I'd want to take a closer look, but Red Riding Trilogy was released in theaters in the U.S. in February, and those three movies were my favorite movies of 2010 (just like Silence of the Lambs was my fave of 1991), so I think there are some good movies that month if you know where to look.

It was The Music Man? Huh, the way I always heard that story was that it was My Fair Lady, and he was offered Rex Harrison's part.

Just started Roddy Doyle's The Guts, and since I was a huge fan of the Barrytown trilogy, I'm hoping this is as good. Also going to be reading some Cold War-era novels, like Graham Greene's Confidential Agent and Helen MacInnes' Snare of the Hunter. And if my local library gets the Mark Harris book and the book on Netw…

The Tarantino episode was actually the first episode of the show that I ever watched (wasn't a fan of doctor shows - still am not - but watched it for Tarantino). I remember just how intense the show felt because of the moving camera and a seemingly new emergency every five seconds.

Two movies I wish had been mentioned; Loving, which takes the "middle-age-guy-decides-he-hates-suburban-life" story and actually does something fresh with it (plus, it's got a great performance by Eve Marie Saint as his wife, it's photographed by Gordon Willis, and it also features Roy Scheider, Sterling Hayden, and…

"How do you feel?"
"Vivid. I'm seeing colors I don't want to see."