My list of 15 books that left a lasting impression is full of science fiction, much of it very dark, and some of it apocalyptic. After ignoring the hype for a couple of years, I finally picked up Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, only to become immediately annoyed with McCarthy’s pretentious, mannered style.
McCarthy’s writing is full [...]

Back-dated and cross-posted from Facebook, this is my list of 15 moves that will “always stick with me.”

Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas)
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
1984 (Michael Radford)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
The [...]