Dude, you are TOTALLY discriminating on the basis of limbs. What, so if something doesn't move or have a will of its own, it doesn't deserve to live? How come nobody's talking about the rights of Roto-Discs or pit-spikes?

You're a loose cannon, O'Neal! You're going to get good men killed!

I recently went back and re-read the Dark Is Rising Sequence because I loved it as a kid, and I have to say that the books don't hold up. As a kid I was too caught up in the plot to care too much, but as an adult I got the impression that Susan Cooper hadn't thought out the magic in her world very deeply. So maybe the…

Amen to Breaking Bad. That's why everyone loves it—because it never cheats. Of course, that's because the writers aren't afraid to irrevocably alter their universe. Just imagine if NBC was handling Breaking Bad. *SPOILER* Walt would still somehow be getting away with murder right under Skyler's nose in season 4…

Yeah, except for the part where Neo has karate fights with people as usual, instead of just jumping inside them and blowing them up like he does at the end of the first film. What made it even more insulting is that the Wachowskis tried to toss some half-assed explanation our way, as if that would be satisfying. "No,…

I'm not a huge fan of Patrick Rothfuss's "Kingkiller" books (aka "the protagonist is awesome at literally everything: the series"), but the magic system he sets up in those is quite intriguing and completely internally consistent. At least so far—I worry that it'll get stupid once "naming" becomes a bigger part of the…

Read the book, @avclub-0398e75c1be48a8f66c9cb1c9e6b2052:disqus . It's better. If I remember correctly, the voiceover you didn't like is more or less directly quoted from the novel. It works a lot better in print than it does on film.

He does overact, but hey, that's early-period Grant for you. Considering the movie is farce, I could forgive it, though I guess I can't fault anyone if it's not their cup of tea.

I was really excited to see more of Tarsem's films after The Fall. But after seeing the trailers for Immortals—and remembering how stupid The Cell was underneath its surface gloss—I decided that The Fall was more of a fluke than anything. The guy seems like the thinking man's Zack Snyder: great with images,…

Saturday night, I decided to watch a bunch of "Party Down" on Instant Watch for some reason. Very like to the BBC Office, though it doesn't do as good of a job of leavening the depression with humor. Don't know if I'll continue with it—I kind of need my entertainment NOT to make me want to stay in bed for the next…

The sale's over now?? NOOOOOOO

As long as it didn't outlast the interminable wedding sequences in "Rachel Getting Married," which replicated the thrillingly cinematic experience of going to a wedding for a cousin you've never met and watching a bunch of strangers flail around on the dance floor.

Don't you mean "wanton soup"?

The Newswire is great, but really, stuff like this isn't really news so much as a mild "Friday Buzzkills" post. What I'm saying is, pretty please Sean O'Neal won't you bring back the Buzzkills?

A true Randian, with his superhuman abilities honed by years of refusing to concede to mediocrity, would produce pristine copy without even having to use the 'delete' key. Only a vicious looter would resort to proofreading.

THANK YOU for this. I was fortunate enough to make friends with a girl who was a Pratchett aficionado, but before that I had absolutely no idea where to start, and even searching out internet discussion wasn't any help. My friend gave me Small Gods as my gateway, and it was indeed great, though I haven't yet gotten…

The American police and military don't exist to protect us? Ooh, that's good, tell me another one.

Moms: sometimes out of touch with latest trends! Film at 11!

No no, Lobsters is right for once. You want to read a gigantic King story about society falling apart, just read The Stand again. Under the Dome is just King giving vent to his worst excesses.

I don't even think Rennie's characterization was that great, mostly because he's an example of King's laziest (and increasingly common) writing crutch: the ultra-conservative fundamentalist villain who, surprise surprise, is also totally corrupt and insane. For him to work the way King apparently wanted him to, he had…