86th Annual Academy Awards 2014

In case you didn't know, the Academy Awards were last night and while i was tempted to watch them since i've seen many of the nominated movies this year, i went to sleep and did my catching up in the morning. Usually, i'm making a post about the red carpet and its best looks only, but is it me or this year the red carpet fashion has been really boring? So i feel like discussing the whole thing, who won, who lost, who was best dressed and who should have been nominated, let's begin!

This had to be one of the most predictable Academy Awards. '12 Years a Slave' won the Best Movie Award, Cuarón won Best Director for 'Gravity', McConaughey Best Actor for 'Dallas Buyers Club', just like Jared Leto as Best Supporting Actor and 'Her' got the super deserved award for Best Original Screenplay. Those were all a given. I was happy for 'Her' and for both DBC actors, i watched the movie yesterday and both did great. Still, it is painful for Leonardo DiCaprio, sure his role on 'The Wolf of Wall Street' wasn't his best one but give an Oscar to this man already, we all know he deserves it.

Anyway, i was afraid that Cate Blanchett wouldn't win the Oscar for Best Actress in 'Blue Jasmine' because of the Woody Allen controversy. She really owned the movie and did an excellent, flawless performance, so nothing should have come in the way of that. So i'm really happy for that as well, just like for Lupita Nyong'o win for '12 Years a Slave' instead of Jennifer Lawrence. Don't get me wrong, JenLaw did a really great and hilarious performance in 'American Hustle' (the only good thing about the movie tbh), but there's no way she would win another Oscar. She deserved it for 'Winter's Bone' but not for 'Silver Linings Playbook', and sure Lupita was way better than her in the Steve McQueen movie.

And none for 'American Hustle', lol.

Still, i'm mad that 'La Vie d'Adèle' ('Blue is the Warmest Colour') wasn't nominated for Best Foreign Movie – though i'm happy that 'La Grande Bellezza' ('The Great Beauty') won instead of 'The Hunt', but still, i liked the French movie better than the others nominated. And 'Short Term 12' should had at least been nominated for Screenplay or even recognised some of the magnificent performances of the movie. Forever underrated. And also, we all know that Joaquin Phoenix should had been nominated for his emotional performance in 'Her', as well as Spike Jonze as a director or even Amy Adams (who was better in this movie than in 'American Hustle'). And let's be honest, Scarlett Johansson's voice in the film deserved a nomination, she was better with her voice than some other performances that were nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category.

And finally, the ladies! If there's someone who owned the red carpet this year, that was Lupita in a flawless Prada dress. She really stole the show and looked absolutely beautiful and mesmerizing:

My second favourite was Kate Hudson in this stunning Atelier Versace gown that looked amazing on her. This was nearly my favourite dress of the night and she looked flawless:

Karen O was also fantastic in this elegant Camilla Staerk looking really classy and pretty:

 Emma Watson looked really classy in this Vera Wang dress, always looking on point but her look at the Golden Globes remains one of my favourites:

Cate Blanchett also looked like a winner wearing Armani Privé, she looked nice but didn't wow though the dress was really pretty:

And Naomi Watts (a personal favourite) looked fresh and beautiful in Calvin Klein, i would have posted a red carpet photo but it looks way better in this really great Vanity Fair portrait so i'm posting this one and a few others that i loved:

sources: TFS, vogue, twitter & vanityfair

Tarantino western

The trailer for 'Django Unchained', Quentin Tarantino's newest movie is out and it looks... ok? i don't think noone can expect for sure if his movies are going to be a total nosense or brilliant stuff, at first the idea of 'Kill Bill' sounded so awful but look at what a double masterpiece he made. But that's not always the case, and i'm talking about 'Inglorious Basterds', you can say all you want but that movie is not as good as his other ones (and yes, i'm counting 'Jackie Brown' among them).

Anyway, this new spaguetti western includes an interesting cast with Quentin's latest muse, Christoph Waltz, along his obligatory "muse" Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio being his arrogant self (but surely brilliant), Don Johnson, Joan Hill, Zoe Bell (yesss) and Jamie Foxx who i guess we'll see the best of him being under such a great actor's director hands. Spaniards will have to suck it and wait until January next year but here's the trailer:

Also, can this happen already? i know it's a fake poster but the idea of this project has been discussed by the director for a while and the Bride still has unfinished business...

source: youtube & gervaisebrook

Fuck yeah The Avengers

(No spoilers)

So I've been waiting to watch this movie ever since it was announced production and even though it had really good reviews, i didn't want to have too many expectations in case it sucked but.... it was AMAZING. Not so many times you find yourself in a theater watching a movie and enjoying it like a kid, laughing, clapping at the end, seriously, it was great. It had humour, intrigue, looots of action and a really charismatic cast that couldn't be more perfect:

Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk steals the show, the mix of his good natured human side versus the motherfuckin' Hulk it's really great and perhaps he wasn't anyone's favourite, as Edward Norton was the first Hulk, but Ruffalo does really great.

Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man is as flawless as always, gotta love this man's wit, nothing new here.

The Asgardian brothers, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston), i already adored them because i loved 'Thor' (so much better than 'Captain America'), two charming men and Hiddleston as Loki only reminds me of how only nice people can play very bad villains.

Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow was amazing, her role was poorly written in 'Iron Man 2' but here she's given a really decent part, her acting is awesome and accurate and there are hints of a Black Widow spin-off movie that after watching this i'm totally up for.

Chris Evans as Captain America was fine, i didn't like much his solo movie but well, here he was really great but nothing impressive to me.

Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye is, maybe, the one i think that doesn't shine as the others because of less screentime, but still is an interesting character and i loved his scenes with Black Widow.

And what's left to say about Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg (<3), Stellan Skarsgard and Cobie Smulders? What i really liked, and with the exception of Hawkeye, is that all the superheroes got a really decent amount of screentime, all characters and their stories were nicely developed and that can only be a win. So if you have watched all the other Marvel movies, or at least 'Thor', you should go watch and enjoy this. Thank you Joss Whedon for making the best superhero movie one could make.

And also, my god, how perfect is this cast at the movie's premieres? They key name of the project wasn't "Group Hug" because of nothing.

sources: callmehollywood, prettyprettyday, akatrinkat, placethatdoesntknowmyname, v322321, whenyouwereherebefore, greatbriton & gin87rdj