http://thepeanutbloggery.com Pop culture commentary from the cheap seats Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:26:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Kittson is writing for yet another website – SadieMagazine.com, an online magazine targeted at teenage girls and young women.] Six months ago you probably had no clue who Ellen Page was. Sure, she played Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand, but the role was so small, she was easy ... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/06/16/sadie-magazine-review-%e2%80%93-the-tracey-fragments/ Apparently there’s nothing funnier to a pre-pubescent boy than watching his friends get hurt. As a female, I have no personal experience with this sentiment, which makes it astonishing that a movie about boys tackling each other, falling out of trees, getting hit in the face with tennis balls, and ... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/04/29/mmm-movie-review-son-of-rambow/ [Kittson has embarked on another side project. She will be writing reviews for RelateMag.com, a website for teenage girls.] You know that girl – the one who doesn’t dress like anyone else, listens to weird music, doesn’t even have a MySpace page, and couldn’t care less – the one you’re ... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/04/28/relatemagcom-review-nancy-drew/ Thanks to the writers strike, most of the freshman series (minus a few notable exceptions) have wrapped for the season. We thought this would be a good time to look back at the results of our Fall Premiere Challenge and see how the winners fared. Pushing Daisies (ABC) – Ratings ... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/04/21/what-i-watched-fall-premiere-challenge-redux/ Watching the Mandarin-language film Tuya’s Marriage (Tuyade Hunshi), which is set in present-day Inner Mongolia, a region and culture we American movie-goers have little experience with, is like eating a type of food for the first time. Initially the very fact of its unfamiliarity is captivating, but it doesn’t take ... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/04/11/mmm-movie-review-tuyas-marriage/ Sometime in April 1992, a 23-year-old man hiked up the Stampede Trail into the Alaskan wilderness. Inspired by literary idols Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, and Henry David Thoreau, he submitted himself to what he considered the ultimate test, sparking a debate that has lasted for sixteen years. Read more... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/04/08/mmm-dvd-review-into-the-wild/ You can stop sending those Nerf footballs to NBC. Today the network announced its schedule through summer 2009, and “Friday Night Lights” is indeed on it (thanks to DirectTV). The acclaimed football drama is, as they say, off the bubble, rescued from that no man’s land between renewed ... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/04/02/what-i-watched-on-the-bubble/ Every year around this time, I’m reminded how fortunate I am to live in New York City. No, not because we have live band karaoke or even Bo Duke on Broadway. I’m grateful, because, while the rest of the country is suffering through studio rejects like Jumper and Vantage Point, ... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/04/01/mmm-movie-review-my-brother-is-an-only-child/ Beware the film so enigmatic and pretentiously mysterious that you are convinced of its profundity and fail to question the message. Beware the soporific French film The Heartbeat Detector. Read more... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/04/01/mmm-movie-review-the-heartbeat-detector/ Considering the complicated nature of and disparate beliefs concerning the “hot button” issue, one might assume a film depicting the plight of illegal Mexican immigrants in the US would be politically charged. But Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) is simply a sweet drama, free of political assertions about ... http://thepeanutbloggery.com/2008/04/01/mmm-movie-review-under-the-same-moon/