Poor thing, she's not even very good at that.

They also describe Natalie Portman as an auteur… that just can't be right.

I'm pretty sure Much Ado was Beckinsale's first movie. Between that and Cold Comfort Farm, I had very high hopes for her career. *Had* high hopes. But her subsequent crimes are so heinous that I'm afraid she can't be forgiven.

Kenneth Branagh
For Henry V. Best Shakespeare movie ever.

It is indeed the same Elba, but if you haven't already, you need to check out the Wire. That's why so many people on this site are bummed out to see him in shitty movies. And he seems to have been pretty well filled out in everything I've seen him in, even way back in the '90s on Ab Fab. Does he manage to look scrawny…

Holy shit, Heche, you made me aspirate diet coke. Now my lungs are full of aspartame, you fuck.

ah, Gleeth, I think we already have some confusion with respect to skiving off.

I think that Riff was actually referring to the Modern Love column in the NY Times, and not Savage Love. Just to be pedantic.

Sweeney Todd is a FANTASTIC musical, and the movie does a decent job. Obviously, it's been seriously pared down (Sondheim did much of this himself) and Helena Bonham Carter can't sing, but she pulls it off okay. And Johnny Depp is really good. Definitely check it out.

alurin, I am with you 100%, and you're right about Patrick O'Brian. It's been a few years since I read the series, but I remember that I was delighted to see how Austenian it was.

It was a brief review, I'd give Scott a pass….

Unmutual, please. It's Crichton.

Idris Elba is at least getting reasonably high-profile work, however shitty, and we can hope that someone will finally send him some decent scripts at some point. He's out there getting new fans, which helps. He's also sexy as fuck, and everyone loves sexy.

Oklahoma freaked me the fuck out as a kid, and I've never revisited the film or the show. That whole creepy handyman plot, and that creepy ballet sequence… ugh. Traumatic.

I confess to liking the film version of Kiss Me Kate, largely because of Howard Keel. There's also a really brief (around 1 minute or so) dance sequence with Bob Fosse and some chick, and it's awesome.

He did cover that, and in the column this week a reader suggests using an Instead cup so all the blood is contained, so maybe try that. Provided, of course, that you can get the wretched thing in the right position. Also provided that it actually stays in place during vigorous fucking.

I'm with you, BB. And it's true her face wasn't conventionally beautiful, but she had a great body. And I do think the reason she got so much work was that she was super fucking talented.

Yowler,

Lady Disdain, you stupid bitch, show some respect for Bea Arthur and shut the fuck up.

I don't know, she seems to be all over every thread on every comment board. AVC staff, please, please, please, in the name of all that's holy, delete her.