Hey, I am absolutely NOT a fan of the action genre; I don’t give a single shit about explosions or car chases. But “Fury Road”, which is essentially a 2-hour long exploding car chase, is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. I went into it cold, with no real expectations, and was suprised to find myself transfixed by…

I’m a week late (and in the grey, to boot), but you’re misreading the glove thing. Tyrell puts in the gloves as he monologues about killing Sharon. He says that he realized that the act of murder made him feel a unique sense of power. The implication is that he’s about to attack Elliot in order to get another taste of…

Haven’t seen the movie, but the title makes perfect sense; it’s a reference to MK Ultra - the CIA’s attempt at creating sleeper agents using LSD.

Given that John Oliver is married to a US Army medic and has apparently spent a lot of time and energy in order to live/work here (he seems to have had an unusually difficult experience for someone in his position) I’d say he’s just as American as me.

Totally agree on DofFP. I’ve watched it more times than any other movie that’s come out in the last few years — once in the theater, once when it showed up $On Demand$, and 2 or 3 times since HBO put it into rotation. Hell, it’s still on my DVR.

It’s true that we can’t “kill” viruses in vivo, the way we can with bacteria (using quotation marks because its up for debate if a virus is really alive to begin with; a virus is more like a scrap of bad code than a biological organism.) But vaccines for viruses are definitely not new. Most of the standard childhood…

I’d really love to read up on this hypothesis (re: a pre-European conquest plague in the Americas) but I’m having trouble finding anything online. Google is pointing me towards the standard stuff (including some interesting “Guns, Germs and Steel”-ish essays and articles). Do you have any reading recommendations?…

There was a single bit of something in the finale — when she’s confronted by Theon and Myranda on the catwalk, she asserts herself enough to say “if I’m to die, let it be while there’s still part of me left.”

I actually thought that she was dropping the ring because it was from her new marriage to Great Master What’s-His-Name. She’s hoping that the whole Khaleesi thing will allow her to extricate herself from any potential threat posed by the Dothraki horde. But, if she’s been remarried, she can’t really run around calling…

If you haven’t listened to How Did This Get Made, Paul Scheer (and friends’) bad” movie podcast, do yourself a favor and head on over to Earwolf. I actually have to wonder if the letter writer is a fan, because they just dropped a (thoroughly entertaining) "FACE OFF" EP last week. It holds the distinction of being the…

Wait which one is it? It’s going to make a buck or is it going to flop? I’m not sure I get what you’re saying.

Holy crap, you aren't kidding. I just looked through their post history and this dude(-ette) has some serious issues to work out.

I love how you did a little compare/constrast with Lost. This is a perfect answer to the OP and I may steal it for future use,

With a name like *Charisma freaking, Carpenter* is a career in soft core porn really that surprising?

Not familiar with pearler bead, but my mind immediately went to cross-stitch. I used to do them as a kid, and these are basically perfectly designed patterns.

Straight White Men. Apparently "too many" female/POC/LGBT writers won last year. So these fine people are doing the Lord's work and making sure that Straight White Men get their moment in the sun.

I'm fairly certain she had some work done - some dental "adjustments" for sure, and who knows what else. Her prominent overbite is far less prominent these days.

Woah. I'm so used to seeing this:

I thought the same exact thing. From upscalestripper.com's's go-go dancer section (SFW):

Nah, they don't really look alike. They just share a hair extension guy.