I hate Renee Zellwiger

Cha's been pestering me to get Cold Mountain for a year now, and I finally broke down and moved it from position #247 on the Netflix queue. I was gearing up to loathe this, but was instead surprised to find it reasonably good. Definitely not a new story, nor a particularly inventive one, but well-acted and nicely shot. Kidman and Jude Law drop trou and display two of Hollywood's hottest derrieres. There's lots of pathos and thanatos and eros and all that other bullshit you forget from Intro to Lit.

My hatred for Renee Zellwiger (as an actress--I can't condemn her as a human being) continues. I swear to God her "research" for this role consisted entirely of mimicking characters from