Shawshank means a lot more to me than Pulp Fiction.

Drat, I almost had an excuse to post the “Period Sex” song from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, but it turned out Letitia was fibbing to hide that she was a virgin.

I’m looking forward to the second book in Joe Abercrombie’s new trilogy.

In the UK the last Holmes story entered the public domain in the year 2000 (it’s life of the author + 70 years). In the US under the 1998 copyright law, several stories remain copyrighted now, but they will all lapse by 2022.

The Doyle Estate’s suit is hilariously frivolous.

Being mysterious and being muddled are different things.

I wasn’t as wild about this episode compared to the premiere. The climax makes a confusing muddle out of what in the book was a fairly straightforward event.

Most parliamentary systems have (or used to have) equivalents, they just aren’t scheduled right before the actual election (generally speaking).  The equivalent are party leadership conventions.

Looking back at 1993 popcorn cinema, it’s interesting to note that major blockbusters contributed got two Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Oscars that year — Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive and John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire; much harder to imagine something like that now, given the greater divergence…

The biggest thing that Chisholm and Harris have in common is that they’re women of color, born to immigrant parents - including one from Jamaica.

I don’t think a town this violently racist would have a black-owned restaurant in the first place. It literally took ten minutes for a lynch mob to assemble.

I’m finishing up Lindsay Ellis’ Axiom’s End.

They’re switching Charles’ actor (well, really, all the actors) at the end of Season 4, so I imagine they think it would awkward to keep Diana’s.

Where was it revealed that the diner was black-owned? The reveal was, as I understood it, that the diner had been burned down because it served black customers.

I wonder who Atticus was talking to on the phone. Definitely a woman. She said Atticus shouldn’t have returned home… Could he be hiding his mother for some reason? Or is this an ex-lover? So many mystery women in this series!

Crowe’s made some mediocre stuff since, but this was the last of a number of classic films he was involved in; he’d already proven himself as a writer by this point (Jerry Maguire alone added like four different quotations to the lexicon).

Verhoeven was recently revealed to have been harassing women in the past, so perhaps this also reflects his own desires.

The issue isn’t that he failed, it’s that the show doesn’t present it as him having failed.

Almost Famous remains my favourite of the year, by a ways. Such a wonderful movie.

There’s admittedly something a bit off to me about the show making such a point of not using the on-the-stand confession trope because it’s unrealistic, when the courtroom scenes are still full of other unrealistic things done for the same reason (drama).