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Stupidhead

I was going to come up with some smart-aleck remarks about Underworld, but it’s so dreadfully boring that I just can’t justify the seconds it would absorb. It’s French-movie dull: believe you’ve sat there forever, and then you look at the DVD watch and only 45 minutes have passed.
Be warned that the only decent […]

The books that followed Ripley

When I like a book, I dread possible movie adaptations - they often don’t get the tone right, or change things they should leave well enough alone, or just royally screw things up in one way or another.
There are times when I’ve been pleasantly surprised, like with the movie adaptation of The End of the […]