Scene: Just off the coast of Normandy, June 6, 1944.  Two Jewish soldiers smoke while their landing craft travels toward the beach.

"I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a 'roaring rampage of revenge.' I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my…

Ah, yes, I remember when The Eye Of The World, the first book in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel Of Time series, was published in January 1990.  I was 10.  I said, this looks right up my alley, but I'm not going to read it now, I'm going to wait for the series to be completed. Now that joyous day has arrived, and I'm 32 and…

I think this movie, more than being about the Vietnam War (specific leitmotifs, please?), has a pro-vegetarian message.  It's been a long time since I've watched it, but I seem to remember shots where they showed the rolling eye of a terrified cow about to be killed and, later, one of the soon-to-be-dead girls.  The…

I think this movie, more than being about the Vietnam War (specific leitmotifs, please?), has a pro-vegetarian message.  It's been a long time since I've watched it, but I seem to remember shots where they showed the rolling eye of a terrified cow about to be killed and, later, one of the soon-to-be-dead girls.  The…

Watched the entire series: 5
Watched more than one episode: 4
Exactly one episode: 1
Never seen a single minute: 20

Watched the entire series: 5
Watched more than one episode: 4
Exactly one episode: 1
Never seen a single minute: 20

Only people who don't have close relatives who are rich and famous think nepotism isn't cool.  Everyone who does (which is to say, everyone who matters) knows it is cool.

Only people who don't have close relatives who are rich and famous think nepotism isn't cool.  Everyone who does (which is to say, everyone who matters) knows it is cool.

I thought it was going to be a comedic version of "Blue Velvet."  Boy was I wrong.

I thought it was going to be a comedic version of "Blue Velvet."  Boy was I wrong.

He's a Brazilian writer.  His "Borges and the Eternal Orangutans" is pretty cool.

He's a Brazilian writer.  His "Borges and the Eternal Orangutans" is pretty cool.

Margaret Jull Costa needs to stop messing around with small-fry Nobel Prize winners like Saramago and start translating the other novels of Luis Fernando Verissimo.

Margaret Jull Costa needs to stop messing around with small-fry Nobel Prize winners like Saramago and start translating the other novels of Luis Fernando Verissimo.

Whenever I think about LCD Soundsystem, I'm reminded of these words:

Whenever I think about LCD Soundsystem, I'm reminded of these words:

I thought Swept Away was a crypto-remake of "L'Avventura" except, unfortunately, nobody ever disappeared. 

I thought Swept Away was a crypto-remake of "L'Avventura" except, unfortunately, nobody ever disappeared. 

"According to the film, tourists were so fascinated by the town’s fictional history that they were willing to pay $10 a pop for rocks from its hallowed ground."