Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy flickr user Nrbelex. I’m glad BabylonSista weighed in so substantially on Real Housewives of Atlanta, because I’ve been feeling some substantial ambiguity about how addicted I am to the show and how I feel about the women on it. One of the charms and dangers of the Real Housewives franchise is that its appeal is based in judgement.... 

Image used under a Creative Commons license. Man, am I enjoying Covert Affairs even more than I expected, and even more as the series progresses beyond the first episode. And much more of that success has to do with Christopher Gorham’s presence in the show than I’d anticipated. I always found Gorham and his back-and-forth with America Ferrera on Ugly Betty a little exhausting. I’m... 

Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy fabnol. If we must have a live-action Tinkerbell movie, Elizabeth Banks is probably the least objectionable choice I can think of to play the mercurial green-clad fairy. McG’s rumored involvement is troubling, especially since the other writer is Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, a first-timer with limited acting experience, but if she brings... 

Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy of hoangnt. Apparently, we’re getting a live-action Little Mermaid movie. I’ve been thinking a lot about people who change between people and animals, lately, if only because of the pop culture I’m consuming. There are the skinchangers in A Song of Fire and Ice, people who can send their minds out into wolves or eagles, and the... 

Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy kla4067. Woah, Skeet Ulrich is going to anchor Law & Order: Los Angeles? In the brief period when I subscribed to Teen, Ulrich was everywhere. I nursed my crush on him in The Newton Boys, but somehow I missed Ride With the Devil, his Ang Lee Civil War Western with Jewel (can you see why?) and he kind of fell off my radar. It’ll be interesting... 

Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy of Loren Javier. SPOILERS, IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN TOY STORY 3. SERIOUSLY. THIS IS ABOUT THE END OF THE MOVIE. STOP HERE IF YOU DON’T WANT THE END TO BE SPOILED, AND THE END MATTERS. DON’T COMPLAIN YOU WEREN’T WARNED. So, I completely lost it towards the end of Toy Story 3, and my only real consolation was that the person... 

Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy of bigdmia. It’s a damn shame and a bad reflection on the industry that she is unemployed enough to do a Lifetime show. My main association with her is the great teen movies of my comparative youth: the decent popular chick in She’s All That, the horrible social climber in Ten Things I Hate About You, the head cheerleader in Bring It... 

Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy bbcworldservice. I think the finding that people commit more acts of cruelty on reality television than in fictional shows is simultaneously questionable and interesting. First, I think it’s important to recognize that while more acts of cruelty may be broadcast on reality programs, that’s the result of many more hours of filming... 

Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy of Reza Vaziri. I think the Arthur remake sounds like a lot of fun, what with the Russell Brand, and the Helen Mirren and all. But I’m a little worried about Jennifer Garner as the romantic lead. She’s ridiculously gorgeous and all, but I feel like I’ve seen her on-screen a lot recently, rewatching Juno and in The Invention... 

Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy of striatic. So, after a hiatus in which I was attempting to do some more substantive reading, I got back to the Southern Vampire mysteries, because I love me some Sookie Stackhouse, and I needed to turn off my brain for a while. And I think it’s too bad that the series, after introducing vampires and shape-shifters, has turned to faeries...