I’ve been squirming over the conflict between my disgust for Roman Polanski vs. my love of good thrillers and Ewan McGregor. I eventually caved in and bought the Blu-Ray of The Ghost Writer. The good: the cinematography, design, and sense of foreboding are absolutely perfect. Polanski has never been better at suggesting terrible things with [...]

Laundering Nazi gold: acceptable1 Drugging and raping 13 year old girls: acceptable2 Building minarets: not acceptable3 Caveat…4 with occasional token restitutions ↩ for talented film-makers ↩ no exceptions ↩ It should go without saying that not all Swiss citizens are in agreement with every action undertaken by their government, their banks, or their fellow citizens. [...]