This past weekend, a good friend of mine (whose love for children's films borders on the obsessive) and I went to see the much-anticipated sequel to the Dreamworks film How to Train Your Dragon. I was nervous about this sequel, because sequels are pretty consistently terrible (especially where children's films are concerned, with the notable exception… Continue reading How to Train Your Dragon 2
Category: Reviews
Drunk Movie Monday – This is Spinal Tap
...because I apparently can't keep track of the schedule on my own blog, some of you may have noticed that last week was the first Monday of June, and yet there was no Drunk Movie Monday. This is because June rather snuck up on me, and I completely over-looked what day it was. Whooops. Well,… Continue reading Drunk Movie Monday – This is Spinal Tap
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Last week, I read a Maya Angelou novel for the first time ever--I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Ironically, it was during the same week in which she died, RIP. This means that the news is full of retrospectives on her life and the impact of her work, most of them singing (deserved) praises.… Continue reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Re-Reading Books You Hated
I recently re-read Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, after it was featured on this season of Crash Course: Literature. The first time I read the book, I was 12 years old, in middle school, doing the honor-student-athlete balancing act, and to say that I hated this book would be wildly unfair, because I did not, in… Continue reading Re-Reading Books You Hated
Terrible Johnny Depp Movies
Like many adolescent girls before me, I went through something of a Johnny Depp phase after Pirates of the Caribbean first came out. In the space of about a week, I went from "Johnny Depp who?" to "OH MY GOD YOU GUYS JOHNNY DEPP IS SO HOT," in typical pubescent human fashion. But of course, since… Continue reading Terrible Johnny Depp Movies
M.M. Jordahl 