Movie Review: The Seven Year Itch

I’m still digging into my DVD pile and I thought, why not this time try a classic, The Seven Year Itch with Marilyn Monroe! The movie is funny, cute and just the perfect movie to chill out. It also won Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy.

It’s the story of New York in the summer of 1955 when the men send their wives to the country to cool off while they work in the heat. Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell ) said good bye to his wife (Evelyn Keyes ) and their son and everything was normal until a girl (Monroe) moved on the apartment on the top floor of his building. Sherman try his best to resist her charms, but can’t help but ask her for a drink and his struggle to not have a summer affair begins.

What I really enjoy in the classic is how the humor is light and cute. Even if it had a sexual context, it still keeps the elegance side of it and in this movie it was funny, smart and entertaining. I also really enjoy the scripts written in that era! This movie was good as well in that department, however because we follow Sherman and his wild wild imagination, there’s a lot of monologue lines, which was a bit boring.

For me, Monroe is never to be missed! She is so much more than just a pretty face. I really love her performances. She’s really good, even though people don’t know that. I’ve seen her in more than movie, and I truly wish she was born in this time. She would be so much more as she is so smart and brilliant. It was only how back then they really didn’t understand depression as we do today.

A good point to classics as well which shows in this movie, is the main male character. They were so different back then! What happened to them? Where are those men? Just a thought.

Anyway, the movie is fun and its funny to watch a married 39 year old man following and trying to get the attention of this gorgeous 22 year old.

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Till again!

Kemz

Movie Review: E.T.

Yup, never saw this one before as well! Still digging into the 80s and finding good movies and this is defiantly a cute and magical classic! It would be even magical if I saw it as a kid, cause it’s perfect for kids and such a family movies, but I still enjoyed it and learned why E.T. became one of the most loved famous aliens. He’s so adorable!

So, if you’re like me and didn’t see it; it’s the story of a kid, Elliott (Henry Thomas) who finds a short and ugly, yet very cute alien that he names  E.T. He takes him in and bond with him till he realizes that E.T. needs to go back home. NASA however wants the alien, so it adds to the plot and makes it a bit adventury in the end.

Like the other 80s movies, I rented the HD version (which I LOVE) and believe me, it’s worth the extra money, because it makes it tolerable and feels ok to watch. And this movie did have some lame special effects (especially when the kids flew in the sky and it looked fake) but it didn’t affect me that much. I just brushed it off. Still you can see the great work of Steven Spielberg. I mean talk about a sci-fi genius in the 80s when they didn’t have much to work with! I mean the movie won 4 Oscars including Best Effects! 

You gotta give it to him, the man with the alien obsession brought us the most exciting aliens movies ever. Though he always tend to make them ugly. That’s disappointing. Aliens could be pretty if you allowed them to be, Steven.

Anyways, even though E.T. is such an ugly little fella, he’s still so freaking cute! So cute, I want one!  And you know who else was cute, Elliott sister, Gertie who was played by the cute tiny Drew Barrymore. She was so good and adorable you can’t but smile when she speaks.

This movie is really super cool and every child should watch it! A great movie option for family movie night!  Though the movie is a bit long, 2 hours, but we’re used to long movies these days, so it’s fine!

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Till again,

Kemz

Movie Review: Airplane!

Ok, so as I continue to watch classic 80s movies, I read in Twitter that this movie is one of the funniest comedies ever, so I had to watch it and it really made me laugh!

The movie is so silly, you have to laugh and I do believe they did that on purpose hahaha. It’s the story an airplane that will be in danger cause everyone who ate the fish dish got food poisoning including the pilot and co-pilot.

It’s so silly, like I said and exaggerate everything and it’s all been done in a funny way! I didn’t cry from laughter, but I was giggling and laughing through the whole movie. It’s so stupid, it’s good!

You have different kind of passengers coming in with different kind of personalities, so there is a lot going on and a lot of room to makes us laugh.

There is a lot of stereotyping in the movie, which I will forgive, cause it was the 80s and Hollywood didn’t know better. However I noticed that there was a scene deleted in the version I watched (rented from iTunes). The scene I remember seeing in a documentary, Real Bad Arabs about a comment how London is full with Arabs. They probably took it off after the documentary, which is to be noted.

I watched the movie as a fun comedy, so I didn’t go too deep into analyzing it that way.

It’s still fun and really cheered me up! So this is also a must watched 80s movie! Before you watch it, do remember that it was in 1980 and you got to be one of those who gets American humor. Sometimes a movie that makes me laugh, won't make my friend laugh and vise verse. 

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Till another movie and another review!

Kemz

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Movie Review: Jurassic Park

So, I’ve been reading about the new Star Wars Episode directed by J.J. Abrams, I realized that I haven’t watched Star Wars yet! I mean, me! The fantasy crazy diva! So, in honor of the new episode, that will be out Dec. 2015, I’m going to write reviews about old classics that I should have watched growing up, but didn’t.

I will start with a movie, I always wanted to watch, but somehow I didn’t have the chance, the Oscar Winning movie, Jurassic Park. I finally rented the HD version from iTunes (this is my new obsession, btw). I was so excited and happy!

The story of the Dinosaur park that has actual alive and cloned Dinosaurs, Jurassic Park. Before the park is opened and in a private preview tour, things go crazy and the Dinosaurs run wild and free attacking everyone.

It’s so awesome!! The Dinosaurs are so amazingly done! It really feels so real! The whole movie feels like it was made five years ago, not 20! The pace is good. It doesn’t make you feel bored and in the end it’s so thrilling with the Dinosaurs trying to eat everyone. I really really enjoyed it and can’t believe I just saw this! I can’t wait to rent the rest of the trilogy.

This is something to be expected from a Steven Spielberg movie! His ideas and style of direction is just timeless!

A good thing too! A new part is gonna be out in 2015, Jurassic World. For more info on it, click here.

Till again!

Kemz

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Movie Review: Carrie

For movie buffs the name Carrie is super familiar. She’s the weird girl with the extremely religious mother and super telekinetic powers, and who spread terror after getting pranked in prom by getting pig’s blood thrown at her by the “cool” kids. Carrie was released in 1976 and it was such a success that it became a classical horror movie. But today I’m not reviewing that, I’m reviewing the remake of Carrie which was released in 2013.

I haven’t watched the old version, once I do, I will sure to review it. So, let me talk about the 2013 version staring, Julianne Moore as the mother and Chloë Grace Moretz as Carrie.  

This movie was so much better than I expected, because it’s always hard to remake a classic, so I was worried, but I really enjoyed the movie! Julianne Moore was brilliant! Her role as the mother is hard, because she was so crazy and obsessive, but Julianne just shined through it. She really showed how abusive the mother was to Carrie and yet cared for her in her own freaky twisted way.

The scene after the pig’s blood spill was just gruesome and brilliant! It was really the climax of an already thrilling movie.  The scenes were shot and edited in a very cool way. It added to the intensity of the story.

The story for me has so many layers in it. It talks about family abuse, extreme religious believes, teen problems, school bullying, guilt and regret. It’s deep, yet thrilling.

The movie isn’t Horror as per say, as the criteria changed from the 70s till now, but it was a really good thriller that I enjoyed. For more info and trailer, click here.

I really hoped to watch The Fault in Our Stars today, but didn’t get the chance L. I hope to see it soon thought! I hear a lot of great things about it. 

Till then!

Kemz

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Movie Review: Say Anything

The scene with John Cusack holding the boombox by his ex-girlfriend's window is the most referenced scene I heard about in so many movies and TV shows so I had to get the movie and watch it! It’s been 25 years since it was released and I’m 25 now so it’s a fun little anniversary screening hehehe.

The movie is simple. It's about a summer love story between Lloyd Dobler (Cusack) and Diane Court (Ione Skye) and the difficulty they faced with Diane’s dad and her future plans.

At the beginning I was a bit bored, but then the story got good and I really enjoyed it. You can tell why it’s a classic. It’s one of those movies that set the tone to the ones that follows. The summer love between two teens who come from different backgrounds and what they do to over come it. And to affect the culture of an industry with one simple scene shows you how sometimes the direct not over the top message is what people are looking for.

It’s such a nice movie to watch curled up on the couch, when you want to relax and watch something cute and uplifting. 

I loved John Cusack in it. I’m a huge fan of his acting. There’s something about him that is different and hooking.

So, I finally understood the boombox reference and I recommend if you don’t know what I mean to watch it as well ;)

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As always, till the next one!

Kemz

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Movie Review: While You Were Sleeping

For me the 90s is the best time for Romance movies! It is the time of Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts and their amazing classic Romantic stories. I grew up watching their movies, so I have a special bond to them and I also believe that the 90s was the prime of movie Romance. Today we rarely see any GOOD romantic movies (other than the romantic comedies with Katherine Heigl). It’s so rare that I don’t even bother going to a romance movie in theaters these days.

So, this movie! I love! I adore! It’s so cute and so so special to me! It’s actually why I started collecting snow globes (when you watch the movie, you’ll understand :p) So, the story is this: Lucy (Sandra), a simple girl works at the ticket collecting booth at the metro station and fantasies everyday about a man (Peter Gallagher) who passes by her booth. One day, as she worked the Christmas holiday, two thieves mug that man and throw him into the railway. Wanting to save his life, Lucy jumps after him and saves him. In the hospital, they take him into the ICU and don’t allow her to enter. As she stare at the door, the nurse hear her says “But I was going to marry him” and that starts one amazing romantic story!

As I said, I love this era. It’s when the simplicity of the plot and setting made the movie richer! The moment the DVD played and I heard the opening soundtrack and the not so clear cinematography, I felt like home! This movie has a special air and its so freaking romantic!

Sandra was brilliant in it! She really played Lucy’s shy cute personality. The way she delivers the character’s emotions is so beautiful. As we see her now winning Oscars and making us laugh in blockbuster Comedies, it’s nice to see how brilliant and genuine she was back then and how much she grew ever since.

This is such an enchanting story! It is a complete classic. I need to watch more of those movies! 90s was when love was pure and just simply cute!

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Till Saturday!

Kemz

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Movie Review: Rear Window (1954)

So, when the awesome Waad The Magazine offered to feature a review from KemzMovies in its instagram account (@Waad_TheMagazine) I thought that I needed a movie that is awesome of course and has some of the iconic fashion in Hollywood history. I was so happy to see that one of these movies is Rear Window; a suspense thriller by none other than the brilliant Alfred Hitchcock and stared by James Stewart and Queen of Monaco, Grace Kelly.  

The movie is the thrilling story of photojournalist L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies (James Stewart) when he was forced to stay at home for 7 weeks due to a broken leg. As he contemplates on whether to marry his socialist girl friend Lisa (Grace Kelly), Jeff spends his days looking at his neighbors through his window.  Their daily routine was just the entertainment he needed in his boring days, until one day he suspects a neighbor of killing his wife.

I saw this movie maybe a year or so ago and I couldn’t forget it! I loved it so much! Hitchcock movies for me are timeless. I knew that when I watched my first Hitchcock movie, Notorious.

This movie however is not in Black & White and has a more fun element to it. The story in itself is very interesting (based on short story by Cornell Woolrich). How we do sometimes look at windows and wonder who live there and what their stories. It was clear how through Jeff’s window we saw many variety of characters and stereotypes, like, the lonely woman, the young dancer adored by all, the newly weds and the old couple who fights everyday and through that window as well, we, the viewers, look inside Jeff and Lisa’s relationship. The whole story is revolved around that one Rear Window!

It’s quite remarkable how this now resembles how people peep into other people’s lives, not through binoculars, but through social media. One click and a window is opened to us to peak into someone else’s life. We should be careful to not end up obsessing like Jeff!

On another note, Grace Kelly is seriously amazing! She’s so graceful, elegant and smart. She portrayed a very powerful woman in this movie and played her really well. I loved how her character Lisa wasn’t just this stereotype of a woman who just loves fashion, no, she was a strong and accomplished woman who didn’t fear to face the danger threatening her. To comment on the fashion side of it, every time the apartment doors open, Grace Kelly enters wearing a beautiful elegant gown, a summer dress or a chic suit! The four iconic looks created in the movie is such a beautiful tribute to 1950s fashion! As timeless as the movie itself!

I’m looking forward to the movie about her life, Grace of Monaco, priemering at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival. Even though Nicole Kidman is playing Grace and lately she hasn’t been good in any of her movies! Ah, let’s wait and see!

I really enjoyed the movie even though this is the second time I watch it, but you know what? It’s fun and exciting and it’s just a nice true thriller that doesn’t have all that elaborated soundtracks and fake blood and weird stuff going on.

You know, you can never go wrong with a Classic!

Till Saturday! (I’m thinking, Argo?!)

Kemz

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