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Deepa Mehta is one of my favorite directors. The first film I saw of hers was (shocking I know) Fire, the lesbian love story and the first of what she calls her elemental trilogy. I accidentally found Water in the video store about a year ago and loved that. Having seen two of the three, I went in search of the last and middle movie Earth. The trilogy is completely unrelated in it’s characters, time, place and story. The uniting element seems to be social commentary. But for me, I often times find it astounding what she does with characters… Read This

So, despite reading bad reviews about this film I wanted to see it. I am a connoisseur of Gay and Lesbian films after all. I have seen both good and terribly bad independent low-budget Lesbian films.

Unfortunately, Claire is a bad one.

Claire and Noel are two female writers who end up sharing a cabin on a writers retreat. They are played as the “odd couple” with conflicting habits. Including Noel being a very straight-laced organized person. Also very conservative. And Claire being a very messy and unorganized person. Also very loose with her… Read This

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, huh?

I can’t decide if I like that title or not.

I remember thinking immediatly that “Star Wars : Attack of the Clones” was the stupidest title I had ever heard for a Star Wars movie. And I still think so.

“The Deathly Hallows” on the other hand could be intriging. Unlike “Attack of the Clones” is doesn’t sound cheesy on it’s own. I just can’t decide if I like the title because of the “Harry Potter and the…” at the beginning. As a pair they’re just not running off the… Read This

I’ve honestly been waiting for “Goblet of Fire” the movie forever. Before “Half-Blood Prince” stole the position, it was my favorite book in the series. And now that’s true for the film series. Which is odd because I consider myself a purest and the film, honestly was the cliff-notes version of the book. It hit all the important points so fast it sort of startles you the first time round. There’s exactly one class (mostly to introduce the unforgivable curses). And The film is mostly the Tri-Wizard task and the Yule ball (with a few scenes here and there to… Read This

I know this is a bit of REALLY off-the-wall randomness, but does this picture of Harry in Goblet of Fire remind anyone else of Luke Skywalker with a lightsaber?

This is a rant I just needed to get on with.

I have no problem with H/Hr shippers and am quite okay with them gushing over the occassional promotional photo of the two together. But good lord, is the Promotional wagon of the WB promoting a film called Harry and Hermione’s Goblet of Fire. Or worse, Hermione Granger and the Goblet of Fire (We already had to live through the promotional wagon that was Hermione Granger and the Prisoner of Azkaban).

I HAPPILY ship R/Hr in canon and (oddly enough) think Dan and Emma look unbelievably adorable together… Read This

I went to see Corpse Bride on Saturday and if you enjoy Tim Burton in general and loved ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ (the movie me and my friend call it’s ‘distant cousin’) then you’ll love this.

Even though this time the stop animation was helped along with a bit of CGI (or so I’ve read) there’s a certain magic to this artform of visual storytelling. It’s sort of like a living ‘toy story’ as it were, if only because unlike CGI the characters are really there. They exsist as physical things and are magically brought to life by film… Read This