There being no such thing as coincidences is a theme of the book - perhaps it’s a sign.

I think I’m still in the greys - ah well!

Great review - and I know it’s a small thing, but I really appreciate the detail on injuries and graphic parts. I’ve been having a lot of problems lately with panic attacks in the cinema (never used to be this bad) and now I know that if I’d like to avoid that I can just rent the movie and fast forward as needed.…

I live for this kind of silliness in AHS and quite frankly this year needs to up its wacky trashness (and bizarre quoteable lines, and Dennis O’Hare quotient) by 100%

It really was a beautiful movie and I was never bored watching it play out, but I do think there needs to be a distinction made between the referencing of many things (philosophies, core and not in any way esoteric texts of Western lit) and actually doing anything meaningful with those things.

I saw Bladerunner 2049 and while it’s occasionally beautiful to look at, it was - not great. LOTS of plot holes (which I won’t go into here for spoiler reasons), pretty shitty on the representation of women (K has a ‘girlfriend’ who is AI and belongs to the bad corporation, but the ethics or intrigue of that are just…

I was thinking ‘Poirot’s slightly sleazy double’

Fantastic Mr Fox annoyed the hell out of me because I was such a huge fan of the sly comedy style of the book as a kid, and this film was just - middle aged white male melancholy. Which I’m fine with just not in an adaptation of a childhood fave.

Agreed, uneven is the word for it. Lots to love though around the rough parts.

I’m reading Possession by A.S. Byatt. It’s a re-read but I have not retained much, apparently. It’s great, sweeping and rich and prickly and compulsively readable, even the pseudo-Victorian Romantic poetry (which is not my favourite thing). I’ve also just finished actual-Victorian North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell,…