This week I watched Charulata, started reading Claremont's X-Men post-Byrne, and listened to the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

I liked Windom Earle, but a lot of that was based on him capturing Leo and singing "Anything Goes". He was alright otherwise.

This week I watched The Brand New Testament, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, The Assassin, Rams, The Tribe, Spring, Eyes of Laura Mars and The Big Picture.

I've lived in Wellington for nearly four years, and managed to see Bret once and Jemaine twice (one of those was the Q&A for What We Do in the Shadows).

Yeah, that's pretty much what happened.

I also re-read Final Crisis this weekend, and also thought it sucked. Frankly, even Byrne's third Generations book is better, and that's pretty weak.

I watched Frasier for the first time a few years back, and my take is similar. Seasons 2-5 are really great, 6 and 7 less so. I think the Daphne stuff in season 7 is fairly good, but it could have been handled better in places. I also dislike the way Frasier slowly grows away from the Cheers version of his character.

I hope you like Flatliners more than I do. I think it's a total mess, though in parts it's pretty fun.

I love The Mule story in Foundation and Empire. Honestly, it's the fourth book that really made me lose interest in the series.

This week I watched movies at the NZ Film Festival: Phoenix, The Mafia Kills Only In Summer, The Color of Pomegranates, Seymour: An Introduction, The Lobster and Deathgasm.

I always thought he played comedy well, too. He's not the rangiest actor, but used properly (as he was through good chunks of Angel), he really brought the character to life.

Absolutely what I thought too.

Bart, I think, has been poorly served by the writers for the last decade (at least). The episode this season where the kids write a song was the first I can remember in a while that actually touched on his surprising intellectual side.

Until you mentioned it, I assumed he had.

I had a very similar impression of Body Heat. It does have some nice shots in it, though.

I dunno, how about James Dean?

I thought Michael Pena was great, but otherwise I agree the humour in Ant-Man was a little flat. I started reading Nick Spencer's new Ant-Man series with Scott Lang, and it was a lot funnier.

This was a big movie week for me, with Curtains, A Streetcar Named Desire, Henry Fool, An Act of Kindness and Turbo Kid.

Some solid recommendations, but I feel like they're trying to dance around the traditional super-hero side of things. I get that not everyone likes that stuff, but to me it's part and parcel of reading Marvel/DC.

To be fair, that's not completely true. I'd never seen video porn before (outside of a few minutes of one my friends were watching in high school.)