The Illusionist, Dennis Lehane

The newest feature from Sylvain Chomet, the esteemed director of Les triplettes de Belleville.



I caught award winning author Dennis Lehane on Friday evening at the recently renovated Portland Public Library.

His discussion covered the Celtics, Cormac McCarthy, the stylistic differences between Eastwood (casual) and Scorsese (caffeinated), the importance of artistic authenticity, and a hilarious take on pretentious literarians.

Click HERE and listen to him speak about his 2008 novel The Given Day.

Oh yeah, Go Celtics!

Hoops and Hope

Baskteball as social change. Get up on this PROJECT in Rwanda now!

Thanks to Truehoops for the link.

And go back to Pandora Avatar. Ballers, are you ready for this?

Finally, what are you doing with all that loot Grannie gave you this Holiday Season?

Teen Wolf...The TV Show

APT takes Teen Wolf very seriously. This is one of the greatest basketball movies of all time. Period. Plus, if I grow my ish out just right, I got a Scott Howard thing going on.



So color me a grinch when I say that I am concerned about this films legacy in the hands of MTV's pop culture machine. They are going the Remake-TV Series-Horror-Romance-Unintentional Comedy route.

The crew over at the Onion's AV Club are equally concerned. Hey MTV, stop fucking around with my childhood and bring back the music videos already.

Michael and Michael

I got a visit from one of Portland, Maine's finest sports fans, Ms. Block Party.

She insisted that I get up on this interview between His Airness and Michael Wilbon who is arguably ESPN's most credible TV personality.

And if you haven't already, witness David Thompson's (Mike's childhood idol) high flying ways.