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Introduction to the NewSouth edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry FinnFantastic reading. If all you've seen of the current controversy is "they're taking out the n-word!" and/or sarcastic comments on Twitter, I urge you to read the introduction. (Particularly because they aren't just removing the word, but replacing it with " ( Read more... )

New Crowded House came out in the US today! Pre-ordered, obtained, listened to a lot. I swear, if I ever met Karl Urban, the first question out of my mouth would be, "So do you love Neil Finn only sort of, or oh my god so much?" I'm so pleased that I have new music for the plane (this, plus the new National and Erykah Badu ( Read more... )

This entry isn't about one thing that one person said, but probably about five different things I've been told, by many different people, in the last little while ( Read more... )

One-Hit Wonders of the 2000sI've been thinking a lot lately about not only lists and our obsessions with them, particularly as the '00s come to a close and we're deluged by lists of the best whatevers of this low dishonest decade. There was that list of top 50 worldwide grossing films that everyone was talking about last month; EW has declared 15 ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting here writing this morning but also distracting myself a little, and came across this list on ew.com of 20 Low-Budget Sci-Fi Classics. Now, this may well be the fault of the list, or EW, or what is usually low-budget, or whatever, but a lot of these films are horror movies, or if not, post-apocalyptic or dystopic-future kinds of ( Read more... )

longtimegone asked for ( five songs to put on her iPod for a Clio playlist. )

I know I'm going to get a lot of "I agree" comments on this, but I'm going to say it anyway because seriously, I do not get it ( Read more... )

I'm asking everyone for books or movies about movie making. Can be any period. Mostly I want that sort of behind-the-scenes of a production stuff, preferably Hollywood. Here's my own shortlist, but I'm sure you guys can add to it!

• What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
  
• The Player dir. Robert Altman
  
• Singin' in the Rain dir. Stanley Donen and ( Read more... )