Have y’all heard about those kids in Virginia who were arrested on terrorist conspiracy charges for leaving Joker’s cards with the date 8/15 written on them around town?
I’m not all that interested at the moment in defending them or condemning them for being stupid or whatever, but what’s absolutely fascinating to me is how, [...]

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1. Expecting that the follow-up to The Dark Knight is going to be a film adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns. Michael Doran had a piece on Newsarama that started some of conversation about how the logical sequel to The Dark Knight would have to be an adaptation of Miller’s mini-series, in order to complete [...]

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You’ll be forgiven if you’ve not heard of An American Carol, David Zucker’s follow-up to Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4, set to precede Scary Movie 5 (seriously, there are five of those fucking things). There’s no trailer, and the movie doesn’t even have an official web page. But, oh, you’re missing out on [...]

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Andrew Klavan had a truly batshit (that’s a pun, there won’t be more) editorial in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend in which he argued that The Dark Knight vindicates the Bush administration as noble heroes, left to defend a world that doesn’t understand them. It’s absurd on its face, of course- Batman is [...]

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It’s Saturday, and everybody pretends that they don’t use the Internet on weekends for some reason, so I’ll bash out one of those posts about books and things, since nobody cares much about those. This is part of the ongoing project of recording all of the books I’ve read this year, so everyone can know [...]

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One of my goals for the month in between finishing the book and re-writing it was to overhaul the dansolomon.com website. Right now, it’s the same page it’s been for about a year and a half- functional and not hideous, but also static and a little dull. The news section is fifteen months out of [...]

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There’s a movie we saw today called the counterfeiters. Apparently it won an Oscar this year, and it probably deserved it- it’s really good, exciting and heartbreaking and full of interesting ways of looking at things. There’s a scene in it, near the beginning, where the protagonist, a master forger named Sally Sorowitsch, is at [...]

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We had gone to Leicester Square to see a movie; the Prince Charles Cinema, the London cross between the Alamo Drafthouse and a dollar theatre, was showing once, and we’d both heard good things, but missed its theatrical run in the States. One of the good things about most movies opening months late here is [...]

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