I liked this episode a lot. It was, perhaps, the best TV I had seen in a long time, so here are a couple of reviews:

Penny Dreadful Episode 2 Review: “Séance”

Penny Dreadful: Which Demon Possessed Vanessa Ives in “Séance”?
Please keep in mind, this is 21st century gothic horror television, and it uses every trope every used in a horror film, so, ( Read more... )

Top 50 scariest movies of all time

This is for fatpie42. I found it interesting because there were some in here that I had never heard of, but that I now want to see.

A lot of people are going to be disappointed in Oz The Great and Powerful because it neither follows the book nor the first movie. Truthfully, though, I must say up front, I have never actually READ the books (only articles about them), so I am not an expert, and, seeing as I am in grad school and reading virtually every waking minute, I don't ( Read more... )

Death:
Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Susan:
With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?

Death:
Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.

Susan:
So we can believe the big ones?

Death:
Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

SusanThey're ( Read more... )

My userpic is supposed to be a picture of the goddess Cailleach. However, it turns out, there is no such thing. So, that's not really Cailleach, and I have unintentionally misappropriated a cultural symbol. Therefore, I apologize, and will now return to my regularly scheduled Indiana Jones icon. :-)

This is opening at the NoHo7 tomorrow.

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I'm working my way through The Walking Dead, and I am still amazed at the maturity and complexity of the writing. There is no such thing as good or evil. Everything is in various shades of grey for the viewer to ponder and consider... especially when it comes to this one particular character.

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There is this one character named Shane. He is hot-headed ( Read more... )

This is coming out 2 days before my 57th birthday.

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I watched this and turned 5 years old all over again.

(FLYING MONKEYS!!!!)

As a Pagan, of course, Samhain is, perhaps, our holiest of our High Holy Days. Samhain, and its polar opposite on the Wheel of the Year, Beltane, represent, in my opinion, the axis on which the Pagan Year turns.

Samhain is a beautiful and complex holiday and it is the only Pagan holiday that is still prevalent in mainstream culture... at least part ( Read more... )

Watching Season 2 of The Walking Dead, and there is this interesting relationship storyline developing.

[Spoiler (click to open)]There are these 2 guys, and they are both in love with the same woman. They are also best friends and also both police officers and partners. One of them, at the beginning of the series, was shot, and he was in a coma when the "outbreak" ( Read more... )