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Broken People Make the Best Stories (American Hustle)
[Dang. My schedule is all out of wack. I know we normally talk kids' movies on Tuesdays, but I think it's going to take another week to get back on track here. In the meantime, let's talk about a movie...
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Happy New Year! That Was Quick.
Gosh. It's a new year already. What the crap happened to the last one, huh? I realize I'm starting to sound a bit senile here, but I mean it. This year has gone by insanely fast. A lot of things have...
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Character Development, Resolution, Wait What? (Sherlock: TEH)
So, I've been a bit down on Mr. Steven Moffat lately (see examples one and two), because he appears to be in the process of conducting an extended poo all over one of my favorite shows, a show that I,...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Aya Fuse (Extras)
Extras is a weird little book. Well, clocking in at about four hundred pages, maybe "little" isn't the right word. Rather, Extras is a weird, finite book. Rather than covering a sweeping governmental...
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Linksgiving (Why Fantasy Matters, Twilight Fanfic, and More)
I love this photo and I don't know where it's from. Halp.Oh my gosh, what is this? Are we - gasp - back to a normal posting schedule? Blasphemy!Well, blasphemous or not, it's the truth. Thank you all...
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Can We All Just Agree That Tauriel Is the Best? (The Hobbit: DOS)
It's weird now to look back on myself twelve years ago, when The Lord of the Rings movies were just starting to come out, and I attacked them with all of the glee a sheltered thirteen year old could...
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Think of the Children! Tuesday: The Secret of Kells
Have you ever noticed that thing where if something is critically acclaimed or nominated for a bunch of Oscars or the kind of movie that people in tweed jackets and pencil skirts praise over specialty...
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Dang, This Show Is Hella White and Other Thoughts (Sherlock: TSOT)
Dang, this show is hella white.That was what popped into my head a few nights ago as I breathlessly watched the second episode of the third season of the internet's obsession, Sherlock. I was watching...
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Returning Shows: Teen Wolf (Kill Me With Feels, Why Don't You)
So, today we were going to talk about The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman, a fine and literary book that would allow me to be all smart and educated and say intelligent logical things...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Melinda May (Agents of SHIELD)
Let's get one thing straight here: Agents of SHIELD isn't the world's greatest show. It's not bad or anything, and not even interesting enough for me to have something to say about it on a regular...
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Linksgiving (Hunger Games, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and More!)
Guys, this week has been insane. I had a bunch of projects due, and of course I didn't work on them over the holidays, because I totally forgot about them! Like a boss. And while I did finish...
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When the Marketing Sinks a Movie, Or, Reasons to See 47 Ronin
I'm not going to claim to be an expert in marketing or how the whole Hollywood money machine works. I mean, I'm not sure anyone can actually really claim to be an expert in that. So much dark magic...
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A World Without Stakes and a Show Without Oomph (Sherlock: HLV)
Like a lot of people, I think, my feelings about the final episode in Sherlock's third season, are mixed, intense, and at times contradictory. Also, they can sometimes be best explained with swears....
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Eternal Rainy November Afternoon (Ocean at the End of the Lane)
I was going to write about this book last week (but then I got distracted), and I was having trouble thinking of something to say about it. To some extent, I'm still having trouble deciding what...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Erica Reyes (Teen Wolf)
As we set out on another season of Teen Wolf, one where, despite my emotional connection to the show, I feel comfortable predicting that the female villains will die horrible gruesome unnecessarily...
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Linksgiving - Movie Edition (Skyfall, Starship Troopers, and Disney)
And the award for meme of the week goes to Miss Officer and Mr. Truffles. *dies of cute*You know what's awesome? Getting to catch up with a friend from out of town. You know what's even more awesome?...
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It's About Accepting Yourself, and Also Racism (Hairspray)
It's a funny thing to find out that one of your good friends doesn't read your blog because he's sick of you calling everything he loves racist. Which is why I was almost kind of hesitant to talk about...
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Think of the Children! Tuesday: Disney's Robin Hood
So, you know how I keep railing on the Disney princess movies and I complain a lot and everyone has this lingering question in the back of their minds about what kind of a horrifying, deprived, scary...
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I Need It To Mean Something (The Graveyard Book)
Like I said in last week’s review, while I quite like Neil Gaiman’s work overall, his recent stuff feels kind of bland to me. Like a rainy November afternoon, or like a big bowl of beef stew where...
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Whatever You May Think of Him, You Can't Deny He Cares (Luther)
So this is totally appropos of nothing, but did you know that horses are really, really loud? I did not. Not until I moved to a horse farm, that is, and now I have a front row seat to how incredibly...
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