There's a really great article about Roald Dahl over at the New Yorker.

I finally saw Batman Begins this weekend. It was perfect. This was the superhero movie I've been waiting for.

I also saw Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. It was much less than perfect but enjoyable and very tense for a good 3/4th of the movie. He's just started production on a movie about the 1972 Munich Olympics where Palestinian terrorists kidnapped and then executed Israeli athletes. This could be interesting - Spielberg's "serious" movies are much better these days than his action movies (though none come close to Jaws or Indiana Jones.)