I have just began watching the reality show 'Kourtney and Kim Take New York.' This is a spin off from their other shows, 'Keeping up with the Kardashians' and 'Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami.' Kourtney and Kim leave their Los Angeles home, to go to New York, to open their third D-A-S-H store. They already have one store in Los Angeles and another in Miami. The series follows the girls around as they start to set up their new store. Only two episodes have been aired in the US at the moment, but after the first two, the show looks promising. If you are a fan of the Kardashians, this is a show you would love to watch. The Show itself has its own Facebook page with over 41,000 people who 'like' this page. Social media has allowed people to come together and leave comments regarding this show on a page, where everyone is interested in the same show. Below is a sneak peak at what is coming up in the season.
In all the Kardashian shows, Kim is constantly seen at her phone and 'tweeting' on Twitter. This shows how much celebrities use Twitter to inform their fans of what they are doing at every moment in time. According to the Twitter counter Kim has been ranked 7th in the Top 10 most followed celebrities on Twitter. Kim is known for loving drama and her Twitter updates seem to be no exception. Kim has over 6,289,372 followers on Twitter.
Reality television programmes seem to have taken over our TV screens over the last few years and one of the newest reality shows to hit our screens is "Fade Street." This is like an 'Irish' version of the Shows like 'Laguna Beach', 'The City' and 'The Hills' in America. It is based in Dublin and follows the personal lives of 4 young girls, Louise, Vogue, Dani, and Cici. These are the main people in the show but there is many others as the girls are followed around at their jobs, house and social lives.
Louise is an intern at Stellar, a magazine company, Vogue is a DJ and planning on pursuing an acting career, Dani is working at Dublin Ink and is hoping to become a tattoo artist, and then Cici is still at college at DIT and is a club promoter. The show shows us the drama in these girls lives, including, nights out, work problems, college problems and particularly drama when the girls are out and about and meeting new people, and drama regarding boys of course. Wouldn't be reality if there wasn't problems like that!
The show has only been on our screens a few weeks, and to be honest it took me a while to get into it. I watched the first episode and didn't think the show was great so I stopped watching it. However I have began to watch it again and it is really starting to grow on me. It is becoming more popular now as the weeks go on, more and more people are beginning to talk about it.
Friday, January 28, 2011
So I recently went to see the movie "Little Fockers" and was expecting it to give me the laugh I was looking for. However, I was left disappointed, as the movie was nowhere near as good as the first two, which were "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers." The film has an all star cast including well known names such as Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and many more. The film begins with Jack having some health issues and rings Greg up who is the husband of Jack's daughter, to ask him to be the 'Godfocker.' As the film goes on, Jack begins to doubt his decision as he suspects his son in law is having an affair with Andi Garcia (Jessica Alba), who is a representative for a drugs company 'Sustengo.'
To find out exactly who this 'Andi Garcia' girl is, Jack uses the social networking site 'My Space.' This part of the film shows exactly how easy it is to find someone because of social networking today. Jack comes across pictures of the pair at a conference on her page and is convinced his son in law is having an affair, so he starts to follow Greg around. The film involves Greg and Pam's 5 year old twins, where the film leads up to their birthday and a party they are expecting to have in their new house in the garden, however there is complications along the way.
To be honest, I found the first two movies hilarious and was really looking forward to seeing this one, but there were not many funny moments in the movie at all. Would love to know what anyone else thought of the movie :)
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Hey There,
Just to tell everyone a little bit about myself, my name is Áine O' Byrne and I am a student in UCC. As part of my digital marketing class I must write a blog. I'm sitting here thinking to myself what am I going to write for my blog and finally it hits me that I love TV programmes and films and that this is what I should write about. I could talk for hours about what happened tonight on the X Factor , about 'i'm a Celebrity get me out of here' which started tonight, 'Desperate Houswives' and many more television series. I also enjoy going to the cinema, so what better to blog about than what I think of these shows and films.
Just the other night I went to see the film 'Let me in'. When going into the cinema I didn't quite know what to expect because we were in a rush so just bought the tickets for this film. Little did I know it was supposed to be a horror and that I am the biggest wimp ever. I get scared the second I hear that creepy music coming on in the background. Anyway I said I'd suck it up and watch it as the usher told me it was more of a thriller than a horror. The film was about a young boy who was being bullied at school who befriends a female vampire who moves in next door. I must say the film was slow starting and I was unsure where it was going. However it was very cleverly made and it was an excellent film. There was no jumpy bits thank god , just that creepy music which makes me quite scared because i know something scary is going to happen! Parts of the film were actually quite sad when the young boy is being bullied, but by meeting his new friend she helps him to become confident enough to confront the bullies.
