One of these days I'm going to watch Gosford Park and La Règle du Jeu on consecutive nights and do a seven-decade country-house compare and contrast. It's an exercise I've often thought about doing with my students.

What I love most about Gosford Park is Ryan Philippe's terrible Scottish accent... which turns out is supposed to be a terrible Scottish accent. Also Claudie Blakley's put-upon thirties wife.

Lots of love for that movie from me, too. One of the highest points of Altman's pretty great late period. And a double feature of Gosford Park and The Rules of The Game sounds fucking delightful, Fiona.

Kudos to whoever at TwoP wrote the copy for their Valentine's Day: Who's Slumming, Who's Not? feature. This line completely cracked me up:

It's as intrinsically Julia Roberts as unhinging one's jaw and laughing like Patrick Bateman in all movie trailers.

Ok. Saw Zombieland last night. IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME.

And I know someone here has the tagline of "FUCK THIS CLOWN!" and I can't remember who.

Taylor Lautner is now officially 18. It isn't illegal to ooooogle him. Though he is going to have to do a new photoshoot since all the ooooogle worthy pictures are from his jailbait years. And that just feels wrong.

Yeah, I had him up on one of my sites for a week before I found out he was a mere child. Not sure how long it will take for there to be legal pics available.

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!

You weren't planning on becoming a high school teacher, right?

Um ... no?

Ahem.

runs to advisor to change major

I adore Gosford Park and could watch it multiple times in a row. Every note is perfect, even the awful ones. I always want more like it.