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Maybe Not Everybody Wants Some
I've been harumphing about Richard Linklater's latest movie, Everybody Wants Some!! (yes, that's an on-purpose double exclamation), since I saw it last weekend and I get even more surly about it the more people heap praise on it. Maybe it's just that this movie is very much made for a group of people that doesn't include me, but I Just. Don't. Get ( Read more... ) -
Fannish stuff
Pottermore and Magic in North AmericaI'm still as in love with JKR as I ever was, but this is the first time she's released information where I wish she hadn't. And I look back on how much we all wanted the HP Encyclopedia, and I'm glad this new info is only on a website (and somewhat easier to overlook/ignore) than if it were in print in a ( Read more... ) -
Zootopia
I had not been holding out great hopes for this movie. I'd seen the "sloth" trailer a couple of times, and it was great, but I've seen a lot of movies with talking animals (as, I imagine, have most of you) and I wasn't entirely sold. Mostly it had to do with what I thought was going to be an overabundance of pop culture references and a lack of ( Read more... ) -
A Few Thoughts on Recent Movies
Gah, I wish I had time to do proper reviews like I used to, but I always dawdle until it feels too late and then I have like half a dozen movies I want to write about! I'm so rusty at this! So here are some brief (for me) thoughts on a bunch of movies I've seen the last couple of months.
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Happy Burtday to Me: My Cinema Date with Burt Reynolds
It's always a long schlep to the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, but it is usually worth it, and their Burtday was no exception. In celebration of the man's 80th birthday (which is today!), programmer Cristina Cacioppo had picked five of his films and a bunch of clips to show during the seating and the breaks. Just like previous marathon events (and ( Read more... ) -
Death Eater Neighbors
I'm not sure why I'm posting this here instead of Facebook, like everything else nowadays, but it just felt like it belonged here, you know ( Read more... ) -
2015 in Movies
This year's movie-watching is shaping up to be better than last year's, number wise (final tally was 240, counting vintage and rewatches), and as usual, my attempt to do a top 10 changed very quickly into a top 20.
I'd really like to do a full and proper review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, because I have loads to say about it and very ( Read more... ) -
Dismember the Alamo 2015
For a few years now, I've been lucky enough to live sufficiently close to an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema so that I don't have to get on an airplane or drive for several hours to get there. The theater in Yonkers, though, still takes around 2 hours (one way) to get to, and that Brooklyn location needs to hurry up. Since a trip to Alamo Yonkers and back ( Read more... ) -
Updated Pottermore
I ... don't really like the new version of Pottermore? The old version was purely rooted in the books, but this new version has a LOT of movie stuff, which ... I like the movies for what they are, but they are not the books. And I grow ever more crotchedy about the increasing pervasiveness of "movie canon" into what is generally accepted as part ( Read more... )