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Jan
15
2011

Unofficial Big Love

by Andrea

Yesterday I realized, “Oops, I haven’t blogged in a month!” While I’ve been slacking off on the blogging, I have recorded some podcasts, talking about my favorite subject: television.

More specifically, Big Love, a ridiculously addictive show that I love, love, love. I recorded a podcast episode about Big Love for Mormon Expression with a talented group of people, which has blossomed into a project of its own, called Unofficial Big Love. We’ll be recording a discussion of each episode starting after this Sunday’s season premiere, and our first episode, a discussion of the show to date, is out and available for download. So listen! Subscribe! Tell your friends!

All the coolest kids are doing it.

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Jun
20
2010

It’s a joke, not a threat

by Andrea

Whenever I get a latte (soy raspberry– blackberry if I’m feeling dangerous), I always want to say to the barista, “Keep the change, you filthy animal.”

I don’t, because they might not catch the film reference and think I was just rude, like when I told the door-to-door salesman, “I’m gonna give you to the count of ten to get your ugly, yellow, no-good keister off my property, before I pump your guts full of lead!” and he didn’t realize I was quoting a movie. Awkward!

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Jun
17
2010

Out on Bale

by Andrea

I’ve seriously watched this video like, seventeen times, and have come to several realizations:

1. Newsies was freaking amazing and I need to see it again.

2. Christian Bale is gorgeous.

3. Lady Gaga is awesome, but would be awesomer (not a word) if she did a duet with Christian Bale.

4. Christian Bale should be in more musicals. If we could convince him to be in an episode of Glee, I’d honestly pee myself, and then die of a mixture of happiness and embarrassment. I’m mounting a “Get Bale on Glee” Facebook campaign.

5. Christian Bale is gorgeous.

6. Christian Bale is gorgeous.

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Jun
8
2010

Andrea reviews movies you’ve probably seen already

by Andrea

Where The Wild Things Are: This movie is awful. It’s just so god-awful. I’m not even sure what it was about– probably because it wasn’t about anything. It was just some kid screaming for an hour and a half. And everything in the movie was brown. Don’t watch it. Read the book. The book is actually good. This movie entered the category I call Movies I’m Still Pissed Off About. I’m still pissed off about wasting my time on this movie, along with Valentine’s Day, The Holiday, The Phantom of the Opera, and other such atrocities.

Doubt: Uh-mazing. All of those Academy Award nominations were well-deserved. Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams were brilliant, but the real revelation of the film was Viola Davis’ performance. I don’t know what else to say about it other than that if you haven’t seen it, you must.

Sherlock Holmes: Mixed reviews kept me from seeing this one in the theatre, but now I wish I had. It was a charming, witty romp of a film. Robert Downey, Jr. made for a fantastic Sherlock Holmes. He and Jude Law make an adorable couple… I mean, team.

This was my first Guy Ritchie film, and I enjoyed his stylistic flourishes very much. I also thought that the feel of the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories, which I devoured as a kid, ran through the film. Also: Jude Law is remarkably goodlooking, even (especially?) with a porn star moustache.

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May
22
2010

Oh!

by Andrea

I love 30 Rock and I want to be Tina Fey when I grow up. If you don’t like 30 Rock, we can’t be friends. Sorry. The season finale last Thursday was a whizbanger (Do people still say ‘whizbanger’? Let’s be honest: I’m not even sure what it really means.) and not just because Matt Damon played a handsome doorman… to the SKIES! (That means pilot, to the person-who-didn’t-watch-the-show-and-therefore-can’t-be-my-friend.)

The whole Jack/Avery/Nancy love triangle is over, thank goodness, because Julianne Moore’s Boston accent MADE ME WANT TO DIE. The only thing that kept me going was Alec Baldwin, because, you know… he’s Alec Freaking Baldwin. (Alec, if you’re reading this, call me.)

(Kurt, if you’re reading this, I’m totally kidding.)

(Alec: NO I’M NOT.)

Speaking of accents, there’s a clip of Avery Jessup before she lost her Maryland accent, and it made me laugh, because people from Maryland actually talk like that. No, really. They totally do!

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May
18
2010

Coco avant Chanel

by Andrea

I know that everybody and their dog has already written exhaustively about Coco Before Chanel, but I just saw it last week, ok?

It was good. It definitely shattered some of my notions about Coco Chanel as an independent, self-made woman– which she was, but… anyway, she had some help. Which is fine. I guess. It just made me feel all squidgy inside. I had to make a word up to describe my feelings.

Like all French movies, it made me want to pack up and move to France. I liked the sparse dialogue. Audrey Tautou was wonderful, as usual. Here’s the thing though: for some crazy reason, I though it would be about fashion, which it’s not. Yes, I got caught up in the love triangle, but mostly I was just interested in what everybody was wearing.

And guess what? Coco pretty much wears the same dress throughout the whole movie. Which is realistic, I suppose, but also a bit dull.

Without further ado, the best part of the movie, aka the fashion porn:

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