I saw We Have Always Lived in the Castle last night, and adored it. There were a few changes from the novel: Cousin Charles became physically violent toward Merricat, which is what prompts her to start the fire. When he comes back to the house after the fire, he attacks Constance and Merricat bashes his head in.

While I'd rather that they kept Cousin Charles as more subtly controlling and creepy so that Merricat's actions had a less "obvious" trigger, it still works.

As soon as we got to the first scene of Merricat burying things in the forest as spells to protect them, my big brother by proxy looked at me and said, "How old were you when you read this and imprinted?" Which, fair comment.

Vanity Fair just put up their big Star Wars Ep IX spread.

Main cover story including an interview with JJ Abrams: [link]

In what has turned into a SW/Vanity Fair tradition over the years, set photos by Annie Leibovitz: [link]

Predictably, there isn't much of plot related info, but I am both intrigued and kinda worried about what they are doing with the Carrie Fisher footage from TFA they have retrofitted to this movie.

The photos are great as usual. The one with Finn and Naomi Ackie's character on space horses in particular looks fucking awesome.

I saw Booksmart last night, and it was good! Kind of a John Hughes movie for Today's Youth, but better. A lot of really funny parts and enough heart.

I saw Booksmart last night, and it was good! Kind of a John Hughes movie for Today's Youth, but better. A lot of really funny parts and enough heart.

The trailer looks a lot like a girl led version of Superbad.

I haven't seen Superbad, but sure.

Tom and Lorenzo hail it as an Instant Classic: [link]

I can't wait to see it. I have a huge amount of good will toward both Beanie Felstein and Kaitlyn Dever (Loretta from Justified!!) and the trailer sold me HARD. Really nice to see Olivia Wilde make such a confident debut behind the camera as well.

Trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate: [link]

I didn't bother with Genisys but with that cast, count me on board.

Kaitlyn Dever (Loretta from Justified!!)

OH SHIT. I didn't even realize!

Honestly, the whole cast is great -- Beanie Feldstein is a star, Billie Lourd is hilarious, there are a ton of grown-up cameos, all the people I don't know their names are also great.

Oh, Loretta! That's a selling point.

I'm not gonna watch the Terminator trailer right now, but I looked it up on IMDb and this may be the first Terminator movie I see since...2? Huh. The Sarah Connor Chronicles were so good I kinda forgot I had passed on so many movies

The trailer looks a lot like a girl led version of Superbad.

That was my critic friend's reaction as well. (I've only seen the first few minutes of Superbad.)

OH SHIT. I didn't even realize!

The first five minutes of our post-movie conversation was mostly me saying "That person looked familiar, where do I know them from?"

One thing I really liked about Booksmart was the interactions between the different students, which felt a bit more true to my experience than other films in the genre.