• about
    • Awards
  • designer
    • Samples
  • lecturer
  • writer
    • a few novel pages
    • Alternative Beauty
    • Dublin Dating Disasters
    • staycation versus fernweh
    • Curls just want to have fun…
    • Already kissed today?
    • Film Reviews
      • Transformers: Age of Extinction.
      • A Walk Among the Tombstones
      • Before I go to Sleep
      • Begin Again
      • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
      • Earth to Echo
      • Film Reviews 2012
        • Argo
        • Bel Ami, not so seductive…
        • Brave
        • Damsels in Distress
        • Detachment
        • Dr Seuss’ The Lorax
        • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
        • Frankenweenie
        • Friends with Children
        • Grabbers
        • Jeff who lives at home
        • Joyful Noise
        • Magic Mike
        • Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
        • Skyfall
        • The Amazing Spider-Man
        • The Avengers Assembled
        • The Devil Inside
        • The Lucky One
        • The Raid
        • Think like a Man (Act like a Lady)
      • Film Reviews 2013
        • 2 Guns
        • After Earth
        • Austenland
        • Before Midnight
        • Behind the Candelabra
        • Blue Jasmine
        • Elysium
        • Insidious: Chapter 2
        • Lovelace
        • Mama
        • Man of Steel
        • Monsters University
        • Now You See Me
        • Pain & Gain
        • Playing for Keeps
        • R.I.P.D
        • Rush
        • The Act of Killing
        • The Call
        • The Fifth Estate
        • The Irish Pub
        • The Kings of Summer
        • We’re the Millers
        • What Maisie Knew
        • White House Down
        • World War Z
        • This is 40
        • A Dark Truth
        • Django Unchained
        • Flight
        • Lincoln
        • The Impossible
        • The Paperboy
        • The Sessions
      • Get-On-Up
      • Gone Girl
      • Guardians of the Galaxy: dance and quip their way out of any danger hurdling towards them
      • Serena
      • Sex Tape
      • Sex Tape – a slapstick comedy
      • The Book of Life
      • The Calling
      • The Equalizer
      • The Expendables 3
      • The Maze Runner
      • Think Like a Man Too
      • This is where I leave you – better left unwatched
      • Film Preview 2013

jensinewall

~ writer, designer, creative thinker

jensinewall

Daily Archives: January 18, 2013

leaving on a jet plane

18 Friday Jan 2013

Posted by jensine in travel

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

aer lingus, aviation, Dublin, flying, Hamburg, holidays, miscellaneous, random, transportation, travel

“My bags are packed and I’m ready to go”, well not quite I still have an hour before the taxi comes and whisks me off to the airport.

The first time I flew on my own I was five years old and my sister was seven. We were unaccompanied minors and on way to visit our grandmother and aunt in Germany for the summer. I remember being all excited and anticipatory, not really knowing what to expect or what would happen. It was the first year that Are Lingus flew directly from Dublin to Hamburg, if memory serves the first flight ever, and there was a bit of a buzz about the whole thing.

I had been to Germany before but it was always with my parents and we did sometimes drive, so flying on my own, well with my big sister, felt grown-up and very special. The only down side was that we both had to wear a bright orange plastic purse around our necks containing our passports, tickets and all the other vital travel documents.

I was never a quite child, I was always chatting to strangers and quickly made friends with the beautiful Aer Lingus stewardess who was looking after us. My sister and I got sweets and colouring books, a few toys and we spent an enjoyable time up in the air. What we didn’t know was that my mother was having a panic attack back in Dublin.

As soon as we had taken off, the airport attendees in Hamburg went on strike and we were re-routed to Holland. I loved the adventure of the whole event, we got to stay in a VIP lounge in Amsterdam and drive around in a little buggy, while everyone around us was frantically trying to get us to our relatives in Hamburg.

I can’t remember exactly how long the whole thing took, but it was dark outside when we finally arrived. I know that both my aunt and mum were very relieved when my sister and I ran into the wide open waiting arms, legs and blond hair flying, and in my case an stream of excited chatter following in our wake.

Today I am quite use to flying, but I still love the anticipation of going away,  however nothing can quite compare to that very first trip. What made me grin this morning was that my sister told me Hamburg is back on strike, so I am sort of wondering where I’ll end up, a possible adventure on the horizon. The only downside is that I have to be back on Monday morning to teach.

Films 2013, a preview

18 Friday Jan 2013

Posted by jensine in Film reviews 2013, reviews

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

entertainment, Films, films 2013, hollywood, movies, preview 2013

Like last year 2013 brings  a lot of big block busters movies filled with comic book super hero’s, sequels and 80s remakes. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Tom Cruise are back in the mix, saving the world and killing all the bad guy. Even Stephanie Meyers can leave us alone after her schmalzy “Twilight Saga” has finally come to an end and gives us a parasitic alien in the form of Saoirse Ronan. Sometimes it really does feel like Hollywood has run out of ideas and just regurgitates what has already proven to be box-office gold. But that isn’t always a bad thing, as you’ll know what you’re getting for your Euros when you buy a ticket.

Here is a quick rundown of some of the big films coming out throughout the year, but as we know in films, timelines are fluid so see the months as guidelines not craved in stone.

The+Last+Stand_4

January starts of with a big bang and Arni in “The Last Stand”. Schwarzenegger is the disgraced LAPD officer Ray Owens who is serving out his time in the sleepy little town Summerton Junction. When drug lord Cortez (Eduardo Noriega) shows up all hell breaks lose and Schwarzenegger is back to his good old standard of killing people with big guns. Maybe not a film for the Oscars but if you like action movies and are an Schwarzenegger fan “The last Stand” won’t disappoint, even if the plot is a little weak and the acting a little wooden.

Other Films like “Lincoln”, “The Sessions” and “Django Unchained” have already been winning prices and if you want to know more about them just follow the links.

February is filled with lots of light-hearted comedy in Films like “This is 40”, “Parental Guidance”, “I give it a Year” and “Wreck-it Ralph”. But there is a good balance with dramas like Oscar nominee “Flight” and Bafta nominee “Hitchcock”.

A-GOOD-DAY-TO-DIE-HARD-Official-Trailer-2-2013-H-1913

However the biggest blockbuster could possibly be action film “A Good Day to Die Hard”. Bruce Willis returns as John McClane and this time it’s his son Jack (Jai Courtney) who needs help. When he discovers that his son is actually a CIA agent trying to prevent the Russians from blowing up the world with nuclear weapons the father and son team up and try and save the day.

March is a month of science fiction and fantasy with “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” tracking down evil hags and killing them. “GI Joe” makes a return to cinemas and  Percy Jackson, Poseidon’s son, is also back in “Percey Jackson: Sea of Monsters”. Nicholas Hoult is “Jack the Giant Slayer” and Saoirse Ronan plays “The Host” to a parasitic alien.

elysium

The one to watch is probably “Elysium”. With Director Neil Blomkamp (District-9) at its helm this si-fi thriller looks promising. In the year 2159 the human population is split in two, the very wealthy who live on the man made space station Elisium and the rest who live in the slums of earth. Matt Damon plays the hero Max who is trying to bring equality back. Jodie Foster is his adversary Secretary Delacourt who will stop at nothing to keep the wealthy rich.

carrie2013620

April, this is where things start to get a little hazy but it looks like we’ll be seeing a remake of C Stephen Kings “Carrie” return to the big screen.  Chloe Grace Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick Ass) replaces Sissy Spacek as Carrie, a shy high school kid who discovers her telekinetic powers and unless some supernatural nastiness on her peers.  And it could be that this is the month that we see Tom Cruise again in his upcoming film “Oblivion”.

May could be the mega month of releases with “Iron Man 3”, “Start Trek 2”, “Hangover Part 2”, “Fast Six” (Fast and the Furious franchise) and the “Lone” Ranger all hoping to lure us into the cinema.

Although the “Lone Ranger” is a new project for Walt Disney Pictures it does reunite Jonny Depp and his Pirates Director Gore Verbinski.  Depp is Tonto who tells the tales of John Ried (Armie Hammer) or the Lone Rangers as he’s better known.

The-Great-Gatsby_06

But May is also said to be the month that the long awaited “Great Gatsby “ finally graces our screens.  With Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Toby Maguire as Nick Carraway it looks like it could have been worth the wait.

June brings back the “Man of Steel”. This time round it’s handsome Henry Cavill (Cold Light of Day) who is clad in the blue tights and red panties but that isn’t his only support, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner and Laurance Fishburne all make an appearance.

Brad Pitt may prove all doubters wrong that the project “World War Z” was filmable after all, when we see him staring in the Paramount production.

2013-movie-preview-the-wolverine

And Hugh Jackman has let his hair grow again for his staring role in “The Wolverine”. This time around it’s off to Japan, who knows maybe those claws will prove useful when making sushi.

But Will Smith is also back in M Night Shyamalan’s “After Earth”. This action Si-fi  film is only directed by Shyamalan so hopefully it will be better than “The Last Airbender”

July reunites Stephan Spielberg with science fiction in his film “Robopocalypse”. The film is based on the book by Daniel H Wilson and seems quite similar to “I, Robot”.

still-of-sam-neill,-ariana-richards-and-joseph-mazzello-in-jurassic-park-large-picture

But again Hollywood gives us sequels with “Grown-ups 2” “The Smurfs 2”and “Dispicable Me 2”, and “Jurassic Park” will be stomping its way back into Cinemas in 3D on it’s 25th (yes really) birthday.

“Dirty Dancing” is being re-made and said to be released in June. But after the disastrous “Total Recall”, “Fame” and “Footloose” reboots of the last few years maybe this isn’t such a wise idea. After all can anyone really replace Patrick Swayze as Jonny and Jennifer Grey as Baby? Some films should just be left alone!

red2director

August gives us the return of the retired, extremely dangerous crowd in “RED 2”, who knows maybe like “The Expendables” this will be better second time round. But “300:Battle of Artemisia” will at least give us scantily clad men with eight packs to watch, even I they do yell a lot! And even “Sin City: a Dame to Kill For” and “Robocop” seem to be on the list of films to come out in the middle of Summer.

As for the rest of the films that are coming out this year things seem to be even less planable. But some of the other 2013 big blockbusters that will be beckoning you to take a seat and nibble some pop-corn are:

“Oz the Great and Powerful” (March)

“Kick Ass “ (July?)

“The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” (possibly August)

“Monster University”

“Enders Game” (October)

“Thor: The Dark World” (November)

“The Hunger games: Catching Fire” (possibly in November)

“The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug” (December)

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,681 other subscribers

Shortlisted for Blog Awards Ireland 2012

Me and my thoughts

January 2013
M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Dec   Feb »

Quote

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

Past but not forgotten

  • back in Belfast
  • waiting in Dublin
  • a gentle gesture
  • Easter auntie duties
  • sunny Sunday afternoon
  • lost hour
  • Weekly Photo Challenge: It’s easy being green

Reeling through the months

  • May 2017 (1)
  • March 2017 (17)
  • February 2017 (1)
  • January 2017 (1)
  • December 2016 (1)
  • November 2016 (13)
  • October 2016 (30)
  • September 2016 (10)
  • July 2016 (7)
  • June 2016 (18)
  • May 2016 (21)
  • April 2016 (12)
  • March 2016 (25)
  • February 2016 (10)
  • January 2016 (16)
  • December 2015 (13)
  • November 2015 (14)
  • October 2015 (15)
  • September 2015 (19)
  • August 2015 (19)
  • July 2015 (13)
  • June 2015 (17)
  • May 2015 (22)
  • April 2015 (22)
  • March 2015 (20)
  • February 2015 (16)
  • January 2015 (14)
  • November 2014 (12)
  • October 2014 (27)
  • September 2014 (35)
  • August 2014 (25)
  • July 2014 (28)
  • October 2013 (14)
  • September 2013 (22)
  • August 2013 (21)
  • July 2013 (25)
  • June 2013 (23)
  • April 2013 (16)
  • March 2013 (10)
  • February 2013 (22)
  • January 2013 (36)
  • December 2012 (3)
  • November 2012 (13)
  • October 2012 (27)
  • August 2012 (11)
  • July 2012 (33)
  • June 2012 (30)
  • May 2012 (28)
  • April 2012 (35)
  • March 2012 (14)
  • September 2011 (1)

Come and read

All my thoughts

The contents of this blog is copyright © to me Jensine-Bethna Wall and although I am happy for you to post, re-post or reference my thoughts, ramblings and miscellaneous outpourings, to do so you must always make it clear that the content belongs to me and me alone and I have the right to be identified as the author, this is only for non-commercial purposes If the content of this blog is to be published or broadcasted by any for of media for commercial purposes I do maintain the right to be contacted and asked for permission, in some cases even payment. Any unauthorised broadcasting, public performance, copying or re-recording will constitute an infringement of copyright. I grant permission to reproduce for personal and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is prohibited, otherwise all rights reserved.

Blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • jensinewall
    • Join 1,246 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • jensinewall
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...