I'd rather see Singer have another go at it than Nolan spewing forth something else. "Returns" had moments, albeit few and far between, of what the new Supes franchise could've been, but it was boggled down by a too deep reverence for the Donner original and the Lester sequel.

Disagreed.

I'm Enjoying It
I'm having a lot of fun with this one, though I kinda miss the overt goofiness from "Red Dead Revolver," i.e. the Pig-guy with all the Dynamite and the part where you fight the undead little people. But I guess that one, "…Revolver" had more to do with a Leone spaghetti-Western while this one is more…

About one in four people have a PFO, which for the most part go undetected until SOMETHING HAPPENS. Doctors can like patch it up if they feel it's necessary or imperative, but most people just go on with them like nothing. I have one of these, as well as two of the teachers I work with, and I'm sure a lot of people…

Or the new Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

Bob's Burgers
Green lit to help offset the monopoly that Seth McFarlane is having on FOX. And thank God.

All Right
This comes out. This. And still no word on the "Pushing Daisies" comic? Actually, I think "True Blood" is O.K., but c'mon!

With John Huston
It was as if they could do no wrong. "The Maltese Falcon" still stands as one of the best hard-boiled films out there (far better than "The Big Sleep", though that adaptation was strong, even if I sort of hated that book) and "The Treasure of the Sierre Madre" is so excellent. (Totally a precursor…

D. C. Pierson
D. C. Pierson, one those DERRICK Comedy guys, was hosting this, essentially standup act, where he talked about his cameo in this movie, as a kid in a bear suit. Within the course of the monologue, he said the director had less involvement in what was going on than Bret Ratner does on his movies and he…

John Crowley
John Crowley heavily featured Dee in his "AEgypt Cycle," in some of the most breathtaking moments of those series — and the ones were the magicial displays were the most evident. Regardless of the liberties Mr. Crowley took (including a wizard battle between Dee and this other guy I can't remember), if I…

Of course you couldn't really take the opinions of Pauline Kael as the be-all-end-all of film criticism, seeing as she was often wrong or prejudiced against the film. The fun of reading Kael's reviews lies in reading Kael's prose, that over-the-top, hyperpolic, unapologetically subjective prose erring on the side of…

That One Line…
"Didn't anyone stop to think, maybe WE are the aliens."

It's kind of the case that went with "Tree of Smoke" from Denis Johnson. He, too, hit on most of the main points of Vietnam fiction, but there was a certain dreaminess and haze and sad, tragic fuck-up characteristic that made it fascinating (if not always good).

The book really is a wonderful creation, and yes, when I heard Scorsese, with his unprecedented knowledge of film, was planning on doing this, I was stoked.

Should Go For…
The club should try out Oakley Hall's "Warlock," an epic Western which is essentially about the OK Corral. If "Blood Meridian" is "3:10 to Yuma," situated and focused on these few characters, the great expanse of the West something unspoken, then "Warlock" is "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (or any…

Lazy Criticism
Isn't this —

The only way to salvage this movie might be to start a new promotional campaign where Tracy Morgan reads aloud Smith's Twitter whinings. It'll be like Shatner reading the Sarah Palin tweets on "The Tonight Show," except maybe a little more mental.

This always seemed to me like one of those movies Tracy Jordan has done. Akin to "Jefferson" in its way.

No, this isn't that great of a review. The book is pretty good, about mid-tier DeLillo, I'd say, par with "Falling Man" (which was tedious confusion for a while then this just stunning conclusion), yet way above "Cosmopolis," which is probably the most awful thing he's written; a reminder of how great he was with…

The prologue of "Underworld" may be among the best things DeLillo has ever written. For the rest of the book . . . I actually find myself agreeing with Harold Bloom on this one (!): it takes a little too long for the book to do what it's doing, but it's really a great example of what DeLillo does best.