Tuesday, 3 December 2024

Films

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
Finally watched the Blu-ray I bought 13½ years ago, to see if I like it enough to upgrade to the Arrow 4K that’s out next week, which I quite possibly won’t watch for another 13½+ years. But I’m still gonna buy it, because this was awesome.

Monday, 2 December 2024

Fiction

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas by Derrick Belanger
How to Read This Book
December 1st: The Adventure of the Wiry Eel
December 2nd: The Adventure of the Wiry Eel (Conclusion)


I'm trying to not have too many books on the go at once, honest, but this is a timely one. Aside from what's obvious from the title (i.e. that it's set around Christmas), it's also designed to be read as an 'advent calendar': each of the stories is split in two, with a mystery posed one day and a conclusion offered on the next. Neat.

Articles

Critical Role Cast Teases Its Future and a Potential ‘Passing of the Torch’
by Dana Reboe (from Rolling Stone)

It feels like there's a CR profile in a major magazine every other week at the moment. I guess it's all because their tenth anniversary is rapdily approaching, and they've been doing (and continue to do) so much stuff. Still, they're almost always worth a read (if you're a fan, anyway) because there's always a few more titbits about what's to come.

Sunday, 1 December 2024