by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jul 5, 2013 | Foreign Film Friday
Hubby and I just watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and I now feel like everything I have ever eaten is the equivalent of McDonald’s compared to what Jiro serves at his sushi restaurant. Watching this has made me realize that perfect is something to strive for, not...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Apr 12, 2013 | Foreign Film Friday
Heat of the Sun: Hide in Plain Sight Apparently in the early 1900s Kenya was a hotbed of debauchery. People could go to Kenya and start new lives, be out and proud, and eventually the past would catch up to them, and then they would have to murder someone. Heat of the...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Mar 22, 2013 | Foreign Film Friday
I have done something bad, I have signed up for Netflix streaming and spent an hour adding movies and shows to my queue. In order to justify this new time suck I will bring back my Foreign Film Friday blog. So the first show we watched is The IT Crowd. It is a funny...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Sep 21, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
Can’t get enough teen RomComs? I know they get formulaic and trite after a while, which is why you should watch My Tutor Friend 2, a Korean teen RomCom. It is cute, with lots of Korean culture which makes the story unique, well, for non-Koreans at least. There are the...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Sep 7, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
The Decoy Bride stars David Tennant, Kelly Macdonald, and Alice Eve. A super sweet romantic comedy from BBC, as if anything with David Tennant would be bad. Anyway, in a desperate and pathetic attempt to avoid the paparazzi, David Tennant gets a decoy bride and runs...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Aug 31, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
A Cat in Paris is a fun animated movie. By day the cat, is the loving pet of a hurt little girl, by night he assists a cat burglar. This was a bit more violent than I thought it would be; they actually fist fight at one point. Of course, the cat makes sure the hero...
