The DUFF (2015)

I'm a masochist. That's the only explanation I can come up with to justify me watching teen romcoms. Most of these movies are pretty shallow, clichéed and predictable, and The DUFF falls exactly into that category. However, this one wasn't that bad. It was kinda fun, to be honest. 

After finding out she is the DUFF which stands for designated ugly fat friend, Bianca (Mae Whitman) cuts all ties with Jess (Skyler Samuels) and Casey (Bianca Santos), her prettier and more popular friends and asks Wesley (Robbie Amell) help to reinvent herself and finally find the gut to ask her crush (Nick Eversman) out.

Thursday Movie Picks: A Stranger

Welcome to another Thursday Movie Picks, the weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves. This week we have to pick movies with strangers and I guess it's because it has been Halloween themed for the past month, but at first I could only think of horror/thriller movies. I was able to do something different with my third pick though.

Children of Heaven (1997)

Almost a year ago (I thought it happened in 2017, to be honest), Children of Heaven (بچه‌های آسمان‎‎ Bačče-hâ-ye âsemân) popped out in a Thursday Movie Picks post, and it sounded interesting so, shame on me for taking this long, I decided to watch it, and what can I say, thank to whoever recommended it (I think it was Brittani).

Ali (Amir Farrokh Hashemian) accidentally loses the only pair of shoes of his sister Zahra (Bahare Seddiqi) and tries to make up for it by sharing his sneakers with her while still trying to find the lost shoes.

American Splendor (2003)

What the hell am I watching? Those are the words I actually said out loud as I started watching American Splendor. I didn't know absolutely anything about it and I just wasn't sure whether I was watching a documentary or a mockumentary or something else. Well, it was something else because that's what this film is, something else. A mix of fiction and reality that results into a quite brilliant biographical dramedy and one of the most inventive biographies I've seen. 

It's about Harvey Pekar, an underground comic books writer that turned his mundane, monotonous life into a humorous and successful comic books series, American Splendor.