Tales of good people doing unselfish good works and deeds always effect me deeply, and I find myself weeping at unselfishness and good happiness more than I do at tragedy or supposedly heart-wrenching drama. Today, I returned to Cold Comfort Farm (1995). The last time I looked in on this film (and novel) was in 2008, and I blogged about it here ( ( Read more... )

So, in thinking about the Disney studio output of the 1960s and 1970s, I began with surveying its films and classifying them by genre. Eventually, my treatise will focus on the 1970s, but I start in the 1960s, laying the groundwork and establishing recognizable trends. In thinking about Disney, one notices almost immediately how outside the ( Read more... )

So I have this theory: that the majority of the Disney films from the 1960s and 1970s owe their form and format to two movies: Old Yeller (1957) and The Shaggy Dog (1959).

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Someone has put Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell in a movie together.

How nice of them.


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My Charlie's Angels season 4 DVDs arrived this morning. Unfortunately, it looks like it's going to be a long night here at the office. :(


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I ordered my Charlie's Angels season 4 DVDs today. Does anyone want to come over and watch them with me?

Of course, I saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince today. Took off this morning from work to do so. Because I worked last Saturday, the company president bought my ticket for me yesterday, on the prompting of My Supervisor, My Supervisor' ( Read more... )

1. scream4noreason broke the news to me. Charlie's Angels season 4 is at last making its way to DVD.


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1. I watched part of Enchanted last night, in lieu of Obama and his annoying vocal cadences and during the commercials for Lost. It was actually quite charming. I'd never seen it before, which may surprise you unenligtened chickens who think I will see anything with the Disney name on it. I actually got kinda teary at an elaborate production number ( Read more... )

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1. There's a big ol' goose sitting atop the building across the way. It must be lost or tired. It's on the building where a group of 10-12 pigeons usually make their home. None of the pigeons are anywhere to be seen. I imagine that they're circling in this morning's fog, wondering what the fuck is that sitting on our roof? Actually, the goose makes ( Read more... )