Star Wars: A Modest Proposal

sarlaac

Lately I feel like it's been all Star Wars, all the time.  First, of course, there was the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic and the latest version of all six films on Blu-Ray; then there's the theater re-release in 3D, so that there will be yet another version floating around out there.   I recently bought the original trilogy on Blu-Ray myself.  I'd grown up on the films, a VHS with copies recorded from HBO sometime in the 80s, but I hadn't sat down and watched them, start to … [Read more...]

Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: Too Much, Too Soon?

trap

In general, I'm not the kind of girl who can spout obscure passages of dialogue from movies and TV shows.  There are a few films that are embedded in my brain, most of them from before I was ten years old or so, when my brain was more plastic.  Oh, and Family Guy. Yep, Family Guy.  I don't quite know how it happened; I wouldn't call Family Guy a guilty pleasure, but maybe an unlikely one.  I've always been the "mature one," and I'm pretty quiet and shy in person (for the first few … [Read more...]