from giandujakiss:

Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).This ( Read more... )

Back home and so behind on tv! I haven't seen Hannibal, Orphan Black, Once Upon a Time or Game of Thrones - though judging by some of the reviews I may skip GoT this week. I must tread through the internet with care until I catch up.

I seem to be the alone in not really liking Captain America: Winter Soldier. Actors were all good, and all likely wishing they had more to do, but plot-wise and general movie tendency to blow stuff up continually? Not doing it for me. I think all the comparisons to '70's era political thrillers are only because of Robert Redford - it's like a ( Read more... )

What did you just finish reading?

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. A lovely slow build of a book set in 1900 New York, that gives the reader the atmosphere of the city's Jewish and Syrian immigrant neighbourhoods. I enjoyed the friendship between these two supernatural creatures, both trapped and both trying to reconcile their natures to ( Read more... )

So Television Without Pity is is closing up shop. It makes me a bit sad even though it's been many years since I visited the site. Back in the early days of Buffy I would go there because their re-caps were the only in-depth look at episodes I could find. I got tired of the cutesy nicknames and harping on certain points pretty quickly but the ( Read more... )

For all the book lovers out there The Morning News is hosting their annual tournament of books right now. Great reviews and discussions of the books on the lineup. Last year I found some really good books like Where'd You Go, Bernadette from the Tournament.

What did you just finish reading?

Grasshopper Jungle didn't live up to the awesomeness of ( Read more... )

Hmm, I decided to watch Star Trek Into Darkness to see if it held up any better - I'd spent much of my time in the theatre actively annoyed at the stealing from Wrath of Khan. It actually is much worse without the distraction of anger, because this time around I was able to notice even more plotholes and clunky writing. It seemed like the movie ( Read more... )

On an actual Wednesday no less! I am on top of things and in control of my life!

What did you just finish reading?

Finally finished Screenwriting 101 by Film Crit Hulk. I enjoy Hulk's film criticism - even if his all caps SMASH style is hard on the eyes - so I picked up his e-book. It wisely has a normal font and punctuation option. This was a ( Read more... )

What did you just finish reading?

I picked up The Spy Who Came in From the Cold from the used bookstore the other week. I don't think I've ever actually read Le Carre, though I'm very much aware of his work - I liked this, it was very spare and unforgiving. The Cold War intrigues were really just an excuse to explore morality. The sexism of the ( Read more... )

What did you just finish reading?

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I'm a fan of Atkinson's Jackson Brodie's mystery novels (as well as her short stories) and this is an interesting continuation of that series' increasing fascination with chance and intersecting lives. Here though she takes it to a magical realist level with Ursula, born in ( Read more... )