Dropped publishing history. Now I'm doing a special project for the same amount of credit. The University of Iceland turns 100 years old this year and the oldest (and biggest) movie theater turns 50.* So to commemorate the event they'll be showing movies from their vaults every Monday throughout the year (except summer). I will be in charge of ( Read more... )

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My abridged Rocky Horror experience (and then I'm going to bed ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling like I was getting sick. It's about time too. I haven't been sick in over a year. My throat ached and I felt a bit woozy but since I was OK energy wise I showed up for work. Didn't get much done but at least I was there. audurada and I are close to finishing the second episode of our apocalyptic radio show, I have an ( Read more... )

Had me a killer-plant themed movie weekend.

I'll hide the discussion behind a cut fur the spoiler-phobes

( Although they're very mild )

I've had the movie The Nines on DVD forever but for some reason didn't watch it until tonight. And it's kind of great. I loved it. See it.

And so the number of movies on DVD I own but have never seen dwindles to 17. Will the number go down even more before I buy more movies I won't watch? Oh, I can't wait to find out (!)

I also saw The Day the ( Read more... )

Meet my new favorite movie:

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I refuse to think about anything else these days but a French musical about love lost and love found. So there. The economy crisis is inching towards a resolution - it chiefly being that we'll all be dirt poor for the next 40 years. Nothing I can do about that so I'm making a conscious decision to just escape into ( Read more... )

Saw Wanted yesterday and am still digesting it ( Read more... )

I can stay silent no long. This truly was that straw the broke the camels back.

It's not just that lists like The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time is an incredibly lazy idea for an article (how many have there been now?) But why oh why doesn't anyone just sit down and actually watch "Don't look now" if they're planning on including it - instead of ( Read more... )

The Internet Movie Database lists 52 movies (and a handful of TV shows) which use the keywords man pretending to be gayThere is not a single movie about women pretending to be gay. Who would've thunk it? How are the movie studios not falling over themselves to produce that definitive light-weight comedy about a Stacy Straight who, for financial or ( Read more... )