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Every movie we see #126: The Hobbit finale is spectacular, and we’re glad it’s over.

Didn’t feel like typing. It’s just cursive, not Quenya. Meanwhile, someone made a hand-illuminated edition of The Silmarillion. Read about it at Boing Boing.

The winner of our Adapt this book contest is…

UVDust, who proposes that Wes Anderson make a movie of Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox. Live-action this time. Congratulations! Please email saffron.safin@gmail.com to collect your prize. This contest was brought to you by National Bookstore. If you won one of our contests from January to November this year and have not collected your prize, please do […]

The Knick: Medicine is scarier than zombies

There are no zombies crashing through the windows or serial killers cooking heart tartare in The Knick, probably the most horrifying show on television. Steven Soderbergh’s hospital drama has no need for bloodsucking monsters to act as metaphors for the human condition. In The Knick, the monster IS the human condition, death is the inevitable […]

Off to see The Hobbit 3. Meanwhile, Saruman sings metal carols.

To mark the opening of P.T. Anderson’s Inherent Vice, we’re going to read Thomas Pynchon

Oops, put the wrong video earlier. But not Inherent Vice, The Crying of Lot 49. It’s short. And sorry if you got all excited, we don’t know whether Inherent Vice will open in Philippine theatres at all. Maybe Pynchon has a cameo in Inherent Vice. They can claim he’s in it, after all no one […]

The Theory of Everything: Lovingly Yours, Stephen Hawking

The Spiral Staircases of Budapest These images would’ve come in handy in James Marsh’s melodramatic Stephen Hawking biopic, The Theory of Everything. Read our review at InterAksyon.com.

Salad and fish at Duck and Buvette

We liked the food at Cafe Provencal on the second floor of Shangri-La Mall (the old wing), so we were a little distressed to find that it was gone. In its place is a cafe called Duck and Buvette. We would’ve tried it sooner except that we thought everything on the menu had duck. It […]

Cats in raincoats

Dear Manny, Thank you for the raincoats, they make us look very dashing. However, they are too small. We wear Medium in dogs’ sizes. Drogon and Mat

How Kazuo Ishiguro wrote The Remains of the Day in one month

See the illustrations by Finn Campbell-Notman Tom Waits had something to do with it. Read it at The Guardian.

Which book should be made into a movie? Tell us and win the new Murakami novel

Post your answers in Comments. The winner will be announced on 12 December. Books we’d like to see on the big screen The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn Life After Life by Kate Atkinson How To Be Both by Ali Smith This contest is brought to you by National Bookstore.