I absolutely love The Howling Man, even though its attempt to join the allegory to recent history barely toes the line of offensive (the Holocaust wasn't so long in the past, and this is Costume Satan at his campy best.)  But damn if it doesn't work, even when you're aware of how ludicrous what's happening is.

His curiosity piqued, he sneaks a look at Newton’s iPod, then wonders what this “two-p-a-c” is all about.

I think my favorite part of the episode was the awkward, awkward banter about the United Nations and what it does.  Lindvall sounded like a beauty pageant contestant who'd been assigned the U.N. as a report: I forget her exact line, but it was something close to "They work on climate change, war, and such as."  And…

Yeah, this is why I don't care for the translation of the title as "Hipsters".  The стиляги have some things in common with them, but disaffected rejection of things that might be popular was not one of them.  Unfortunately that's one of the (if not the) main things we associate with hipsters, so the reference ends up…

It also wasn't a particularly great year for movies… The genuinely best pictures of the year (La Strada, Umberto D, The Red Balloon) weren't let anywhere near the Best Picture nominations, which are mostly nice but unexceptional movies (The King and I, The Ten Commandments).  Of the five nominees only Giant has held…

I don't have very fond memories of The English Patient, but I haven't seen it since it was in theatres.  It's one of those movies I feel like I should re-watch, but then again… I mean, my queue is pretty long already…

The silver lining (?) is that Milan literally has nothing left.  What's she going to do next time she's in the bottom two?  She can't strip again, and anything she does will seem less crazy by comparison.  She's saved herself in the short term by wrecking her chances in the long term.

I don't hate "The Painted Lady" and I love love "Sokka's Master", but both episodes point to one of the biggest problems with season 3, which is that the writers can't seem to balance the ostensible urgency of beating the comet with the desire for one-off, self-contained episode arcs.  There are plenty of times during…

The only thing missing from Sokka's Master is the incredibly funny savaging/deconstruction of the show's own faults as in The Zeppo.

I'm sorry, everyone: its' my fault.  Fifteen minutes into the show, I was so excited, I made a comment about how the show was finally fixing itself.  Then the next forty minutes happened, as if to punish me for my hubris.

@avclub-d324a0cc02881779dcda44a675fdcaaa:disqus : it's definitely a good bet, but you never know how things play out.   I think it's a little premature for more than one commenter here to be using Citizen Kane as a comparison point.
(Your description would fit The Towering Inferno, too, which… I hope we don't consider…

Because TDK is not a classic and repeatedly calling it one doesn't make it so.

I won't lie, I looked him up.  Everything's on the internet now!

Really?  This may be my favorite thing Mondo's done, especially in how it moved on the runway.

Maybe my expectations were low after last week's awful showing, but this is the show I know and love: nothing much in the plot or character-development department, but one great one-liner after another, delivered quickly and sharply.   And Buscemi!  What was his line about pulling some strings in order to get Baldwin…

I thought someone (in the article or comments) would have mentioned the role that Myspace had in laying this kind of groundwork.  For all Myspace's terribleness as a social network it did provide a certain type of engagement and promotional network for amateur music-makers that directly precedes, and to some extent…

You're my hero.

Wait… you can't?   Argh.  (*cancels subscription to Wiretap Monthly)

Ah, typical Hollywood suspension of belief: a world where everyone is beautiful, romantic comedies always have happen endings, and a quasi-sentient being would choose Chris Pine over Tom Hardy.  See, movies are nothing like real life!

As punishment he should allow me to install surveillance cameras all over his house, especially the bedroom and shower areas.