Things and Thangs, and Adorable Movie-geek babies

Yet another post filled with random links. I will actually get to writing things - I promise!!

Listessessss: Sex and Harry Potter, Getting the girl, Industry secrets, Essential Directors, and Spectacular movies

Another post, another long list of lists and random hits. More originals to occur soon, I hope = /


The 5 Most depraved sex scenes implied by Harry Potter - I knew it! This really makes the HP series more twisted/better than that ridiculously hyper-sexualized Twilight

How to Get the Girl According to Movies. Seriously, "Have feet"??? Ariel was such an easy ho.

6 Things the Film Industry Doesn't Want You to Know About.

The 100 Essential Directors.

25 Spectacular Movies You (probably) Haven't Seen

Listessessss and things

It's been way too long, and I've compiled many a links to provide commentary on each. So I'm just blog-vomiting it all out there. Here we go.

Five beloved yet deeply disturbing coming of age films


The do's and dont's for picking a takeout night movie

Top 10 quietly important films

11 superhero dating profiles

Judy Garland in her own words

Speilberg's curriculum - the films Steven Speilberg thinks every would-be filmmaker needs to see


THR's 25 Best Film Schools

8 Pointless female characters in movies

10 most overused songs in movie history


Director to watch flowchart 

50 greatest sex scenes in cinema

10 most iconic images in film history

Everything Is A Remix: Kill Bill and the Mini-Doc Series

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I love remixes, in just about all shapes and forms. In movies, videos, music, art and so on. There's a little documentary series online from Kirby Ferguson called Everything is a Remix, and according to him we all love remixes to the extent that it just about consumes our modern culture, particularly in films. The best part, is that most of us don't even know we're watching a remix.

Follow Up: 100 More Things I Love

As a follow up to that thedroidyourelookingfor article on 100 Things I Love About the Movies, here's another article from the same author called (surprise) 100 More Things I Love About the Movies.

I didn't do this earlier, but here are the ones I definitely share, AND with a few addendums:

RIP Cinematical.com - The Untimely, and Mishandled, Death of a Film Blog

 As of April 6, 2011, the 5 year old film blog known as cinematical.com has died.

100 Things I Love....

 As my first real post, I thought it be fitting to include this little article from a not-so-little movie blog called The Droid You're Looking For. For anyone who's watched the first Star Wars movie (the first REAL Star Wars film that counted), you can tell from the title that this blog is a bit of the silly, fanboy variety. Various film blogs run the gamut from DIY film commentary and entertainment to paid/published serious criticism. But I'd like to argue (or at least hope) that they all stem from a similar, personal, deeply-rooted passion and love for the cinematic medium. Here's where this blog's refreshing post on the "100 Things I Love About The Movies" comes in.