( Not actually a spoiler. Honestly, I don't think it can be spoiled, there is NOTHING in the movie that wasn't in the trailer. )

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Books
Currently Reading A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel

Comics
Green Arrow 17
Avengers Assemble 12
Demon Knights 17
Saucer Country 12

Movies
Singin' In The Rain

T.V.
Justice League Unlimited: "This Little Piggy" | "The Greatest Story Never Told" | "Ultimatum" | "Dark Heart" | Wake The Dead" | "The Once and Future Thing: Weird Western" | "The Once ( Read more... )

Books
Still reading Life Mask

Movies
The Mollycoddle (1920)
Tangled (2010)

TV
Justice League: 33 & 34 "Maid of Honor" | 35 & 36 "Hearts and Minds"
Batman (1966) 1.15, 1.16 "The Joker Goes to School" | "He meets his match, the Grisly Ghoul."
                             1.17, 1.18 "True and False Face" | "Holy Rat Race"
                             1.19 "The ( Read more... )

I was persuaded into seeing Ninotchka on the strength of the following three things I knew about it beforehand: 1) it was playing at the Film Forum, which has never steered me wrong so far; 2) it starred Greta Garbo, and 3) she laughs in it.


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Backdated to the evening of the 6th for reasons.

Books
Dodger - Terry Pratchett
The Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope
Currently Reading: Life Mask - Emma Donoghue

Movies
The Emperor's New Groove
The Road to El Dorado
Ninotchka

TV
The Middleman - complete rewatch
Castle - assorted eps
Elementary - 1.11 "Dirty Laundry"
Look Around You - Season 1 rewatch
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Here are some as spoiler-free things as I could manage things about Looper, which I saw last night:

1. It is easily the best time travel story line I have ever seen. Really top notch science fiction. And Bruce Willis’ character hits my competence fetish hard.

2. Is it also the manliest man move that ever manned. Seriously MAN THINGS. All the ( Read more... )

Sunday started in a pleasantly bland way with Secret Rites; a 1970s faux-documentary about witchcraft starring Alex Sanders and following various initiation rituals. As an informative piece, it was alright, but ruined by the obvious falsification. If I'm going to believe a documentary about a religious ritual, I want the set to be built of ( Read more... )

Saturday's Film offerings started with Horror Express, which to the great shock and surprise of everyone with me, I had never yet seen. It's amusing to be the only one in a group of people who all share a cultural childhood I didn't. I spent my childhood reading Swallows and Amazons and Narnia, not watching classic horror, which is awesome, cause I ( Read more... )

I, apparently, sound considerably posher in real life than I do on the internet. This is presuably because my writing is in my headvoice which is primarily that of my Dad, and he's from Salford. Not that location affects poshness, but it does kind of have an effect on perception of poshness ( Read more... )