"The Sweet Hereafter" is a really difficult to translate book I love, made into a wonderful movie that I love almost equally. The book is multiple first-person interior monologues, always a challenge to translate to screen. The unreliable narrator nature of the book is made central to the movie.

But (perhaps) you just did.

No to mention "Sex, Lies and Videotape." Not exactly freaky sex these days (it was distinctly freakier when it first came out), Spader always has a way of externalizing the push and pull between internal desires and propriety.

All three Bas Lag books seem eminently filmable in competent hands. Mieville writes in a very visual style and the biggest challenge would seem to be how to keep things like the possibility sword from looking just goofy. The right CGI would make the Scar, itself, absolutely amazing.

I was trying to remember where I recognized him from, checked his IMDB page and, yeah, pretty much everything from when I was 10.

Look at me; I've got a girlfriend. A proper girlfriend reading a best-seller about child-abuse. I go out and have croissant. I'm just a normal functioning member of the human race and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.

He's one of those "that guy" character actors that I love. No, I didn't immediately recognize his name in the headline, but I definitely remember his work. Absolutely deserves a Newswire post.

Big Suze, FTW. I'm a sucker for that lisp. A damn if she isn't royalty now!

I only eat at Chick-Fil-A on Sundays.

I watched most of the pilot and McHale was terrible miscast as Roy. Brian Posehn would have been about perfect.

Is that a joke? FX did a famously shitty job marketing it. Tons of commercials that were inscrutable and failed to convey anything at all about the actual show. I remember some people being actively angry and confused by them.

That doesn't mean it's entertaining to watch.

Sociopaths tend to love eye contact. So many people base their trust on it that it's easy to exploit.

"Heeeeere's Johnny!"

There is always a tension in zombie stories about the living killing, or allowing to die, any other of the living. It's a really clear line that isn't supposed to be crossed. Shane is a growing threat because he isn't shy about crossing that line, and it's supposed to be significant that Rick did so (albeit in a…

Dale explained his attachment pretty explicitly in the S1 finale, when Andrea wanted to stay behind at the CDC to die. It may not be convincing, and Dale's definitely becoming annoying, but a reason was definitely given.

He was just on the fringes so hard to tell, but he seemed much more cleaned up than usual, too.

It's hard to imagine them embracing her awfulness any more fully. The writers obviously hate the Lori character so much, I'm finding it's tedious to watch.

I posted about this last week and hold to it this week. That whole plot just works better if it were Glenn who said "I love you" first (and fits in better with what we know about the characters, especially given Maggie's story this week). He's totally the kind of guy that would say that too soon, and all his fears,…

@avclub-5470317571e6488699c5096861915107:disqus : I really hope that's not what really happened…