The Blood is The Life 28-02-2012

• Pixar finally do a film with a female protagonist
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• The Racist Tree
  (tags: fic racism )
  
• FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling - Digits - WSJ
  This is going to affect the plotlines of NCIS, Bones, Castle, etc...
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• What Happens to the Coke in Coca-Cola?
  Interesting factoids about a drink I can't even drink
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• Meet the Governors Behind "State-Rape" Transvaginal Ultrasound Laws (It's Not Just Virginia) | | AlterNet
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• Aggressive Secular Workplace Discrimination? | Sarah Brown's Blog
  Auntie Sarah punctures the myth of aggressive secularism as pushed by certain religionists.
  (tags: religion )
  
  
• BBC News - Fresh legal challenge on badger culling
  Hurrah!
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• BBC News - DNA reveals Neanderthal extinction clues
  YAY Science!
  (tags: Science )
  
  
• Gender-swapped Doctors are our new favorite form of Doctor Who cosplay
  ?Bookmarked for the pictures; needs moar six, though
  (tags: cosplay feminism DoctorWho )
  
  
• weekly_food_challenge | Recent Entries
  There's been a couple of entrants for challenge #1 - anyone else fancy having a go?
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• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - A Review
  Could be tempted by this, but not necessarily on the big screen.
  (tags: film )
  
  
• Liberal England: Sarah Teather and the "educated liberal elite"
  I don't agree with Jonathan Clader on everything, but sometimes he just has a way of putting things...
  (tags: libdemmery )
  
  

The Woman In Black (@hammerfilms)

Just got back from seeing this, and...

I ( really loved it... )

See this film if:

• You long for the glory days of sumptuous, Victorian-set Hammer Horrors
• You like creepy and spooky and every so often getting a shock that will jump you out of your seat
• You want to spend a long time staring into DanRad'sbig blue eyes
• You want to see a film with a lead female character who has agency and drives the story

Don't see this film if:

• You want ACTION ALL THE TIME and hate atmosphere-building
• You don't like scary films; or indeed if you hate the Surly Native style of horror film - where things would be a lot easier for the hero if only people would talk to him
• You fancied Annie from Life on Mars, because Liz White is not a doe-eyed beauty in this.
• You insist on a non-technical Bechdel pass

I give it, 9/10 and definitely think it's better than the TV version. But I would caution that the 12A rating is definitely on the liberal side of movie ratings, because I would have crapped myself had I seen that at 12.

((X-posted personal journal and brit_horror))