Sleepy Hollow, I love you so very much, but we need to talk ( Read more... )

Have you heard the extremely worrisome news circulating?  Warner Brothers announced plans to do a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot movie.  It's not even ten years after the series went off the air, which is frankly too soon for a "reboot" under the best of circumstances.  These are FAR from the best of circumstances, because Joss Whedon is not ( Read more... )

Much as I adored the X-Files in its heyday, I wondered a bit why they were making another movie so many years later.  After seeing it, I'm still wondering.  I'm glad that they didn't try to weave it in closely with the alien mythology that is mostly unremembered even by fans who once sort of understood what was going on (or could at least explain ( Read more... )

First a happy thing and then a rant.  Summer's arrival has made the local farmers' markets really, really exciting.  Today I bought blackberries (1/3 eaten by the end of my walk home, staining my fingers purple), cherries, peaches, and tomatoes, and I still have salad greens, snap peas, pattypan squash, cucumber, and green beans left over from last ( Read more... )

I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Iron Man in a double-feature at the drive-in.  I couldn't manage to rally any friends to go, but being alone in my car allowed me to talk back to the screen to my heart's content so all was well.  Here's some thoughts.

Iron Man was excellent.  I've never seen the sex appeal some people ( Read more... )