Well, hello there, kind folks. If you’re visiting this blog of mine, I presume that you have a certain interest in the cinema. As for me, even since my early childhood, I have had a deep love of everything related to movies and television. As far as I can remember, I have been more at ease in front of a screen than in the yard, outside, playing. It is a great way to travel, though other people’s stories, without having to foot any kind of steep bill. Over the years, I feel that movie-watching has even fuelled my own creativity.

All that being said, I welcome you in my Cinephile’s Nest. I hope you enjoy it here, feel free to come back at any time. Here you will find reviews of current movies and older ones. TV shows also. Some classics that have remained some of my favourites, some that have disappointed me. I will use a very basic star (*) system to grade them from 1 to 5 (5 being sliced bread level). Remember, these are just my tastes. I will try to explain in each review what I liked about these particular movies, without giving spoilers.

Il y aura aussi des critiques en français pour les films francophones, car j'aime également le cinéma dans ma langue maternelle. Avant d'apprendre l'anglais, plus jeune, je louais des tonnes de films traduits en français, surtout ceux de Bud Spencer et Terrence Hill. Ma mère a eu le choc de sa vie lorsqu'un jour, dans la boîte d'un de ces films, Deep Throat avait malencontreusement inséré. Une expérience formatrice pour le jeune cinéphile que je suis.

Bienvenue à tous, amusez-vous bien.

I welcome you all here, enjoy yourself.

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Awkward (2011-2016)

Genre: TV / Comedy
Starring: Ashley Rickards, Beau Mirchoff, Nikki DeLoach
Number of seasons: 5



The five seasons of this MTV series takes us through the last few years of high school and first years of college of Jenna Hamilton, an awkward aspiring writer with an on-and-off rocky relationship with jock Matty McKibben. When the show starts, Jenna accidently hurts herself in what will be falsely perceived for a long time as a suicide attempt.

Awkward is a funny and quite cute. The show dares to go a little beyond the usual teen shlock and even manages to be a little crude (not too much). The characters are well defined, though a little cliché at times and a little too pretty. Even the losers are a little too cute to feel real. Nonetheless, the viewers are sure to recognize a bit of their own life in the hick school and college experience of this show. Very entertaining.


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