Beginners really is a fine film.  I enjoyed it when it first came out - I had lived in Atlanta for about a month and I braved the traffic into Midtown to see the one theater that was playing it opening weekend.  Mind you, I had refused to brave Atlanta traffic to see my best friend for YEARS.  But c'mon.  EWAN ( Read more... )

I'm in my 8:00 modern theory class right now.  I'm so showing Equilibrium, hehe.  Why hello Christian, hello Sean.  *purrs with pleasure*  Damn they look good. I love the black leather gloves.  I bet there's some good Preston/Partridge slash out there.  And let's not forget this movie has Sean Pertwee and Willie Fichtner.  I love me some Willie ( Read more... )

You might've seen these already, but that does not dim their hotness, so I present them here.

These are the first pics from the sequel to Taken (Taken Too?) and the story follows the revenge the Albanians take on Brian Mills, Destroyer of Albanian slave rings.  (There were Albanians left to take revenge?)  Apparently Sir Liam is the one taken this ( Read more... )

And why is he so smug?

Because Salmon Fishing the Yemen just spent its second week in the top 10 in the U.S. box office.  That fact alone is nifty, but it's downright impressive when you consider it's only showing in 524 theaters across the country.  The closest top 10 film in terms of theater-count is showing on over 2,600 (Titanic 3D, I think).

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There hasn't yet been a time this semester when I've had less than 30+ items on my to-do list.

My first faculty evaluation portfolio is due on Tuesday.  Eeeep!  I'm not worried about putting the thing together, I'm just worried about it having enough stuff in it.  Making real progress in research is all but impossible with a 4/4 teaching load, but ( Read more... )

In case I haven't thanked you already, many squishy hugs and thanks to motetus, aislinn_tredor, gunxshyed, and honscot for the sparklies and wee dragons.  ^_^

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sneezer222 and I were recently chatting about Ewan's persistent boyishness even as he begins to take "older" roles (I think he's too young for Salmon Fishing, but I'm sure that won't stop him from being utterly fetching).  Anyhow, I ( Read more... )

Here's the first teaser (the first I've found, anyway) for The Impossible.  Dubbed in Spanish.

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Dear Academy,

Please, please, please give Leonardo di Caprio the Best Actor this year for J. Edgar.  Please give him his damn award and spare us another year of his glum, overly-serious, washed-out biopics.  Yes, he's good at what he does, which is one thing...ONE. THING.  Making humorless, dreary Oscar-bait  on a large commercial scale with very ( Read more... )

Well, here I am in my new faculty office!  Since I'll be spending more time here, I'll be updating and commenting more, so yay!  After the wilderness of dissertation writing, it's a relief to get back to at least some degree of routine and normalcy.

But I'll save RL updates for later.  For now I'm just going to post fun stuff.  And what could be ( Read more... )