Okay, so this is a reaction post/vent/rant about the casting of the 11th Doctor.

( As River Song would say: spoilers... )

So my boyfriend and I are trying to come up with a list of feministic characters from various books (or movies), including one example of feminism for each Harry Potter book.  This is all because we complaining about the damsel-in-distress that is Bella from Twilight.  If you have any to add, I'd like to know, and why!

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Hermione - that punch in the ( Read more... )

Happy 1 Year Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!

At about this time last year, I had finished the final book for the first time, and was beginning to enter my post-HP depression. I had stayed up most of the night with my best friend and read aloud with her. We then went to bed, although I awoke several hours earlier and snuck in ( Read more... )

So for those of you who read the LA Times, a critic named Reed Johnson wrote an interesting article about Wall-E  in which he critiqued it for being a cute and cuddly sci-fi film. I was pretty annoyed at his analysis, and so I wrote an email to him. Not only did I get a reply, but high praise for my work. At any rate, I wanted to post my response ( Read more... )

A Chorus Line was simply as spectacular as I could expect, and I marveled at every aspect of it all.

To begin with, the singing abilities of the actor/dancers as a whole was far superior to the singing abilities of those in the original cast. Their harmonies together in "What I Did for Love" were strong, in unison and very unique. The voices as ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm going to see this Saturday's matinee performance of A Chorus Line at the Ahmanson Theatre and it only now crossed my mind to research the cast.

http://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/ACL_cast.aspx#mgruber - (link to the cast listing)

The only name I'm familiar with is Michael Gruber, and the rest all sound like they're fresh to the ( Read more... )

I just got back from seeing Wall-E. It was such a magnificent movie. I've always been blown away by Pixar's all-around talent regarding animation, story and character, but this one effortlessly blew all of the other films out of the water. Their films have only gotten better with age, and Wall-E was no exception. (spoilers ahead)

Although the film ( Read more... )

For a school project, my friend and I are planning on making a short, puppet-video which portrays the precursors leading up to the French Revolution. So, I have decided to post what I have written so far, just for the amusement of others. From all that I have learned about the revolution so far, it has become more than blatantly obvious that the ( Read more... )

Wow, as a result of my midterm on the Renaissance, and the fact that we have now entered the era of Enlightenment and Romanticism in school, I wrote an analysis of the social commentary in Jane Eyre in comparison to the social commentary in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale.  I'm actually very pleased with this, especially since it was all written on a ( Read more... )