Amusing piece from EW comparing Twilight and Red Riding Hood.

Is Lily Kane (or, you know, the actress) in Red Riding Hood? I can't tell from the trailers, but it looks like her.

It is her, Tep. And I was amazed to see io9 give it a really good review, comparing it to Jennifer's Body in terms of it being a horror movie for women.

I live, I love, I slay--and I am content.

Oh, god Conan looks cheesy. I'm still so there.

I love that all three comments on that Red Riding Hood/Twilight piece cite Buffy as the actual "high school is hell" metaphor.

We went to see The Adjustment Bureau last night. I found it to be an entertaining movie experience, but the film has a number of structural and narrative problems - so much so that I would call the movie "not good." At best I think it is a 2.5 out of 5.

I feel like this is a movie that suffered from a few too many script rewrites - is this a story about a politician or is this a love story? I believe it is the latter, but they needed to dump a lot more of the details regarding the former. The first 5 minutes of the film alone were completely unnecessary. The Daily Show appearances fell absolutely flat. Jon Stewart is actually funnier and less stiff than the clips shown in the film.

Ultimately, I find the antagonists' actions (as a group mostly) were a bit inexplicable: if you want to separate two people who you don't want to be together, then shouldn't there be a plan for them both to find other mates? The politician in particular would need a spouse in order to be President and this would aid him not looking so young and immature.

Yeah. I saw The Adjustment Bureau last weekend and was quite disappointed. Usually, I'd eat stuff like this up with a spoon. But the story wasn't thought out through the end, and the denouement, frankly, was laughable. It's too bad because it's got some nifty visual moments (the bit with the doors was clever) and Damon and Blunt have really good chemistry together. Well, maybe they'll act together some other time.

Saw Rango last night and dug it. It is REALLY fun spotting all the film references scattered throughout. There were moments where DH and I were the only ones laughing, but I will say the kids we went with loved it, too and it's not like they were aware of "Oh that's a hilarious send-up of Chinatown" or whatever. It is visually wonderful--the animals are all ugly/beautiful and every texture is rich and scrumptious.

DH took Dylan to the Rango screening a couple of weeks ago and they both really enjoyed it. (Granted, Dylan is at that age where every movie he sees is his favorite movie ever until the next one, but he did stay relatively engaged the whole time they were in the theatre.)

We had our team lunch at work today, and a coworker had just seen The American, just about everyone at the table except for me hadn't. Then she says, "It's so stupid in the end when he just dies." Boss lady's eyes bugged out, and I said, "Girl, you need to spoiler font that shit."

And everyone thought I was the crazy person.