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[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“403” caption=“Ron Effing Swanson (Picture courtesy andyrama)”] [/caption] Parks and Recreation is back, everyone! Ron Swanson approves. Movies Paul - I’d heard very conflicting things about this movie. My feelings on it remain conflicted. I like Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Kristen Wiig, but this movie, while good, was not the best showcase of their various talents. I don’t regret watching it, but I’d say it’s pretty middling. ...

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“333” caption=“Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary in Young Adult. Great movie, guys. She’s an awesome character.(Photo Courtesy Paramount Pictures Germany)”] [/caption] The Old Republic continues to dominate making this list much more boring than it should be, but I’m having lots of fun with it, so get over it. ...

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“500” caption=“Stay calm everyone, but the Bounty Hunter class quest deals with an albino wookiee!”] [/caption] This is suuuper delayed, but I’ve been traveling and enjoying the holidays and recovering from sickness and that all takes time, you know? Movies Bridesmaids - Viewing number 4ish. I love the flip out scene where Kristin Wiig and Maya Rudolph have it out. Great scene. ...

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“337” caption=“Movies are back! (Photo courtesy adonismens)”] [/caption] My brief movie vacation wasn’t willingly imposed, guys. I was just waiting for Netflix to finally send one of the movies at the top of my queue to me. Let’s see if they can keep this up… Movies Our Idiot Brother - Paul Rudd was surprisingly good in this. This movie is not laugh out loud funny, but it’s pretty great in a low key laughs kind of way. Rudd’s three sisters, Emily Mortimer, Zooey Deschanel, and Elizabeth Banks, all play troubled/damaged women who could all use a little folksy advice from their too trusting, semi-naive brother. It’s better than it sounds plus it features Rashida Jones in dorky glasses playing a lesbian in a relationship with Zooey Deschanel. Pretty good stuff! Only nitpick is that Emily Mortimer’s American accent is a little thin. It wouldn’t make sense for her to be English, but it wasn’t as natural as it could be. ...

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo had an amazing trailer. The Muppets have riffed on it: For reference: I cannot wait for either movie! ...

I first saw the trailer for Winter’s Bone before Män som hatar kvinnor (AKA: Men Who Hate Women (AKA: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)) and I immediately thought: wow, that looks intense. Well I finally got around to watching it this past weekend and I was both right and wrong. For those not familiar with the premise, WB is about a 17-year-old girl, Ree Dolly, whose father is out on bond before a meth-cooking trial. Unfortunately for Ree, he put up his house to pay for the bond, so if he doesn’t show up for his court date, the government will take the house. Luckily (note: not lucky at all), Ree’s father has gone missing and she now needs to find him. ...