A quicky review: saw it last night, enjoyed it thoroughly. Little bit disjointed, little bit too exposition-heavy, but not enough to disrupt the amusement. Very funny in parts. Wanted more Frigga and Loki relationship stuff but what's there is very good. Hemsworth continues to be quite loveable - honest and true but not stupid about it, despite ( Read more... )

Apparently I finally timed things at the local Blockbuster (yes, we have one and yes, I occasionally use it) to be able to pick up a copy of Pacific Rim. I wasn't entirely sure what the movie experience would be, since the movie has been all over my Tumblr so I saw all the obsessive fan focus before seeing the movie for myself. If I hadn't stumbled ( Read more... )

So in a rather delightful way, this has been a summer of Much Ado About Nothing for me. It was the local amateur Shakespeare troupe's choice, so I saw it in a local park for free - reset to the 1980s, with parody pop songs and a bunch of cheerful actors doing their best outdoors in the humidity ( Read more... )

Genevieve Valentine's take on the movie

Two different threads on Metafilter, one before the movie came out, one afterwards


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Casino Royale is one of my favorite movies, so I had high hopes for this much-praised new entry in the Bond canon. By and large, I came away from the movie pretty happy. Firstly, it's gorgeous. A fight scene set in a Shanghai skyscraper was only one of the several genuinely beautiful moments - the movie is full of scenery you want to fall into ( Read more... )

Voted early this morning, in a church lobby with a fun crew of eccentric neighbors to look at.

Watched My Family and Other Animals, after stumbling across it randomly at the library. Had meant to read the book and still will, probably. This was a Masterpiece Theater production with Imelda Staunton, and while I enjoyed it, it was so episodic and ( Read more... )

I am sitting with a bag of frozen pineapple on my right knee because it is twingy, and I need it to carry me through another day of practice and a day of testing on Thursday ( Read more... )

I was listening to the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast, and one of the hosts commented on a movie I hadn't heard of. It starred Rachael Weisz, who I love madly, and Tom Hiddleston, who I think is quite fun as well (not even seeing him on every other Tumblr posting has dampened that, so far), and the movie sounded interesting. So I rented it from ( Read more... )

I make no secret of my insane love of the original Bourne trilogy, especially the first, which is just about perfect. See Genevieve Valentine's breakdown of just why - I agree with all of her points. I'm also a newly converted Jeremy Renner fan, and I've loved Rachel Weis from a ways back, and like her take on movies with a lot of action. She was ( Read more... )

So, my comic book dorkiness never actually encompassed the majority of the Avengers in their solo works, let alone their group books. As a little kid, I read Batman, Superman, and Spiderman almost exclusively (with a smattering of Scrooge McDuck and other Disney comics), and mostly those were comics picked up on my family's many cross-country ( Read more... )