Because I'm independent a contrarian, we went with Away We Go. OK, mostly because it worked best with our schedule. It was very cute. I would kind of like for Maya Rudolph to be my mom. Maybe. It was even feelgoody enough to make up for the fact that it ends with ( spoilers of sorts )

( picspam of SIGH. )

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So in my ritual pre-island OMG I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT MODERN CONVENIENCES rattle I have, in the past 24 hours, consumed the following:

* the aforementioned Daddy's Little Girls, which I'm just going to pretend ended way before it did because it was cute and lovely that way.

* Charlie Bartlett, wherein Robert Downey Jr was. Er. NOT HIS BEST, but ( Read more... )

(I should really be sleeping.)

I was just thinking (as you do when you're watching what turns out to be an ultimately unsatisfying movie) that I kind of prefer a lot of movies at the stage where they're setting up the characters and environment and feel. You know? And then the plot happens and it's stupid. And maybe it's my European upbringing ( ( Read more... )

Went to see Prince Caspian tonight, since it opened here YESTERDAY (pity meeeee). I liked it! Even though it skipped my two favorite parts of the book, ( spoilers? for tiny insignificant details in the book )

Oh, you guys. I am suddenly filled with so much Friday Night Lights love that it feels sort of, I don't know, wrong. Like, I'm getting REALLY ANXIOUS about next season since ( spoilers for something I may just be making up since I wasn't really paying attention to FNL when I read them )

I'm pretty sure jesshelga was convinced I'd never ever get around to finishing these, because it's been like a year since she forced me to watch this for the hot blindfolded feeding action. But, yes. Anyway. Mostly Martha is a German romantic comedy about an OCD chef (Martina Gedeck of The Lives of Others) who gets custody of her orphaned niece and (SPOILER ( Read more... )

Ugh. Someone help me stop doing that thing where I make five thousand crops and then get overwhelmed and never get anything finished enough that I like it.

That is, I may come back to these later (for one thing, some of them are screaming for text), but for now I'm kind of bummed out.


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