We’ll Share Our Lives, But Not Our TV Shows
I lied to my boyfriend to get him to Finding Neverland. Or, I suppose, I…
Gillianren
Gillianren is a forty-something bipolar woman living in the Pacific Northwest after growing up in Los Angeles County. She and her boyfriend have one son and one daughter, and she gave a daughter up for adoption. She fills her days by watching her local library system's DVD collection in alphabetical order, watching everything that looks interesting. She particularly enjoys pre-Code films, blaxploitation, and live-action Disney movies of the '60s and '70s. She has a Patreon account at https://www.patreon.com/gillianren
Articles:
The Great Is the Enemy of Remembering the Bad
IMDb lets you just call up a list of what movies came out in any…
In Defense of a Shaggy Dog Story
One of my mother’s few extravagances after my dad died was cable TV. The Disney…
Beyond the Idiot Plot
Roger Ebert defined an “idiot plot” as a movie where the whole thing could be…
Teaching by Bad Example
A common tactic in the history of film has been the “what not to do”…
The Hollywood Calendar
Actually, the backward sliding of blockbuster season would have been of some benefit to me…
Regular Quoting or BQ?
With a little thought, I believe I could come up with a list of maybe…
Hollywood Crazy Person Syndrome
So I read in my local newspaper today that one of the mental hospitals in…
My Two Cents on “Age-Appropriate”
When I was four, I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark at the drive-in. My…
How to Properly Appreciate Giant Robots
The anime club at my alma mater is called, I kid you not, the Giant…