Movies, Theme

Meta Movies

Hello again, fine gentle folk of the Internet! Once again, staring desperately at my DVD collection in search of post ideas has enabled me to scrape together a list of awesome movies! This time around, we're gunna get all meta and shit. "Meta" meaning, of course, movies that are aware that they are movies, and/or… Continue reading Meta Movies

Books, Movies, Rant, Television

Criticize What You Love

I spend a lot of time criticizing things. You may have noticed, since I'm basically writing a blog where the entire point is to be critical (and snarky, but that's not really on purpose). When I find something that I really like, my first instinct, after I've finished dancing around being thrilled with it, is… Continue reading Criticize What You Love

Books, Characters, Movies

Psychopaths in Fiction

I've covered a lot of topics over the past couple weeks, what with this post-every-day nonsense (whose idea was this again? Oh yeah, mine), but we still haven't touched on my very favorite subject: villains. I love villains. They are the most interesting part of any story, in my personal opinion, and a story with… Continue reading Psychopaths in Fiction

Books, Gender, Movies

Movies You Didn’t Know Were Adaptations

When I was writing Friday's post, I started to notice a trend in the movies I was pointing out: more than half of them were based on classic works. The more I thought about it, the more examples I was able to come up with, which lead me to this post. Here are a few… Continue reading Movies You Didn’t Know Were Adaptations

Movies, Theme

“Rom Coms” That Aren’t About Romance

Romantic comedy is one of those movie genres that gets completely ignored in the serious film world. The entirety of the genre is written off as nothing but shallow romantic drivel--"chick flicks," if you will. Somewhere along the line, "Rom Com" became synonymous with "frivolous." I think this is stupid. Some of my favorite movies… Continue reading “Rom Coms” That Aren’t About Romance