I saw The Suicide Shop recently while it was playing at the Carlton Cinema. This musical, animated film tells the story of a French couple who run, quite literally, a suicide shop: a store that supplies those planning their own deaths the highest quality tools to do so....

The radio's been playing Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" over and over for weeks. It's been playing while the bold trees of summer outside my office window begin to bow as if in prayer. It's been playing while dusk methodically annexes evening, planting flags...

If you could live forever, how would that change how you live today?

I've been thinking about this question ever since seeing Lawless. It's one of those party questions, the kind that peppers blind dates or lazy afternoons but, when taken a little more seriously, can also...

I had planned to write this post after seeing The Dark Knight Rises but I haven't seen it. Not in protest. I've considered going but the thought leaves me... uncomfortable. I don't know if, and to what extent, the movie's to blame for what happened but blame seems too simple...

I like stupid movies. Considering Ted's box office success, chances are so do you. Still, that's not always an easy thing for me to confess. Besides being stupid, these movies are often condemned as artistically vapid, crude, violent, misogynistic endorsements of irresponsible and materialistic lifestyles whose bad influences seep in...