June 3, 2010
by Julie • Media Musings
“The Child” goes out of its way to avoid exploitation, but it plays like a Merchant Ivory production of a V.C. Andrews novel. (source) This has me envisioning some amazingly lush southern-gothic kinda horrifying trainwreck, and I think I might even pay money to see it.
October 6, 2009
by Julie • Media Musings
I believe that the greatest danger to genre fiction nowadays is not the denial of respect from some notional group of literary tastemakers but the very real likelihood that sf/f may become respectable. Those who thirst for the foamy gray poison of respectability should consider the fate of jazz, once a popular medium, now respectable, [...]
March 19, 2009
by Julie • Media Musings
Just watched Dead Like Me: Life After Death on Netflix. It’s amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone who ever liked the show.
January 21, 2009
by Julie • About Creativity, Media Musings
From “Stephen Sondheim and Frank Rich at Avery Fisher Hall” …directors feel they can improve a show. They have such contempt for the authors. We (the authors) know what we?re doing and they don?t. It?s contemptuous of them. Eh, I respectfully disagree. But I have strong feelings on the place of Authorial Intent. I also [...]
August 19, 2008
by Julie • Media Musings
I’m finally getting around to watching the remake of The Lion in Winter with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close. I’m halfway though and it’s phenomenal. That’s tough for me to say. I know (and adore) the original backwards and forwards the way some folks know Shakespeare. My family and friends have been known to quote [...]