“Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymo– oh, wait.”
King Kung Fu is painfully bad — in the few spots where it isn’t grindingly slow and dull — and the great potential contained in the title for …

I’ve never broken up with a guy based on his literary tastes (or lack of same), but then, I don’t let it get to relationship status in the first place if the guy doesn’t read, …

Doesn’t hit, quite, this one. I liked it, it held my interest, but Baumbach makes several choices that squandered some of the story’s potential, not least the use of John Turturro.
Turturro is, I suspect, underrated …

After Michelle’s comment about the novella in the comments on Misery, I went over to Wikipedia to read the summary, because I’ve always wondered if I interpreted the ending correctly. Spoilery discussion after the jump.

Once again, Team Supersnack is fixing to thump AIDS in the goolies on the New York City AIDS Walk. We’ve got a hefty fund-raising goal this year — $50,000 — and I myself have taken …

“After I finish shaving you, I’ll spoon-feed you some exposition.”  
I hesitate to criticize Stephen King film adaptations that turn out well, because so many of them don’t, and Misery is a good one — …

You can’t say Dr. Bronner didn’t lead a remarkable life, so it’s rather unfortunate that the weakest parts of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox are the sequences during which Bronner himself is talking — expounding on …

I’m out of town for a few days; while I’m gone, I’ll be finishing Posner’s Case Closed, and starting I Love You, Beth Cooper and that book on the TV-news wars Kim lent me months …

John Grisham’s fiction isn’t my thing — the one novel I read twenty years ago was plenty — but I read good reviews of The Innocent Man, his foray into non-fiction/true crime, and I had …

For those of you not familiar, “FMK” stands for “Fuck, Marry, Kill”; for those of you not familiar with that, it’s like Death Is Not An Option, but with another element added. Like DINAO, you …