A while back, I watched Failure to Launch; this is a film about a guy in his 30s who still lives with his parents. Quoting from my Flixter review:

This is a bit of an odd film: it's a romantic comedy, but the two lead characters are pretty unlikeable, so I didn't really care what happened to them at all. On the other hand, the supporting cast were ( Read more... )

I remember reading an article about TV quizzes a while back, observing that the value of the prize was often inversely proportional to the difficulty of the questions. I don't think the article is online, but quoting from memory: "If you win the grand final of Mastermind then you get a cut glass bowl, whereas you can win a two week holiday on ( Read more... )

Last week baratron posted a link to this post: Have you ever noticed, nobody ever says books have too many heterosexual people in them? Well, the internet being what it is, it turns out that there are people who make that objection to books. For instance, this post criticises the Harry Potter books for heteronormativity (warning: contains spoilers for book ( Read more... )

I was reading a novel this morning, which referred to someone's "nephew in law", and this started me thinking ( Read more... )

There was a good quote I read in a novel a while back (I think it was one of the Narnia books), where one character is talking about magic. He dismisses parlour tricks, where objects are hidden behind curtains, and says something like "True magic is when a cow appears out of thin air, right in front of you". So, question for the audience - leaving ( Read more... )