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This article makes Django look like The Help with extra torture scenes. (I haven't seen it, ( Read more... )

I saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey today.
( spoilers ho )

I really enjoyed Skyfall. It's very cool that they made a Bond film where...
( MAJOR spoilers )

I finally got to watch The Avengers. I liked it, but I wasn't blown away. Maybe partly because I have never read any of the relevant comics.

So I invite those of you who had strong feelings about it to talk about what you loved/hated about it.

Also, where's the best fanfic? :)

(If I were writing Avengers fanfic, I would write it about Loki and ( Read more... )

I failed to record the sources where I found these, but many are from
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I went to this because I've enjoyed the other Underworld franchise movies, especially the first and third ones (this is the fourth); it was co-written by J. Michael Straczynski (who did Babylon 5); and it had Stephen Rea in it.

Bechdel test: Strong pass
Action: 7 out of 10
Plot: 3 out of 10

( minor spoilers; possible spoilers in comments )

In my review of the Golden Compass movie I mentioned a couple of the cool knitted garments that showed up in the movie.

The OH and I recently watched Jailhouse Rock. Elvis wears an very nice sweater in one scene. I wondered if I could find a pattern for it. A brief search turned up an adapted version (a personal pattern ( Read more... )

In which I make comments about
American Hardcore
Amelie
Ghost of the Shell 2: Innocence
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Cars by Pixar
Dark City
with a special guest appearance by Bram Stoker's Dracula

( spoilers )

Kundun, a film about the 14th Dalai Lama, directed by Martin Scorsese, certainly is one-sided in its treatment of the history involved (in a way that I am inclined to agree with), and more than a tad emotionally manipulative. But it's so. fucking. beautiful. And besides, how can I resist a score with Philip Glass and the Gyuto Monks?

The OH loves Fred Astaire movies and I generally find them irritating in one way or another, except for the dancing. But tonight's movie, Roberta, was an exception. It had great songs, several strong women characters, and even a couple of charming, non-buffoonish fat characters. It had some great geeky dialogue. It even qualifies under the Bechdel ( Read more... )