No, but thanks for the recommendation!

Birdman
Lego
A Most Wanted Man

Birdman, Grand Budapest Hotel, Lego Movie were good.

also, not enough torture

drooooop

I read Unbearable Lightness of Being and One Hundred Years of Solitude around the same time; Kundera's was much easier to read, but I thought it suffered immensely from the comparison with GGM's much superior work.

The Handmaid's Tale. It was good, and I don't have a single criticism, but I had to push through it. It never took hold of me and absorbed me so that I was eager for the next opportunity to read more. I'm not sure why, because I could see all sorts of merits to it, but only in a "clinical" way.

A few years ago a friend and I were discussing Le Carre and he commented that the sad thing is he'll never be able to read them for the first time again. I get happy every time I know someone is picking up a Le Carre book for the first time, thinking wistfully of the pleasure of it all.

I like the performance, but what's up with that cut-rate "Bad Santa" not knowing how to act around children?

I nominate "Gone Girl." I haven't read the book, but I knew its trashy plot, premise, and twist. Yet I liked Fincher's work so had hopes he could elevate it. Instead, all I experienced was a film full of unsympathetic and unredeemable characters without credible motivation. I can watch a film without a sympathetic…

A Million Ways to Die in the West has a certain "well, what did you expect?" defense available to it. I doubt I would recommend it to anyone, but I bet I'd get a few chuckles. It's like objecting to the texture and thickness of a McDonald's hamburger. No one is going to take that seriously. You either shouldn't eat…

I don't blame Simm, I blame RTD.

Does DW have a better pair of original and sequel than Kinda/Snakedance? The Pealdon stories are uneven. Three Doctors wasn't great, but Arc of Infinity is pretty dire and so still a drop-off. I can't think of any others at the moment, so it is a genuine question and I'm interested in what people think. (I guess I am…

Given Moffat's silliness, I don't watch very closely any more (although his cheapest move was his resolution to Holmes' death/fall in Sherlock), but didn't "Listen" establish they have some descendents in the future?

Baker's final season is a totally different performance—reinvigorated and re-imagined—and I love it. I don't know if it would have worked for multiple seasons, but as a final season ending in his "death," it is perfect.

Cutting through or rolling with it are both entertaining, and in each case consistent with the respective character. Romana II is still my favorite, but my appreciation of Tamm has grown as I have aged.

That's the way I always "read" that line, as the Doctor is constantly needling her inexperience.

Nice review, which spoiled my gambit. I had planned to write a comment, disagreeing obstreperously on a point-by-point basis, all for the sake of concluding with "next time, I shall not be so lenient!" As it turns out, I think this is a charming story but don't really disagree with what you've written. Thanks again,…

I'll stay. I also like to live dangerously…

I wondered why "Nowhere Near" got no mention. I saw a YLT show at Cat's Cradle where they talked about how long they'd been playing that song and getting de ja vu performing it that night.