I am NOT a critic. I'm merely an observer. (Books, movies, plays, musicals etc.)

How Faithful Is  Murder on the Orient Express  to Agatha Christie’s Classic Detective Novel? A Breakdown (warning, the link has spoilers). A lavish trip through Europe quickly unfolds into a race against time to solve a murder aboard a train. When an avalanche stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks, the world's greatest detective -- Hercule Poirot -- arrives to interrogate all passengers and search for clues before the killer can  strike again. -WWW Directed by: Kenneth Branagh Screenplay: Michael Green Music by: Patrick Doyle Distributed by: 20th Century Fox Agatha Christie is one of my favourite authors.  Miss Marple and Monsieur Poirot were part of my growing up years alongside the Stratemeyer Syndicate's  Carolyn Keene's NANCY DREW.  Murder on the Orient Express is one of the memorable ones, except some of the scenes of the book and the 1974 movie are quite hazy or I have mixed up the scenes already. Honestly, when I wa...

(From Disney UK) The Sound Track (2017) Belle (Emma Watson), a bright, beautiful and independent young woman, is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) in its castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the beast's hideous exterior, allowing her to recognize the kind heart and soul of the true prince that hides on the inside.-WWW Release date: March 17, 2017 (USA) We watched this at the Commercenter on the 16th of March Director: Bill Condon Featured songs: Beauty and the Beast and Something There Music composed by: Alan Menken Original award winning motion picture soundtrack  If I am not mistaken I watched the 1990s version with my Elim Community brothers and sisters somewhere in Mega Mall.  PG and RJ, along with their nannies, plus my "surrogate" sister, Queenie, were with me.  Queenie and I never stopped singing.  We even bought the soundtrack and I "fell in love" with Robb...

Have boxes of tissues ready #talksaboutanimalreincarnation #adogspurpose #baileysjourney #elliesstory #tinosstory #buddysstory When I deleted my personal blog or my online journal, I also deleted my very personal "experience" watching Marley & Me. Watching this movie is like that experience, only three times over.  It also felt like watching "Fluke" all over again.  Bailey(a.k.a.Boss Dog), Ellie and Tino had to leave or crossover, breaking the hearts of the people "they" owned or their partners or their packs. As Bailey, Bailey, Bailey journeyed and found his "Buddy" Ethan and the older version of Hannah(Peggy Lipton looks very young for seventy---I joked  that maybe a life without Quincy Jones is stress free---but hey, I am REALLY just kidding---peace to everybody who loves Quincy Jones), I was crossing my fingers  that Ethan would know that Buddy and Bailey are one and the same. Sigh... The movie is well-acted a...

" She's my sister, she would never hurt me . "-Princess Anna It's been more than two months  since I've watched this movie at the new mall in Barangay BF Homes and I still have a hang over.  As my friend Kristen said that glorious day we watched the movie(not together), if TANGLED was great, this is even better.   As of late I have watched this movie three times.  Once with my folks, once with a friend  and once with my nephew(who watched it for the nth time). It's such a beautiful adaptation.  Even if it is an animation, it's real as real could be.  Yes, the people  looked like dolls, but the story was weaved so well.  If I may say so, even better than the original. The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen made scary stories for kids.  They made most, if not all, stepparents evil to the core.  That's so unfair(I actually wrote something about this before)! Hans Christian Andersen's SNEEDRONNINGEN or Th...