Timothy Dalton, we hardly knew ye. This is only his second outing wearing 007’s tuxedo, but it would prove to be his last. The Bond franchise has a long history of legal troubles, but they had a nasty flare-up after Licence to Kill hit theaters. In addition, a crowded summer movie market was blamed for … More The Bond Movie Series: Licence to Kill
The Best Supporting Actress field for 2000-2009 was mostly sad, so thankfully the bar is much higher in the Best Actress category. It’s not all sunshine and daisies, but at least it isn’t so hard to find quality. Please note that although I may comment on an actress who was snubbed, but that ultimately cannot … More Every Best Actress Oscar Winner of the 2000s Listed and Ranked
Timothy Dalton was originally offered the role of James Bond back when Sean Connery made his first departure from the series. Dalton backed out, however, feeling that he was too young at the time (resulting in George Lazenby’s infamous one-time turn as 007). Twenty years later, after Roger Moore officially aged out of his tenure … More The Bond Movie Series: The Living Daylights
Unlike the Best Supporting Actress winners for the same decade, here we have some quality contenders vying for the title. In the end, though, it all comes down to the bad guys. Once again: in attempting to determine the best of the best when it comes to performances, I must limit myself to considering the … More Ranking the Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners of the 2000s
You know the old complaint that there aren’t enough good roles for women in Hollywood? Consider this proof. Lots of pretty faces playing supportive wife figures. Unfortunately, the performances that would have made this a much more competitive, colorful field just didn’t take an Oscar home with them at the end of the day. Given … More Ranking Every Best Supporting Actress Oscar Winner of the 2000s
The 2000’s were a curious decade for Best Picture. The Best Picture winners are remarkably hit or miss. Even among the good ones, I have a hard time finding one I feel particularly passionate about. Of course, the movie I would have felt most passionate about famously lost its Best Picture race, which we will … More Ranking Every Best Picture Oscar Winner of the 2000s
“We are part of a long tradition of suffering.” Books about war–and particularly short story collections about war–always suffer in my mind because they inevitably get compared to what I believe is the greatest war collection of all time: The Things They Carried. It is to Phil Klay’s enormous credit that much of Redeployment stands ground with … More Book Review: Redeployment, by Phil Klay
Welcome to the new Supposedly Fun! I started this here blog back in 2012 over on Blogger, but I never really felt comfortable with the set-up. I took some time over the last two months to migrate all of the content here so we can start fresh but have all the reviews at your fingertips. … More New Year, New Blog
Hanya Yanagihara is truly a literary talent to watch for. The People in the Trees, her debut novel, is a disquieting, affecting, gorgeously written tale sprawling in both scope and ambition. In it, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist by the name of Norton Perina is accused of pedophilia and sexual abuse among the forty children he adopted … More Book Review: The People in the Trees, by Hanya Yanagihara
When I first picked up Adam, I confess I was simultaneously intrigued and repulsed by its premise. You see, Adam has the audacious idea to take the standard rom-com premise where someone pretends to be someone/something they’re not, and throw in gender norms and sexuality as a twist. It all starts when 17 year-old Adam goes to … More Book Review: Adam, by Ariel Schrag
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