I prefer Mancow getting waterboarded.

I cannot for the life of me convince anyone that Stuck On You is really funny.

Here is my beautiful house and lovely friends who come over to drink and read Shakespease, oh, and now we're filming it - FUCK YOU WHEDON  :)

And trapeze artists!  (I have done some trapeze and that made me really want to start up again and do it from Joss Whedon's backyard tree).

I have to be honest - the last two books of the Deptford Trilogy were a huge let-down to me.  I read Fifth Business and was so looking forward to the next two, but the just seemed like a bunch of 70s psychobabble to me (sorry!).

Your restraint in not calling him a googly-eyed freak is commendable.

True story:  I once stood next to Jason Isbell at a concert in Atlanta.  That's all I've got.

I felt the same about Arbitrage, that it was not bad but kind of a let-down.  I think one thing that occurred to me later is that it seemed like such a dated race-related premise, that the guy who helped out Gere was the troubled-but-trying-to-turn-his-life-around kid of Gere's former driver.  Maybe I'm being too…

I just adored Whedon's Much Ado.  Plus, I now have major house envy!

I also saw A Hijacking and agree 100%.  I can't stop trying to find more things to read about it - it seems they worked very closely with shipping groups that have had to deal with hijackers, and they's leave the actors in Denmark in the room for hours on end waiting for the call to come.  The guy that played Connor…

I ended up watching the very last film on a plane recently because I had been glancing at another seat playing it and Sheen's crazy face kept popping up and I eventually decided I had to see it in full.  Sheen is seriously bat-shit over the top in that film. 

I just saw A Hijacking and then in reading about that kept seeing this show come up.  I couldn't think of where I knew that name from, and here it is!

@avclub-c156902f5b20b572848be18c11634dfb:disqus He killed a mother and daughter, plus an exchange student visiting with them, all at a lodge where he was working as a handyman, and then killed a park ranger.  He was apparently messed up even before Steven was abducted, but that had to have had a huge impact in any…

oh man.  Aside from that being a crazy awful story in its own right, it continues to get worse - Steven dies in a motorcycle accident and his brother Cary was the Yosemite killer.

I didn't really notice that so much.  It's not like the Blair Witch Project or Greengrass' Bourne movies.  I think they used it somewhat in the boat, which lended a lot to the claustrophobia of the boat scenes.  Don't let it put you off seeing this.

I finally got to see it tonight and boy was it good.  I thought it played all sides of the negotiations quite well.  I can envision a different film making a villain of Peter, the CEO of the company that owns the boat and is negotiating a lower ransom, but this film shows how it actually makes sense not to just hand…

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@avclub-4288189d41c50e393c6e4f6a493f2d9e:disqus I love that book!  Luckily I read after I discovered that horses are completely optional in sex.

Just like Dana!   Arrrrrrrrgh!!

When I was about 12 my friend and I discovered her parent's porn stash.  There was a magazine that featured a lot of orgy scenes and one with a horse, and I was kind of like "oh my God - horses are involved?!?!?!" and was turned off from sex for a loooong time.