Unregistered, passive-aggressive comments ending with "just letting you know" are pretty douchey in their own right.

That's a cute argument, Miller, and would probably make for an interesting critical essay, but I think you're extrapolating a bit too much based on generally accepted genre tropes. Does Double Indemnity's Barbara Stanwyck fit the often-seen type of the noir femme fatale? Yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean her…

Are we seriously having this conversation? Strong, well-developed female characters may be in shorter supply than their male counterparts, but saying that this is because men are simply bad at writing good female characters is ridiculous. Barbara Stanwyck from "Double Indemnity." The protagonist of "Pan's Labyrinth."…

The most misleading trailer ever is the one for the first "Resident Evil" movie: so misleading that it was unlikely you'd even know what was going on unless you were familiar with the games.

Finished up season 3 of BSG on Sunday. [SPOILERS] Baltar's trial was ridiculous, but then most TV courtroom episodes are. Lee's speech about justice and forgiveness made me roll my eyes at first, but it turned out okay by the end. And, of course, the reveal of the four Cylons at the end was pretty cool. (Starbuck's…

Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler"? Anyone? How did "JCVD" get mentioned but not that?

littlealex: That's a Moby song? Holy crap, that ending music is the biggest reason I rewatch "Heat." That cut to black, timed with the music, is absolutely sublime.

Er, should read "while enjoying other comedians." *sigh*

Something about this guy sets my teeth on edge
I understand intellectually that he's funny, but I can't stand to engage with him for more than a couple of minutes. Something about his deadpan, quirky drawings grates on me intolerably. Is "precious" the right word to describe him? I think it is, but it's hard to…

Not to be needlessly vulgar or anything … but fuck Comcast right in its ear. I'd DONATE money to Netflix like a charity if I could be sure that it would be used solely to drive Comcast out of business. The two companies are at completely opposite ends of the customer service spectrum. Netflix has always been great for…

Arkham City's coming out in October now, I think. Otherwise it'd be at the top of my list too.

The Smallville finale? Ouch, El Santo. Ouch.

Originally, "Go For It" literally had an exclamation point at the end of the title. The title seems emblematic of the basic shallowness of the film as a whole. Someone I knew who worked at the Chicago Film Festival last year (where I think it had its debut screening) said, by way of faint praise, that you could tell…

Yeah, I was kind of disappointed with this too. I'm not very good at FPSs, so I usually cut my teeth on the campaign before heading into multiplayer. It's not fun getting my inexpert ass handed to me by Xbox Live douchebags, after all. But playing the single-player against bots is so brain-meltingly dull that I quit…

BREAKING NEWS: INTERNET EXPLODES
Oh man, Charlie Sheen's Twitter feed over the next few days is going to be amazing.

Sorry, sorry everyone. The correct answer to this question is "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad."

I'm not a huge Portman fanboy, but there's no denying she's quite pretty. Her uglification in this is pretty laughable in any case - by the looks of that picture, the makeup and costuming guys just stuck a pair of big goofy glasses on her face and called it a day. At least Charlize Theron shaved her eyebrows off.

Regis always struck me as one of those celebrities who is always a class act in the public eye but who is concealing a mean streak through sheer force of will. He's really good at achieving this sort of quasi-snarky tone in some of his interactions where he says something sarcastic to someone but says it in such a way…

Seemed to me that he just had a bad concussion. Concussions can cause your speech to be scrambled and nonsensical temporarily.

Voldemort gives a six-hour radio broadcast on the evils of Muggle/wizard intermingling.