A friend of mine over on FB wants to go see Thor again and there was a discussion about it that I didn’t read, except one comment stood out to me, when he said he didn’t much like Jane Foster. I love Jane Foster, and said so, and he wanted to know why. This is why: Because Jane is a female character who is unabashedly intelligent and never portrayed as anything less than attractive. Because she has entirely realistic giggly googly-eyed reactions to gigantic blonde men without shirts. Because she…
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Picoreview: Thor: The Dark World
Picoreview: Thor: The Dark World (spoiler-free): Thor thor thor thor Loki Thor Loki Thor Loki Thor Loki Thor thor thor thor loki Loki LOKI Loki loki thor thor thor Loki Loki Loki LOKI thor Stay through ALL THE CREDITS, people. ALL THE CREDITS. One does not simply walk out of a Marvel movie before the credits are done rolling! (not spoilery but not without an opinion behind the cut):
Picoreview: Rush
Picoreview: Rush: does what it says on the tin. Actually, it does more than that. It’s a very, very good movie, and this from someone who hasn’t got two sh…akes…to give when it comes to car racing. Chris Hemsworth plays more or less to type as a big, likeable jackass; Daniel Brühl, whom I haven’t seen before and therefore couldn’t be playing to type, was not especially likeable but wasn’t supposed to be, either. If there was a flaw, it was that I didn’t feel the instant and profound antagonism…
Picoreview: Jurassic Park
Picoreview: Jurassic Park: Still huge fun. It’s playing in IMAX 3D here right now, and I kind of wanted to go see it again, and then thought I should bring my nephews, who, at 8 and 10, are pretty well the ideal age to see it and have the pants scared off them. I mean, they’ve seen it before, but only on a TV screen, which is just not the same thing at all. It scared the pants off them. :) The younger one spent 4/5ths of the movie either…
Picoreview: White House Down
Picoreview: White House Down: Ted and I went to White House Down (after much debate, starting first with the idea of going to About Time or the equally romantic date movie Elysium, then deciding we’d see Rush and then finding White House Down was starting earlier and sounded more fun) this weekend. It was a colossal flop, costing $150m to make and having made $73m domestically, though it’s made another $100m overseas (apparently people who don’t live in American enjoy watching the White House blow up more than people who…