I tried my laser pointer on my five dogs. The universal reaction was to yawn and go to sleep. If it ain't edible, they don't care.

It's not entirely useless. You can see former bestsellers jump back on the list when movie versions of them are released. Hence the two distinct blocks of Da Vinci Code and Twilight covers. Hunger Games does the same in the partial brick for 2012. It's also pretty clear that Harry Potter was pretty much immune to the…

Tigers are going extinct, but these fucking things are everywhere.... ugh. That's not right. No sir.

That was a great article, really well done.

I *have* received over two hits since I posted it.

Definitely one of the best longboard videos I've ever seen.

At this point I think most of the animals are conditioned to the vehicles as just being large non-threatening animals. In the wild cat rehabilitation center I visited in South Africa, the enclosures are even painted to look like trucks, with a black stripe around the bottom (tires) over a khaki/tan stripe (body) with…

And Walter Jon Williams characters led it 20 years before that. And James Schmitz's Agents of Vega four decades earlier.

Just continuing the tradition. The Empire Strikes Back had some of the worst FX ever put on film up to that point. The weird boxes around the spaceships were immensely distracting and the stop-motion was just amateur-hour.

He looks a lot like a Hokkaido to me. How tall is he?

Every Japanese dog I've met is stubborn as a mule, from little Shibas all the way up to massive Akitas.

One of my female Pugs would do that to her brother. She'd gobble down her food then start barking. He'd run off barking at the "intruder" and she'd eat the rest of his meal. Oddly, he was still twice her size.

The problem being that the Penguin will be running around murdering people for 10-12 years before Batman shows up to dispense some "justice." By setting up all of these villains from Batman's rogues gallery, the series is essentially saying, "Here, watch Jim Gordon fail for a decade."

As cool as this scene was, it was utterly irrelevant. If you take it out of the movie, it literally has zero impact.

Yeah, this movie doesn't survive fridge logic. It's a little better than X3 but not much. The fact it's written by the same guy kind of underscores its issues.

We can always count on the Wachowskis for spectacle, but I think The Matrix was something of a fluke.

I'm a huge fan of this theory. Ever since I saw the nascent version on Cracked's After Hours a couple years ago, I've been tickled by the idea of the Pixar movies somehow being linked together. Not to the point where I actually tried to account for all the movies, of course, but still. I enjoy it when people make…

Did you just call Gilmore Girls "junk"?

They could just set Warcraft 4 some 500 years in the future from WoW, when all of those people have passed into legend. Just say, "Some cataclysm happened that wiped everything out," and have the people of Asteroth take a few hundred years to pick up the pieces. Then hit the ground running with some sort of evil…

In the beginning when they're running, the last time Cap says "On your left" as Evans sprints past Mackie who then speeds up, only to see Cap already halfway down the adjacent side of the reflecting pool, that's two people playing Cap. Evans runs out of frame while the stuntman is running into it. Since the continuous…