Media whore

[fineeyes]

God, please send me more "Luther." And bring back Ruth Wilson. Amen.

Here are the movies I want to see this month (mostly for my own information because I easily forget these things):
Our Idiot Brother (Paul Rudddddd)
The Debt (Helen Mirren! Tom Wilkinson! Spies! Nazi killing!)
Contagion (So many good actors; I don't know that I love the topic or

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[olde_fashioned]

I want to see The Debt and Contagion, too! Both for the cast, hahah. Also am looking forward to the revamp of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, mainly because Gary Oldman is in it, and he's fantastic. ;)

Mrs. Brown definitely deserves more than one viewing; glad to hear it's on Instant View! :D

Re: Victorian reading, I'm presuming you're already covering Gaskell...

[fineeyes]

I have not seen any trailers for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy but I have heard the books are great and I love a good mystery/suspense if it's well directed and acted!

I love the costumes in Mrs. Brown and of course anything about Victoria is interesting to me so yeah, definitely one I enjoy watching again and again. For a while the DVD was out of print (if you can say a DVD is in print) and I got really upset! But now it's on instant and all is good :).

Neo-Victorian is a term for novels written in the last few decades that are set in the Victorian era. So basically historical novels. So we will be reading books written by current authors that are set back in the Victorian era and deal with the issues of that period. There is a neo-Victorian group on Goodreads that I got some of my ideas from: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/146544-neo-victorian-novels?order=a&page=1 and also Reply

[olde_fashioned]

You should take a peek and tell me what you think!

It's been so long for Mrs. Brown for me, that I don't even remember the costumes!! How sad is THAT?

Uhh, erm...my bad. That's what I get for leaving a comment so late/early...! I haven't really gotten into the Victorian historical novels yet, but I've had Possession I Am Madame X recommended to me, although I think the former has some modern day or flashback sequences.

[fineeyes]

The only problem with The Crimson Petal and the White is that it's really long! It took a year to read it... yes, partially because I started it right before I started grad school, but it got really slow in the middle IMO. We will probably read it at some point, especially so we can watch the miniseries (I haven't seen it yet, aaah!), but we need to let people read a few shorter books during the school year.

What's out in 2012? I'm so clueless about movies coming out until I see the trailers on TV.

Have you seen "Luther"?

[fineeyes]

Mark is an interesting character. I don't really get him. He is in the second season but I am still confused about his motivations. I like the actor and I hope they explore the character more in upcoming episodes, but there is so little time with such short series

[bluesuzanne]

So glad you're a Ruth fan. She did an interview saying she and Idris do both want to do a third season so here's hoping.

[fineeyes]

I love Alice and was sad to see her leave. I liked Jenny but there is no one quite like Alice, haha. I am so glad to hear that both Ruth and Idris are in for more! I hope the next season is more than 4 episodes. That was just nuts.