Just watched the movie again this past week. While it is not the Miami Vice most people remember (a bright, pastel-filled, Jan Hammer-soundtracked world), it is the Miami Vice that fans like me remember. When the movie came out, I was amazed at people who hated it for being too dark and not like the show. When I would…

"I'm a Buddhist. In case of an emergency call a Lama."

From what I've read about the making of Godfather III, Paramount was going to make a sequel with or without Coppola and Puzo and one of the initial ideas was to have Sylvester Stallone and John Travolta star in it, making it more action oriented. It's a minor miracle the final movie is nowhere near as awful as it…

Pretty sure Brick was only allowed to say "tobacco" and not "alcohol" or - especially - "firearms".  ABC's legal division & PR department would have been working overtime this morning, issuing apologies and making statements about the dangers of underage drinking and how Brick's line was not belittling school…

I was hoping he'd meet Anton Chigurh waiting in his car when he left the theater. In my mind, he did.

Watched the Indiana Jones-esque The Adventures of Tintin which was everything Indy IV was not: fun, exciting, inventive, and with a real sense of adventure. It was also the the first mo-cap movie where I wasn't distracted by the mo-cap.

Even the poster for this movie was just pure 80's awful/awesome as the movie itself:

Picked up and started reading Top Gear's Richard Hammond's biography, "On the Edge: My Story" about his 2006 near-fatal car crash and recovery.

So, in a way, it will be like a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, right?

I'm torn. On the one hand, this show is even worse than Idol. It could care less that it's completely engineered from the get-go and it continues to perpetuate the idea that attitude trumps talent. However, it is kinda of nice to see schmucks like Xander cry like a baby when diva dreams were shattered.

Regarding the laugh ratio between The Middle and Modern Family: There was a review for "Used Cars" that said (paraphrasing) while it has half as many laughs as "Airplane", you will laugh twice as hard. While I love the sheer amount of jokes - good and bad - on Modern Family, it's the ones on The Middle that end up…

Looking forward to this. Hazanavicius has really proven to be quite the master of recreating the look of film from different eras. The OSS 117 movies look and feel just like movies from both the early 60's ("Cairo, Nest of Spies") and late 60's ("Lost in Rio").