Precisely. The thing about this period of Hollywood epics is, well, not to put too fine a point on it: They were a salvo against the nascent popularity of TV. They were designed to have images too long to be properly shown on TV, too detailed to be seen on TV, too lushly colourful for black and white to be anything…

Doctor Zhivago has one of Maurice Jarre's best scores. I love that balalaika piece.

Yeah you're past the best years of Dexter, but you're still at the point where the show could pull off some good or okay stuff.

I dunno, I think Cynthia Gouw has some tough competition from newcomer Eric Bana.

Yeah most of the steam games I buy are single player for that reason. And other reasons.

It was the best movie I saw in my Halloween marathon last year. And the most uncomfortably scary.

It even got better, so yes, do.

The next episode you see of Sleepy Hollow is probably my faourite so far. So enjoy that.

Cumberbatch was a surprisingly effective Smaug. I rolled my eyes at the casting, but he pulled it off pretty well (I imagine the sound effects people deserve some credit for giving his voice that menace and boom, though.)

I think basically everyone considers Casino not as good as Goodfellas though. The argument has always been around how much less good.

The bizarre thing about Return to the Jedi is it has the biggest and most complicated space battle of the entire original trilogy (with way more ships and effects than ever before) and it's the most tertiary of the three main plots of the film's ending.

The second half of Dandy was alright. It kept feeling like a show in search of a good punchline but not quite getting there.

The issue with Dawkins is religion is not his specialty. I bring that up because I had a distinguished atheist professor who studied the philosophy of religion in depth and was aware of the latest scholarship and arguments on the subject and considered Dawkins little more than a barnstorming amateur who didn't really…

Yeah one of the animated movies had Sore-on and Sella-born. The difference between Jackson and the animated movies is Jackson has Tolkein language nerds on his payroll.

Oh, and it looks like it's returning to Tim Burton making a movie about an artist, which is one of the things that makes Ed Wood so great.

TV:

That's only because nobody invites Lexx. ;)

She went to bed early because she wets the bed. So she's accepted the inevitability of it, but she has a system to deal with it.

I am going to try writing a comment while turned away.

Also I don't really agree with the thesis that Louise was the character that was the original pull for the show. I mean I've always loved Louise and Kirsten Schaal is just yes, but for me the initial hook was Tina.