A friend on the Discworld list, whose age I’m not sure of but who is retired IIRC, wrote :
here I am on new years eve reading e-mails, but my husband has decided he is 1. too old for that rubbish & 2, he can’t cope with the silly buggers on the road.
Tragic I’m not 30 [...]

I laughed I cried, I was very drunk when I watched this. But even taking this into account, it is very fast moving, similar to Baz Luhrman’s Romeo and Juliet, but quite a bit more surreal. Rather than being a thinly disguised effort to cram songs into a movie format, with a bit [...]

This is a book of four medium sized stories set in post apocalyptic North America. The really interesting part is that it’s based around the Mormons fleeing back to Utah, and rebuilding a civilisation there. Card himself is a Mormon, but while there is affection for the Mormon way of life, it is [...]

This is a bizarre movie, and takes quite a bit of effort to watch. The main character Lenny (Guy Pearce) suffers from severe short term memory loss after a blow to the head, incurred while trying to prevent the murder of his wife. The rest of the movie follows Lenny as he tries [...]