Hamlet 2: The play-within-the-movie's good, but everything else is an emphatic no.

Let the Right One In: I don't know.  I respect many of its decisions, but I don't think I liked the damn thing.

Miller's Crossing: No.  Seen it countless times over the years, and still every little… Read full post »

How does Harry Reid keep his seat?  I'm all for Democratic Senators growing a pair and not just rubber-stamping every  thing that comes down the Presidential pike.  That's how this system of ours, this glorious republic in which we've all been raised, is supposed to function.

What I c… Read full post »

Here's the scene, dig?  You're sitting in front of your computer, trawling Open Salon for interesting topics. For days, every other post that's scrolled by under the New Posts header has been some "twenty five random/interesting/inane/whatever" thing.  You read them for a while. They're ent… Read full post »

I have, just now, finished reading Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road for the first time.  It now seems par-for-the-course to reduce this book to "the opulent desolation of the American suburbs," as indicated by my edition's back-cover copy.  Sure.  And The Godfather is a warm family dr… Read full post »

A weekly feature I am shamelessly cribbing from The Onion's A.V. Club.  I'll let their words explain it: "In Random Rules, The A.V. Club asks some of its favorite people to set their MP3 players to shuffle and comment on the first few tracks that come up—no cheating or skipping embarrassin… Read full post »

Perhaps not today.

Perhaps not tomorrow.

But one day soon, when it is most inconvenient, I will come for you and our diabolical game shall commence.

Muahahahahahaha!