The advantage of working at the office is that I have a back-up to compensate for my ailing home computer. I'll blame the delay in my last writing update on that.

We did an interesting installment of the Running Dialogue podcast last week, using the French prison film A Prophet (which I review here), and foreign gangster films in general, as a ( Read more... )

A combined review of Dan Simmons' Drood and Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens, two historical novels involving Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood; a short play review of Haverty Marionettes' The Phantom Limb; and movie reviews of Sunshine Cleaning, The Great Buck Howard and I Love You, Man. A blog entry: Why is Rush living in the cinematic ( Read more... )