Rupert Grint goes Irish (10/5/09)

Things YOU need to know:

• Rupert Grint rocks Cherrybomb
  This drug-, sex-, and crime-fest is set in Belfast. Read: Unintelligible Northern Irish accents. Hawt. It premiered at the Berlin Film Festival months ago, but it still hasn't hit theaters. (Hat tip to my roomie!)

Rupert Grint gets down and dirty for Cherrybomb. Also, I need that necklace.

I lurve Rupert Grint's non-HP work (though I still haven't seen Thunderpants), but per the trailer, Cherrybomb seems to be Skins: The Movie. Oh, wicked youth.

• Queens on Thrones
  Go look at the world's best pic of Queen Elizabeth II and bonny Prince Charlie. You won't regret it. (Yet another hat tip to my roomie! I may have infected her with my Anglophilia. Mayhap I should be quarantined.)

• The Part about Doctor Who
  Did I remember to tell you guys that the divine Richard Curtis has signed on to pen an episode of the upcoming season of Doctor Who? Do you understand the import of that statement?
  
  Permit me to explain. Richard Curtis is the genius behind The Vicar of Dibley! For the uninitiated, VOD is a totally ridiculous Britcom set in a country village that's been assigned a lady vicar: one Dawn French, comedienne extraordinaire. Hilarious character-based high jinks ensue. This is My Favorite Show of All Time. Check it:

If that's what Curtis does with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, I cannot WAIT to see what he'll do with the good Doctor. (Hat tip to Filmi Girl! It's like I don't even try to find my own news these days.)

Maybe Richard Curtis can help me heart Matt Smith's adolescent Doctor Who.

• I totally made out with Richard Armitage...
  ...in this inappropriate dream I had one time. (That's a secret. Don't tell anyone. I only told you guys so I could use that information as an awkward lead-in to his totally dorky North and South interview.)
  
  In a nutshell: Armitage stars as the I-love-him-more-than-Darcy hero of North and South, John Thornton. N&S is a totally rad BBC mini-series of Elizabeth Gaskell's totally rad book of the same name. And in his cast interview, Armitage talks, at length, about all of the research he did for the part. He's very, um, detailed. (Read: Giant nerd.) He's also wearing kind of a hilarious necklace. And this interview is why I lurve him.

Hahahahaha! I love nerds. Here's part 2:



My guess: Dude didn't have a girlfriend until he was at least twenty. Srsly adorbs.

• I have FIVE papers due this week.
  And I'm only taking FOUR classes. So I spent Sunday, which was ridiculously gorgeous, cooped up in my apartment, writing papers. To make myself feel better, I pretended to be working all day in the Gryffindor Common Room with Harry, Ron, and Hermione. (I listened to the Order of the Phoenix soundtrack to lend credibility to my ruse.) Certain individuals have told me "that's the nerdiest thing [they've] ever heard."

Even homework is more fun in the Gryffindor Common Room!

Whatevs. They're just jealous that they didn't get to spend the day at Hogwarts.

Doctor Who! Prawn & Prejudice! (7/23/09)

Sci-fi nerds, hold on to your flux capacitors! Actor Matt Smith is stepping into the multi-century shoes of Brit time-traveling legend Doctor Who. Smith will be the eleventh Doc; I've only seen a few eps of the show (it's one of many on the old Netflix queue), but I've grown pretty attached to David Tennant's version of the Doctor.

Just in case you were wondering why I heart the erstwhile Doc...check this Comic Relief starring David Tennant as Doctor Who as English teacher (with Catherine Tate as Lauren! Yay!):



But that is neither here nor there—Smith's first eps of Who will drop in spring 2010. Apparently, the new lead writer is a hardcore fanboy, though, so that bodes well (see Lord of the Rings, done so right by überdork Peter Jackson).


In Jane Austen news, AustenBlog has posted a review of Prawn & Prejudice...P&P transferred to a 21st-century seaside town. It actually sounds pretty out-of-this-world, and I must read it. Anything with a line like "And what of his sisters? Were they not awesome? Quite the most elegant creatures you ever beheld?” is totally down with me.

I did finally get around to checking a few pages of the ubiquitous Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and, oddly enough, I see its appeal...and yet. It didn't quite work for me. It's all very cut-and-paste-y. It's been a raging success, though, and has spawned Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, per the Young Publishers Blog. Thoughts?