Okay, so, Robert A. Heinlein wrote some weird shit. We all know this, right? But his writing was very much formative for me because it was the first "adult" sci-fi I read (at around 12/13 years old).

They just made a movie about one of his short stories. It's about time travel and paradoxes, about 13 pages long, and you can read it here. The story ( Read more... )

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First: No, I have not read the book. Normally I prefer to read a book before watching any film adaptation, but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way.

I'd been interested in seeing How to Lose Friends & Alienate People since I first saw it advertised, but didn't get around to it until my mother happened to rent it just the other day. I'm glad ( Read more... )

So I'm watching The Ugly Truth right now. It's not the sort of film that I normally go for, but my mother wanted to watch it and my laptop is in for repairs again so I'm in the liveing room borrowing hers ( Read more... )

My family likes movies. We see a lot of them, mostly at the cheap town theatre. Recently we saw three.

( Angels and Demons )

So! I saw the new Trek film just now!

( Less-than-coherent squeeing and SPOILERS )

My family was watching X2 today, and my brother and I were arguing about how we thought the third X-Men film should have been handled. One thing we did agree on was that Scott Summers should have had a larger role ( Read more... )

I've rented Tales of the Black Freighter/Under the Hood, for completion's sake :-D To be honest, Tales of the Black Freighter is probably a little more disturbing than I would like, but I decided I wanted to see the cartoon anyway.

It seems to be a pretty basic frame-for-frame replication, except ( spoiler! )

So, over on startrek there have been a few images from the new movie posted recently. And, uh, I'm kind of getting excited :-D

Simon Pegg as Scotty still makes me boggle, though. Also: WINONA RYDER as Spock's mother. What is that?