It is true that I bless the glorious roxana for pointing me and the lovely lachrymosa to THIS bit of vampy squee, and yes, we ARE planning a London ROAD TRIP for next summer...

But folks, just when I thought it couldn't get any better, check out THIS piece of utter, utter delightfulness! People, CHECK IT OUT. Ninjas! Dance numbers! Corny jokes! Crouching ( Read more... )

Just finished watching Shut Up and Sing with the Better Half--the documentary chronicling the three-year period after Natalie Maines* of the Dixie Chicks made her infamous remark about being embarrassed that the President of the United States came from Texas ( Read more... )

I totally want to have Samuel L. Jackson's babies.

And this is one of the many, many reasons why.

"Hey, we're not supposed to cuss out here!"

Well, we're back from another excellent trip to Ashland. Play reviews will follow, but for now, I just have to mention my new favorite movie.

Horror fans, take note: we've already immersed ourselves in the fantastic sub-genre of the chop-sockey vampire flick (chief among them Jiang Shi Fan Sheng, known in English as either The New Mr. Vampire or ( Read more... )

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...what to think about this.

Lucy Liu in a vampire flick.

I mean, you know, on the one hand: "Lucy Liu in a vampire flick! Squeee!"

But on the other hand, it's from the producers of that "gem," Gothika, which contains entries #2 and #3* in the Pantheon of Worst Lines of All Time--those being, in reverse order ( Read more... )

This looks BRILLIANT.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/fido/trailer1a/

As the B.H. points out, it's Romero meets John Waters! Crunchy zombie goodness.

We went to see 300 on Sunday night, and I do have a longer review floating around in my head. But I am in the midst of trying to simultaneously pack for my office move AND compile final grades AND write my craptastic conference paper, so it's going to have to wait.

But. The short recap, vis a vis my fan girl Frank Miller rant in elizawharton's blog: while, ( Read more... )

A shout-out to mortalwombat731: you've been keeping this under wraps. I believe, I believe!

Under the cut, ( The Grand Exalted Wombat video. )

This is funny and maddening at the same time. Maddening, mainly because Gilliam has such a history of failed, splendid, noble projects (The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, anyone?) and I don't think I can stand it if Gaiman/Pratchett's Good Omens becomes one of them ( Read more... )