Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard is a study, among other things, in mystifying symbology combined with even more baffling cinematography. In short, from a purely aesthetic perspective, I didn't like it that much ( Read more... )

Warning: Very brief, passing mentions of fictional suicide/wanting to die under the cut.

I do swear that I am actually capable of enjoying media. Just not ... the past three things I've had to read/watch for class.

( At least this one wasn't about how great prostitution is )

I was honestly expecting to dislike this film as much as I disliked Eleven Minutes, but while there were many similar issues, and a plethora of new issues, I actually found it to be a rather enjoyable and well-done film ( Read more... )

So for my feminism & fairytales class I am required to make one "journal" entry for every class day, and since I think I'll do better if I'm posting stuff on LJ with ~icons~ I was going to make a filter for these entries and see if anyone would be interested in reading them and maybe having discussions with me! Because I like discussions! They ( Read more... )

When I first read the modernists I was a junior in high school, and I pretty much feel for T.S. Eliot right away (my very first experience with Thomas Stearns was, interestingly enough, a Stephen King novel, but that's a story for another time). Anyway, I was really drawn to his poetry -- that, and I though his borderline pedantry to be exactly ( Read more... )

Since my brain likes to, at times, greatly resemble a sieve, I did not remember that Sarah Rees Brennan’s debut novel came out recently until lilian_cho posted about it today. I have only one truly salient thing to say on this matter: it does not matter if you do not like fantasy; it does not matter if you feel young adult fiction is beneath you; it does ( Read more... )

I'm going to preface my writing about The Dark Knight with this: say all you like about Heath Ledger, but for me Aaron Eckhart stole the show.

( Anything else I might say beyond that will likely be a spoiler )

I could just leave it at “you’re going to have to scrape me off the floor with a spatula because I have been flattened by Radiohead love” but where’s the fun in that?

If you want random squealing go to stormantia’s journal here. However, I have chose to present to you an almost-coherent review of Radiohead’s In Rainbows:

( so maybe you had me from the opening chord )