Emma Watson Speech at UN about Feminism

On Saturday, Sept. 20, U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson gave a stunning speech about women’s rights.* Stunning. In it, she talked about the inequality women face every day, everywhere in the world. She related her own personal experience (being sexualized at a young age, having male friends who couldn’t express their feelings for worry of being seen as unmasculine, and more) as well as giving the broader context of gender bias.

Check out a transcript of Watson's speech below.

2015 Oscar Prediction - Best Director

After I made my random and "Sok Tau" Prediction about the best picture for next year Oscar Contender I'm going to make best Director release. because best picture won't happen with the director right? Here are my predictions for the Best Director prize at next year's Oscars, which could see previous nominees Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Mike Leigh, Rob Marshall, Bennett Miller, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Christopher Nolan factor into a race full of potential newbies. JC Chandor, Tim Burton, Richard Linklater (who looks like safest call at this point), James Marsh, Angelina Jolie, Wes Anderson have got Oscar love in other categories, but never here. All kind of shocking in a few cases, for sure...

But that all aside, who's in the lead? It's hard to tell given we haven't seen so many films, though even at this point it's hard to imagine Linklater and Iñárritu not factoring into this race, and all eyes are definitely on Jolie to become the first female nominee since Kathryn Bigelow won five years ago.

The Safe Bet
1. Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
2. Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"

Hasn't released yet but they look strong
3. David Fincher, "Gone Girl"
4. Angelina Jolie, "Unbroken"
5. David Ayer, "Fury"
6. Christopher Nolan, "Interstellar"
7. Paul Thomas Anderson, "Inherent Vice"

Next on my list
8. Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
9. Mike Leigh, "Mr. Turner"
10. Bennett Miller, "Foxcatcher"
11. James Marsh, "Theory of Everything"
12. Morten Tyldum, "The Imitation Game"

Sounds good
13. Ana DuVernay, "Selma"
14. JC Chandor, "A Most Violent Year"
15. Tim Burton, "Big Eyes"
16. Clint Eastwood, "American Sniper"
17. Rob Marshall, "Into The Woods"

Dark Horses
18. Damien Chazelle, "Whiplash"
19. Jean-Marc Vallée, "Wild"
20. Jon Stewart, "Rosewater"

BFI London Film Festival Jury

Veteran producer Jeremy Thomas has been named head of the official competition jury for the upcoming BFI London Film Festival.

In an announcement made Tuesday, the appointment of the prolific producer behind titles such as The Last Emperor, Crash, Naked Lunch and Only Lovers Left Alive — and a former BFI chair — was revealed alongside Luc Roeg, Sophie Fiennes and Finola Dwyer, who are set to preside over the first feature, documentary and best British newcomer competition juries, respectively.

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On the official competition jury, Thomas will be joined by rising Egyptian director and last year’s best film award nominee Ahmad Abdalla (who also has his film Decor in the program), Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins, producer Lorna Tee, X-Men star James McAvoy and Variety chief film critic Scott Foundas.

The festival also announced that The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby would be joining its lineup of screenings. The U.K. premiere of the McAvoy and Jessica Chastain-starring drama is set to take place on Oct. 17 at the Odeon West End in London's Leicester Square, with McAvoy and director Ned Benson set to attend.

Last year, Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida — Poland's foreign-language entry for the 2015 Academy Awards — picked up the BFI London Film Festival's Best Film gong. Previous winners include Rust & Bone, We Need to Talk About Kevin and A Prophet.

Only Lovers Left Alive review (2013)

My favorites were int his movie. Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowsa, Anton Yelchin. So why not? the movie sounds creepy at first. with those creepy stars it makes it more and more interesting. Only Lovers Left Alive is kind of an anti-vampire movie. It embraces aspects of the vampire genre like how vampires can't go out in sunlight, have super fast reflexes, and live forever. However, it moves away from some of the silly aspects. Jim Jarmusch does a good job of setting up how a vampire could survive in the world. He takes his time and shows us instead of tells us

As a matter of fact, rarely does one find a film with such romantic awareness about the world coming to an end. It is as if the film knew it was the last love film on Earth. The narrative is definitely lacking in certain areas and when you consider Only Lovers Left Alive is a movie about vampires, we expect more than we end up with, in respect to bloodsucker behaviour, but what saves this film more than a little are the brilliant performances by our main two, Adam and Eve, Anton Yelchin's Ian, and the short but destructive appearance from Eve's sister Ava (Mia Wasikowska).

Tracks (review) (2013)

I watched this movie few months ago. I like it, and I feel in love with Mia W in this movie. She is a great actress but I really like her from this movie.

Tracks is the true story of Robyn Davidson, a 27 year old woman from Brisbane who in 1977 decided to embark on a 1,677 mile trek from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean, crossing the Australian outback. She did it mainly alone, aside from four camels and a faithful dog. She was helped a little by a photographer who organised financial backing for her trip from National Geographic magazine and with whom she had brief romantic involvement on her trip, while she was also assisted on the way by some Aboriginals who guided her though sacred lands of theirs. The trip in total took nine months.

The Maze Runner Rewiew (2014)

I know it's been a very long time since I posted anything or even anything about movie review. And last week i watched this movie. Finally, you don;t know how excited I am for this movie. I was afraid this movie will be another flop with the post apocalypse theme and all. but thank;s God they do good at box office and critics.

The appeal of the The Maze Runner for its billion dollar genre is how straightforward everything it seems. It (thankfully) doesn't begin with a voice-over narration, because indeed it's another high concept that designs a world as a mind-bending game. The film already faults for spilling too much rules and details, but when things starts actually moving, the action becomes marvelous, with large scaled, suspense driven set pieces that easily makes it worth the price admission. The worst of it however is when it finally unfolds all of the hidden secrets, compromising much of the potential of this ride. Still, it's pretty hard to deny the excitement of the experience alone. Treating it as another solid action film might be enough for a while.

TIFF Winners 2014

Yesterday the winners were announced. So far it looks  pretty good with the Imitation Games winning the Toronto People Choice award. TIFF is where audiences can see the best of last January’s Sundance film festival: imports include Infinitely Polar Bear with Mark Ruffalo; Whiplash, which won the U.S grand jury prize and audience award; and Lynn Shelton’s Laggies. This is also the first chance for many to catch Cannes film festival prize-winners Winter Sleep (Palme d’Or), Foxcatcher (best director for Bennett Miller), Leviathan (best screenplay), Maps to the Stars (by David Cronenberg; best actress for Julianne Moore), Mr. Turner (best actor for Timothy Spall) and the two films that tied for the jury prize, Mommy by Montreal’s Xavier Dolan and Goodbye to Language by Jean-Luc Godard.

The Imitation Game is the winner. A biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch as an ingenious British codebreaker and computer-science pioneer Alan Turing has won the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. Director Morten Tyldum’s “The Imitation Game” claimed the coveted Grolsch People’s Choice Award at a Sunday morning brunch, held annually to mark the end of the 11-day movie marathon. The film, which also stars Oscar nominee Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode, beat out first runner-up “Learning to Drive” — a dramedy about the unlikely friendship between Patricia Clarkson’s newly separated book editor and her driving instructor, played by Ben Kingsley — and second runner-up “St. Vincent,” which stars Bill Murray as the cantankerous caretaker of a young boy. The crowd-pleasing “The Imitation Game,” however, simply proved too compelling in a tough-to-predict year in which there was no clear front-runner for the festival’s top award.

This is the full list winner.