I'm mostly going to be pointing you all to other links in this one, but the long story short is ( Read more... )

it would be this one.

The mini ship-spat at the end made me laugh out loud.

With Little Bead visiting grandparents, Mr. Bead and I decided to redeem one of the vouchers we got for on-demand movies (Time-Warner's attempt to apologize for all their bumbling in upgrading our service). We decided on "Watchmen" (the director's cut).

We'd both read Watchmen the graphic novel, some years ago. I remembered the general story, but ( Read more... )

Stardust. Movie. Go. See. NOW.

(Book. Read too.)

( Much spoilery squeeing inside )

There was a time during my college and early grad school years that I was a movie addict. My roommate and I had all four big movie channels and I was constantly watching, taping and re-watching all kinds of movies. That habit has dwindled down to near nothing--the last movie I saw in a theater was "Goblet of Fire" and most of our DVD collection has ( Read more... )

So, I had the day all to myself ( Read more... )