I'll admit, when I see a man's name attached to a review for a movie geared to women, I roll my eyes. More often than not, that's enough to get me to pass it over. I've found that more often than not, when a man is reviewing a movie aimed at a female audience, his comments essentially sum up to "this is a movie for chicks, and I am not one. ( Read more... )

I did this Year in Fandom meme last year, and it was really fun, so I decided to bring it back this year. And, well, I thought it might be interesting to see the evolution of my fangirliness.

Your main fandom of the year?Yeah, it'll be Doctor Who again this year. I'm pretty sure it's the only thing I've followed with any regularity in 2011, ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I rambled on about The Craft, a movie which I think has some great elements and was almost a really solid movie... y'know, if it weren't for a few sloppy shortcuts and nitpicky things I find problematic. Today I'd like to do the same thing with Moulin Rouge.

I know, this is riskier. People love this movie with an obsessive ( Read more... )

This week I saw The Craft for the first time. I know, I know, I'm horribly behind the times, especially since I was a teenage girl when the movie first came out. It was just not something that was on my radar, I guess, until recently.

I have many thoughts about this movie. I will share them behind the cut.

( Warning: much rambling and screencaps behind this point. Also spoilers. Be ye warned. )

Every Friday night at our house is movie night. The husband goes out for his night of geekery with the guys, and so the kids and I snuggle in to watch movies all evening. The weather is reasonable enough we're not afraid to walk to the movie rental place a few blocks away, which we did today and everyone got to pick a movie (ok, except for the ( Read more... )

The other day I caught the miniseries Lost in Austen, one of those "Austen fan gets literally sucked into the story" retellings. I'd heard mixed reviews, so when it showed up on netflix instant streaming, I figured I'd give it a shot ( Read more... )

Why yes, I did steal this Year in Fandom meme from flying_girl73. That's just how I roll.

Your main fandom of the year?
Probably Doctor Who. Matt Smith is teh awesome.

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On Friday nights, I usually watch a movie with the older two kids. Since we're in the process of boxing things up to move, all our videos are out of commission for the time being, so I asked the husband to pick up a movie on his way home from work. They had some sort of 3-for-1 deal going on, so in addition to the kids' movie he'd been sent for, ( Read more... )