Okay, guys, this is a difficult post and it sucks that I just really feel like I have to make it to keep my enjoyment and, well, love of this movie. We watch LoveActually every December, and I nearly have the dang thing memorized. It's a great movie, totally amazing - the cast is, well, no words needed; the camerawork and lighting and pacing and ( Read more... )

#1 thought about this film as of twenty minutes in and reinforced at least ten specific times in the rest of the movie: Well, gosh, Christopher Nolan, I'm sure glad you were able to find enough brown people to serve as the background, characterless helpers, and suffering/dying folks needing rescuing. NICE JOB THERE. (Screw you ( Read more... )

Guys, guys, pantaloons aflame. Tonight, I went to a dance for ballroom club, although Michelle wasn't dancing tonight because she's got a hurt toe, but we watched Becca and did a little barefoot. And, and, this guy, who totally looked like a Hispanic Kon-El (the right build, a form-fitting black t-shirt with red writing over jeans, general air of ( Read more... )

Awww, guys!! This is a good movie. Mom Netflixed it because I had mentioned reading Jeff Bridges 'Making Iron Man' photodiaries (they're pretty great -- actually, his entire site is great, I like this man), and she remembered really enjoying this movie long ago ( Read more... )

To continue my movie education - by which I mean, my homoerotic movie education, because I am a woman of focused values and limited patiences - I rented The Sting from Netflix, having heard that it was, hmm, nuanced. ( Spoilers )

Mr. And Mrs. Smith, Basically: If you think that seeing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie be married and in love (rather separate things here) while having foreplay and flirtation in the form of car chases, gun/martial arts/etc fights around a fabulously domestic house, a body count, and, yes, actual fliration would be a sexy good time you a) are ( Read more... )