So I was thinking of characters that I love. Unfortunately I have a tendency to favorite male characters to female characters. Whether this has to do with writing (in movies and television shows, the writers are usually male), my own subconscious patriarchal bias (male characters are more likely to be protagonists/empathized with) or the lack of ( Read more... )

• 1 mango
• 2 avocados
• 6 Fuji apples
• 2 crates of organic strawberries
• 2 cucumbers

Order does not denote preference. Also, if there's a movie missing it's because I'm feeling lazy; this is only a sampling.


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The Seven Commandments All Video Games Should Obey. The Kingdom Hearts PS2 franchise only breaks one, afaik, which is pretty good. A sprawling world, Traverse Town is not.

I'm supposed to be writing a paper on the renegotiation of gender roles in Japan through early modern literature... and instead I'm completely academically fired up about The ( Read more... )

Zachary Quinto as Spock, Simon Pegg as Scotty, John Cho as Sulu... holy shit this is going to be a fun film!

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in pitch dark, I go walking in your landscape
Perhaps because I've been thinking about Shaun of the Dead too much, I had a double zombie-apocalypse dream last night, which included being followed around by an old hag zombie and spin-kicking zombies (and occasionally allies) in the head. Headshot ( Read more... )

Chow Yun-Fat? Why did no one tell me?!
Damn you Disney and your sneaky sneaky casting.

Also: anyone notice that the characters seem to get progressively dirtier as the franchise goes on?

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Also, in the midst of all the usual trash, there are a few films that look marginally interesting.

Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face? I think I still would have preferred Liev Schreiber, but then again I'm not the one investing multi-millions into this project.