Having had the misfortune to read this novel in previews, I shit you not, there's a three chapter sequence that goes exactly like that.

Fuck yes, John Bellairs. The Johnny Dixon books were more my speed than Lewis Barnavelt, but I had room in my heart for all the various takes of cross-generational asskicking of the supernatural in the Fifties.

Fuck yes, John Bellairs. The Johnny Dixon books were more my speed than Lewis Barnavelt, but I had room in my heart for all the various takes of cross-generational asskicking of the supernatural in the Fifties.

And, spoiler alert: IT SUCKS!

And, spoiler alert: IT SUCKS!

One of the leads is gay, and engages in an interracial scene that lends credence to the phrase, "It's all S&M until someone loses an eye."

One of the leads is gay, and engages in an interracial scene that lends credence to the phrase, "It's all S&M until someone loses an eye."

"The controversy over Steve McQueen’s NC-17 portrait of sex addiction began with the very idea that sex addiction actually exists"
Oh, yeah? Just wait until the new DSM comes out!

"The controversy over Steve McQueen’s NC-17 portrait of sex addiction began with the very idea that sex addiction actually exists"
Oh, yeah? Just wait until the new DSM comes out!

Yeah, there's a surprising number of "devout Catholics" in this country who believe life begins at conception and ends a justifiably-deserved number of times in the electric chair. More often than not it's likely toeing the political line and trying to appeal to the red-meat Protestants on the right who don't have a…

Yeah, there's a surprising number of "devout Catholics" in this country who believe life begins at conception and ends a justifiably-deserved number of times in the electric chair. More often than not it's likely toeing the political line and trying to appeal to the red-meat Protestants on the right who don't have a…

I'm surprised that with all the talk of a medically-necessary golden shower, there's no mention of the other sexually-tinged pile of WTF in this movie.

I'm surprised that with all the talk of a medically-necessary golden shower, there's no mention of the other sexually-tinged pile of WTF in this movie.

I think the reason everyone's taking the attempted rape so seriously* is that Amethyst long stood as an example of what audiences comics COULD reach out to. Amethyst was the magical girl series hitting the West before Sailor Moon ever did, the princess of a time-lost kingdom who changed her form and called on magical…

I think the reason everyone's taking the attempted rape so seriously* is that Amethyst long stood as an example of what audiences comics COULD reach out to. Amethyst was the magical girl series hitting the West before Sailor Moon ever did, the princess of a time-lost kingdom who changed her form and called on magical…

Ah, the noble C-. The gentleman's D.

Ah, the noble C-. The gentleman's D.

So, the main gay characters are Will without the smarts and Jack with less restraint. That's some wonderful fucking range, writers.

So, the main gay characters are Will without the smarts and Jack with less restraint. That's some wonderful fucking range, writers.

On The Impossible, the main focus of the "why the fuck are they white?" complaints seems to be that this is the first movie we've really gotten about the the 2004 tsunami*… and it can't focus on the trauma of the people who actually live in the region, who actually lost loved ones and had to deal with the massive…