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Feb 25, 2015

The time: 1983. The place: Manly, Australia. The way to get around: BMX bikes, no question.

BMX Bandits is a glorified chase scene between two cartoony criminals and three rascally kids on bikes. There's some bookending on either end about robbing a payroll truck (I think) and getting a BMX track (pretty sure) but the...


Feb 18, 2015

It's finally happened. EL James' depressing, porny tragedy about a billionaire dickhead who besmirches the good name of BDSM has been made into a movie. And it's bad.

Obviously 50 Shades of Grey was going to be bad. It had to be. But unless you were watching it in an ironic Brooklyn theater, you may have been surprised...


Feb 11, 2015

If you grew up in Seattle as Tanya did (and Chris kinda did too), you learned a few things: the value of good coffee, which shoes withstand the rain, and that 10 Things I Hate About You is the best rom-com of all time (until you're old enough to watch Sleepless in Seattle, of course).

10 Things is the 1999 retelling...


Feb 11, 2015

If you grew up in Seattle as Tanya did (and Chris kinda did too), you learned a few things: the value of good coffee, which shoes withstand the rain, and that 10 Things I Hate About You is the best rom-com of all time (until you're old enough to watch Sleepless in Seattle, of course).

10 Things is the 1999 retelling of...


Feb 4, 2015

Pulp noir, a hard-boiled mystery novel about a down-on-his-luck private investigator. It's fun if a bit standard. Oh, I forgot to mention, the PI in question is a dinosaur in a human costume.

He's not the only one. Anonymous Rex is about the dinosaur-in-human-suit subculture that makes up 5-10% of America. Why? Don't...