The Hall of Fire

So Kian loved the first book in English this year ("Ender's Game") and hates the second ("The Book Thief"). As in refuses to read past page fifty. The teacher alerted us to this fact while I was out of the country, and my wife dutifully assured him we'd do something about it. I ...

eborr wrote: I like Tilda Swinton - even if she generally does "Tilda Swinton" in most of the roles she takes on

A little like Cate Blanchett in that regard--it takes a solid director to pull her actual acting ability out of her.

Watched the first episode of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency last night, which managed to carry the tone and manner of Douglas Adam's story into a new setting rather well, I thought. Wisely, they kept Dirk English, though the story is set in Seattle and the other main players are American (...

it was emotionally devastating in a way that made me pretty sure I don't ever want to watch that one again Those are always hard to grade. I can't imagine sitting through Schindler's List --or Seven , for very different reasons, or Pan's Labyrinth , for still different reasons--again, even as I ack...

it was emotionally devastating in a way that made me pretty sure I don't ever want to watch that one again Those are always hard to grade. I can't imagine sitting through Schindler's List --or Seven , for very different reasons, or Pan's Labyrinth , for still different reasons--again, even as I ack...

I like a lot of pieces of Stranger Things, but I don't think they always go together into a cohesive whole. I call this the "X Files" effect, and a lot of shows with long arcs suffer from it to one extent or another. And I wish Winona Ryder was allowed more of an emotional range, which ev...