I enjoyed this movie quite a bit, but probably not for the reasons that anyone else in the theater did. A side note, before I begin, has to do with the Frozen Fever short that played before the movie. It was... cute. So cute. And so merchandisable. It reminded me of the articles I read about the Sailor Moon manga's plot being timed around ( Read more... )

i09 has an interview (or the report of one) with a 7-year-old girl about the DC reboot, specifically, its treatment of Starfire. The author's seven-year-old daughter, who loves comics, comic book characters characters and Starfire in particular, has some salient points to make, but the most interesting one to me is that in the new comics, Starfire ( Read more... )

I'm at a loss to describe the level of poor writing squick that ruins the last twenty minutes or so of what is otherwise is a very serviceable and tidy horror movie. Suffice it to say that I've read enough terrible fanfic to know badfic when I see it and "Splice" unfortunately shifts from something an intelligent 25-year-old has written to ( Read more... )

As a reward to myself for getting the taxes mailed off, I stopped into Starbucks for an iced mocha and the latest Entertainment Weekly, which happened to be the summer movie preview. Huzzah, I thought, so many movies I want to see, listed in a convenient month-by-month manner! The first write-up is for the new Angelina Jolie spy thriller, Salt, ( Read more... )

As I blogged previously, both "V" and "Flashforward" went on five-months hiatuses (hiati?) to increase dramatic tension to build buzz (and let the writes do some tinkering to the scripts, I suspect). Both have recently returned, but only one has snapped up my attention from where it left off, while the other continues to flounder, a sad-eyed fish ( Read more... )

"Hot Tub Time Machine" is a pretty stupid movie, but we saw it for free, and yebsiu9 enjoyed it. It was the kind of movie that had a few good ideas, and one good actor, but squandered a lot of its potential on dumb, none-too-subtle jokes. The only bright spot in the convoluted mess is Craig Robinson, who plays his character with a world-weary, not-quite ( Read more... )

Dear Heroes: ( I think I see where you're going with this, and I'm not entirely thrilled. )

What a satisfying experience "Coraline" was, an entirely creepy and endlessly inventive movie that pushed the limits of a "children's movie" and its PG rating, but never fell into sentimental or dull territory. What's especially wonderful about the movie is that it lead me to go out and buy the book, something that I've been meaning to do for some ( Read more... )

7runninghorse was kind enough to lend me this book club read, and I am so, so grateful to her because I did not spend a penny on this stupid and rather repugnant murder "mystery". Not since my near-scientific fascination in 6th grade with the plot devices in "Murder, She Wrote" have I seen such blatant and boring plot contrivances, or such cliched and un- ( Read more... )

Lots of recs in this entry...

yebisu9 and I just finished watching Satoshi Kon's anime "Paranoia Agent", which, despite one episode we skipped entirely, turned out to be one of the most engrossing anime series I've seen in a long time. ( Click for more. )