I loved Summer Hours: one of the few films I've seen to handle time and nostalgia in an intelligent, thoughtful way instead of as an emotional crush.  The scene at the end, with the family furniture in the museum, tore me up.

I was fine with this episode, and I laughed out loud at the "I ate a hamburger" line, but since Ember Island Players is one of my favorite episodes of television ever… yeah, there's no comparison.

Possibly?  I haven't seen it.

Love this movie - definitely my favorite M Night film (er… low bar?) - but it does have one aggressively annoying problem in Spencer Treat Clark, who is pretty awful.  I know we try to give kid actors more of a pass, but we can blame this on M Night, given that the kid's line readings feel like a dry run for The Last…

Thus the "It's an old classical reference" before I talked about Dante's refiguring of it, which is more relevant for the show because it's a Christian afterlife we're discussing.

my mind only wandered a little into the question of how much more gorgeous this would've been in color

Theological qualms aside… I mean, it's in the grand tradition of the folktale, where regular folk get tricked (or not) by the devil, and it's not really much stranger than what you can get in an old folktale collection.  I think that's the vibe that Hamner is going for.

Yeah, this isn't easy at all.  I'll take a cue from @Scrawler2:disqus and list them by the order they aired:

Fry: But I've never written an opera.

This is my favorite episode of the series.  It's not the funniest, but its one-liners are as classic and rapid-fire as anything they've done.  It's not the most emotional, but it's touching and sweet and wraps things up well.  It's not the nerdiest/cleverest, but its machinery is well-oiled and deliver its spin on the…

Pretty sure the slam is on critical responses to Malick movies.

Nah: this is slang that developed mostly in the African American community, not the specifically gay community.  The problem is that most readily accessible sources come from the post Paris is Burning era, where that culture was itself reprocessed and repurposed.  Not many publishers were paying attention to terms…

Lay off Janelle Monáe, because she's awesome.  Besides, gay (and especially drag) culture and female vocalists have an historical synergy.  No dice.

Oh, god… I thought the musical numbers were the least terrible thing about this movie, after the plot, the writing, the handheld camera elsewhere (that sent people at our viewing outside to vomit) and a few of the performances (although Bjork herself is fine).  The musical numbers aren't well-filmed - I suspect the…

Can we all take a moment to enjoy Lili Taylor's "Eh, I can pay rent this month" face at the premiere?

For better or worse I already knew the word upir (fuck yeah, medieval Russian!), but in one of the weirdest contexts imaginable.

Seriously.  How is this not Ugly Americans, only… uglier?  Less good?

Check out the book that Stalker is based on, as well: The Strugatsky Bros' Roadside Picnic.  It's an underappreciated (in this country) masterpiece of science fiction.  It has the heft and moral torture you expect from a Russian novel, but it's a frequently fast-paced thriller.

There's been an ongoing attempt to make a rotoscoped film out of The Futurological Congress by the director of Waltz with Bashir.  I saw the test footage, and it looked… awful.  Just awful.

Lifetime pass for Gosford Park, which was such a tricky role.  When she gives the cold shoulder to Ryan Phillipe late in the movie, it's such a small moment that she, rightfully, plays small - but it still stings (maybe even more so because of how inconsequential her non-reaction seems, which is both really cruel and…