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Month: September 2010

a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “The Beautiful Girls”

Wed, Sep 22, 2010
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What a fantastic exploration of all the ways women worked to make themselves heard in a time when they were ignored and dismissed and expected to be nothing but pretty and silent. What a beautifully subtle and beautifully pointed episode.

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trailer break: ‘Hatchet II’ unrated trailer

Wed, Sep 22, 2010
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I’m not sure that an extra gory horror movie is quite the blow the MPAA deserves, but if this movie does well in limited release, perhaps it will convince the other multiplex chains that an unrated film is worth booking.

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question of the day: Did you know that the Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’ is fiction?

Wed, Sep 22, 2010
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I haven’t read extensively about the film, but I did assume that it would be at least loosely based on the reality of how Facebook came into existence. I think that’s not an unfair assumption. Am I wrong?

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watch it: “Geek and Gamer Girls Song”

Tue, Sep 21, 2010
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I’m definitely a geek girl, but I suddenly wonder if I’ve been doing it right. Because I’ve never found myself rolling around naked in piles of comic books, action figures, and Nintendo controllers. Now I must doubt myself and my geek girl creds…

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: fan play ‘Hell Blossom’ on in London

Tue, Sep 21, 2010
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I’ve heard of fan fiction, but fan theater?

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you’re not helping: Hollywood’s rediscovery of nonblond nonbimbos does not a revolution make

Tue, Sep 21, 2010
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Blondes can’t be surly and wisecracking? Surly wisecracking girls can’t be conventionally pretty? There are no pretty, blond geek girls? WTF?

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free stuff for $1/month subscribers

Tue, Sep 21, 2010
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My deadline is looming close, and I’ve acquired only an embarrassingly tiny number of subscribers, especially when measured against the thousands of people who read this site every day. So now I’m resorting to bribery…

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the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Glamourpuss: The Lady Gaga Story’

Tue, Sep 21, 2010
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Someday, in the distant future, Lady Gaga will be the boogeyman kids tell scary stories about at slumber parties. “And then, Lady Gaga snuck into the airlock and replaced everyone’s O2 with slabs of rotten meat and peacock feathers!”

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awards season has officially begun…

Tue, Sep 21, 2010
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DreamWorks Animation must be feeling some intense pressure this year, because they’ve gotten the jump on everyone else…

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trailer break: ‘The Hole in 3D’

Tue, Sep 21, 2010
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From Joe Dante, the director of Gremlins… and it looks like it’s leftover from the 1980s, too.

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