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Logan Echolls: Controlling/Clingy/Stalker or Devoted/Concerned Boyfriend
This is a question I asked in one of my Yahoo! Groups. Thought I'd ask it here. I may be wrong here, but I observe that the younger respondents seem to side with Logan, while I find more mature (women especially) sided with Veronica.
( The Case Against Logan Echolls ) -
Movie Review: Casino Royale
Now Playing in North America and the United Kingdom
Rating: 4/5
Starring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Eva Green, Giancarlo Giannini, Mads Mikkelsen and Jeffrey Wright
( Daniel Craig is a James Bond for the ages. Fuck, yeah! ) -
Veronica Mars: Prickly or Bitchy?
The buzz I have been hearing for the third season seems to be how less likeable Veronica is this year. The major complaint is that she is coming off as harsh without major justification and that she's being unnecessarily snotty and smarmy. At the same time that I am hearing these complaints, I am also hearing people calling veronica a poseur or a ( Read more... ) -
Movie Review: Stranger Than Fiction
Now Playing in North American Cinemas
Rating: 2.5/5
Starring: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Queen Latifah
( It is upon Will Ferrell's broad and hairy shoulders that the success of this film rests. ) -
Guess Who's Back?
My Boyfriend of the Moment (BotM) is back and he's gonna get you. Actually, it's Boyfriends, as in plural. I have decided that the fine men of Prison Break should be my dreamtime escorts for the next few, um ... well, we know this won't last forever ... until the next BotM shows up. I'm sorry, I can't commit to a moment, much less a week. Still, ( Read more... ) -
Movie Review: The Prestige
Now Playing in North American Cinemas
Rating: 4/5
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson (in a mercifully limited role)
( The film evolves like a magic act itself ) -
Making Enemies Rather than Friends of Everwood Fans
If your beloved dog just died and someone offers you a puppy in the midst of your grief, wouldn't you be slightly pissed off? Your first thought would be "As if!" as in "As if this new puppy, no matter how cute and cuddly, is the same thing as the wonderful dog I loved for so many years." Somethings are just irreplaceable, yet we move on. After ( Read more... ) -
Movie Review: Thank You For Smoking
Now Showing in North American Cinemas
Rating: 4/5
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy, Cameron Bright, Katy Holmes ... (more cool indie actors than I have time to type out).
Forget what you've heard about Tom Cruise possibly cutting out Katie's nude scene from this film. That shiat is UTTERLY IRRELEVANT. Utterly, I ( Read more... ) -
TV Land
Well in TV Land, Veronica Mars gets to go to college, 7th Heaven gets an 11th hour reprieve, One Tree Hill gets another chance to bore us with the vacuous Chad Michael Murray while Everwood is dead wood. Or is it?
While Smackdown may never be considered the height of intelligent television, I understand why the 'good' people at the CW (lamest name ( Read more... )
