January 2012
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: “Twilight” as a cautionary... →
Bella is warned by numerous people and events throughout the course of the story that she is actively pursuing her own destruction – but she’s so dependent on Edward and caught up in the idea of the romance that she refuses to see the situation for what it is. Charlie tells her Edward is bad…
Orange juice without pulp is pulp fiction.
“But I have to write like that. Funny, sad, all at once. That’s how life is. You...”
– Russell T Davies, The Writer’s Tale (via paralleltoparallel)
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BBC America has stolen my heart
and mind from my family with its Doctor Who marathon. It’s almost like this channel doesn’t want me to have a Christmas.
Kim Jong Il: Greatest. Filmmaker. Ever. →
csmonitor:
Scott Baldauf explains:
“Called one of the most, well, Kim-Jong-ilian movies of the century, Pulgasari is an allegory of the common man’s fight against tyranny, as hapless medieval Korean peasants team up with a giant iron-eating bull to overthrow an evil king. The fact that the young director Kim had to kidnap a South Korean director, Shin Sang-Ok, and his actress wife, Choe Un-Hee,...
