Genevieve: Ubiquitous Film Review
From the Desk of…
You have to wonder about cinema’s underclass, those helpful servant and offscreen plot-assistants who toil tirelessly for the heroes; often they’re not only unsung, but actively frustrated, by the hero, though we never hear a word about it. The movies are knee-deep with supporting characters whose presence just raises more questions than it answers. Here, [...]
Top-Secret TV Pilots: Failed but Fabulous
The dust has settled on the 2011/2012 pilot season! In some cases, beloved shows are gone forever. [Your beloved show here.] In some cases, our long national nightmare is over (Outsourced). And with a fresh new crop of shows about white people problems, we can all look forward to another year of groundbreaking television that [...]
Ubiquitous Film Review: The Fanvid FAQ You’ve All Been Waiting For
So, you want to make a fanvid! It’s an excellent idea. In addition to bringing new people to the fandom of your choice, it’s a way to exercise burgeoning editing skills, and it keeps you off the streets, which God knows you need. However, not just any vid will do. Having been on The Net [...]
Abridged Classics: Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Every once in a while, Eileen and Andrew knock me on the shoulder with their billy-club of friendship and say, “You’re up!”, and I fire up the world’s worst video-editing software, Abridge some Classics, and mortify the English professors who only ever tried to make me appreciate literature. Obviously, I am not here to tell [...]
The Best Fake Movies of 2011: An Early Look
It’s never too early to look ahead to fake-movie awards season! (No joke, I spent most of my college life looking forward to 2003 so The Lord of the Rings could finally win its collective Oscar and get it over with already. This is a little less early than that. Barely.) However, for movie enthusiasts, [...]
Abridged Classics: Pathfinder
So, I while ago, I made an Abridged Classic for Pathfinder, an appalling example of racism in cinema, and also an appalling example of cinema. And man, there was plenty to show you. Especially because writing about this movie just doesn’t do it justice. It’s one thing to write, “The Native American characters are useless.” [...]
Abridged Classics: Lorna Doone
If there is one thing I love in this world, one thing it’s impossible to ruin, it is a period piece that brings together a talented cast. It’s a chance to discover the next big thing; a chance to enjoy those who have been chosen to work together because they’re at the top of their [...]
Abridged Classics: Pathfinder
Everyone loves a good yarn about Vikings and inexplicably childlike Native Americans and eyeballs flying all over the place, right? Remember that time Vikings almost wiped out all the Native Americans, except that other Viking was there to save them, even though he had been adopted by them and then outcast for no reason? Oh, [...]
“Il Fantasma dell’Opera”: no, seriously.
Girl alert – I loved A Room with a View. It’s the lemon-frosted cupcake of film; what’s not to like? And of course I crushed out on George Emerson, just like any other girl who sat at home on Friday nights in high school clutching her life-size Jane Austen pillow and sighing over a guy [...]
Abridged Classics: “Becoming Jane”
Wherein I slog through two hours of retrofitted history so you don’t have to. ———— Genevieve is a prolific writer of speculative fiction living in New York, but you’ll never find her there because millions of people live there and Genevieve likes her privacy. Examples of her fiction can be found in Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, [...]
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