I watched Where the Wild Things Are tonight. It's beautiful. Despite the child protagonist and the furry monsters, it's most definitely not a children's film. Max's relationship with his family was very real - he has a good mother, but her life is a balancing act. It doesn't mean she loves him any less ( Read more... )

Just before I watched Crazy Heart tonight, my dad compared it to The Wrestler. I wish he hadn't, since it ended being really distracting to me. I kept on comparing the two films while I was watching. It's ridiculous, because when it comes down to it they're very different films. True, they both feature older male entertainers (country singer/ ( Read more... )

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six-eight of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.

tokenblkgirl gave me these:

( Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids )

I really enjoyed the new Alice in Wonderland movie. It was visually stunning, of course. I enjoyed the creepiness of the relationship between the enormous-headed Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and her long-limbed sycophant of an assassin employee (Crispin Glover). I also adored Alan Rickman as the caterpillar, Anne Hathaway's seemingly gentle ( Read more... )

I was going to see Alice in Wonderland tonight, but the show was sold out.

Instead we rented Up In the Air was fantastic, in a quietly melancholy sort of way. I know many people labelled it as a romantic comedy, and it sort of is, but dramedy feels more accurate. The romantic relationship was certainly there, but it was primarily for the ( Read more... )

Scientists Prove 3-D Movies Hurt Your Brain

I already knew that 3-D films sometimes give me a headache. Now I have an explanation! Plus I already wear glasses, so sometimes the 3-D just looks fuzzy to me.

I put together a sort of "Top 10 Female-Centric Fanvids of 2009" rec list for halfamoon. Except it's more of a "favorites of vids I saw that happen to fit my vague theme" list.

I tried to link to an lj entry, when possible, for ease of adding to your memories.

Onto the vids!
( Vids for Criminal Minds, Dollhouse, Firefly, Rome, Secretary, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and The Vampire Diaries )

The 20 SF Movies We're Most Excited to See in 2010

...and it's got Jude Law ripping your organs out.

What does it say about me that I want to see this film?

Then again, I always have enjoyed dystopian futures.

My family has decided that Sherlock Holmes was rather flat, which is odd considering it was an action movie starring Robert Downey Jr in Victorian England. And the Irene Adler character was a sort of faux action girl. Supposedly she's extraordinarily cunning, but she never really does anything particularly cunning.

But I saw Some Kind of ( Read more... )

My dad and I saw Twilight. We liked it ( Read more... )