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Think of the Children! Tuesday: Holes
Today's Think of the Children! post is a little bit controversial. Not in that the movie we're talking about is controversial itself. It's only controversial in how much we all freaking like it despite...
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I Feel Like You Missed Something (The Long Earth)
Today we're talking about The Long Earth, a recent science-fiction collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. Apparently it also has a sequel, which google just told me, and I will be...
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Brooklyn 99 Apologized for Rosa/Boyle. This Is Why We Love It.
So, fun story, the other day I was in Barnes and Noble, like you do when you're me and totally pathologically addicted to buying books, and I was just browsing in the nerd toy section, when this guy...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Storm/Ororo Munroe (X-Men)
By popular demand, it seems that today, as the last day of Black History Month, and as the last SFC Friday in our series, we're talking about Storm, or Ororo Munroe from the X-Men. Rock on. Last week...
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Jocelyn Is Starting a Gender Revolution. Rock On. (A Knight's Tale)
If you grew up in the nineties, or if you had a pulse then, let’s be real, you probably remember when A Knight’s Tale came out. It starred a young Heath Ledger, hot off the also epic and amazing 10...
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Think of the Children! Tuesday: Veggie Tales
So before we go into this, I want you all to know that I secretly (not very secretly at all) adore Veggie Tales. I was a little bit older than the target demographic when they started coming out, but...
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MINI-BREAK - Have Papers to Write and Things to Do. Back Soon!
You know that scene in Jaws where the chick is swimming in the water and the shark is coming and she doesn't know - you know, the only scene everyone remembers from Jaws? Well, that's how I am with...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Dr. Alana Bloom (Hannibal)
Hooray, I finished in time! And, also hooray, Hannibal is back for season two! Okay, so technically it was back last week, but now that the second season has officially started, and we've gotten a feel...
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For Once, The Girl Makes the Grand Gesture (Pitch Perfect)
On the advice of my sister, who is a very wise and lovely person (and who also doesn't read this blog, so technically I could say whatever I want, but she is actually wise and lovely), I'm going to...
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It's the Choices We Make That Define Who We Are (Locke and Key)
Thank you all for your support these past few days. Life is better. Partially, that's probably just because it's sunny out, which automatically makes it all seem more manageable, but also because it...
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You Know, Historical Women Did Stuff Too (Ever After)
So after I posted my passionate plea for more nice stuff to watch/read, stuff that wasn't going to totally bum me out, I got an amazing response from all of you. I'm definitely going to have things to...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Allison (Orphan Black)
Ah, Friday. Spring is in the air, Purim starts tomorrow night, there are a ton of awesome movies coming out (Grand Budapest Hotel, Veronica Mars, Divergent, need I go on?), and I managed to find...
View ArticleCrossover Appeal - Episode 75 (Superhero Costumes)
As some of you may or may not know, on Sundays I participate in a fun webcast with Elizabeth Kobayashi, Dan Ingram, and Patrick Bohan - all fantastic nerd people. We talk about pop culture, the news,...
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Feminism Is For Everyone - Even Girly Girls (Legally Blonde)
It was a bit of a shock this weekend when I realized that in the two and a half years I have been running this blog, and in all the years prior to that when I was writing for school newspapers or...
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Think of the Children! Tuesday: The Only Alien on the Planet
Once again, we find ourselves at Think of the Children! Tuesday discussing a book that is not actually intended for children. Or about children. But it is a coming of age story, and I did read it in...
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Aren't Women Supposed to Be...The Same Species? (Blacksad)
There are a lot of things I could say about Blacksad, the phenomenal French noir comic by Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist), where animals take the place of humans, and our hero...
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Weird, Terrifying, and Deadly - But Realistic (The Women of WTNV)
Source [x]So, for those of you who were waiting with baited breath to find out what happened with my computer (and for the rest of you who are now wondering what I'm talking about), the crisis has been...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Deloris/Mary Clarence (Sister Act)
I would just like to say this before I begin: yes, today's Strong Female Character Friday is literally just an excuse for me to watch Sister Act again and call it "work". I am completely comfortable...
View ArticleCrossover Appeal - Episode 76 (Almost Human)
As some of you may or may not know, on Sundays I participate in a fun webcast with Elizabeth Kobayashi, Dan Ingram, and Patrick Bohan - all fantastic nerd people. We talk about pop culture, the news,...
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Your Values, Not Your Aptitude, Will Determine Your Life (Divergent)
So. The time is finally upon us. The great Divergent movie has been released, made a ton of money, and suggested the possibility that a world of young adult adaptations that don't suck might just be...
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