Just finished Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman, a magical-realist prequel to Practical Magic about a witch/wise woman, set in the 17th century. Forget the movie of the latter, it was turned into a romantic comedy romp. Magic Lessons is wonderfully cinematic but I would hate for it to get the Handmaid’s Tale TV-version tr…

Nothing so highbrow as previous responders: I skimmed through Twilight, which I had already watched, just to see one of the hot men — no, not a young vampire or werewolf, but the biology teacher (Jose Zuniga). Thank you, Expanse.

I thought the same thing as I breezed through The Clone Wars and Rebels. It’s all very well to say “He was a soldier; he knew the risk”, but after a while I started to feel bad for the hapless stormtroopers who are always getting thrown off cliffs and out of flying ships. It was an event when they humanized one of…

Sounds like my friend’s Slovak grandparents who used to stray over the border into Poland to collect firewood because nobody would want an international incident.

As a 5'4" woman who earned a second-degree black belt in karate, I beg to differ. Sometimes I was at a height, i.e. length of reach disadvantage, but the short Japanese men who trained us did not seem to have a problem.

I binged on trying to get the website to respond.

Tech says, “Adolescent human female”, the Kaminoan calls her “she”, so...

I saw this back when it came out. Besides Walter Mattau in his prime, the most memorable part for me was the depiction of how the subway system worked: the hidden foundations of public transportation which we just take for granted. Unstoppable and Airport did the same.

I still wish I had Felicity’s furniture - nicer than mine!

It probably depends on how much Star Wars lore you are familiar with. For me, I only know what is in the movies and the TV shows. Never looked at the books, comics, or games. I’m going to watch, but if there is a lot more shooting pew-pew-pew than talking I may only be able to take it in small doses. I mainly watched…

So you’ve been to Bergen County?

Not actually a terrible idea - each time you acquire a book, put it at the end of the line.

A librarian after my own heart!

I saw this very attractively done at a Warby Parker store, but of course the books were nothing more than decoration. If you want to do this in your place of business, fine, but in your home it would scream “I am a shallow jag-off.”

I beg to differ. By-the-numbers plot, sure, but interesting characters and attractive actors. The entry I can barely manage to sit through is Attack of the Clones: explosions, more explosions, too many characters I don’t care about, no sex.

And depressing. Our high school principal tried to culturally uplift us by showing it at Friday assembly and was indignant that we teenage louts didn’t enjoy it.

To be honest, Richard Beymer in the original didn’t do much for me , either.

Civilian viewers like us get irked by the inclusion of people we have never heard of, like publicists, set designers, casting directors, executives, but you have to bear in mind that this is film’s big night, more specifically Hollywood’s big night, and it is quite appropriate to acknowledge the so-called “little…

You are correct.

The ways of Hollywood are often mysterious and they like it that way, but the voting is not done by a committee who gets together and make a unanimous decision. They never release the final count. For all we know Hopkins could have won by a few votes. I haven’t seen either film so I have no preference either way —…