Inventrix | February 23, 2010
So, lately, especially since the Frog Princess first came to light, there’s been all this talk about Disney’s “princess problem” and how they’re setting up their movies in an attempt to reverse that mentality. So of course I am sitting here, being an animated Disney movie fan myself, and marvelling on the bizarre nature [...]
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Inventrix | December 1, 2009
So! There’s this thing I got tagged by Jeanette Bennett, a.k.a. Scablander to do, which basically is one of those “list X things and then fill in the numbers in the questions below with the matching item” things. This one in particular is for various characters of various media.
I’ve linked the characters who [...]
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Inventrix | July 17, 2009
One thing that I find absolutely fascinating is going back and looking at how my interests, preferences, tastes etc. have developed through/since my childhood – particularly now that it’s basically stabilized and probably won’t change too much in the future. The most fascinating one to trace is, in my opinion, my interest (by some [...]
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Inventrix | June 18, 2009
I’ve got some news for you guys, news which you may or may not have heard before. Bad news.
There’s going to be a fifth Indiana Jones movie.
Or, as I so cleverly(?) quipped, they’re making a Mutt Jones movie. I wish they would call it Mutt Jones and the something of something-or-other, since he’s [...]
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Inventrix | June 16, 2009
Right, so, there’s this five-book young adult fantasy series that I read for the first time ages ago, and which I absolutely love to pieces. It is called “The Dark is Rising” by Susan Cooper, which is interestingly enough also the title of the second book in the series. I read the first [...]
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Inventrix | May 22, 2009
When I first heard about the movie I was both thrilled and terrified; excited and trepidatious; anticipating and dreading it in equal parts. It could be good – very good. It could also be the absolute depths of deplorable inaccuracy.
However, back then, I wasn’t expecting this (YouTube).
But quickly, before you watch that trailer! [...]
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