I love me some Kenneth Branagh, and I’ve enjoyed his portrayal of the Swedish detective Wallander on PBS, but I recently binge-watched Sweden’s original TV version of the hangdog hero and man, now that I’ve seen Krister Henriksson’s (above) rendition of Wallander, there simply is no other Wallander.
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Happiest Oscar-Nominations Surprise:
The Lego Movie got stiffed. It was technically impressive, but other than that its appeal was strictly at the third-grade level – which is apparently where 96 percent of the nation’s film critics reside, per Rotten Tomatoes. Everything is awesome, my ass.
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To borrow a phrase that I hate from teenage girls: I … can’t … even …
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I’d write something about Allison Williams’s rear end this week, but I already did that a few weeks ago. Instead, let me express my sympathies to her father, Brian, who no doubt is still contending with vanilla cake jokes at work.
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