Two New Addictions: Moonlight and Smallville

I love this show so much!  I'm four episodes in and thouroughly invested!  Unfortunately Netflix doesn't have it streaming instantly so I have to order a disk at a time and it's killing me!  It's fresh and fun and, well, let's just say I might have a little crush on Superman now.

This little gem of a show is really fantastic and it's such a shame that it was cancelled after one season.  It followes Mick St. John a vampire who is also a P.I. and Beth Turner a reporter who befriends him.  This show has my eyes glued to the screen whenever I watch.  And I watch on YouTube.  Really a great show, and fans of anything like Supernatural or Grimm would really like this one.



Music: The Band Perry

Movie Review: Oz The Great and the Powerful

Oz was a playah!  Really, he was.  Past that, though, this movie is really directed at little kiddies but can be fun for someone older to watch if they don't judge it through a harsh lense.  Of course there is no way it could live up to the original Wizard of Oz but it's pretty decent.

Besides Oz (James Franco), who I was completely sold on, by the way, the characters don't have much in the way of story arcs.  Sure, Theodora (Mila Kunis) does have one as the movie starts getting moving, but it's fast and if you don't look closely, it seems very shallow.  Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams) had a backstory that was tied together but rather undetailed and bland.  However, seeing as there were so many characters it is completely understandable.

The witches were great in their roles, and Franco was the perfect choice for Oz.  The two other major characters- Finley (Zach Braff) the flying monkey, the China Girl (Joey King) were also nice additions.

The movie ended well, and I really enjoyed how they wrapped it all together.  In the end I give it 3-stars.  It has inspired me to read the books by L. Frank Baum, something I'll probably do over the summer.

Movie Review: Jack the Giant Slayer

The previews make this seem like a childish flick where all the "those are the good jokes" are given away in the commercials and no one in their right minds should see it because, OK, it looks like crap.  That was my first reaction.

And then reviews started piling in.  People were actually really enjoying it.  So I decided, why not?  The whole world can't be wrong.

And they weren't.  Jack was pleasantly surprising.  The acting was actually very good, even the giants came across as having certain feelings towards one thing or another, and the story was fully fleshed out and enjoyable.  There was a point where I was so attached to the character's I was like, If So and So dies I will Die!  I am happy to report that so and so did not die :) but giving who it is away would be a big spoiler.

Another thing I wasn't expecting was how much darker it was then the previews made it seem.  They never explicitly show any gore, but they show everything up to that point.  One of the characters is eaten and you see the giant about to close his mouth around the upper torsoe and they pan away.  A minute or so later they pan back, and that giant is definitly munching on something.  Scenes like that are scattered about, so the movie does have mature overtones.

In the end, I give the move four out of five stars, and definitly two thumbs up.  The way the film ends is very cute, as well, and really makes you smile.

So, if you're like me and thought it looked ridiculous, you're wrong.  It was a really nice treat.

Book Review: Beautiful Chaos

This is the third book in the Castor Chronicles written by Kami Garcia and Maragert Stohl.  I' m going to try my best not to give anything away, but you may want to shield your eyes anyway, if you haven't read it yet. 

It was a very satisfying read, though not as good as Creatures or Darkness.  Chaos focused mostly on Ethan and I felt all the other characters kind of took on less important roles.  Keeping with the recipe of the books, the flashbacks showed us Sarafine's early days with Lena, which were really good.  I feel like there could be a whole book about Sarafine after reading the flashbacks.

 

Character wise we got to learn more about John and I thouroughly enjoyed it.  He was really cool and like the turn his story is taking.  Liv seemed to take a step backwards and two steps forward, which I found frustrating, but am in the end, happy with.  We still don't see much of Ethan's dad, but you'll be surprised with how Mrs. English plays into everything.

 

The ending was anti-climatic, but still breath-taking and I picked up book four right away.

 

In the end, I give it five stars.

March TBR

So, last month I failed to read all the books I planned on because I was busy reading a book for school that has taken up all my attention.  It's a very good book, and I'll probably make a mention of it on the blog at some point because it's breaking my heart a little bit.

Anyway, this month I hope to read five books.

First I'm going to finish up Beautiful Chaos, then take a break from the Castor Chronicles and read Across the Universe by Beth Revis.  I'm really excited to read Across the Universe since I've heard so many good things.  Then I'll finish up Castor Chronicles with Beautiful Redemption and then Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor, which is the sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone, which I read in January.  Then  I'll finish the month off with The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, a book I'm dying to read.

So, hopefully the publishing schedule will look something like this:
7th-9th Review of Beautiful Chaos
13th-15th Review of Across the Universe
20th-22nd Review of Beautiful Redemption
25thish Review of Days of Blood and Starlight
31stish Review of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Comment and tell me what you guys plan on reading and what you think I should read for next month!

Music: Bombshell (Smash Music)