I am a big fan of animated fairy tales but for some reason I had never seen this movie. My friends and I sometimes have a “Disney night” and even though Anastasia isn’t Disney they decided to stop my ignorance and we watched it!

I liked it a lot. It definetly had a Disney feeling like many of the “other” movies done around that time. The animation was pretty, the songs were good and I liked the characters. I thought the love story was a bit weird though, they had trouble making the hate-than-love thing believable.

The thing I loved the most was the little dog character :D I was awwwing everytime he was onscreen. Heh.

What I liked best about this one was the ending. I was 100% fooled; I like it when they make it seem like the “good ones” are losing and then they were just planning it all along but we just didn’t see it. It’s a storytelling technique that I always fall for! And it make re-reading much more interesting.

I was SO excited about this coming out on DVD. I saw it in the theaters (in French) back in November and just couldn’t wait to see it again, especially in the original English version. I wasn’t disappointed and watched it three or four times since I got it.

The picture & sound are great. The bonus features were okay, for a single-disc DVD. I would have taken more making-of because it was all quite interesting. I guess I should get a Blu-ray player because the pop-up Disney facts seemed great, with many references to classics explained. But oh well! What does matter most is still the movie after all.

I never have much to say about “comic” books, I don’t know why. I guess it’s because they’re kind of short and I don’t want to spoil anything. Anyway.

My boyfriend bought this album for his birthday and he was kind enough to lend it to me. Like most Largo Winch it’s meant to be read in a pair. For once, I understood everything in these! Usually the plots revolve around the money and I don’t get a thing, but drugs I understand. It was a well-woven story, with many storylines coming together nicely and lots of unexpected turns. I liked it.

I really like this movie – it’s my favorite amongst the Harry Potter movies, especially because it’s so true to the book (without being too long and dark like the book really is. It’s like best of both worlds!). So I really enjoyed watching it again on DVD - I gave it to my father for Christmas and all the family watched it; we had a lovely time. It’s a memory I treasure because it’s one of the last movies I watched with my father.

Weirdly I didn’t like any of the bonus features, and I’m usually a sucker for those. They weren’t really interesting – maybe because I already knew a lot about Harry Potter and about the movie, who knows. I started to watched them and then got bored. Weird!

The main problem with Angel is that most of what I like comes from Buffy and there isn’t much “original” stuff, at least in the first two seasons. Doyle was original but he didn’t hang around long and was replaced by Wesley, making the whole cast all well-known Buffy characters.

The best episodes of this season also follow that logic – I most prefered the crossovers, like Five by Five and especially the heart-wrenching I Will Remember You. Don’t get me wrong, there aren’t any “really bad” episodes, it’s just that most of them are a bit forgettable, with a demon of the week and no overall arc. I did however like the Kate character and the idea of lawyers as the evil ones is interesting.

The DVDs are a bit lacking, I felt there were less bonus materials than on the Buffy sets. Still a few interesting commentaries & featurettes that complements the season well.

Weird season. Generally not very good, but with some amazing episodes in it (mostly when they have nothing to do with the “main plot”). Losing Angel and especially replacing him with Riley was hard, luckily Spike was there to maintain the goodness. Oz’s departure was also a very sad moment, though I did like Tara. I remember generally crying a lot at the beginnig of the season!

The whole Initiative plot really sucked and Adam was the worst villain ever. (Wow, that’s pretty harsh. But it’s the truth!) I did like the college setting though, and the Buffy&Willow living together (but I missed Joyce!). The whole season felt like filler for the nicer episodes (Wild at Heart, Something Blue, Hush, This Year’s Girl/Who Are You, Superstar and Restless). So actually it’s not the season that’s so bad, just the episode who focus on the main story arc.

I don’t remember the bonuses being particularly interesting, though it was nice to have Seth Green on one commentary and I also really liked Doug Petrie’s one on The Initiative (against all odds!). The featurettes on Spike and the music were also interesting.

This movie might actually be my favorite of the Pirates serie (yes, more than the first). The first was fresh and new and I’ll always love it but this one has a great epic quality that really moves me (I find myself crying while watching it!). It just felt so beautiful (maybe because creepy creatures have a bit less screen time than in the other two parts?!) – the images, the music, the maelström, and the love, the love! It’s really a must-see and I enjoyed seeing it multiple times.

The 2-disc DVD is also great. The bloopers are actually funny (which doesn’t happen that often) and all the little documentary pieces are really interesting – my favorite being the one on the music, because said music is really awesome. The props-making ones were great too (loved the design of the map!). If you liked the movie, I strongly recommend that you buy the 2-disc DVD because it’s really worth it!

I loved The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, so when a friend offered to lend this book to me, I jumped on the occasion. I started it even if I wasn’t finished with the other book I had started because I felt like reading something light and summery. In the middle of all my school stuff, it was a welcome respise.

It’s not the greatest book of all but I loved it. I really got into it and I identified very much with Alice, like I would have done as a kid. I hope this will not make me sound like a pervert, but the sex scenes really stood out to me, they were very beautifully written, romantic and sexy at the same time.

So, not great literature, but a good beach book!

Yes, it is extremely saccharine pop. Yes, I am ashamed of these songs on my last.fm. But! It’s like a whole summer of my youth. I once spent a whole month in a summer camp and it was really awesome fun, and this was like the only album our cabin had that I liked. I put it on all the time. Listening to those songs really brings me back there. The weird thing is, I’ve never watched Dawson’s Creek! But I decided to buy the soundtrack anyway, because it’s part of the soundtrack of my life ;) (Now I’m becoming saccharine too!)

The songs are all pretty much the same pop-ish thing but I really really like Shimmer by Shawn Mullins (who is this guy?!) and really really hate the Jessica Simpson one.