Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

First off, I'm glad that this, a musical, made it to number five of the weekend's box-office top ten. It was a quality film all the way, and maybe an Oscar contender for the leads.

Secondly, I am astounded that Alvin and the Chipmunks is at number 3.

( There's no accounting for taste. . . No spoilers )

So we haven't had our Netflix since we moved, and we sometimes go into The Vault To find something to watch ( Read more... )

. . . was awesome ( Read more... )

It's been pretty quiet on LJ today. Yesterday was a fiesta and a half, it seemed like the posts and comments just wouldn't stop coming! I was kind of looking forward to people visiting my journal after I was featured in The Steampunk Home, but it hasn't seemed to have happened yet. I mean I don't think my caddies are the Second Coming of Awesome or ( Read more... )

Seems like I'm not the only one with Westerns on the Brain; The Onion's AV Club did a feature on 17 Grim Westerns.

I've seen a few on the list, and I rewatched Unforgiven Saturday night. If that somehow doesn't fit the mould of a grim western, I have no idea what does. A slow dissection of the Western Genre--without aneasthetic--by one of it's ( Read more... )

We had a busy, fun, exhausting weekend.

Friday night was Fido, a zombie comedy. If you took an episode of Lassie and replaced Lassie with a zombie played by Billy Connelly, you would have a fair idea of what the movie is. Zombies have arisen, blah blah blah, but an enormous corporate conglomerate has domesticated them through the use of a collar ( Read more... )

First off, I'm not dead ( Read more... )