The film depicts bleak life in the suburbs and transitions between 1996 and 2026 when the main character is a teenager and finally a middle-aged man. Owen (Justice Smith) is trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his older classmate, Maddy (Jack Haven), introduces him to a ...
The film does so much with very little dialogue, allowing Moore to deliver a performance of a lifetime. As the film progresses, it becomes wackier and wackier in only the finest of ways as the older version becomes obsessed with her younger self. As she decays, she becomes a bald hunchbac...
proving, depending on your world view, either that 1) sticking to something, however intermittently, pays off, or 2) life is unfair.*** The most popular posts this year overall were from past years. (The #1 new post was only #15 overall.) To make this a real Top 10, here are ...
You follow her life as she enters the competitive world of professional chess, saddled with addiction problems caused by the orphanage drugging the children with tranquilizers. You don’t have to know anything about the game of chess to enjoy this yarn. Just watch Anya Taylor-Joy’s icy stare...
I’m afraid I don’t have many exciting life updates this month—if I’m being honest, I’ve been stuck in a bit of a rut, which I’m trying to dig myself out of—but I did find anawesome local bookstorethat entirely focuses on SF/F/H (it even has a really nice indie/small...
All his life Cyril was a difficult man to live with. He frequently had temper tantrums and people around him were very careful what they said to him so as to avoid such “explosions”. It was not only his friends that witnessed these outbursts, but his wife Mary was also wary of her...
I wish that all the work-folk could know this, and could know him their friend in life as he was in literature; as he was in such a glorious gospel of equality as the ‘Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.’ XII. Whether I will or no I must let things come into my story...
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depending on your world view, either that 1) sticking to something, however intermittently, pays off, or 2) life is unfair.*** The most popular posts this year overall were from past years. (The #1 new post was only #15 overall.) To make this a real Top 10, here are seven of the...
Butler and Hardy are also terrific. Arguably co-leads, Butler’s Benny is childless and more accessible than Hardy’s Johnny, a family man. Johnny sees Benny as the next leader of the Vipers, but Benny wants none of that. Comparisons to the club and life outside the club torture both ...