Crimson Peak movie review: humorous gruesome
A deliciously creepy haunted-house story. Oozes eldritch atmosphere yet plays with our genre expectations in ways that make it as funny as it is scary.
Jane Austen
a few thoughts on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (and open thread)
It’s all very grubby… which is brilliant.
Belle movie review: untold stories
Wonderful true story about a mixed-race woman raised in aristocratic late-18th-century England; like the best Jane Austen romance with a social conscience.
Anno 1790 review: Sherlock in 18th-century Sweden
So awesome that I almost can’t bear it. And so relevant to today: Are the battles between rich and poor, science and superstition, freedom and repression actually endless?
Austenland review: bomb and bombasticity
Austenland, allow me to tell you how ardently I loathe and despise you.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Apr 13-19 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Russell T. Davies has crossed Doctor Who with Harry Potter! (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
VS Naipaul isn’t just a sexist pig, he’s blindered to his own privilege
Gotta love what author V.S. Naipaul thinks of women writers: they’re none of them his equal because of their “narrow” perspective…
Saturday cute: Team Darcy
Brooding is so 19th century…
my reads: ‘Blackout’ by Connie Willis
Connie Willis is a rotten, terrible person. She’s so mean to her readers, among which I count myself as one of the most fervent, that it’s almost unforgivable.
