AskLatisha.com » Movie Talk http://www.asklatisha.com Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:17:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Footloose Movie Trailer and Poster http://www.asklatisha.com/footloose-movie-trailer-and-poster/ http://www.asklatisha.com/footloose-movie-trailer-and-poster/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:46:32 +0000 Latisha http://www.asklatisha.com/?p=2727 In the remake of the 1984 film, Ren MacCormack (played by newcomer Kenny  Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where  he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community  was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and  Bomont’s local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid)  responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not  one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and  falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in  the process.

Source: Comingsoon.net


What can I say? I love dance movies, any shape, form or fashion. I’m looking forward to seeing this flick. What about you?

]]> http://www.asklatisha.com/footloose-movie-trailer-and-poster/feed/ 1 I’m thinking of canceling my Vampire Diaries Season Pass (A Little Bit of Rambling) http://www.asklatisha.com/i%e2%80%99m-thinking-of-canceling-my-vampire-diaries-season-pass-a-little-bit-of-rambling/ http://www.asklatisha.com/i%e2%80%99m-thinking-of-canceling-my-vampire-diaries-season-pass-a-little-bit-of-rambling/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:34:57 +0000 Latisha http://www.asklatisha.com/?p=2482 Not that the show has disappointed me or diminished in quality or mystery in anyway. When last I watched, it was still pretty interesting; although the relationship between Stephen and Elena was starting to bore and irritate me a bit. Unfortunately just like with the dumb Twilight series, I began rooting for the doomed relationship (Team Jacob/Team Damon).

Just to talk about the Twilight series a little. I think the first flick was a little below alright but it didn’t suck; it was just a little dumb. With the introduction of the love triangle in New Moon I thought it might get a little more interesting and even a bit sexy (at least the trailers had that vibe), however, it turned out to be a pointless, pathetic and selfish (Bella), pointless, lovesick and irrational (Bella and Edward), disappointing film with one sexy hunk (Jacob :)), dumb characters (The Volturi and the entire character line-up) and two wasted hours of my life. I know I mentioned pointless twice, not a typo.

 I thought that Jacob was a really sweet guy, friend and hero when Bella really needed one and I enjoyed the friendly banter between the two, in my opinion he is a much more sensible choice for Bella to fall in love with, but she selfishly misused his love for her and dishonestly led him on.

There is this one scene between the two of them where Bella stupidly hurts herself and she feels blood on her forehead and apologizes, then Jacob says “Bella, you’re apologizing for bleeding?” I just think with Jacob, she could of have something closer to a normal less intense life.   Listen to me rattle on about this stuff like its real, it’s a good thing this is my blog and I can say whatever I want. Nevertheless, my apologies for my longwinded yet miniature Twilight review.

Hottie!

As for Vampire Diaries’ Damon; he is or was a bad guy for hundreds of years, spilling many innocent blood, but his love for Elena has given him a change of heart. Does that undo what he did or who he was? Why do we always root for the bad guys?

 I think it’s because they are often sexier and more intriguing, thus that is the case here. Nevertheless, should I continue to watch the show in hopes that something evolves between these two characters?

To be honest, this t.v show doesn’t add to my life in anyway. I’m not sure I’m into the direction its heading. The only thing to keep me watching and chop it up to a guilty pleasure is the hopes that something (not necessarily sex) happened between Damon and Elena, and that’s not very likely to happen, and if it does. Where would the story go from there? What would happen to Stephen and Damon’s relationship? More drama!

Right now I have 5 unwatched VD episodes in my Tivo recordings; I’ve just not been in the VD mode lately. Lately I’ve desired feel-good wholesome entertainment. Not love triangle, blood spilling, supernatural creatures at war type stuff.

So what to you think, delete them, cancel the season pass and move on? Besides doing that would fit into two of my 2011 goals, to fill my mind with more positive things and watch tv less, read more. I was just keeping the recordings there just in case I got in the VD mood again. Other stuff I have canceled season passes for lately (late last year) because I wasn’t feeling the drama and direction the shows were heading are The Good Wife (got too political for me, it’s a shame, I really loved the first season) and Hellcats (Too much drama and sex for me).

I think I’ve made my decision. Still let me know what you think? Thanks for bearing with my rambling.

Hot Guy! Dumb Franchise!

Are they any shows you are thinking you should stop watching?

]]> http://www.asklatisha.com/i%e2%80%99m-thinking-of-canceling-my-vampire-diaries-season-pass-a-little-bit-of-rambling/feed/ 0 The Book and the Rose http://www.asklatisha.com/the-book-and-the-rose/ http://www.asklatisha.com/the-book-and-the-rose/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:41:36 +0000 Latisha http://www.asklatisha.com/?p=2466 The Book and the Rose

A Short film based on the short story written by Max Lucado entitled “The People with Roses” found in the book “And the Angels were Silent” by Max Lucado.

 I watched this short film on TBN last night, and found it to be a very beautiful story that truly came together and exerted its significance at the very end.

 The People With Roses

 John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind.

In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner’s name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War II.

During the next year and one-month the two grew to know each other through the mail. Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A Romance was budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like.

When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting – 7:00 PM at the Grand Central Station in New York. “You’ll recognize me,” she wrote, “by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my lapel.” So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face he’d never seen.

I’ll let Mr. Blanchard tell you what happened:

A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim. Her blonde hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears; her eyes were blue as flowers. Her lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit she was like springtime come alive. I started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a rose.

As I moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips. “Going my way, sailor?” she murmured. Almost uncontrollably I made one step closer to her, and then I saw Hollis Maynell. She was standing almost directly behind the girl.

A woman well past 40, she had graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump, her thick-ankled feet thrust into low-heeled shoes. The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away. I felt as though I was split in two, so keen was my desire to follow her, and yet so deep was my longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own. And there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible, her gray eyes had a warm and kindly twinkle. I did not hesitate. My fingers gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book that was to identify me to her.

This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even better than love, a friendship for which I had been and must ever be grateful.

I squared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the woman, even though while I spoke I felt choked by the bitterness of my disappointment. “I’m Lieutenant John Blanchard, and you must be Miss Maynell. I am so glad you could meet me; may I take you to dinner?”

The woman’s face broadened into a tolerant smile. “I don’t know what this is about, son,” she answered, “but the young lady in the green suit who just went by, she begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”

My Favorite Quotes in the Film were:

“Tell me who you love and I’ll tell you who you are”

“I’m as old as everything I’ve ever done and as young as everything I still want to do”

 I highly recommend this film. I give it four stars. I don’t think the true essence of its meaning has taken root in my heart yet, but I pray God gives me the full understanding in time. Maybe as my own life experience with real love and making Godly choices evolve. If you see this film show up on your t.v listings or have the opportunity to rent it. Go for it. It’s really sweet and meaningful.

1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version, ©2010)

1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Happy Valentine’s Day

]]> http://www.asklatisha.com/the-book-and-the-rose/feed/ 2 This Week’s Holiday TV Guide-What to watch? http://www.asklatisha.com/this-weeks-holiday-tv-guide-what-to-watch/ http://www.asklatisha.com/this-weeks-holiday-tv-guide-what-to-watch/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:59:01 +0000 Latisha http://www.asklatisha.com/?p=2452 Already got the holiday spirit? I know I do. I’m excited to delve into the world of holiday, heart-warming and sometimes thought provoking t.v movies and specials; and I want to offer you whatever information I gather on where to go, what to watch and when. If you are a Christmas fanatic, like I am and you really love Christmas movies and specials as much as I do, please feel free to come back every week for info on what’s on that week. Also hit up my comment box and tell me what you are going to watch, what you watched and what did you think? Let me know. Looking forward to hearing you. Have a great week.

Friday 12th- Thursday 18th 

This week Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas begins; all Christmas movies all month long. I love Hallmark.

 Friday 12th

Disney Movie Premiere- 8 P.M, The Disney Channel

Avalon High- This new Disney Channel movie follows Allie, a teen girl who’s thrilled when her parents, traveling professors who teach King Arthur’s legend, tell her that she’ll get to stay at her new school until she graduates. But shortly after arriving at Avalon High, she discovers a few uncanny similarities between King Arthur’s legacy and her new high school. Is it a modern-day Camelot?

Followed by:

Wizards of Waverly Place -9: 45 P.M, The Disney Channel

 Alex Tells the World- In the premiere of its fourth season, after escaping from a government agency that was holding them captive, the Russos return home to find they no longer have contact with the wizard world.

9:00 P.M, Hallmark Channel

A Family Thanksgiving- An ambitious attorney striving to become partner at her New York law firm bumps her head and wakes up in an alternate reality as a wife and mother of two. She unexpectedly finds great joy in having a family and, after being pulled back into the real world, is far less fulfilled as a single woman living only for her career. Realizing how much she is sacrificing, she sets a new direction in life to make room for love and family. Stars Daphne Zuniga and Faye Dunaway.

Saturday 13th

Hallmark Channel

 6:00 A.M- Finding John Christmas- A mysterious stranger is photographed as he performs an act of bravery. The town, curious to know his identity, labels him “John Christmas.” Nurse Kathleen McCallister is especially interested in him because she believes he is her brother who has been missing for 25 years. Emmy« Award winner Peter Falk reprises his role as Max the angel. Stars Valerie Bertinelli, William Russ and Peter Falk.

8:00 A.M- When Angels Come to Town- Emmy« Award winner Peter Falk reprises his role as Max the angel in this heartwarming holiday drama about two very different families who need his help at Christmas. This time, Max’s job is at stake when his heavenly supervisor comes to earth to discipline him for contacting the wrong family in need. Also stars Katey Sagal, Tammy Blanchard, and Seann Gallagher.

10:00 A.M-What I Did For Love- A big city attorney doesn’t know what he’s in for when his fiance brings him back to her small hometown of Pine Gap to meet her family during the holidays. Once there he must survive not only the rigors of country-life but also her father, a tough and weathered lawyer-loather rancher. Stars Jeremy London, Dorie Barton and Sally Struthers.

12: 00 P.M- Moonlight & Mistletoe- Having grown up with Christmas year-round in a quaint New England town named Santaville with her dad playing Santa, a young woman has lost her Christmas spirit. When her dad is injured she returns home to find Santaville in financial trouble. In her effort to help her dad save his beloved Santaville, she is able to reconcile her past and find love in her future. Stars Tom Arnold, Candace Cameron Burre, and Barbara Niven

2:00 P.M- A Family Thanksgiving

4: 00 P.M- The Good Witch-When Cassandra Nightengale moves into a small town’s supposedly “haunted house” and opens an aromatherapy shop, she changes the lives of the local residents with her magical ways. Stars Catherine Bell and Chris Potter. 

6:00 P.M- The Good Witch’s Garden- Good witch Cassie Nightingale has finally found a home at stately Grey House and her relationship with handsome police chief Jake Russell is blossoming, when mysterious stranger Nick Chasen arrives in town. Nick claims to be a long lost relative of the house’s original owner and soon threatens the new life Cassie has found. Sequel to the popular Hallmark Channel original The Good Witch.Stars Catherine Bell and Chris Potter.

8:00 P.M- The Good Witch’s Gift-Cassandra ôCassieö Nightingale always has a few tricks up her sleeve, but is surprised when her handsome fiancT, chief of police Jake Russell, proposes they set their wedding date for Christmas Eveùonly six days away! The two hurry to plan the wedding, but run trouble into when a criminal from Jake’s past returns to town. Stars Catherine Bell and Chris Potter.

10:00 P.M-The Good Witch’s Gift

Sunday 14th

Hallmark 

12:00 A.M- The Good Witch’s Gift

2: 00 A.M- The Good Witch

4:00 A.M- The Good Witch’s Garden

6:00 A.M- Moonlight & Mistletoe

8:00 A.M-The Most Wonderful Time of the Year- The overwhelming tasks that go along with Christmas have taken the joy out of the holidays for busy single mom Jennifer Cullen. Then her Uncle Ralph arrives at her home with the young, handsome Morgan Derby. Morgan’s love of Christmas, and life, is contagious and as Jennifer glumly navigates through the holidays, she soon realizes that what she needs most is right under her nose. Stars Henry Winkler, Brooke Burns and Warren Christie.

10:00 A.M- A Season For Miracles - With a little help from an angel, Christmas miracles happen for a homeless family. Stars Patty Duke, Laura Dern, Carla Gugino, Lynn Redgrave, and Kathy Baker.

12:00 P.M- Fallen Angel- A high-powered Los Angeles lawyer returns to his deceased fathers home in Maine where he is reunited with his past. Stars Gary Sinise, and Joely Richardson.

2:00 P.M-Silver Bells- Anne Heche and Tate Donovan star in an adaptation of Luanne Rice’s holiday tale about a widower who finds love in New York City.

4:00 P.M- All I Want for Christmas-A nine-year-old boy enters a corporate-sponsored contest in which entrants are asked for their greatest Christmas wish. Unbeknownst to his widowed, mother he asks the contest organizers to help her find a new husband. Stars Gail O’Grady, Robert Mailhouse, Jimmy ‘Jax’ Pinchack, and Greg Germann.

6:00 P.M- The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

8:00 P.M- The Good Witch’s Gift

10:00 P.M- A Season For Miracles

Monday 15th

Hallmark

12:00 A.M- Silver Bells

2:00 A.M- Fallen Angel

4:00 A.M- The Ultimate Gift- When his wealthy grandfather dies, trust fund baby Jason Stevens anticipates a big inheritance. Instead, his grandfather has devised a crash course on life with twelve tasks–or “gifts”– designed to challenge Jason in improbable ways, sending him on a journey of self-discovery and forcing him to determine what is most important in life: money or happiness. Stars James Garner, Bill Cobbs and Abigail Breslin.

6:00 A.M- One Magic Christmas-Award-winning actress Mary Steenburgen stars as Ginny Grainger, a young mother who rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie. Stars Mary Steenburgen, Harry Dean Stanton.

8:00 A.M- A Christmas Visitor-An unexpected visitor enters the lives of two grieving parents to help them remember the joys of Christmas. Stars Meredith Baxter and William Devane.

4:00 P.M- One Magic Christmas

6:00 P.M- The National Tree- A majestic spruce which represents cherished memories of happier times for a father and son becomes a source of inspiration and pride for the entire nation. Based on the novel by David Kranes. Stars Andrew McCarthy, Kari Matchett and Evan Williams.

8:00 P.M- The Ultimate Gift

10:00 P.M- A Christmas Visitor

Tuesday 16th

Hallmark

12:00 A.M- The Three Gifts – As their orphanage is being renovated, three orphan boys who are known for being trouble makers temporarily move in with Jack and Cherie Green over the Christmas Holiday. The Greens are unable to have children and Jack is wary of fatherhood. As his feelings change, however, Jack and Cheri are able to give the children the greatest Christmas give they’ve ever known. Stars Dean Cain, Jean Louisa Kelly, Mimi Kennedy and Reginald VelJohnson.

2:00 A.M- What I Did For Love

4:00 A.M- The Christmas Gift- In this modern day Christmas classic, a family learns the true meaning of the Christmas spirit in the most unexpected of places. Stars John Denver and Jane Kaczmarek.

6:00 A.M- The Three Gifts

8:00 A.M- The National Tree

4:00 P.M- Christmas in Canaan – In the rising heat of the Civil Rights Movement, Daniel Burton a widowed farmer struggling to make ends meet, forces his young son, DJ, who has begun to show racist tendencies, to spend time with his black classmate, Rodney, leading to an unexpected friendship. As the years pass and racial tensions in their town build, an unforgettable Christmas will teach the boys the importance of hope and the true meaning of family. Based on a novel co-written by Kenny Rogers. Stars Billy Ray Cyrus, Zak Ludwig, and Jaishon Fisher.

6:00 P.M- What I Did For Love

 8:00 P.M- The Christmas Card - Moved by an anonymous Christmas card sent to the front lines of Afghanistan, lonely career militarist Captain Cody Cullen travels to the small town of Nevada City to meet the card’s sender, Faith Spelman. Stars Ed Asner, John Newton, and Alice Evans.

10:00 P.M-  Debbie Macomber’s Mrs. Miracle - Feeling in over his head when it comes to being a single dad to twin six-year-olds, Seth Webster is in desperate need of a nanny. And it may not be just coincidence when, just as the perfect housekeeper shows up, other important things begin to fall into place as well. Mrs. Merkle, or æMrs. Miracle,’ as the twins dub her, not only cooks and cleans, but wields a mighty snowball-throwing arm and always seems to know the right thing to do, which is just what this family needs. Stars James Van Der Beek, Erin Karpluk, and Doris Roberts.

Wednesday 17th

12:00 A.M- Christmas in Canaan

2:00 A.M- Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue – Three children fight to get their innocent father out of jail in time for Christmas. Stars Robert Urich.

4:00 A.M- Mr. St. Nick – Deciding it’s time to pass the torch on to his son, Nick St. Nicholas, Santa learns that his son has a few plans of his own. When things go terribly wrong, only a miracle can stop Christmas from becoming a dim memory forever. Stars Kelsey Grammer, Ana Ortiz, Charles Durning, and Katherine Helmond. Nick

6:00 P.M- Debbie Macomber’s Mrs. Miracle

8:00 P.M- The Christmas Card

4:00 P.M- Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue

6:00 P.M- Mr. St. Nick

8:00 P.M- Naughty or Nice – George Lopez stars as an antagonistic sports-radio DJ challenged to be nice on the air by an ill boy, whose condition improves with the jock’s new approach.

10:00 P.M- All I Want For Christmas

Thursday 18th

Hallmark

12:00 A.M- Ebbie - In this updated retelling of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth “Ebbie” Scrooge is taught the true spirit of Christmas by three Spirits who visit her. Stars Susan Lucci.

2:00 A.M- Christmas Carol, A (2004) – Inspired by a stage musical which used to be presented annually at New York’s Madison Square Garden, this Christmas Carol stars Kelsey Grammer as tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge, who sees the errors of his ways just in time to oversee the best Christmas ever for his long-suffering clerk Bob Cratchit. Also stars Jason Alexander, Jesse L. Martin, Jane Krakowski and Geraldine Chaplin.

4:00 P.M- Ms. Scrooge- The classic Dickens tale gets a refreshing modern update in this heartwarming holiday treasure starring Cicely Tyson. Miserly-banker Ebenita Scrooge is given the opportunity to examine her life, in a way only three special Christmas ghosts can. Also stars Katherine Helmond and Michael Beach.

6:00 P.M- Naughty & Nice

 8:00 P.M- Ms. Scrooge

 4:00 P.M- A Christmas Carol (2004)

 6:00 P.M- Ebbie

 8:00 P.M- Karroll’s Christmas – Allen Karroll hates Christmas ever since his ex-girlfriend humiliated him in front of thousands of people one Christmas. As a man who writes greeting cards for a living, this proves to be a hinderance. Stars Tom Everett Scott, Wallace Shawn and Larry Miller.

 10:00 P.M- Karoll’s Christmas

]]> http://www.asklatisha.com/this-weeks-holiday-tv-guide-what-to-watch/feed/ 0 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Movie Trailer http://www.asklatisha.com/the-twilight-saga-eclipse-movie-trailer/ http://www.asklatisha.com/the-twilight-saga-eclipse-movie-trailer/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:21:01 +0000 Latisha http://www.asklatisha.com/?p=1531

Whoa. Intense!

If you are reading this post via e-mail, click here to veiw trailer.

]]> http://www.asklatisha.com/the-twilight-saga-eclipse-movie-trailer/feed/ 3 Just Wright Movie Trailer http://www.asklatisha.com/just-wright-movie-trailer/ http://www.asklatisha.com/just-wright-movie-trailer/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:46:37 +0000 Latisha http://www.asklatisha.com/?p=1521 Looks like Common and Queen Latifah have good chemistry in this flick. Looks romantic too. What can I say, that’s my thang : ).

If you are reading this in your e-mail, click here to view movie trailer.

]]> http://www.asklatisha.com/just-wright-movie-trailer/feed/ 0 New Iron Man 2 Trailer http://www.asklatisha.com/new-iron-man-2-trailer/ http://www.asklatisha.com/new-iron-man-2-trailer/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:54:25 +0000 Latisha http://www.asklatisha.com/?p=1516

Wow, looks great! Hope they didn’t pack all the good stuff in the trailer. So question; which movie are you most excited to see?

Iron Man 2

The Last Airbender

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