, doesn’t live on as strongly as those two names but ask your parents about him, and they most probably remember the numerous rings adorning his fingers as they danced on… Read More Behind the Candelabra (2013)
She speaks movies. 