I'll be happy when Youtube has a copy of "Daydreams," a silent movie written by H. G. Wells and starring both Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton.

It passed the Bechdel test. That alone made it better than 9/10ths of other American movies.

". . . If over-analysis of movies is your thing."

You also get a year's discount on dog food.

For some reason this sounds just like Gene Belcher.

Because he's the President!

Like the stereotyped Mafiosi.

Comparisons are odious, but I felt disappointed seeing Steven Universe just before Adventure Time. No humans in this stretch, and the plot seems like any other show. My favorite episodes — "Lion 2: the Movie", the one about the Sea Spire, and the one where Steven talks to the Cluster — really couldn't happen in any…

And now Finn has officially grown up. He is capable of carrying his message of independence to the human remnant because he is an intelligent, loving, integrated character. But all this epic is the prelude to . . . what? I want to see that movie.

Hester Street.

I feel ambivalent about Nicole Yorkin being the daughter of Bud Yorkin. On the one hand, it is very hard for someone to break in apart from being the daughter of an insider; and hurrah for another female producer! On the other . . .

There's an ethical component to the movie which doesn't slow down until the end. Kimble is a doctor, governed by "first, do no harm." He is not an action hero *because he doesn't use unwonted violence*. You see the ethos fraying just at the end of the film, where he savagely attacks the villain. Just then he is at the…

But only in a really good film. Many "comeback" movies are horrible.

Spoiler:

But _not_ alone, and at night.

A kind man in private life, too.

But they're always smiling! How can they be cruel?

I printed out a previous Mel Brooks interview for my reading group. I think I'll do the same for this one.

My first exposure to country music — and for many of the singers, my only exposure — comes from the A. V. Club's "Nashville or Bust." I'm still grateful.

We need a whole cat house! Get on it, networks!