District 9, Stross, "The Anthologist," Updike

Man, when was the last time I saw a good movie in the theaters? We do like to get out, and there's a movie house within walking distance from our house, so we hit the theater fairly often. It's potentially more fun than watching a rental at home.

But…Matt Damon in Informant! — ugh! I've always found the Matt to be physically repellent, and to see him play an unbalanced, lying sleaze-bag, wearing a kids-Halloween-costume mustache, in a seemingly endless series of scenes set in beige plastic ...