by Carmen Ferreiro-EstebanThe King of the title in the movie the King's Speech is played by Colin Firth, so when my friend Peggy called to ask if I wanted to go watch the said movie with her, I said yes. Yes, indeed. No questions asked. As you may remember if you have been following my picks, I love Colin Firth ever since I saw him as Darcy in the BBC miniseries version of [...]

Does a lie becomes the truth if told often enough?by Carmen Ferreiro In the spring of 1940, 20,000 people, 12,000 of them Polish officers, were executed under direct orders from Stalin and buried in common graves in the Katyn forest. The Germans found the graves in 1943, as they advanced into Russia. They exhumed and identified the bodies, and released the names of the dead to the Polish population attributing the massacre to [...]

I am pretty old-fashioned when it comes to movies.For me the most important thing in a movie is the story. No amount of special effects can compensate for a weak plot or cardboard characters. That is why I am no fan of Star Wars, or Titanic. That is why Avatar didn't do it for me. Avatar, the little movie directed by James Cameron of Titanic fame, is visually stunning. The representation of the [...]

I almost killed a girl last evening in my way to the movies. She ran in front of my car from the sidewalk and would have been her fault had I hit her. Luckily I braked hard and the car stopped and she reached the other side unharmed. It was an eerie reminder of how quick a normal day can take a turn for disaster.Strangely enough, Terribly Happy, the movie I watched later, [...]

I am Love is not a movie to be seen to pass the time, but a work of art, to be taken in and digested at leisure as you would a Picasso painting or a Shakespeare play.If you believe there are movies and there are films, then you'd agree with me that I Am Love is the quintessential example of what a film should be.I Am Love (which sounds sexier if you say [...]