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If you’re in the arts, The Walk is your comfort movie.

This weekend we’re watching Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk again. If you’re looking for something to watch, we recommend you see it at the IMAX nearest to you. The more we think about it, the more we like The Walk. It’s a comfort movie. How can it be a comfort movie when the trailer alone gives […]

Brains! Yummy brains! Red velvet brain cake for Halloween

Here’s a treat for the zombies who knock on your door next week. How to cake it. via 3QD.

Come to the Habi bazaar this weekend for handwoven fabric

Barack Obama interviews Marilynne Robinson

Out-nerding book nerds and shaming us at not having read Marilynne Robinson. The President: Were your parents into books, or did they just kind of encourage you or tolerate your quirkiness? Robinson: There was great tolerance in the house for quirkiness. No, it’s a funny thing because on the one hand, I’m absolutely indebted to […]

If this is not the launch of a car that’s a time machine, we shall be very disappointed

Maybe it’s the return of the DeLorean.

American Crime is an introduction to race relations in the US

It starts with a phone call in the dead of night, then a visit to the morgue where the body of an Iraq war veteran named Matt Skokie waits to be identified. Skokie’s house in Modesto, California had been broken into, leaving him dead and his wife Gwen in a coma. His father Russ confirms […]

Peak and Bridge: Chastain haunts the house, Hanks saves the spies

This year looks like The Return of the Big Hollywood Director. George Miller returned to the post-apocalyptic desert with Mad Max: Fury Road, Ridley Scott returned to space with The Martian, and now Guillermo del Toro returns to the haunted house with Crimson Peak and Steven Spielberg returns to the epic of the good American […]

Before you watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk, read this

So many movies opening this week. Today we’re watching Crimson Peak, then Bridge of Spies. Tomorrow we’re heading to an IMAX theatre to see The Walk. We don’t expect it to be as good as James Marsh’s Philippe Petit documentary Man on Wire, but the visuals should be stunning. Here is the magnificent opening chapter […]

Mar on Mar, the conclusion: On traffic, slow internet, and the “trapo” label

On improving road infrastructure Six additional elevated lanes parallel to Edsa will be constructed in one year, Roxas said. “Why has it taken so long? We fell behind.” Infrastructure plans had to be dusted off and updated with regards to engineering and costing, and right of way issues had to be resolved. The six-lane elevated […]

Upcoming Ladybird Books: Hangovers, Dating, Hipsters

We must have them.