Camilla Luddington is the New Lara Croft

Oh yeah!  Camilla Luddington is the new Lara Croft!  

After stirring the testosterone nation into animation in the TV series Californication, Ms. Luddington will once again create havoc in the imagination of manhood in the next Tomb Raider movie.  I will personally miss Angelina Jolie in this role but I'm sure Camilla will be able to fill the void.  Mark the date---March 5, 2013.

For the meantime, Camilla can be seen in the current season of True Blood!  Woot!  Woot!

I'd say this is the new Lara Croft stare down.

The Tourist: A Must Watch!

I'm a big Angelina Jolie fan.  She is not just a good actress but her beauty can really light up the big screen in her lonesome.  

In "The Tourist", she plays Elise, a woman caught in a quagmire of deception between the MI6 and the elusive Alexander Pearce (who also happens to be Elise's former lover).  Add on a gangster named Reginald Shaw whose hunting Mr. Pearce for stealing 2 billion dollars.  And then there's Frank Tupelo (played by Johnny Depp), an American math teacher who is on an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart.

As instructed by Alexander, Elise selects Frank as the unwitting bait to misdirect the MI6 from apprehending him.  And there the adventure begins.  With news that Alexander have had extensive facial surgery, MI6 don't have any clue as to what he looks like---even Elise.  Who is Mr. Pearce?  Watch it and find out.  One thing I can ensure you is that mindless of my infatuation with Ms. Jolie, this film is worth spending money on. 

For me, there's no getting enough of Ms. Jolie!

Inceptionally Salted

I watched two movies in the past two weekends---"Salt" and "Inception".

Both movies were action packed. "Inception" was shown two weeks ahead of "Salt" and hogged the #1 box office spot. I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio fan. Truth be known, he was typecasted in my mind as Jack in "Titanic". I just couldn't accept him doing action flicks. Naturally, I did not get the itch to watch him in "Inception". I was however running out of patience to watch Angelina Jolie's spy-action movie "Salt".

"Salt" previews has been showing in cinemas early this year and I since I first saw it I have been in vigil for it to hit the big screen. It's that obvious that I'm an Angelina Jolie fan, huh? Actually, I'm an action movie buff. But putting Angelina side by side with action---then you've got me stoked! Needless to say, "Salt" did not disappoint me! The action was intense and the story got me guessing until the last part. A very good return for the Php 31.00 I added to my Citibank subsidized movie ticket and then some!

I was watched "Inception" more for the curiosity of it. I was quite sure that "Salt" would topple it from the #1 spot when it opened but surprisingly it didn't! The following week "Despicable Me" opened and "Inception" still ruled! What does this movie have that kept people from going and going?! Last Saturday I found out.

"Inception" had a Byzantine plot that would test a viewer's grasp at logic. It was convoluted and utterly tangled that when the movie ends you're left with your mouth hanging. Did Cobb's totem stop spinning? It looks as if its slowing down and then the movie cuts. What the...?!

A dream within a dream within a dream. I guess people came to see the movie because everyone ahead of them who watched was so confused that they wanted to make sense of it themselves. That's what I did and it also left me befuddled! Once thing's for certain---doing such a discombobulating movie is an effective recipe for success.