All due respect to Bugliosi
But, seriously, could successfully prosecuting Charles Manson really have been all that difficult? The dude is crazier than a snake's armpit.

Jack Hawksmoor?
I was hoping you guys would review Wildstorm's new Jack Hawksmoor book. It was my fav new book last week - story was different and the art was phenomenal. I'm hoping it gets attention - it could very easily slip under the radar

Speaking of over-the-top psychotic mutants in comic-book movies
Aaron Stanford played Pyro in the X-men movies as well as several other notable douchebags in movies and TV (possibly because he's actually a douchebag in real life.)

Top 10 makes it onto the "essentials" list
But Moore codifying every fictional character/place in human history into one super-narrative in "League" doesn't? That's crazy talk.

Plus
My 3am-fried brain just made another connection:

I figured it out
Though they didn't mention it much this week, it suddenly came to me like a thunderbolt. I know who Ben's "man on the boat" is.

Beaumont/Cooper
Love that Keith mentioned the resemblance between Jefferey Beaumont of "Blue Velvet" and Dale Cooper here. It's always been my geeky pet theory that they are indeed one in the same - that Jeffery simply changed his name and moved out of Lumberton (which is why he loves Twin Peaks so much) as his…

I agree that the ending of ai is
And I also want to thank Tom S. for articulating an idea I've often found myself feeling around the edges of, though never fully co codifying into a philosophy - and I think he's right that AI fits that "sci-fi should be about new narrative paradigms too" idea just fine.

Not first
That's what I get for being a dick and saying "first," then going on to be a letch and talk about Natalie Portman's ass. But, come on, I'm only human.

First - with an important message
I hear you see Natalie Portman's ass in "Hotel Chavalier." That is all.

Wow
Sweet Stephenson reference Chris. That was one of the most kickass moments in a book full of kickass moments. Let's be pals.

Canadian Bacon - awful movie, good friend
I had intended to post defending both this movie, and Canadian Bacon and, in a rare instance of breaking AV Club kayfabe, reveal that we are friends in real, non-internet life and mention his legendary Bruce Willis night, which I enthusiastically attended.

Zack Snyder
Deserves all that hate and more. He took a marginally okay comic and turned it into howlingly empty movie that looked nothing so much like a particularly boring video game, and somehow he stumbled into a massive sleeper hit. Good for him.

After this, Snyder will tackel adapting the ceiling of the sistine chapel into a blue-screened fx extravaganza
Ensuring that no iconic masterpiece beloved by millions will escape the next 5 years Zack has left to dine on out 300's success without him somehow attaching his unworthy name to their legacies.

I want to make a movie
Starring Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston and Ted Nugent, directed by John Millius, called "America's Most Desperate Moment: Rag-Headed Lunatics Want to Kill Your Children." Because, shit, that's true, after all. I'm going to show footage of 9/11 and terrorist training videos, slam the audience…

RE: Feh
I agree with you - "The Killer" is obviously Woo's seminal film in terms of condensing his themes and perfecting his style and "A Bullet in the Head" truly is his forgotten masterpiece - I believe he himself has said it's his favorite, it's certainly his most personal, and most emotionally wrenching. It's a…

I will never forget the first time I saw this movie
If "Die Hard" represents the highest peak in American action films, then "Hard Boiled" is the international Everest to DH's domestic McKinley. (Little geography quiz for you there.)

Tetherball
Nathan, oh yee of little hope. Perhaps the "lovable underdog beating the odds in a niche competitive subculture" genre is too played out… but you're forgetting the "pompous man-child engaging in a ostensibly ridiculous activity that no one in the movie realizes is ridiculous and that's the joke" genre is…

Cirterion's "questionable" choices
To get any real perspective on why the Criterion catalogue looks the way it does, you have to keep in mind that when they started putting out LDs in the 80s, the home video market was a vastly different place.

I'm in the Black Lodge with Dale Cooper
I was too young when it originally aired to feel anything but a prevailing sense of dread about the few snippets of the show I saw, but in high school I became a huge Lynch fan, and I spent a ridiculous $400 of my summer-job money to get the entire set on LD.