OSCARS 2012: Favorite Looks + *POLL*

Just wanted to post my favorite looks of the Academy Awards red carpet this year…

Milla Jovovich

• Milla’s dress just SPARKLES!  Love the white…and the one shoulder.  So pretty!

Jessica Chastain ("The Help")

• This dress is obviously a bit of a risk for Jessica…but I love the gold on the black.  And her hair looks great.

Rose Byrne ("Bridesmaids")

• Rose’s look is a bit severe, but I love it.  Her hair matches perfectly with the dress, and her body fits in this dress really well.

Viola Davis ("The Help")

• The best thing about this dress is the COLOR.  COLOR COLOR COLOR.  The green on Viola’s skin tone is AWESOME.  And love her hair!  We never get to see it like that!

Missi Pyle ("The Artist")

• Again, it’s all about COLOR COLOR COLOR.  It’s AMAZING and looks perfect on Missi.  I saw her interviewed on the red carpet, and she said that his dress is an ECO dress.  Totally sustainable.  Pretty cool huh?  I LOVE it.

Angelina Jolie

•  This is probably one of my favorite looks of Angelina.  Usually she wears black, but it looks more severe.  This one actually looks more fun and “light” (even tho it’s black ).  Love the slit.  And her hair and makeup are PERFECT.  Awesome.

Photos Credit:  Just Jared

GOLDEN GLOBES 2012 – Other Fashion Favorites + *POLL*

Already posted about the Glee cast, but here are some of my other favorite looks from tonight’s award show:

Kate Beckinsale ("Contraband")

Berenice Bejo ("The Artist")

Viola Davis ("The Help")

Debra Messing ("Smash")

Jessica Alba

Sofia Vergara ("Modern Family")

Jessica Chastain ("The Help")

Madeline Stowe ("Revenge")

Katharine McPhee ("Smash")

Photos Credit:  Just Jared

 

MOVIE REVIEW: The Help

Ever since I saw the first preview for this movie, I wanted to see it.  Then I started reading all these RAVE reviews about the movie, which just made me want to see it more!

Well, I finally saw it…and boy, did it NOT DISAPPOINT!

I can say enough about this movie…really…it’s SO GOOD.  The basic storyline is about life in Mississippi in the 1960s.  Segregation was still “in tact”…most of the white ladies/families have African-American maids who do all the cleaning, cooking and the raising of the family’s children.

Emma Stone (Crazy Stupid Love) plays Skeeter…a recent college graduate who returned home and got a job as a columnist for the local paper.  She gets help with her column (a Q&A about household tips, etc) from Aibileen (Viola Davis), who is the maid for one of Skeeter’s friends.  As Skeeter starts talking with Aibileen, she comes up with an idea for a book of testimonials (anonymous) from maids and their experiences with the families they work for.

Although the movie is about the segregation and trying to break those “traditions,” it’s also about the relationships between the maids and their bosses/families.  It’s SUCH a touching and moving movie.  I cried multiple times.

The acting in this movie is SUPERB.  Viola Davis (Doubt) & Octavia Spencer are just AWESOME as Aibileen & Minny, the two main maids in the movie.  Bryce Dallas Howard (Spider-Man 3) plays Hilly, the “main mean girl” in town.  She is SO GOOD in this role…which basically means she is SO UNLIKABLE.  My gosh.  Seriously.  SO GOOD.  The other notable one to mention is Jessica Chastain, who plays Celia Foote…a new wife in town who has quite a reputation (not a good one) among the other wives.  Her character is SUCH a breath of fresh air among all these “stepford wives.”

It’s hard to really sum up this whole movie and all of its good points.  But just trust me.  It’s a MUST-SEE for sure.  It was probably one of the BEST movies I’ve seen this year.  I would HOPE this movie would get nominated for an Academy Award, but I also hope these LADIES get nominated as well…they MADE this movie.

GO SEE IT!