As my title so obviously points out, I'm coughing and sneezing in bed, and I hate it! I don't know about you, but I'll get sick from the slightest change in the weather (i.e right now!) or allergies. My best friends during this horrible time, are "Campbell's chicken noodle soup" and my "Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks DVD collection". They get me through everything. When I'm sick, I get sappy and movies that have any "sick in bed" scenes, just get me! Here are my Top 5 "Sick in Bed" Movies:
1) You've Got Mail (1998)
This movie starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Remake of the film "Shop Around the Corner" (1940) , and it's one of the best enemies turned lovers film that I'll ever watch. It always makes me feel much better, and I wished I had a dog to walk around the parks of Manhattan during the fall.
HEY! back from my fall hiatus and I must update you on some of my most anticipated films for 2013. I love trailer season and weirdly enough I have this obsession with any actor who plays with a British accent or who IS British. It's so dashingly sexy.Here we go:
GAMBIT
"let us get down!"-Snape
I am always excited for any film that involves Colin Firth, who plays a seemingly meek art curator that works for an awful+eccentric boss Alan Rickman (aka Professor Snape). Firth's character plans to get revenge on his boss and enlists the help of a "real cow girl", played by Cameron Diaz. Together they con Rickman's character into buying a fake Monet. It's written by the greatness that is Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Man, Burn After Reading) and directed by Michael Hoffman. I haven't seen Diaz in alot of movies this year, I mean if you count "what to expect when you're expecting" back in the spring and "Bad Teacher" in 2011. She looks like the perfect Texas Rodeo Queen, I have no doubt that her acting will be superb!Alan Rickman is hilarious in the trailer, mostly because I've never seem him play anything other than serious and sinister, it's refreshing to see him play the "weird boss you wished you'd kill because he made your life a living hell". oh wait, that does sound familiar. . .Unfairly enough, this movie will be in theaters in the UK on November 21 2012, but it won't be available for us North Americans until early 2013.
Here is the official sypnosis:
The story centers on British art curator Harry Deane (Firth) who
devises a finely-crafted scheme to con England’s richest man and avid art
collector, Lionel Shabandar, (Rickman) into purchasing a fake Monet
painting. In order to bait his buyer, he
recruits a Texas rodeo queen (Diaz) to cross the pond and pose as a woman whose
grandfather liberated the painting at the end of WWII.
Wasteland
"Must be pretty bloody impressive"
This is a British heist movie, which I'm super excited for as well. The tone of the movie seems much more serious than the above trailer, but I bet that it'll be bloody great! I must admit that the only reason that I played the trailer was because of my admiration for grown up Neville Longbottom, played by Matthew Lewis. I was happy that I clicked on the play button because this movie has all the suspense, action, sex and "magic" tricks of a good heist film. This movie stars Timothy Spall (Harry Potter), Luke Treadaway (Clash of the Titans), and Vanessa Kirby . I don't watch much British films or series, which I'm starting to change, so these names might not sound very familiar. However, newcomers are always the best to watch, because you go in with no expectation and somehow they always seem to exceed them! In theaters in the UK fall 2012.
Here is the official synopsis:
Battered, bruised and under arrest, Harvey Miller sits in a
police interview room facing interrogation. Clutching a stack of eyewitness
statements, Detective Inspector West has no doubt as to Harvey’s part in a
foiled robbery, and his subsequent attempted murder of local businessman Steven
Roper. Denying nothing, Harvey agrees to tell his version of events in full. As
the story unfolds, we discover that a malevolent and unjust act perpetrated by
Roper put Harvey in prison and now he has a score to settle.
Following an emotional reunion with his best friends, Harvey
sets about finding the girl he left behind, determined to rekindle their
romance. What follows is the ingenious and elaborate blueprint of a master plan
which Harvey hopes will deliver revenge on his old adversary as well as giving
him and his friends the opportunity to start a new life abroad. After weeks of
meticulous planning, the boys set the plan in motion. What unfolds is a tense
and exhilarating heist of unexpected proportions. A story of loyalty, jealousy,
friendship, revenge and the pursuit of happiness.
