I can't decide which movie I'm looking forward to least: Watchmen, Pirates of the Caribbean 4 or Y: The Last Man.

Watchmen I've said before that I don't believe should have been made. 300 sucked. I don't think it's going to be any better. Pirates Four has caused me to lose a considerable amount of respect for Johnny Depp. I love the first three ( Read more... )

I hate child characters in horror movies. They’re bound to do something stupid or get captured and in doing so endanger all the other characters, you know they can’t die because that’d be too grim and you feel guilty if you root for them to die.

I caught 28 Weeks Later , a movie I had been avoiding since hearing that it was being created, since I ( Read more... )

So this is pretty interesting: Why Heroines Die in Classic Fiction because some of us (i.e. me) aren’t satisfied with ‘fever.’ I know it’s asking a bit much given the medical practices of the times to expect a diagnosis from an author, but, as the article points out, it does seem that as soon as a female characters so much as gets wet she drops ( Read more... )

So Jim Broadbent’s playing Slughorn (how many Oscars is that between the adult cast now? I can think of at least five). Which illustrates why I adore Harry Potter casting, they always get it right with the adults. It’s always a shame though that the adult characters get so little to do in the movies. It’s always the adult roles that get the most ( Read more... )