shallowness

I watched The Love Hypothesis on streaming and enjoyed it for what it was, and some of that was wish fulfilment, but as this was in the week that the appalling Cornell university gang rape case broke on us, fine, do deal with consent almost immediately. (Had to imdb which English Tom who is not Tom Holland/Tom Hollander/Tom Hardy the lead actor Tom Bateman was.) And then I learned it was based on Star Wars fanfic, which I assume was Rey/Kylo Ren.

I was able to go to see Sense and Sensibility in the cinema in its third week out. My main reaction was ‘Why did you change that?’ ( spoilers )

I posted a full (spoilery) and positive review of Ghosts: The Possession of Button House here. Obviously, my perspective was that of someone who watched the series. I don’t know what someone coming fresh to the film would think.

And then I snuck in Wicker, a romance with folk/fantasy elements. It’s pretty bawdy, shows off its literary origins in that it’s broken up into parts with titles quoting things characters will later say and the dialogue has some eccentric turns of phrases. In fact, it’s thoroughly committed to its oddness, while making fierce points about the patriarchy. ( Read more... )

I started watching this late. ( Read more... )

Fanfiction and fanvid recs in the following fandoms: Cinderella, Iron Man, Original Works, Pushing Daisies, The Secret Garden/The Little Princess crossover and The West Wing.

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It Takes Two broke the news that due to a rib injury (ouch, and no wonder given that disco salsa), Delta would be getting a week’s bye. Time will tell if that will be sufficient for her to recover to dance full out. It sounded like she’d be easing back with something slow. We learned that Will’s offspring has arrived too, and it then occurred to me that the producers must have been worried that the birth would happen during the live show.

So, week 4/icons week:

Do you know what? ‘Iconic’ got beat to death repeatedly, and it wasn’t the only thing that was overdone on this show. I started watching this late, so I knew I wouldn’t be able to vote. ( Read more... )

Results show:

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The fact that we’re well in the second week of October as I post this shows how busy I’ve been (not going to the cinema much, though.)

I did get to see Coyote v. Acme, yay! I’ve wanted to see it since first hearing about the project, Bugs Bunny and the Animaniacs have a special place in my heart, as does Farscape’s ‘Revenging Alien’, for WB cartoons were a part of my childhood. Then came the news that Warners studio were shelving the film, which had tested well, for TAX PURPOSES. Word got out about it, everyone disapproved, another studio picked it up, and I thought I’d lost my chance to see it when it came out, but I hadn’t. The trailers were nearly all for animated kids films, of which the only interesting one for me was Ghosts: The Haunting of Button House or whatever it’s called. (Hexed sounds a lot like ‘X’ is all I’ll say.)

As for Coyote v. Acme, it’s well worth seeing. I smiled throughout and laughed a good deal, and that’s what you want from a comedy. ( Cut for length, I don't think there are massive spoilers here. )

I didn’t get to the cinema again during September, but I did watch Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings (on All4, the same streaming platform where I’d seen Simu Liu play a spy so recently in The Copenhagen Test, ( Cut for length and spoilers )

I saw three out of the four next It Takes Two episodes, although there was some fast-forwarding/walking off to do some other stuff with me. ( Brief thoughts )

I haven't forgetten that I normally think movie week is too early, and this week, the celebs had to deal with doing a different dance (mostly) on less time and facing elimination already. But, as I said before, the producers had their reasons.

( I'd say tl;dr, but I haven't even attempted a summary, so this will have to do )

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I watched most of the first It Takes Two, ( Read more... )

WandaVision - 1.4 We Interrupt This Program

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ETA: Apparently there's going to be a The Other Bennet Sister Christmas special, which I did not expect, but am quite pleased about.