Togetherness (TV Series 2015-present)
It's been a while since I posted about some films or series, or anything else for the last time here. Today I'm going to tell you about one of my favourite TV series of the last year Togetherness (created by Mark and Jay Duplass and Steve Zissis). Second season of the series is nearly finished on HBO, so we're gonna follow it while it'…
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Orange Is The New Black: Red's No-Bake Correctional Cheesecake
Red is one of my favorite characters in 'Orange Is The New Black'. For those who missed out this TV series somehow, 'OITNB' tells us a story about female prison and destinies of characters, who got there for some reason. Red is a chef there (mmm, actually that's not her only job, but still:) and no one dares to say something bad…
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Short Weekend: In the Name of Beautiful Observation
Very unusual Short Weekend - gorgeous video art instead of usual short films. I love them all! And guess who's going to watch something from Hitchcock right now;) Videos are made by Vimeo user with a mysterious name 'kogonada'. More beauty here .
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Nutella Pancakes
The Winter is finally over. It was the warmest Winter ever, also I spend incredibly great weeks with friends abroad, I had an awesome New Year celebration. This Winter was also hard and shocking. And now it's over. And I'm totally open for something fresh and new. Last weekend I thought: why shouldn't I start cooking something new? So I deci…
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Weekend Film: 'The Kings of Summer' (2013)
This weekend we have summer on Films & Pies:) Yesterday I posted about cute short film ' The River ' and today I'll tell you about ' The Kings of Summer ' - indie film about friendship, freedom, and youth. So..let's go!;)
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The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza, 2013)
I have no idea how should I write good and in the right way about this film. This is the case, when emotions, your personal feelings prevail over a cold view. 'La Grande Bellezza' is about a 65 years old man, writer and a very charismatic person, representative of bohemia, who suddenly understood, that he's on a wrong places, doing things th…
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Hundreds Of Great Pages: New Books On My Shelf
Finally I came to this post! For the last two months I bought great books, some of them about cooking and some of them not, but all of them worth reading time and definitely worth their money. So, let's go! ' Good Old-Fashioned Puddings ' text and recipes by Sara Paston-Williams I'm totally in love with it. First of all it's the …
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Collage-collage
A week ago 'Films & Pies' finally got their 'face'! This is so fascinating to see how your own cozy blog changes from white, boring snd pale to colourful, unique and stylish just in a few minutes. Todays' post is about gorgeous and beautiful illustrator, superhero, my Moon and Sun (hah!) and best friend - Yana. Better know…
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Trick or Treat: My Halloween Look and The Old-school Horror Films Marathon
Boo! Today is a day when we can officially look strange, scary and funny. Also we can look even weird, creepy or ridiculous and no one will tell us anything about it, except 'Oh, what a great costume!' or 'Come on man, wearing the same costume for 10 years isn't cool'. So:) Some of you are going to a parties, someone turning off all …
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Oh Boy (2012)
Watching, how the German cinematography is growing up fascinates me.(Few next sentences you can easily skip;) Why? Because when I was in the beginning of my teenage I thought, that Germans are filming a). super cool and famous porn b). TV series about a good guys, who catch criminals (with dogs or with a clown masks on their faces). Later I became familiar …
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Into The Mind (2013)
Sometimes it's really hard to write even a short review on some film. You have to be objective, be very and very attentive, do not spoil and still try to describe your own impression with some very personal feelings. Today I think my review will be short, but also - the hardest. I've seen an absolutely masterpiece. A film so magical and bea…
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Welcome to Films & Pies :) My name is Solya and this blog is a place where I write mostly about films, food and all things I really enjoy.
