Nothing But Community!

Eh, it never really got past "mildly amusing" for me.

Audiences clearly prefer movies with generic-sounding Anglo-American names as titles. That's why John Carter did so well last year.

What's this "LOL" business? I demand that you treat the literary arts with the appropriate respect!
I didn't read much since it was sunny and warm outside all week, and what, like I'm gonna sit around reading books (LOL).
Only finished another Elizabethan drama, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Robert Greene. It was……

Saw a French movie and ate mud!

Good choice. I find it hard to pick a favorite, but if I had to I'd go with Emma. She's such a delightfully self-centered little brat. And Miss Bates' ramblings are hilarious.
An honorable mention goes to the unfinished Sanditon which is well worth a read if one can find it. It's very funny.

As someone who thinks that Austen can't really be adapted, because the joy is in the narration, I quite liked it. It didn't try too hard to hew as closely as possible to the book, but rather worked from the same story outline and interpreted it as a movie.
It looked gorgeous, and I liked Knightley's performance,…

I'd go with Richard, if only because Macbeth keeps moping around for half the play and only embraces his evilness towards the end. Of course, then he goes all "if I go down, I'll take the rest of the world with me, muhahahaha".
So, Dick has less qualms about his deeds, Mackers goes further towards madness… maybe it's a…

There was a similar storyline on a German TV show a few years ago. It was about a father of three children and a mother of one getting married. The mother's daughter and the father's oldest son, both teenagers, fell in love over the course of the series.
I don't quite remember how it ended, actually. They worked it out…

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Hey, I think I know Jim Al-Khalili from his appearances on the BBC's In Our Time radio show. Not that I have much else to add to that. Um, he's cool, as far as I recall.
(Also, parentheses are, indeed, awesome!)

The title makes me think of the Kusturica movie Underground. I'm not sure whether there are any thematic parallels, though it's been a while since I've seen it, so I might just not remember. As far as I recall, Kusturica's "underground" was about societies living closed off from and blind to their surroundings, and…

Finished Conrad's Lord Jim. Trying to summarize my thoughts on it in this limited space would be too difficult, so let me just reiterate that it's a fascinating read, with its unusual narrative style, its dense world-building, and its enigmatic main character.

Oh, E x otica.

I have a feeling that I won't be able to resist intermittently shouting the title while watching this.
Probably shouldn't watch it in a theatre.

I have to agree with @avclub-db7c5d0c89a65eb6619443730b14a8cf:disqus (of course, he's the expert). Tennant was fine at first, and usually pretty funny, but he just could not play the dramatic moments convincingly. It got to a point where his mere presence made me cringe somewhat. I think the only reason I made it…

Congrats on finishing Anna Karenina! Since I've seen the movie I doubt that I will get around to reading the book any time soon. Especially since there is still a book mark halfway through my volume of War and Peace from my last reread a couple years ago. Should probably finish that first…
But anyway, I'm about halfway…

It is equally possible that the Discourses were the last-ditch effort by a forgotten statesman to achieve (posthumous) recognition, with a classical topic and more respectable ideas.
However, isn't it possible that we can see both his major works as different sides of the same man, instead of having to dismiss one of…

In Shakespeare-related news I finished, and greatly enjoyed, Much ado about nothing, after putting Othello aside for good about three acts in. The latter was just sooo boring. I'm not quite sure why. I think there was a certain "pompousness" to the language and characters that I found rather irritating. Reminded me a…

Ugh. People who claim that a certain work of classical literature was really just satire and think themselves so smart for "getting" that are the worst.