what comes of pressing a 600 page novel into a 150 minute film? an incessant montage of flattened flowers. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

"District 9" is the most interesting improbable-partners action movie we've seen in a long time, as personal as it is alien.

"Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?" - Jonathan Lethem (#twuotes)

"Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?" - Jonathan Lethem

for proof that it takes more than decent acting and an exotic backdrop to breath life into a film, see "The Kung Fu Kid" (2010).

are "there are no movies written / for those who sacrifice all / and still lose"? (RT @MeWriteWords)