Month: October 2014
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Fangirling Over Sarah Lancashire
There are many more videos on YouTube featuring Sarah Lancashire than there were only a few months ago. I enjoyed watching a bunch of them, but found these three to be the most interesting. The first one is scenes from Happy Valley. The thing I loved most about Sarah Lancashire’s performance in Happy Valley was…
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Anita Sarkeesian Speaks at the XOXO Festival
Anita Sarkeesian from Feminist Frequency spoke at the XOXO Festival recently. This is her entire speech. It’s a bit over 15 minutes long, but worth listening to until the end for the simple conclusion that could change the culture very quickly.
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Watch This: Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, is a wonderful book – it won the Pulitzer. Olive is a stern New Englander, an aging former school teacher, and one of the best characters to ever inhabit the pages of a book. I cannot think of anyone more perfect to play her than Frances McDormand. If I were envisioning…
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Raven Symone said what?
Raven Symone made news on OWN when she told Oprah that she didn’t like being labeled. The labels she talked about were “gay” and “African American,” but she might have been talking about any label applied to any person. She did say, “I’m proud to be who I am.” I think many reactions to her…
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How are we Feeling about How to Get Away with Murder?
We’ve seen 2 episodes of How to Get Away with Murder now. How are we feeling about it? I’ll share my reactions and I hope you’ll leave a comment to share what you think. First, I want Viola Davis as Annalise Keating to carry this show to the top. I want another show with an…
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Watch This: Inside Out
Watch a few seconds of trailer for Inside Out coming from Pixar next year. You have to wade past some bragging first. Inside Out is Pixar’s second film with a female protagonist. Maybe they learned something from Brave after all. A few of the voices involved in Inside Out include Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Phyllis…
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Watch This: Clip from Still Alice
Still Alice stars Julianne Moore as Dr. Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words because of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The film is based on Lisa Genova’s 2007 bestselling novel of the same name. Still Alice will have a limited release in December, which means Julianne Moore will be in the running…