This was a weekend for reveling in geekery. Last night we saw Curio Theater’s production of Twelfth Night. Aside from English Literature geekery, this particular production also featured gorgeous steampunk costumes (a fact which none of the promotion for the play seems to mention…what’s up with that?)

The actors did a wonderful job, the costumes ( Read more... )

We saw Kick-Ass today. It’s full of foul language and stylized, blood-soaked hyper-violence. This may be a turn-off for many viewers, but its something I frequently look for in graphic novels and their screen adaptations. Yeah, I’m weird that way. I’m a BadFan, and I haven’t read the original, but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and I now feel the ( Read more... )

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I thoroughly enjoyed Shutter Island. It was incredibly well-acted, Leonardo DiCaprio did a particularly good job, and the visuals were gorgeous, as was the location. The pacing felt slightly off in some places, but I liked each individual scene enough that I can’t imagine what I would ( Read more... )

We went to see Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland this weekend. Despite the fact that I’m getting a little sick of the unspoken rule that every visually lush film has to be in 3D these days, we saw it in IMAX 3D because I’m a sucker. Much like Avatar, looks-wise, the film was gorgeous. Much like Avatar, the story was an absolute mess. Unlike Avatar, ( Read more... )

To celebrate my birthday, we went to see Sherlock Holmes. When I first saw the trailers for this new version, my brain rebelled. The more I saw, though, the more intrigued I became. The movie seems designed to make purists brains explode, and I felt a little guilty about wanting to see it. But then I decided, in honor of getting older, what I ( Read more... )

I’m still catching up - I’m always catching up - on short fiction, movies and life in general. Some recommendations of the speculative fiction variety are Golden Lilies by Aliette de Bodard, a lovely fiction piece on the practice of foot-binding over at Fantasy Magazine, and Mammals Underfoot! An Interview with Emerging Writers by Jeff VanderMeer ( Read more... )

We went to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night. I’ll try to keep my thoughts here relatively spoiler-free.

I enjoyed it. I thought they did a better job of keeping the essence of the book than they did in the last film, but I can’t put my finger on exactly how or why. I was pleased to see Bellatrix get more screen time, though ( Read more... )