This past Thursday I went to see One for the Money with my brother, and it featured Katherine Heigel playing, ‘Katherine Heigel’.

After seeing one Katherine Heigel film, you’ve basically seen them all. Each movie Heigel has starred in features her playing the exact same character, but with a different storyline. Within this film, Heigel plays a character, Stephanie Plum, a woman who is unable to keep a job and is down on her luck. When in trouble, Plum finds work as a bounty hunter, working for her cousin, and seeks to capture the highest bond available. In this case, the bounty with the highest reward is for one of Plum’s ex-boyfriends. The story involves a couple twists and turns, but in general, it’s extremely predictable.

Overall, I enjoyed One for the Money because it was lighthearted. I just wish more humour was placed into the film because some scenes lacked emotion.

Last night I went to see Young Adult with my brother, and it defied all my expectations.

Despite being marketed as a dark comedy, I found Young Adult pulled on all my emotions. At some moments I was laughing, sometimes I wanted to cry, and at other times I was empathizing with the main character and feeling guilty. The main plot focuses on a woman, Mavis Gary (played by Charlize Theron), who writes teen-fiction, frequently gets intoxicated, is recently divorced and continues to reminisce about her high school love interest, Buddy Slade (played by Patrick Wilson). One day while nursing a hangover, Mavis receives an e-mail with a photo of Slade’s new child, prompting her to trek from the big city, back to her hometown. Though, it is important to mention that Gary is one of few individuals from her hometown who has moved on to the big city; thus causing some tension between her and other people. Throughout the film it provokes a viewer to think, “what happens when you don’t move on?” and “when should the past be forgotten?”.

With many plot twists and unexpected outcomes, I was engaged from start to finish. Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt and Patrick Wilson were amazing cast choices, and each respectively played their assigned character well. I swear, throughout the film, it was as though real life was unfolding in front of my eyes because each actor made their character believable.

Overall, if I had to rate the film, I’d give it a 9/10. I loved every second of it, and will probably purchase the film when it comes out on Blu-ray!

I can’t stop reading The Hunger Games Trilogy.

For the last couple days, I’ve been reading the novels nonstop; thus this has been preventing me from writing a well written blog post or even communicating with fellow individuals online. Normally, it takes me a good two or three days to get interested in a series, but this time, after an hour of reading, I couldn’t stop myself. The Hunger Games Trilogy is probably the only recent teen fiction series I’ve become highly invested in. The trilogy is well written, has amazing character development, and unlike Twilight, it’s actually extremely interesting. Based on the rate I’m reading at, I should be done the last book by Friday. At the same time, I will be ready for the Hunger Games movie coming to theatres on March 23, 2012!

Every year I attend at least one concert in December, but this year, I feel all my favourite music artists/bands are coming in February/March of 2012. Therefore, I have made it my mission to see numerous films from December 2011 to March 2012 to pass the time. The festivities started this past week when I went to see both Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1: To be quite honest, this has to be my favourite movie yet from the Twilight Saga. Not only were there continuity issues, the acting was horrendous, vocal manipulation reminded me of the Power Rangers, and the idea of a vampire impregnating a mortal made me laugh throughout the entire film. Not to mention, the individual who added the films soundtrack did an amazing job of making it extremely obvious. I honestly could not stop laughing when a slow song came on at a romantic moment, or when an upbeat tempo attempted to add action and suspense. In most films this simple technique is done flawlessly, and you never really focus on the soundtrack, but with Breaking Dawn Part 1, your ears simply could not help but focus on the music.

Though, on a more positive note, Bella Swan (the character portrayed by Kristen Stewart), did not drive me insane during this film. In the past three Twilight movies, I’d get so frustrated watching her awful acting and lack of emotion, but I felt her characters screen time was reduced in this film and made it tolerable.

Overall however, the film made me laugh out loud, and I left the theatre with a smile. It served its purpose as being an amazing comedy.

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas: I loved the first Harold and Kumar film as it was unique, had amazing one-liners and some of the incidents that occurred were completely out of the ordinary. This film however, was decent. The movie had some awesome one-liners, but in the end, it fell flat for me. I wasn’t laughing, and at some points, I was actually bored/paying more attention to the people seated in front of me that were texting on their cellphones. Though, this may have been because the movie is intended to be watched in 3D, and I watched it in regular 2D.

Overall, it was better than the second film part of the franchise, but it lacked actual humour.

Normally I’d post an accompanying music video or photos from the show, but since Prince is against online media, and photography at his concerts, I don’t really have much to post.

I must say however, Prince was unbelievable, playing for nearly three hours and showcasing all of his hit songs from the past thirty years. My favourite moment of the night was witnessing my mom go crazy when ‘Purple Rain‘ came on. I swear, another side of my mom came out that I had never seen before. Not to mention, I loved hearing Prince belt out songs like ’1999′, ‘When Doves Cry’ and ‘Controversy’.

Last night I went to the Watch the Throne tour with my friend Anita and my brother Steven. The concert was amazing and featured Jay-Z and Kanye West performing songs off their solo albums, as well as their joint ventures. I loved every moment of it, though I must admit, Kanye stole the show. Kanye’s songs allow for more audience interaction, and made me recall my high school days.

Next up, I’m seeing Prince tomorrow at the Air Canada Centre with my mom.

In other news, I bought tickets to see Big Time Rush and Young the Giants in 2012. EEK! And in the coming weeks I will be purchasing tickets to see Kelly Clarkson. I need to seriously stop spending, but how could I pass up a good concert?

Two full days till Watch the Throne!

If you can’t tell, the new layout is fresh, easy to navigate and extremely simplistic. I will try my best to keep this site up-to-date, and I will be adding a photography  in the very near future. For the time being however, I am still fixing up errors and perfecting certain sections of the site. Therefore, be patient.

In other news, I’m going to Watch the Throne on Thursday! YAY!