Odd Thomas

Odd Thomas felt like an extremely well-made pilot for a tv show. I don’t know if that’s the case or not, but that’s what it felt like. Anton Yelchin plays the title character, a short-order cook-cum-investigator who’s got a seriously odd a flair for the paranormal. He can tell bad things are going to happen when…

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Charlie Bartlett

I find myself at that stage of life where I’m looking back a lot at the choices I made that brought me to this place. I’m still pissed, for instance, that I didn’t spend my twenties as a tennis pro, repeatedly winning the Australian Open – but that’s the bitter-sweet joy of retrospective dreaming; I gave up tennis when I was eleven. …

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