As of a week or so ago, the Man Booker Prize is now open to American authors.  Should make for an interesting run-off.

Any Munro collection is worth picking up.  If you'd like to sample her work, there's a .pdf of 'The Bear Came Over The Mountain' at:

Nope, it was cunnilingus and psychiatry that brought us to this.

Me:  Harry, you're not real good at this, are you?

Jim Varney was very talented. Saw his Shakespeare on YouTube. Impressive.

I myself was picturing Harry Dean and Bob Dylan together. Grunts and nods.  Throw in Robert De Niro. 

Yep, but if you ask him about it tomorrow, hel'll go…..I did that?  I don't remember.

That's so fucking funny!!!

I don't know what there was to love about The Conjuring.  Every horror cliche from the 70's on.  They didn't miss one.  At one point I turned to my viewing partner and said "where the hell is the monkey toy with the cymbals?"

All I know is that when I was a kid, I played 'It's A Gas' so many times I could see through it.  Belching never get old when you're nine.

It was done twice actually. Starred Stacey Keach in the 1976 version and the aforementioned Casey Affleck in 2010. If you're a Jessica Alba fan, though, you may want to avoid the latter.

My two favourite Thompson adaptations are The Killer Inside Me and Coup De Torchon, based on Pop. 1280.  Casey Affleck's Lou Ford in Killer sits atop my list of scariest badasses in film.

See it!  Sightseers is a great black comedy.

While I enjoyed 'Kill List', I walked away thinking I'd seen three films.  The first third plays out as a straight-up kitchen sink drama, the second a hit-man procedural , before it finally winds up devolving into full-blown 'Wicker Man' hysteria.  Rather schizophrenic, but as I say, enjoyable.

I don't disagree at all.  You've nailed the basis of my critique. A popcorn muncher is not likely to feature breakout, layered and complex performances (as the actors are  hamstrung by the superhero tropes).. I don't think I've yet seen a superhero adaptation where a particular performance transcends the material,…

I reserve the right to distinguish between a comic book and a graphic novel. I should have been more particular in my dissing. Read above as 'actor in a superhero comic book movie'.

I've always thought so.

I'm with you.  This guy can do everything.  Time for Dwayne to dump the action / adventure genre and go for some more nuanced roles.  He was an absolute revelation in 'Be Cool'.

Best performance by an actor in a comic book movie =  best pro wrestling match by a nuclear physicist.

Cinema has always had over-the-top stylists. If you're going to have a director who creates balls-out exercises in egotistical excess, it might as well be Dolan.  It's amazing how he manages to pull it off without making me hate him and his work. Somehow, I always end up admiring his audacity.