He has tarnished our agency and the image of all law enforcement.

Old Boy is disturbing, but it’s so god damn good it’s worth watching at least once

i’ll definitely be reading the wikipedia recap for all these

As someone with no stomach for gore or violence, I may not be entirely qualified to comment, but The Passion of Joan of Arc pierced deeply into my soul and left me unsettled for days afterwards.

And I think revolutionary for the time, being entirely epistolary (not just this one chapter).

I prefer this version

Specifically I am thinking a lot about Dracula’s postman. Every time he has to go all the way up the Borgo Pass with registered mail from England and Klopstock & Billreuth Bank in Budapest and every time he has to go back, because the count is sleeping in his coffin. Must be extremely frustrating.

In the novel, Dracula pays a number of szagany (the preferred term today would be Romani) men to act as errand runners and a security force; carrying letters is well within their scope of employment. Estate agent Jonathan Harker travels from England to Transylvania to meet Dracula in person to facilitate their real…

you don’t have to deal with all the letter-writing and real estate-dealing that takes up the book!

My parents instilled an ethic in me from a very young age that if you start reading something, you finish it. Not really sure why, but to this day it’s very rare that I start a book and give up on it. I read Dracula in 5th grade and thought “this is so goddamn boring” but I kept going, had to finish. Then I got to…

So what you’re saying is many producers sent the pitch back to its grave, but none of them put a stake through its heart?

This movie has a decades-long history of almost getting made, precisely because of everything noted here.

Dracula really is an an enjoyable read. 

I just listened to an excellent audio book adaptation of Dracula (Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, etc.). This chapter was really compelling, but strong recommend for the whole thing.

Hah, it’s clearly an offshoot of Pokemon Go for people who don’t want to go outside.

I still can’t believe they made an entire franchise based on Pokemon Snap.

so it’s like Magic: The Gathering but for even younger children?

I prefer to word it as “if these are the ideas that got approved, I’d love to see the rejected pile.”

“She’s only 10.”

One of the only things that people can say to me about Pokemon that will annoy me is that “they’re running out of ideas” or that “designs are just lazy now” or things like that