I know what you’re thinking. Who is that awesome person that is best friends with Wall-E? Here’s a little bit about me:

I am very much a product of the entertainment world. I was a Disney kid that learned as much from PBS shows as I did in the classroom. My biggest fear stems from my first encounter watching ET when he screams upon seeing Elliott for the first time.  The closest experience I have to holding a gun is shooting ducks out of the sky on the NES.
Today I am no different in the fact that I still relate everything back to movies, TV, games, etc. Especially Friends. Name a life experience and there is probably an episode that includes it. I love all genres of films, but have a tendency to lean towards horror, sci-fi, fantasy and things based on comic books and superheroes. My favorite director/writer/all-around-awesome-person is Joss Whedon and I will stand by pretty much anything he does, ranging from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. Though I say this with confidence, I cannot do the same for favorite actors. Ask for my favorite and you will get a list, both male and female. I am a firm believer that product placement belongs in films and TV because there is nothing more distracting than having a sticker over the apple on a computer (though holding a Coke can so that the label is perfectly facing the camera is pushing it). I get way too much enjoyment out of noticing random people in something and being able to pin point why they have a familiar face (my most recent pat-on-the-back moment was making the connection back to 2002s Doctor Zhivago on PBS and Lord Coward in the newly released Sherlock Holmes). I come from an artistic background, so in my reviews I tend to lean more towards the “look how pretty the set-up of that shot was!” more than the film credits of the director, and I will throw in big words to distract you from noticing this fact. Unfortunately, the vocabulary of terms I picked up in my Intro to Film class a few years back is constantly dwindling, so be on the lookout for “film noir” and “German expressionism” because they are slowly becoming all I have left. And finally, if you haven’t noticed yet, it is hard for me to avoid a good ramble here and there.
Still willing to know more about me? Well, my name is Lauren, so look out for my posts in the days to follow. And maybe a while after that as well.