Hey look, folks! It's that movie I worked on forever ago!

Jesus Christ. When can I watch this?

Annie, Annie, Annie.  Princess Mia.  Thank God Anne Hathaway got serious after those ridiculous Princess Diaries movies.  It pained me to watch them, honestly.

Over the past decade, Anne has transformed herself into a perfect fit for the Lady list....(read more at TheGoodFan).


( Read more... )

Gidday, Sheilas!  In honor of today's Lady, I'm working on my New Zealand slang.  According to some exceedingly brief internet research, I can tell you that Melanie Lynskey is a bit of a dag Kiwi who I wouldn't mind dropping my gear with.... (read the rest over at TheGoodFan)


( Read more... )

So, I've moved all of the Lady a Day stuff to a new venture, The Good Fan.  I've been tweeting as TheGoodFan for a while now, so it just makes sense to keep all of my media-based obsessing under one pseudonym.  The blog design is just a stopgap measure.  I need a few weekends to get everything polished.  I bought the domain thegoodfan.com, but ( Read more... )

Okay, I can't even pretend that this is spurred by anything more than a raging crush from girlhood.  Nicole Ari Parker starred as the object of Laurel Holloman's affection in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, which included such romantic scenes as awkward hand-holding in a diner, laying together in a big field of wildflowers, and ( Read more... )

You know when Bette Midler wormed her way into my heart?  It was this little movie called Hocus Pocus.  After that virgin, Max, lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected her, she was just the baddest witch on the block.  Little brat that I was, I really related to Winnie, always having to boss around her two idiot sisters (Kathy Najimy! Young SJP ( Read more... )

Just, OMG you guys.  You know that book that everybody on your commute is reading, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo?  Yeah, I read it and it's okay.  But the fine folks of Sweden have adapted Stieg Larsson's trilogy into three corresponding movies, and the star of the series, goth hacker Lisbeth Salander, is played by the ( Read more... )

ETA: I'm unlocking the Lady-A-Day posts.

You can't showcase Gina Gershon without her partner-in-crime from one of the best films ever made, Bound.  Bound  was a Wachowski Brother film back when both of the Wachowski brothers were men (shoutout Larry/Lana!) and before they struck it big with The Matrix movies.  Bound is eye porn.  Violent and sexy ( Read more... )

So I had kinda sorta prepped another Lady for the post today, but I'm just in a mood and thinking that it's time to shake up the actresses and musicians and just deliver on a straight-up badass: Ursula the mothereffing Sea Witch, bitches.  Everybody has very specific defining experiences in childhood.  If, like me, you're a television and film nut ( Read more... )