this is how I feel about Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer!

I really can’t stand the look of the David Yates movies, with the exception of Half-Blood Prince which was visually stunning if a bit long.

I’m forever thinking about the 2004 election when Ben Affleck described Vanessa Kerry’s hair as “flaxen, like a Nordic milkman’s daughter.” This, though... this might top it.

the fact that he felt the need to bash teenage girls tells you everything

I’m blocked by her on twitter; apparently she blocks everyone who replies to her. People have been sharing their “blocked by Kirstie Alley” screenshots as a badge of pride.

I eventually succeeded in getting him hooked on Vertigo and we pooled what little money we had and bought the soundtrack album on CD. We spent a whole summer moodily listening to it. We both felt so vindicated a few years later when Sight & Sound declared it the greatest film of all time, which we already knew in our…

I tried showing my best friend the 1940 Rebecca in high school and for some reason the VHS tape had a little commercial at the beginning showing scenes from several of Hitchcock’s movies, and one of the scenes was Maxim saying “I killed Rebecca!” Completely ruined the suspense. (Why would you even put that at the…

the whole Jeremy Brett miniseries is available to watch for free on youtube!

and the Jeremy Brett version from 1979! with Anna Massey (his ex-wife) as Mrs Danvers

this is a welcome surprise, as I was *just* reading the new Ringer list of fifty best plot twists and wondering why Diabolique wasn’t on there.

I misread this as “Dune fan” and was like “I have some bad news...”

Sam Elliott was perfect and they should have simply recast him.

I actually just posted a thread on my issues with the clumsy plot revelations, for anyone who might care to read it:

I’m still so sour about the movie, but this has helped a lot. At the time I hung out with a lot of terrifyingly conservative evangelicals and even *they* were miffed by the changes to the books.

I find myself playing Democracy, from that same album, more and more lately. A Canadian singer-songwriter coming to America and writing a six-minute song about how “democracy is coming... to the USA” is, if nothing else, grade A trolling.

The reviews I’ve read have been overwhelmingly positive. I’ve been looking forward to this movie for ages because it’s probably my favourite novel and none of the previous screen adaptations have really done it justice.

Any time she tweets now, she gets an army of Karens in her mentions saying “I follow you for music not politics, I will never listen to your songs again” and whatnot. It brings me great pleasure to imagine them hearing one of her songs in the supermarket and turning incandescently red with rage.

Judging by the replies to her tweets, a terrifying number of people *are* right-wing Nazi tr*mpsters. I posted a fairly benign tweet praising her for being politically engaged and had weird men in my mentions for the entire next day calling her a “whore” and saying she should shut up and go back to singing. I hope…

Sarah Cooper is just about the only person who should be allowed to portray him comedically.

as long as they preserve the scene where Dystopian 1985 Lorraine says “You’re the one who made me get these... things!”