Southern Keanu lands perfectly, but is sadly one that can never come again, right? Is he this terribly accented in any other movie?

Sorry, Yaz's 'Only You' will be forever associated with Philip Jennings' uber creepy seduction of a 15 year old. Seeing it used sincerely here was positively jarring.

But when they think of King Kong, it's now how he died that they remember-but how he lived. How he did live!

You see it all the time though in reviews. Conan's the current example, but give Colbert six months, or whatever Jon Stewart does next. "You're a genius, and you did amazing comedy. So why's the show still a talk show? Why aren't you completely changing the format, genius?" It's the kind of special reviewer…

Exactly. Conan got blamed because he was the canary in the coal mine for the continued decline of live broadcast and monoculture. Conan didn't get Leno numbers, but when Leno came back, he eventually didn't get Conan numbers either in the demo, and stayed old. Letterman's audience dwindled as well. Fallon's now the…

I always liked my interpretation that there was no real Helen Kushnick, she was just the projected embodiment of all of Jay's paranoid manipulative careerism.

Well, only certain nation-states…. that Putin, he's a good egg.

Man, that owl's gotten pissed over the years…

I remember Sum of All Fears being unputdownable the moment shit really started hitting the fan. But as Clancy went on I think he lost any semblance of an editor, which is how you end up with 2000 page bricks about President Jack Ryan that have the time to go on 9 million awful political tangents and get deeper and…

Dreyfus and Colonel Trautman did it better: https://www.youtube.com/wat… https://www.youtube.com/wat…

So I guess this time he'll be an old man still traumatized by the fact that he let Reagan almost but not quite get assassinated?

Somehow, Peter Sagal's gentle family movie about sea turtles in 1860s Mexico turned into a bloody cops and drugs thriller.

Needs more Sinead O'Connor and Thedge: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I remember when this all happened. That day and night were absolutely terrifying. In its own way it was like the day they shut down Boston during the hunt for the marathon bombers—just locked doors and fear in the face of a giant manhunt. Then again my dad was a lawyer who spent plenty of time at the Fulton County…

Look: Zero Dark Thirty isn't terrible because it's pro-torture, it isn't terrible because the CIA gave a ton of info to the writer, it's terrible because it can be summed up as "Jessica Chastain gets results YOU STUPID CHIEF!"

Why not? It's one of the best sports anthems of all time, and will earworm itself into you all over again every World Cup summer. And generations of absolutely terrible "Official Songs" from World Cups, Olympics, national teams, and local franchises continue to demonstrate just how amazing it was New Order made one…

I can't believe you missed 2008-09: The exciting year where Tom Everett Scott got to be first Gov. Not-Spitzer in one season finale, then Gov. Not-Blagojevich in the next, and just a sleazy foil for McCoy for an entire season in between.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get another version of the anti-Conan critic backlash: Seemingly every time a critic watches the TBS show, they pretty much say "He's a comedic genius! With basic cable freedom! Why is he doing a normal talk show, with guests and a band and musical guests?He hasn't completely…

What the fuck does any of that have to do with a peace treaty between a white European country and an Asian one, the latter of which is generally thought to have won the war and in turn increased its empire at the expense of the former as part of the treaty?

Taft is kind of fascinating (and was an all right jurist) but was just someone completely not suited for the Presidency.