Any screenwriters out there reading the journal? Pär writes me to say:

Yesterday I rented 'Cube', which was a pretty cool movie, though strange and a bit fucked-up. It's strange how as long as a movie is a little bit scifi/fantasy, it feels like a treat to me, even though the movie is really about relationships between people, which normally makes me snore. Like, if The Big Chill was set in the same house, but there were little robot rats that came out at night and nibbled the characters to death, one by one, it would totally rock as a movie.

Are you listening, screenwriters? That's your demographic right there, folks. The magical formula:

    Big Chill
+  Little Nibbling Killer Robot Rats
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=  rocking movie.