Movie Weekend

Dear reader

For this movie weekend I've chosen to watch only one movie, to be recommended and reviewed. As Christmas is coming up I thought it would be a great idea to watch a Christmas movie. So, I went through the internet to find a Christmas movie that I haven't watched before so I found Arthur Christmas, a family movie.

Language: English

Country: US

Director: Sarah Smith

Producer: Steve Pegram

Cinematography: Jericca Cleland

Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

Release date: November 23rd, 2011

3 Notable Actors: James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent & Ashley Jensen

Arthur is the son of Santa Claus and he works with composing letters to children who writes to Santa Claus. But one day when a christmas gift gets taken off the tracks, they miss giving one child a christmas gift. So, Arthur decides to take off on a journey to give that child a merry christmas. 

This is a movie that made me laugh and shed a tear. A beautiful movie about christmas and how everything changes from being old into new. To new beginnings and to a brighter future.

Cheers!

If you wanna know what's been going on lately - I made a video on my YouTube channel to round things up, as to say I made a look-back of my year in 2014 - click this link to see that. 

And because I'm taking a winter break, for next week and the week, after that we'll see how I do next year later. I will tell you next year how I'm doing and how everything is and what I'll be doing with this blog. Spoiler: Things may change.

For so long - Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Bye for now and hello for later!

Johanna Jay

Book Wednesday

Dear reader

Welcome to this Book Wednesday!

So, today I have a special announcement about me and my book reading... I don't have time for reading this December. I love to be honest and open about what's up so here it goes. I wrote that I need to read out Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games series) and start+finish reading Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) as well as starting on the Fangirl (Rainbow Rowell) book.

This is not going to happen and I'm sure that you can make time happen for reading but there's something else. Sure I love books and content and stories but I am not a reader. By this I mean that I do like to read every now and then BUT not that often at all. I mostly enjoy watching video clips on YouTube and if I would choose between watching and reading I would choose watching. Don't get me wrong I used to love to read but not as much as I do now. It's now that I've realised that I cannot continue writing about books that I'm reading, because I just don't seem to actually read it.

I don't know about you but I'm still going to write about books every wednesday (until the holidays, week 52).

Hope you enjoyed this little update on this bookin' wednesday and I'll write you later.

Bye for now and hello for later!

Johanna Jay

Music Monday

Dear readers

For this time I decided that it was time for me to make a cover of Have yourself a merry little christmas by Bing Crosby. As christmas is around the corner I figured that it was time. 

Hope you enjoy this video and I'll write you later.

Bye for now and hello for later!

Johanna Jay

Movie Weekend

 

Language: English

Country: US

Director: Brad Bird

Producer: Brad Lewis

Cinematography: Sharon Calahan & Robert Anderson

Composer: Michael Giacchino

Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures

Release date: June 29th, 2007

3 Notable Actors: Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano & Ian Holm

Remy, a rat finds himself through making food and he also finds himself in a kitchen of a restaurant. This is the story of a rat, the new best friend of a man. 

Great movie, I love food but I don’t love rats so it was a funny combination. It’s a 8/10. 

Language: English

Country: US

Director: Peggy Holmes
Producer: Kendra Halland
Composer: James Dooley & Jeanine Tesori
Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Release date: August 26th, 2008

3 Notable Actors: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright & Parker Goris

King Triton, Queen Athena and their kids lives in a magical under sea world full of happiness until one day. That day when they were sitting by the rocks, playing music, when suddenly a pirate ship approaches and when Athena tries to save a music box she gets accidentally killed by the ship itself. King Triton is of course saddened and actually bans music from the entire kingdom. Only ten years later, Ariel finds herself discovering music again in an “underground” club and …

We get to see Ariel’s beginning which is as a for me as a fangirl was and still is a pretty huge deal. This movie comes with surprises and it’s so cute. I give this movie a 10/10. 

Hope you enjoyed this little movie weekend, I'll write you later so bye for now and hello for later!

Johanna Jay