Eh, we have a solid siege mentality up here.

I don't think he's setting out to offend, and that's the important thing here.

Eh, some of us troll Breitbart on a slow afternoon. Not saying that's what's happening here, but it is my own personal defence.

Saw this a few weeks ago - it's very good, even if in the last half I occasionally thought things were happening mainly because the writer wanted them to. Though that's perhaps one of the perils of adapting an old Russian piece.
Also, it's set in my part of the UK, so everyone in it sounds like me.

I'm sure it's naivety and ignorance rather than anything more offensive. He needs an editor to tell him to stop probing that aching tooth though.

I mostly agree. The killer's backstory sections were okay, from what little I remember. King is good at fucked-up mothers.

Apparently he wrote it for his daughter, who didn't like/couldn't stomach the horror novels.

I loved Revival, and the Full Dark, No Stars collection (three novellas, one story) is gratifyingly nasty.

Upvoted for a Skids song, even if it is a cover featuring Green Day.

First album Blur?

Blur - Fool
Dire Straits - My Parties
Janis Joplin - Trouble In Mind
Ike & Tina Turner - You Don't Love Me
Funkadelic - Let's Take It To The Stage

The opposite is asyndeton, as in, I came, I saw, I conquered.

I don't really give a shit. Just passing the time on a Sunday before a fuck.

Yeah, I have a few left to get through - I'm trying to limit myself to two a year, so it'll be a long while before I'm finished with him. Then I can reread them! I expect I'll get even more out of them second and third time round.

I can't help thinking that 'the best way to deal with that issue' was to make a different film.

Apparently a grief-stricken Rooney Mara eats an entire pie in one unbroken take.

Reading Glory by Nabokov. Holy fuck, can he make you see things as though they're lit from within: a shepherd's flock, a London night, trains and more trains. Amazing.

I didn't love that film, but you're right, he was great in it.

Princess Diana martyr look.

Yeah, think I'll make one of my twice-yearly visits to the pictures for this. And maybe for It, depending on the tenor of the reviews.