Tag Archives: movies

Diva is the New Bitch

Posted on Thursday, 7 October, 2010 by Ouyang Dan

Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood is apparently, like myself, a bit of a Katherine Heigl fangirl. I am not exactly her biggest movie fan, though I do own a couple of her Rom-Coms (on Blu-Ray AND I WILL NOT … Continue reading →

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Ramona and Beezus

Posted on Monday, 2 August, 2010 by Ouyang Dan

While I have been taking a day or two from the internet for some mourning time we took Kid to see Ramona and Beezus, which if you are not familiar with it, is a movie based on the Ramona Quimby … Continue reading →

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief — That Special Thing About You

Posted on Wednesday, 21 April, 2010 by Ouyang Dan

Every now and then a movie comes out and I get super excited about it because it sparks something form my childhood or youth that I love. Percy Jackson and the Olympians did that. I loved Greek mythology in High … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Being Ginny Weasley

Posted on Tuesday, 5 January, 2010 by Ouyang Dan

HPatHBP came out on DVD (finally), and in a way that you can watch a movie in your own home and see things better than you can on the big screen (even in an IMAX, yo), I was able to … Continue reading →

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It was a book first!

Posted on Thursday, 10 September, 2009 by Ouyang Dan

While I was at the Airport in Narita waiting for my flight home I stopped by the book store, which had a nice section of books in English.  I was looking for The Subtle Knife, having just finished The Golden … Continue reading →

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Zuh?

Posted on Sunday, 31 May, 2009 by Ouyang Dan

So, I am pretty sure this will go over like a fart in church: According to the Hollywood Reporter, the rights holders of Buffy the Vampire Slayer – which began as the 1992 crapmound film starring Kristy Swanson and was later transformed by … Continue reading →

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Does Gender Matter?

Posted on Monday, 25 May, 2009 by Ouyang Dan

Dovetailing into my thoughts from earlier on Star Trek and if race matters in movies like this, I thought I would also like to discuss gender, specifically, Kirk’s gender.  If Gene Roddenberry had originally decided that Kirk should be a … Continue reading →

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The fine line…

Posted on Monday, 25 May, 2009 by Ouyang Dan

So I was reading Whatsername’s review of Star Trek (it’s good, go read it), and we started discussing how some people (she is hardly the first person I have heard mention this) are reacting to John Cho playing Sulu, since … Continue reading →

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A first look…at failure

Posted on Saturday, 23 May, 2009 by Ouyang Dan

Via the facebook group for the racebending of Avatar I find this USA Today article in my inbox this morning.  The “First Look” at the cast for the upcoming Last Airbender movie. The article, for the non-link followers, features pictures … Continue reading →

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Racism in Twilight?

Posted on Saturday, 16 May, 2009 by Ouyang Dan

So I have taken us to about the middle of the second book in the fangirl acclaimed Twilight Saga, New Moon. We have discussed many things, such as intimate partner abuse, personal autonomy, agency, and myriad other topics on this … Continue reading →

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