The latter half of the season was a lot better than the first half, it just took a while to find its sea legs.

I'm a Canadian who was overseas in Australia for a wedding, we streamed the game at 5:00 AM and there was whooping and cheering when he made that hit.

My buddy used to pitch in college, and his opinion was that the plate was HIS, and you're welcome to crowd it but you're going to feel it every time. It generally worked.

I loved Child 44, but Leo Demidov always struck me as a lesser version of Arkady Renko. Cruz's Gorky Park gave me a glimpse of Soviet Russia that had such richness and believability through the eyes of a world wary Renko I couldn't put that book down when I read it.

The Dictator was pretty much just Gadaffi. You'd be surprised how much of that movie was at least loosely based in reality.

I'm in the deadzone of the northern Great Plains so I guess I could go to Vancouver or Minneapolis.

Cell is a strange read. Every chapter is about 20% worse than the one that precedes it!

Gramma still frightens me. That story is mind bogglingly unnerving to me.

That would be true if Beasts for no Nation wasn't such a slog, but perhaps more was its Netflix release than anything else that doomed Elba's Oscar.

He went a lot slower in the book and even stopped for a period because he had a cell mate.

Clarke is a Royals fan (being from Kansas and all). So it's summer time and he wants to catch a Royals game. Buys his tickets and takes his folks. Whoops, there's a bank robbery in progress, so he leaves and comes back for the fourth. Royals are tied in the bottom of the fifth. Whoops, some kryptonite infected…

I'm still baffled why they didn't do a Halloween release last year.

Ironically, Gyllenhall was also in a boxing movie and faced struggles that didn't result in a nomination (not that it mattered, Creed was 1000x better than Southpaw).

I actually preferred Keaton, and Schreiber too I guess.

I enjoyed Hardy in "Legend", but the movie itself was really uneven. Outside of him, I didn't think it was all that good.

Canadian content in general is fairly limited. So when First Nations and Metis account for 6% of the Canadian population, I think that they exist all in Canadian cinema is pretty amazing. East Indian and Chinese make up 8% of the population and even they're pretty rare in Canadian cinema.

I think you mean a sixth book.

They're only tedious because he needs an editor. If AFfC and ADwD had been half as long as long and combined as per the original plan they'd have a pretty decent book instead of two crappy ones.

Who's got the nerve to say otherwise?

The first two thrids are solid, but the end is pretty rushed and gets a little hokey if you start to think about it.