Monthly Recap: November 2021

I should probably apologize for going AWOL for an entire month — and missing Dell's wonderful Girl Week blogathon — but I know that I'm going to be as inactive in December so there really is no point in that. 

Monthly Recap: October 2021

As you may have noticed, I haven't been very active the past month. I even stopped joining the Thursday Movie Picks series because I'm an all or nothing type of person and since I missed the second Thursday I thought it'd be fitting to stop completely. My goal this year was to join every single week so since I failed, why not fail big? 

Thursday Movie Picks: Halloween Edition: School

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If you are not new to the series, then you already know the month of October is horror-themed. This year we are kicking it off with movies set in schools, and I'm going with the first three movies that came to my mind. 

Monthly Recap: September 2021

I'm thinking of ending things. And by "ending things" I mean stop blogging as I yet again find myself not enjoying writing on it anymore. Even the weekly Thursday Movie Picks series, which I always loved doing, has become somewhat of a burden, a chore I have to do each week and that it's bringing me very little joy.

Thursday Movie Picks: Television Edition: Non-English Language

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It's the last week, and day, of September which means it's time for another TV-themed Thursday Movie Picks. This week we are sharing series in a language that is not English. I'm pretty sure I talked about two of these series last year for the same theme, but I love both so much I will never shut up about them.

Thursday Movie Picks: Femme Fatales

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Welcome to another Thursday Movie Picks post. As usual, I am yet again writing it last minute but this week I've also struggled to come up with three films that fit the theme of femme fatales as I've already used films whose characters would have been the perfect fit. That being said, I still managed to think of three characters/films.

Thursday Movie Picks: Outlaws

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This week with are talking about outlaws, and I seriously considered skipping it as my mind was absolutely blank (also, I'm very tired and I didn't feel like writing at all because, as usual, I couldn't write the post in advance). Then my stupid brain realised that most people in westerns are outlaws so, there you go, theme within a theme. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves

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I wanted to write a decent post for this week's Thursday Movie Picks. I really did. However, a dinner with co-workers, sleeping four hours the following night, and then procrastinating my way through my day off got in the way, and it's Thursday afternoon already and I have to take a nap because I work tonight so, yeah, I won't write much. Here are my top picks for actors playing themselves in movies. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Oscar Winners Edition: Best Original Song and Best Original Score

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New month, new Oscar-themed Thursday Movie Picks. This week we are talking about one of my favourite categories as I always remember a great song or score, even when the film they are featured in isn't particularly memorable. With that being said, today I'm only picking original song winners from movies I love(d), and that I still find myself singing every now and then. 

Monthly Recap: August 2021

I'm having a really hard time believing how fast this year is passing by? Like, how the hell is it September already? How have I already wasted eight months of 2021?

Thursday Movie Picks: Television Edition: Books You Want to be Adapted into a TV Series

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As per usual with the last Thursday of the month, today, instead of movies, we are talking about TV series, and more specifically about TV series that have yet to be made as we are talking about books we'd like to see on the small screen. I picked three books I loved but, as I'm watching Normal People and I am not enjoying it, I'm not sure I really want to see them turned into series after all. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Treasure Hunt

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Treasure hunt movies are kind of cool. Sure, most of them are bad, but they still are kind of cool, and there are some I really enjoyed. That said, the temptation to be lazy and pick the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy was really, really strong this week. But I can't always be lazy so I worked a bit more this time and came up with different films. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Movies That Confused You

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For this week's Thursday Movie Picks, we are talking about films that confused us. And, although I wrote the post 5 minutes before posting it, I'm glad I picked the films in advance as I have so much brain fog lately I could/would have ended up picking Bo Burnham's Inside which I watched last week and was not confusing at all. And probably Kung Fu Panda too since I watched it in German and last language is still quite a mystery to me. Anyways, enough with the rambling, here are the films that confused me the most. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Oscar Winner Edition: Best Costume and Best Makeup and Hairstyling

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I've really enjoyed doing these Oscar-themed Thursday Movie Picks posts these past seven months; now it's time for me to struggle to find films for this week's as I often overlook costume, makeup and hairstyling Oscars, even though they are just as important as the others. With the help of Wikipedia, here are my favourites from each category. 

Monthly Recap: July 2021

I know I am (probably) saying this every month but how on earth did another month just pass? It feels like yesterday when the year began and it's August already. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Television Edition: Book Adaptations

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The Thursday Movie Picks series is once again television-themed as July too has come to an end and this week it features one of my favourite themes, book adaptations. It's quite embarrassing that I keep picking the same series every year though. But what can I do if I absolutely adore these and can't really say the same about other adaptations (either because I haven't read the source material or because I didn't like the series as much).

Thursday Movie Picks: Summer Break

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I feel like I complain a lot lately but I could really use a summer break right now. Unfortunately, the only summer break I'm having this week is those people in the movies I, and all the other bloggers joining this series, picked. And since I am who I am, I'm going with three films starring three crushes of mine. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Non-English Language Movies

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It's foreign-language movies week and I'm so excited for it because it's thanks to this theme over the years that I've learnt about some amazing foreign films, like the beautiful Wadjda. But, while I love it because it has made me discover many hidden gems, I'm going a different route with my picks today as I decided to pick three German films I watched in German without subtitles years ago when all my German vocabulary consisted of ja, auf wiedersehen and kartoffeln. These are three films starring my (decade old) crush Matthias Schweighöfer that I've been meaning to rewatch to understand the dialogue as the plot are very easy to understand even without knowing the language. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Female Athletes

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I feel like I'm saying it a lot lately but I once again struggled to find three films that fit the week's theme for the Thursday Movie Picks series. I guess I just don't want a lot of films about sports. It's not like there are a lot of movies about female athletes anyway though. It's always about this male champion and that male champion. Anyway, here's what I came up with with the help of Google. 

Monthly Recap: June 2021

Hello there! Can you believe that half of 2021 is already behind us? I sure can't. The good news is that the year is at least improving.