I cried through the trailer for When the Game Stands Tall three times in theaters, and I was really looking forward to crying through the movie since I love sports movies. Sadly, the movie didn't live up to the promise of the trailer.

( Spoilers/Review )

I kind of wanted to see Begin Again anyway, and then lakeeffectgirl kept talking about how great it is, so I put it on my calendar and went to see it on Saturday.

If you want a very detailed recap of the movie, go read lakeeffectgirl's post. Here's my brief recap so you know what I'm talking about: ( Spoilers and Progressive Politics )

Today I'm thankful for the Thor movies. I made a real, concerted, good-faith effort to get into Avengers fandom along with everyone else, and it just didn't click for me, but I love the Thor movies. They're funny, they have a lot of female characters (comparatively speaking, at least), and they often let the comic book world be comic book-y and ( Read more... )

Today I'm thankful ninja_orange ran across Ninja Cheerleaders on Netflix. According to Wikipedia, this is a remake of Cheerleader Ninjas, which I have actually seen. Cheerleader Ninjas is an abysmally bad movie I wouldn't recommend to anyone for any reason (you can watch the trailer here to get a sense of just how bad it is), but I have a very clear memory of ( Read more... )

( Spoilers/Brief Feminist Analysis )

I loved Snow White and the Huntsman. The friend I went with only liked the first hour, and another friend who saw it opening weekend hated it, so I was expecting more varied opinion, but after collecting opinions, they're still the only two people I know who didn't like it. I thought about writing about the movie before, but I didn't really know ( Read more... )

I saw The Hunger Games last weekend with two fangirls, a fangirl's wife, and my mother, which was a lovely group of women to spend the morning and lunch with. I've been slacking on making a post about the movie because I really only had three things to say. Now, however, I'm on a Hunger Games email thread that has brought up a fourth thing about ( Read more... )

Perhaps you're stressed about Yuletide. Perhaps you're worried about those last few holiday gifts you still haven't bought. Perhaps you hate LJ's newest "improvement." Perhaps your office was eighty degrees in the middle of winter. I am here to tell you: you can put all that aside and enjoy the following links.

Good News 1
The first queer Navy ( Read more... )

A while ago, for no reason I can remember, I decided to read some Star Trek reboot fic. I missed this fandom the first time around for two reasons: One is that I don't want to read Kirk/Spock. I get that they're the original Trek pairing, but (a) Spock and Uhura! and (b) as much as I expected Kirk and Spock to fall in love, they didn't. The other ( Read more... )

Reduced Information IntakeI'm greatly reducing the things I read. I pruned my friends list, stopped reading fueledbygossip and Bandom TFLN (to the extent that I deleted them from my history so they wouldn't show up and tempt me when I start typing into the location bar), and stopped following Nathan Fillion and the majority of TAI's hangers-on and ( Read more... )