I like Bond a lot, but I still liked Austin Powers, at least the first one. You can do satire without insulting the source material. I enjoy the book Starship Troopers, and would love to see a well made movie that follows the book, but I also think it doesn't get much better than Verhoven's Starship Troopers.

I used to think the same about Brad Pitt, and also DeCaprio. Pretty boy actors who caught big breaks in blockbusters and get through by looks alone. But I've changed my mind; not only was Pitt good in Se7en, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Snatch, and others, he also has gone beyond just typecasting; he has at least two…

Wow, yes Event Horizon I think would be near the top of my list now that you mentioned it. Great premise, great atmosphere, great set design. But it just sort of petered out around the halfway point for me.

I've always enjoyed the Brin short story "The Crystal Spheres", which essentially suggests that there could be an unknown physical barrier preventing intelligent life from reaching other habitable star systems. It's a fun twist on the Fermi Paradox.

What I'm concerned about, and I think a lot of other people are too, is not "killing the planet". I'm concerned that the possible near-mid term effects will contribute to a declining standard of living for my children and grandchildren. Drought, water shortages, resource scarcity, coastal flooding, and crop failures…

Sorry, that would be "spandrel", not "dongle".

There are a few theories addressing this, gordonotron. The most prominent is that studies "have found that mothers and maternal aunts of gay men tend to have significantly more offspring than the maternal relatives of straight men. The results show strong support for the "balancing selection hypothesis," which is fast…