Home Alone

Posted in Celebrity, Film by nlcorner

After 21 years since it’s official release, I finally watched Home Alone.

Every year it’s on TV I switch the channel, the idea of the movie seemed really sad, home alone at Christmas? How awful.

But this year I felt it was time to watch it, time to see how a child of eight gets left behind when his family goes on holiday to France. It seems it’s pretty easy to do, but not so easy to get a return flight back home to get the kid.

I admit I did laugh, at the stupidity of the situation but also at the talented Macaulay Culkin who was*, as a child actor, pretty funny. And really he was on his own for like two days, why did he have to do laundry?

It was nice how the scary old man next door was really just lonely missing his family and how Kevin, an eight year old, talked sense into him. It was clever how he set all the traps for the burglars and managed to clean up just in time for his mother and the rest of his family’s return, all by himself, wow.

I’ll probably never watch it again now that I’ve seen it, because if you know me by now I’m not one for Christmas movie time on repeat. The only Christmas movie I like is The Holiday, and I downright refuse to watch Love Actually so don’t make me.

*Was, because unfortunately he has not had a successful starring role since and will only ever be known for Home Alone and My Girl (ironically one of my favourite movies even though it makes me cry). Oh and not to mention being bessies with MJ.

12Nov2011

How does it end?

Posted in Film, Musings, Television by nlcorner

I often wonder why I insist on watching a film when it’s on television even if I have it on DVD.

And the same goes for television series, prime example being The OC. I have the complete boxset and have watched it all once, but when there’s an episode on tv I have to watch it because it reminds me of how much I love it and how I’ve always wanted to live in a pool house with the Cohens. But when I have a spare moment I can’t simply pick up a disc from the boxset because I’d have to start from the beginning not just randomly in the middle *shocked face*.

Maybe that’s my answer that it is simply too hard to choose a film to watch from a vast collection, it’s simply easier for someone else to do it for you. Channel 4/E4/Film4 insists on playing Never Been Kissed, I’m not going to complain because it means I don’t have to get off my backside and put the disc in the player myself.

I’ll gladly watch the X-Men series over and over, and even happily be amused at The Wedding Planner and Monster-in-Law (obviously they like J-Lo a little too much).

Also that’s why I can’t fully immerse myself in watching How I Met Your Mother when it’s on E4, I need to start from the beginning and it’s at season 6 or something. I need to know who the characters are and where the ‘inside’ jokes originate from. I simply cannot watch (or read) something halfway through and even if I did I’d still have to go to the beginning another day just to see what I missed out on, and that’s another thing I can NEVER ever fall asleep during a movie. How do people do that? How can you live without knowing how a movie ends, it’s torture! Even if it is horrific. (Only once, okay twice not sat and watched a movie throughout – Wall Street 2 and Winter’s Bone – both boring in really different ways)

Anyway I’m rambling, it was just something I had to get out there. Is anybody else the same? Especially in regards to the seeing a movie through to the very end even if Katherine Heigl is in it. (Life As We Know It – watched it the whole way through. PROUD)

2Nov2011

London Comic Con

Posted in Celebrity, Film, Television by nlcorner

I’ve expressed my love for Comic Con before, for the stars, the exclusive footage, the cult television shows, PaceyCon and even the geeky fanboys, and this weekend I got the chance to experience what that could be like when I eventually get to San Diego.

It was the London Comic Con MCM Expo this past weekend, and I had access to press passes with a little help from a friend. The schedule wasn’t jam-packed full with movie panels galore nor was it packed with writers or celebs, but there were a couple of young guys that I wanted to get my hands on and they went by the name of Tyler Posey and Dylan O’Brien.

Tyler Posey // Jill Wagner // Dylan O'Brien

The stars of MTV’s surprise summer hit Teen Wolf, were appearing at the expo alongside their co-star Jill Wagner. Tyler, plays the bitten teen Scott McCall and Dylan the ever-faithful sidekick Stiles, the show is about an awkward teen turned into a powerful werewolf and being hunted by the alpha that bit him. The first season was a 12-episode action fest of animal attacks, hungry hunters and love triangles galore, aimed at the young adult category but a hit amongst the 12-34 category regularly scoring aorund 1.7million viewers per episode.

There are way too many captions for this photo... especially when they were talking about Jill getting hit by Tyler's banana...

The panel was hilarious there’s no doubt about it, the actors were pretty much like their characters if not a little more hyped up and with a few more sexual innuendos thrown in. Questions were asked about Jersey Shore, which of course they loved, to what was coming up in the second season. I managed to ask a question which I thought received a goodish answer (“We know Tyler plays the werewolf but Dylan, is Stiles the real hero of the show, having to keep Scott on the straight and narrow?”), the response was he sees Stiles as the sidekick and in the first season was a bit of a hero but says in the second season we will see Scott becoming a hero in his own right whilst trying to find a lycan cure.

Here’s a moment when I got a photo with Dylan and Tyler, they are too adorable…

Dylan thought I wanted a hug I wanted a picture, I really wasn't complaining...

I am way to happy in this...

Caught in a moment of thanks

I got what I came for and I couldn’t have been more pleased! But that wasn’t the only thing that went on over the weekend, there was a panel with The Secret Circle a new show that premiered this fall with one of the stars of the show Jessica Parker Kennedy. It was short but sweet as she answered the inevitable how did you get into acting question (which FYI someone asked in every panel, OI we know how they got into acting we IMDb’d them before we came!) and a question about the show. She apologised for being the only cast member there, and said she was going straight back to filming after her London visit.

There was a panel from a show called Sanctuary, admittedly I don’t even watch this but the two actors, Jonathon Young and Agam Darshi, from the show were really engaging and talked a lot about the show and their careers (that question AGAIN) and there seemed to be a fair few fans in the audience so there were no awkward silences. It even made me think about checking out the show and seeing what it’s about.

Jonathon Young // Agam Darshi

There was an appearance from Aaron Ashmore of Smallville fame (Jimmy Olsen) he was there promoting his Syfy show Warehouse 13, I’m not going to lie and say I paid attention to this panel because the guy he was with was super boring and had that anal American accent that goes right through you.

Aaron Ashmore // Lucas Bryant

The main focus of the Comic Con though was of course its namesake, from anime to Batman, to World of Warcraft, everywhere you turned there were people dressed up as their favourite Cosplay character. There were a few scary moments in the form of Darth Vader, a girl in a freaky fox head complete with tail and jeans (?!) Endless amounts of effort had gone into all kinds of costumes, it was like a bigger version of Halloween.