Date Night Double

Last night Adam and I were bored of staying in the house all the time. We just wanted to get out and spoil ourselves a little. Live the high life and forget all of our worries and troubles and just enjoy an evening together so we decided to go to the Cinema. But because the film wasn't going to be on until quite late (about 9ish) we decided we should go for dinner together first and because the Cinema we were going to is surrounded by restaurants - for obvious reasons - we went to dinner at Fayre and Square. 

I love the meals there because they are really scrummy. We decided for a starter to get this nacho and wedge sharer; it was amazing. The nachos were really salt and peppery BUT it worked well with the sour cream and salsa which I lurve. Then I had scampi, because it was definitely cooked with these really nicely fried chips - they tasted divine. I even had mushy peas! What type of cool restaurant asks if you want a 'fish' meal with peas, mushy peas or beans - Fayre and Square that is who! I can't even remember what Adam had because I was so engrossed in my delicious scampi. I don't have it often especially whilst being pregnant BUT it does the trick. Hits the nail on the spot. 

Then we went to see 'Side Effects' which was a really good film. Catherine Zeta Jones popped up again. She's been in about 3/4 films that I've seen recently. Maybe she was taking a break out and then decided to go on the books again so her agent has had her whipped up at every chance anyone can get. I won't explain the film because I'll explain it tomorrow with the other film we decided to watch today. The woman who is in the film called 'Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' looks SO different in this film I hardly recognised her and Channing Tatum was in it too. He seems to have really stepped up his mark from the sweet romcom films I first saw him in, like Step Up and Dear John. In this film he seems like 'a real man' and I mean that in the greatest sense of the word. My husband has always liked Channing Tatum for his acting of course, but I've more or less liked him just because well, he is nice to look at. But, in this film, he really did it for me in an acting sense. I enjoyed his performance and actually focused on the way he was acting rather than just staring at his face. Oh it happens... and I'm not the only one. You know it. 

So, after our little splurge out last night we didn't really need to go out today for date night but this really funny film has just come out called 'The Croods'. I knew straight away it was Emma Stone as voice over, and it's nice to see another come back as well - Nicolas Cage. His voice at least was great in this Dreamworks pic, hence why we didn't see him act. It was a really fun family comedy with just mild threats of violence... yeah if you count a massive multi-coloured tiger/cat pouncing on the whole family so it looks like they're going to get eaten. However, they are the most flexible family I have ever seen in my life, especially for ones who are not so lean. Adam loved a character called 'Belt' the most which looked like a cross between those singing and dancing racoon look-a-likes in Madagascar (You know the ones who sing - I like to move it) and a monkey with REALLY long arms. Very cute.

See! How cute!

But more on those tomorrow. For now I am going to relax and enjoy the rest of what is left of my evening. I also have definitely have a cold and my lips don't like me at all. I blame my husband who throughout the whole of this past week has had a split lip. I think I inherited it. 

Oz the Okay and Powerless

Adam and I went to see Oz the Great and Powerful on Friday but I left the cinema feeling more okay and powerless. It wasn't that great at all but I'm not sure why. Just something didn't stick with me. I think the reason people went to see it is because it was pushed forward by the actors starring in it, such as James Franco, Mila Klunis, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz, and its predecessor, The Wizard of Oz made starring Judy Garland in 1939.

It started the same way The Wizard of Oz does, in black and white, then when Oz reaches the land of Oz (in exactly the same way Dorothy does) it changes into colour. However, I think because this already happened in The Wizard of Oz I was definitely expecting it to happen. So, because two things had been copied from the first film I was just waiting for a lot more things to come up that would be copied from the first film which made the film lose it's element of awe and wonder. For the rest of the film I just watched wondering how it would end.

The acting was, interesting. Like I said I can't quite put a finger on why the film just didn't cut it for me, maybe I just love the original Wizard of Oz even though the new film is made as a prequel to The Wizard of Oz. Put it this way the best acting throughout the whole film was done by the porcelain doll and the assistant monkey; both of which were CGI. May I add that Adam and I went home after watching Oz the Great and Powerful and watched The Wizard of Oz and the assistant monkey is actually on the wicked Witch of the West's side and not Oz's side so it might have been interesting to put in the prequel (Oz the Great and Powerful) how the monkey becomes evil.

Rachel Weisz was beautiful but seemed a little awkward, however, this could be because I've never seen her in a role like this before but I am glad she is broadening her acting horizons in becoming an evil witch. I have a thing for Rachel Weisz in that I love all of her films so I wanted to love this one, but I just couldn't.

Mila Klunis is good in the beginning as a good witch, but then something happens and she turns wicked and you'd think a beautiful woman like her could do evil 'witch' really well, but she couldn't. I saw wrath and scorn she did scorn like no other woman but even then it just wasn't that convincing to me and her make up looked very odd. I usually like Mila Klunis too but for some reason she just wasn't doing anything for me.

Adam said that he really enjoyed the film but it has to be said that Adam hadn't seen the original before the new film so that could have had an influence on why he liked the film or not. I just couldn't get past the thought that so much of it was like the old Wizard of Oz film. I haven't read any reviews on the film nor have I asked other people their opinion on it but what I would say is that you should go see it just to say you've seen it and have your own opinion on it but don't be surprised if you leave feeling a little deflated about it. You may want to go home and watch the old Wizard of Oz film too just to make you feel better.

Oh, and to make matters a little worse I have been informed by the beloved that there is another film due to come out in the next couple of years, so let's see how that one turns out.

Date Night Double Delay

For those of you that don't know, on Friday's I don't post because it is my night to spend with my husband. If I get a chance throughout the day then I will post but it will only be about something small.

Yesterday, meaning Friday, we went to the Cinema as we often do on Date Nights as it is mostly free for us to go. I even offered to go to the Cinema with Adam which is new for me considering I don't like to leave the house much these days. I asked if we could go see a film that I had watched a few weeks ago online. I was watching it online because I thought it had come out a while ago and I was in the mood for a horror film and it said on it 2012. But, I guess in America it had come out in 2012, here however, it didn't appear until this last week or so. I really enjoyed watching it on the small screen and wanted to see it on the big screen.

We went to see Mama. It is a horror film with a twist. The film kind of over laps into a different genre but you don't see it coming. The basic plot is this:

A man kills his wife and kidnaps his 3 yr old and 1 yr old daughter and takes them into the woods to shoot them but before he can do that he is killed. The girls are then left in the woods in this cabin for 5 years (I think it is 5 years) before someone finds them but obviously the emotional and psychological issues they have with being left out there have caused them to stunt their mental development. Their uncle comes to 'claim' them as he has been looking for them all the years they were gone and finds that to cope with being left in the woods for all those years they have made up an imaginary person whom they call Mama. The film shows how the girls reintegrate back into society and how this affects their relationship with 'Mama'.

When I first watched the film it was night time and I was watching it alone but I don't remember it being as jumpy as it actually was in the cinema. At some point I did begin to question how I could have watched the film alone, and at night time, but I did so in the cinema it wasn't as scary to me as it was to some other people *cough* Adam *cough*. 

This might be really weird to say but I think it was one of the most beautiful horror films I have seen in a while just because you don't expect it to end as it does so I am glad we went to see it on the big screen. 

Unfortunately I can't really explain much more of the story because then it will give too much away but the cinema was full which was good as I think that made the experience more fun. 

Films coming up to keep an eye on:

Identity Thief starring Jason Bateman
Oblivion with Tom Cruise

Jack the Giant Slayer starring Ewan McGregor
Parker starring Jason Statham

Fast & Furious 6 starring an array of famous people inc. Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson

Shall keep you posted for when these films come out. 

Date Night Delay

Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I kept meaning to do it through out the day but one thing led to another which led to another which led to me completely forgetting to post and then it was date night so we left the house at 6pm and came home at pretty much midnight.

I love date nights with my husband, I think everyone with a partner should set aside a night during the week where they do nothing but spend quality time with one another; where the mobile phones stay in the pockets and the computer games stay off the TV - it works for us.

At the moment our date nights are a 'little' predictable as spare money is in short supply BUT we do have Cineworld passes, means you can go to the cinema as often as you want a month for completely free - even the 3D films are free and with the cinema costing £8-£10 in places spending £15.90 a month seems completely worth it. So, anyway, our date nights sometimes consist of us going to dinner, last night we nearly went to Nando's but opted for cheaper and just as good KFC and then went to the cinema to see Flight.

Out in America before here

Man, is that an amazing film or what. Luckily, a few weeks or so ago, but definitely after Christmas, I had the pleasure of watching The Graham Norton Show on a Friday night. I don't usually like him but some of the actors and actresses he gets on that show are unreal - take for example Robert Downey Jr who is a REGULAR... and I mean regular on the sofa. He once had Will Smith - anyway I digress. So, I happened upon the show and Denzel Washington was on it promoting his new film Flight, and I LOVE Denzel Washington, every single film I have seen with him in has been absolutely awesome - Unstoppable and Deja Vu just to name two. And he showed the trailer for Flight on The Graham Norton Show and I knew I had to go and see it...

...No spoilers here but HE FLIES A PLANE UPSIDE DOWN TO STOP IT FROM CRASHING and saves 96 out of 102 people on board - I mean woah... craziness and when you're watching the film it's like you're really there as it is happening, brilliant. But the film isn't just about that, it's about something else too, something more powerful and stronger than Denzel Washington flying a plane upside down - but I can't explain any more than that otherwise it spoils the story, needless to say it is one I shall be watching again.

Just to add, Flight is a 15 because of swearing, small amounts of nudity and addictive substances - however the film would have not been the same without the swearing or addictive substances - could have done without the nudity at the beginning though - since it doesn't appear afterwards.

Also, kudos to Costa in the Metro Centre in The Village (or between blue and green mall I can never tell) as I went to sit down with my hot chocolate last night my hand holding the tray got a piece of glass stuck in it, (small piece) and the pinprick cut wouldn't stop bleeding, the glass piece was small but pretty long and I had scraped it into my finger sideways. I moved my tray and found another small piece so I put them on the saucer and took them to the barista and she was very very apologetic and gave me my money back for my drink. Super service