‘A Serious Man’ is a seriously quirky yet enjoyable award-winning black comedy that centres on the nature of faith in a man’s life, which became chaotic in multiple ways for no apparent cause on his part – despite trying his best to be a ’serious man’. Here is some of its dialogue and [...]

A Tit for a Tat (75)
Tit: What is that suspicious-looking cat doing?
Tat: Looking at us suspiciously!
Tit: Is it because he thinks we are suspicious?
Tat: Or is because he is guilty of something?
Tit: How would I know?
Tat: So should we look suspiciously at him?
Tit: But that might make him more suspicious of us!
Tat: He shouldn’t [...]

In ‘Hellboy: Darkness Calls’ by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fregredo, Igor Weldon Bromhead invokes the demonic Ilsa Haupstein, binding her to his command. Knowing that name gives him power over her. I used to be fascinated by the concept how naming the evil is able bring about control of the named. Here is how it [...]

From ‘X-Men: Messiah Complex’ by Ed Brubaker et al, are these files by Cyclops -
File 27: The X-Men – The X-Men have always defended both mutants and humans, so that humans could see that, like them, there were good mutants, as well as bad…
Comments: As many X-Men fans know, the ongoing theme of mutant discrimination [...]

In the movie ‘Blood: The Last Vampire’, it was suggested to Saya (the half-vampire human) by her teacher that (vampirical) demons have no souls (in the sense that they have no conscience and are thus not redeemable or worth sparing), that ‘heaven’ put them in our world to test our virtues. Now, how virtuous can such [...]

After collecting about a dozen ‘Batman Black & White’ statues, which are released periodically into the market, I decided to give up. Okay, lest you mistaken, these are really statues worthy of showcasing – individually hand-painted porcelain ones – not tiny plastic action figures. They cost about SDG$100 each. I started collecting them because they [...]

Shortly before the screening of ‘Handsome Suit’ this year was ‘Penelope’ last year – another real gem of a movie with an alternative but equally brilliant take on the ugly duckling theme. What’s the moral of the ugly duckling story? Sometimes, one is not a mere ugly duckling, because one can grow to be beautiful [...]

From ‘The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’ by Rod Serling (adapted by Mark Kneece), a mysterious blackout strikes the suburbs. The townsfolk gather and a boy suggests that it might be the work of invading aliens, who are simply waiting in the dark to grab whoever ventures into it, saying that [...]

A toddler nephew is undergoing a strange phase of growing up. Barely a month ago, his baby sister was born. Suddenly, his behaviour became a little incomprehensibly moody and anger-prone… even to himself! He seemed to experience a form of existential anguish that he couldn’t articulate with his limited vocabulary. When asked ‘Are you alright?’, [...]