http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:00:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So for whatever reasons, my weekly movies posts seem to have permanently morphed themselves into biweekly ones. I can't promise this'll change -- I want to be writing more, but it doesn't seem to be coming easily. I keep half-writing posts in my head, promising myself I'll get them done ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/12/03/biweekly-movies-november-17-30/ Obviously there are a thousand places on the internet you can get Gossip Girl recaps, so this one's going to be all about the party dresses: The most prominent last night, Vanessa's is beautiful, belongs to someone else, and is transparent when you hold it up to the light. Serena's is everything ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/12/02/winter-prom-gossip-girl-season-2-episode-12/ Before I get to my sad weekly movie, I need to talk about the new Star Trek trailer: SO BAD. I can't even talk about how bad this looks. Alex showed it to me last night and I just started sputtering "SO bad. SO unbelievably bad." Hoverbikes! Spunky children! (Just like ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/11/18/weekly-movies-november-10-16/ The Innocents (Jack Clatyton, 1961): You know that thing that happens when you’re talking about a movie, and then a few days later, it’s on TV? I love that thing. It’s really not a surprising thing in this case, because it’s a movie about ghosts and it was on last ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/11/11/bi-weekly-movies-october-27-november-9/ Aw, I kind of loved Jenny's guerilla fashion show. It reminded me of that scene in...I want to say Girls Just Want To Have Fun, where they crash a society party with their contemporary dance or whatever. How fitting is it that Jenny's whole downfall/uprising is all scored to cover songs? ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/11/04/there-might-be-blood-gossip-girl-season-2-episode-9/ This is kind of a programming note. Remember how I used to update my blog regularly? I bet you're wondering what happened to that. Well, I was unemployed and kind of depressed (colloquially speaking, not clinically), I went to Texas, and then I got a full time job. The job thing ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/11/02/not-so-weekly-movies/ I am off to vote, 1 and I will have a special double-issue of Weekly Movies up in the next day or two, but I just wanted to point you to my contribution to This Recording's best films of the 1980s series, which ran a few days ago. I considered ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/10/06/hey-look-i-finished-something/ Ugh. I am sick, and the only thing worse than being sick and missing work is being sick and not actually having work to miss, and then wordpress doesn't want me to upload images anymore, so anyway I am sorry my Gossip Girl post is two days late! This was ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/10/02/hiding-your-light-gossip-girl-season-2-episode-4/ Brown Sugar (Rick Famuyiwa, 2002): This is one of those movies that the idea of sounds better than the actual thing of. Loosely inspired by Common's "I Used To Love H.E.R," it is basically a love story where Sanaa Lathan's love of hip hop and her love of Taye Diggs ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/09/25/weekly-movies-september-15-21/ The three best things about last night's Gossip Girl. One, the hurt and humiliation on Blair's face when Vanessa gives her the bad news re: Marcus and Duchess Shelley the waitress. I love everything about that scene, from the fact that Blair is hurt and sad, not just by being cheated on, ... http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/09/23/its-the-little-things-gossip-girl-season-2-episode-4/