Hannibal is spectacular fun. Not for the squeamish. Amazed that NBC is airing it. Definitely not for everyone, or even close to resembling a mainstream show. I agree, stone. Carm and I don't miss Hannibal. It is gorier than you'd think would be on TV, gorier than should be on TV, and almost comical...

I watched American Hustle last night. Wasn't too in to it. I prefer its close cousin, The Wolf of Wall Street.

Monk, Coltrane, and Paul Desmond.

I just hope Obama is as furiously Googling "Crimea" as his supporters and detractors on the internet are.

There is a reason the Russians colonized and ethnically cleansed Crimea generations ago: so that it would be Russian. Sheesh.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/KahaaniPoster.jpg Kahaani, an Indian thriller from 2012. As a film, this was so-so. It was a little plotty watching characters connect dot to dot to dot. As an insight into Indian culture, this was intriguing. Motherhood rises up to defend India against...

I'm confused. Are refugees now not welcome?

Don't try to understand him. Just rope and throw and brand him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKC8pSFg1Vw

I'm all for it, Rollie.

Twenty-four years ago, tripping balls, I wrote three important messages from beyond on the only material that was at hand, a KFC bucket lid. Now I remember just two of the three dicta and the only other person who would remember the third is dead.

https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1391443566l/16164271.jpg Locke and Key: Alpha and Omega, the last six issues of this rather ingenious comics series. Hill's writing is wonderful, better than the one novel of his that I've read. Rodriguez's art is flat-out awesome. Both the author and ill...

I know I'm rather evangelistic on this topic, but this is the book that completely changed my life:



I'm not going to say it is for everyone.

Old fricking news. I do everything like a monkey.

Pompeii. It's Bulwer-Lytton-riffic.

A friend and I got into the Allen/Soon Yi discussion a little while ago. I said I thought that it was sick, and she said that it wasn't necessarily sick for Allen to have a relationship with his partner's adopted daughter, but I meant that it was sick to have a relationship with Woody Allen.

Speaking of miserable endings, John Dies at the End has one. It is completely in tune with the rest of the film, which is an absolute shitfest. Plainly, the film makers expect their audience to be on drugs when watching this. They caught me in a lean decade.

Don't want to spoil anything, but the helicopter falls off a boat and drowns.

The Wolf of Wall Street is such an ebullient film. Basically a buddy comedy. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Another winner for Scorsese.

Scott Dolan wrote:Pet Semetary is probably King's finest work. It and The Stand are also quite good.

You're trying to trap Rita with the grammar of that last sentence. She'll still be able to nail you in that you should italicize titles or something.

The world you are imagining is EAI and it is run by the cruel tyrant Jon Abbey and his erstwhile lackey Brian Olewnick.

Monte, I'm disappointed but different strokes. I thought the biggest flaw of I, Frankenstein wasn't the incomprehensible plot, but the fact that the movie was basically without humor. Lots of missed opportunities to not take itself too seriously. Yes, different strokes. I recall that you liked anot...

Scott Dolan wrote:So zero Monte's?

Not even one made out of a bunch of dead Montes.

http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/boxers.jpg Last night I read BOXERS, which is one half of a pair of graphic novels set in the era of the Boxer Rebellion in China (turn of the last century). BOXERS looks at the story thru the eyes of the nativist uprising involving the s...

Carmen and I watched I, FRANKENSTEIN this past weekend, largely because there was nothing out that we wanted to see and slightly because Doug liked it. Doug and I tend to like similar movies. I think we have the same lack of filter when it comes to not quite great Hollywood fare. But having seen it,...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Chennai_Express.jpg Finally, a reason for the frequent musical interludes in Indian cinema. You see, in 2012's Chennai Express, the thugs who are guarding a South Indian strongman's daughter speak Tamil, so the hero and the love interest are able to com...