Over New Year's my friends and I were having a conversation about movies that feature female friendships where one of the friends is not dying. (Well, and about friendship in media more generally. I love friendships, I love watching people be friends, and I don't get nearly as much of it as I'd like. It's one of the things I love about As You Like ( Read more... )

Based on my interest in Ever After, Netflix recommends The Last King of Scotland and The Godfather. Apparently all of these movies fall under the category of "Critically Acclaimed Suspenseful Movies."

I wound up watching The Thirteenth Warrior this morning/afternoon instead of doing anything useful. I don't actually think it was a particularly *good* movie, but it was much better than its advertising suggested. Also, as you may know, I am a sucker for things that foreground the issues of language and translation in historical contexts (see my " ( Read more... )

"...what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves, and then punish them?"

*giggle*

We had lecture today on Utopia; I'll teach section on it on Monday. One hopes that in the intervening days, this quote will cease popping into my head at inappropriate times, but I seriously doubt it ( Read more... )

Last night I was watching television (something educational, of course... okay, fine, it was Ever After on ABC Family. Shut up), and I saw a commercial for the new show Ugly Betty. I've seen this commercial tons of times, but last night I happened to be standing near the TV, and I noticed that America Ferrara is wearing a necklace exactly like the ( Read more... )