http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/07/21/080721crci_cinema_denbyRead more... )

Updated my knitting blog. I post more detail there about the movie, but I feel so sorry for Alan Rickman for having to be invovled with a movie like "Perfume, the Story of a Murderer". I hope they paid him a shitload of money for that role. Watched this movie on DVD at a friend's house. The women gave up taking it seriously about 10 minutes into ( Read more... )

Impressions on 4 hours of sleep. I warn you very seriously about NOT clicking on the cuts, UNTIL you have seen this movie. There are some good surprises in the way that they set up the plot and all the details. Entrances of main chracters etc ( Read more... )

zzznk. The tickets for the "midnight" showing were printed with 12:01 am November 18th, but apparantly that denoted when they would start letting the fantastically long line of people into the (sold out) theater. Film started more like 1 am. Meaning it was over about 3:30/3:40 am. (We think they were scrambling to fix some last minute projector ( Read more... )

Wonderful disturbing article yesterday in the LA Times about the @#$@%$%#@!Fred Phelps, extreme Christian fundamentalist baptist, who took his band of rabid, frothing at the mouth, followers to protest gays along a street where a funeral for a soldier was being held in a small town. The soldier was not gay, there was no connection it seems, it was ( Read more... )

EEE! finally Thewlis' big project, Cheeky, gets a distributor in France and... the David Thewlis film, "Cheeky," which was just picked up by Warner Bros. for U.S. distribution. from this odd source (all info from the obsessed fangirls (missVan) at david-thewlis.com ( Read more... )

I love the local indie video shop downtown, rented:
- Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb Peter Sellers is so amazing-- he plays 3 roles in this film. And! I had no idea that (a very young) James Earl Jones is in the film. We rented it as had just read an article in The New Yorker on the RAND (parodied as the Bland ( Read more... )

thanks to whomever rec'd that story to Hogwarts_today?

the big list of HP fic recs is done for now, figured I should do this pre-HBP

I tried out the little lj-haiku meme thing and got one that's wierdly appropriate (edited for grammar): singing along with
all the canadians on
my skis and turning
finally fixed the plugins for mozilla and watched ( Read more... )

ooooh, every review I've seen is loving the new Batman movie, I haven't seen one in the theater since 1989, and am seriously thinking of running out to see this one.... with praise like:

As sleek as a panther, with cheekbones that look sharp enough to give even an ardent lover pause, Mr. Bale makes a superbly menacing avenger. ...the last honest ( Read more... )

Oh oh, Anthony Lane kills me! with his reviews at The New Yorker. He's a geek among film critics and is the first to say he loves watching movies like Hitchiker's Guide and Lord of the Rings, but he has no scruples about saying things such as:
( Anakin, too, is a divided figure, wrenched between his Jedi devotion to selfless duty and a lurking hunch that, if he bides his time and trashes his best friends, he may eventually get to wear a funky black mask and start breathing like a horse. )