The lovely people over at Bawdy Bookworms were kind enough to provide me with fall’s Bawdy Bookworms Box to review—an experience that had me swearing as I tried to take a photo for this review while my cat dragged a vibrating cock ring (still in its packaging) across the living room. Anyway, I got home from work on a Monday and the only thing I had to look forward to was taking my goddamn pantyhose … Continue reading Bawdy Bookworms Box →
Redheadedgirl: I just watched the preview for Under the Tuscan Sun and mom went, “….is that a remake?” and I told her no, I made her watch it back when it came out. “Sandra Oh?” “Yeah!” “Scenery porn?” “Yeah!” “Food porn?” “Yeah!” “HOME RENO PORN.” “YES.” Sarah: Watching Tuscan Sun. OMG the galloping sexism she and Sandra Oh wade through in the first scene. All these poor men and their overwhelming emotions. I like how … Continue reading Smart Bitches Movie Matinee: Under the Tuscan Sun →
For your melodrama pleasure, Dreamworks presents you with a smorgasbord of gorgeous views, sad people, a lost baby, and crashing waves. As World War One winds to a close, Tom Sherborne (Michael Fassbender) returns to Western Australia to take a position as a lighthouse keeper on an island off the coast . He’s haunted by the war, and thinks the idea of being all by himself on an island for six months sounds GREAT. He … Continue reading Movie Review: The Light Between Oceans →
Not all summer movies are about blowing shit up. This is a charming comedy-biography about a VERY rich woman who loved to sing and loved to sing for an audience… problem was she wasn’t very good at the singing part. Meryl Streep swans in as Florence Foster Jenkins, who, with her common-law(ish) husband, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) puts on musical performances and tableaux vivants in 1940s New York. Florence has always had a love … Continue reading Movie Review: Florence Foster Jenkins →
One day in the summer of 1989, two people went on a first date. I mean, a lot of people did that summer, I’m sure. But these two people – a lawyer and a summer associate (read: law student working as grunt labor for a summer) would grow up to be the President and First Lady of the United States. But in 1989 they were just Michelle and Barack, and they were still trying to … Continue reading Movie Review: Southside With You →
Carrie: I dunno if the problem is my TV or what but the colors in the opening credits look like they were produced on some serious LSD. All I can think of is Channing Tatum dancing in Hail Caesar. Sarah: This is going to be an interesting Matinee because I am not a big musicals person. I get why other people love them, and I’ve been crew and tech and assistant stage manager for a few, and … Continue reading Smart Bitches Movie Matinee: South Pacific →
Kubo and the Two Strings is, hands down, the most visually stunning animated movie I have ever seen. I love many kinds of animation and it’s foolish to try to compare them, but this movie made me gasp out loud repeatedly. The animation is unusual, detailed, gorgeous, and dreamlike, and the imagery is simply amazing. It’s also a lovely movie in terms of character, action, and emotion – but wow, is it ever dark. Kubo … Continue reading Movie Review: Kubo and the Two Strings →
Hello, Richard here. I’m Mr. Elyse and Dewey’s Morning Food Servant. I’m here to tell you about Comic Bento, a graphic novel subscription box. Years ago if someone would have told that I could get a surprise box of graphic novels shipped to me monthly, I would have been overjoyed. I have had an on-again, off-again love affair with graphic novels for decades. The off-again part generally involves my bank account. So when I was … Continue reading Subscription Box Review: Comic Bento →
Jason Bourne is the fifth movie in the Bourne franchise, and marks the return of Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon to the series. In a year full of franchises, sequels, and reboots, this was one I was kind of looking forward to. Along with Matty, in the cast we also have Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, and Riz Ahmed. It’s okay? It takes the best bits (and one really terrible bit) from Bournes … Continue reading Lightning Movie Review: Jason Bourne →
OwlCrate is a YA subscription box service that ships out one book a month, plus several gift items, all sticking with a theme. Now, I’m a fan of YA lit and I’m a fan of getting shit in the mail and I know a lot of people who would enjoy something like this as a gift, so I wanted to check it out. I am sad to report that OwlCrate is not actually delivered by … Continue reading OwlCrate Subscription Box Service →
Welp, that was whelming. Suicide Squad is the third movie in the DC Extended Movie Cinematic Anything Marvel Can Do We Can Also Do Universe, about Amanda Waller, a US intelligence operative, and her handpicked team of really really bad guys who she wants to use to fight Superman. See, since Superman exists, and there are the DC version of mutants evolving (they’re called metahumans here), we need something to fight the Supermen of the … Continue reading Movie Review: Suicide Squad →
