Somewhere (2010) "The Short of It" Review - Veda Rains

I remember reading a lot of positive reviews about this film when it first came out, so when I happened upon it on a Saturday night with little to do, I excitedly settled in for the night to watch it. Starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, this film follows actor Johnny Marco, a hard-living party guy who's recuperating from a hurt arm at the Chateau Marmont. When his daughter is dropped off with little notice, he starts to question his current life situation.
Overall, this is a lovely film due to the fantastic father-daughter dynamic between Dorff and Fanning. I only wish Marco's daughter could have come into the picture sooner, as the beginning drags. Did we really need to see the "pole dancing girls" perform their entire routine? Or a single minute of it-more than once? Anyway...Despite the long opening and those dancing girls, it truly helps shape Dorff's character and made the setting and his life that much more realistic. It was almost as if the viewer is peaking in on Marco and his private life.
One of the most interesting scenes for me, was when Marco goes in to get a cast of his face for a new film he's working on. When everyone leaves him to sit while the cast dries, it truly evokes a sense of symbolism of how lonely Marco is and how much he needs to find purpose in his life-as the film goes on and Marco opens his eyes to his daughter for perhaps the first time in his life, he sees that maybe his purpose was in front of him all along.
This film is touching, honest and real. I would definitely recommend others to check it out!

Award Season is in Full Swing!-Veda Rains

The Golden Globes air tomorrow night and the nominations for the Academy Awards will be announced this coming week! So far, The Artist appears to be the front runner for Best Picture... We'll be watching to see how the night goes.
It's unfortunate that so many of the films that have been getting award recognition or look truly interesting don't get to be shown to the masses like films nominated 30 years ago. Still, we're looking forward to catching some of these films. Another great thing about the award season, is that it sometimes piques the viewers' interest and the ticket sales for films nominated/awarded goes up, causing the films to be released to more theaters. I'm hoping this happens for such films as The Artist! For people in the Columbia, MO area, it looks like it will be coming to Ragtag soon! A few other award hopefuls are playing there now, so check it out!

Once Upon A Time

I have become completely sucked in to the ABC show, Once Upon A Time. It is the most magnificent and imaginative show on ABC since the dearly missed Pushing Daisies. The premise is this: tough bounty hunter Emma Swan gets a visit from the son she gave up years ago. He claims that the town that he came from, Storybrooke, Maine, is in fact a long last magical kingdom. He says that his adoptive mother, Regina Mills, is an evil queen who put a curse on all of the residents of this magical land to make them forget who they really are. Emma is skeptical at first, but when she takes Henry, her son, home, weird things start happening. It's a new and different twist on the old fairy tales that we have all come to know so well.

Every person in Storybrooke has a fairytale counterpart. Some of them you'll discover right off, and others are harder to determine. This is a show that was very promising from the beginning, but it just keeps getting better and better as it goes on.

The cast is stellar and every character(even the evil ones) is compelling and multi-layered. I look forward to seeing what else this show has in store for the viewers.