This also sounds like what Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles were trying to be.

Lol, even well before the TV series Martin was getting inundated by complaints by fans of his books about his books taking too long and projected publishing dates posted on his website repeatedly getting pushed back, sometimes by years.
It got so bad he decided to simply stop giving progress updates on his website or…

Kawase is one of the great directors of our time, one of a very small number of directors in the history of cinema who truly understand and know how to express the significance of nature.

Man I love me a good blindside. Go Spencer and Tasha!

Interesting—i wouldn't have put that as one. To me, Nick&Nora couples have to be established as couples, not a will-they-or-won't-they pair.

His funniest film? Surely you don't mean Madagascar 3?

The book is great but the movies are famous for a reason. It's not just
Hammett, it's Hammett (plot, characters) + Goodrich/Hackett (quips,
interplay) + Powell/Loy (delivery, chemistry) + probably Wyler
(direction). And all of those factors are present in at least the first
3 films.

Got your spoiler high enough on the comments list yet? You only repeated it about 3 times to make sure everyone knows the solution to the mystery!

Doucheyness is apparently it's own reward.

I took it to mean the daughter and her boyfriend were the ones going abroad, but i do know what you mean about wanting to see them further afield.

This is true. I just heard it referenced as a model for 'Hart to Hart,' which i wouldn't have noticed in my youth.

Oh yeah.. he stops in front of a barber shop, walks through a pool hall and into a bar. Good times!

The (lack of) musical scoring is something i always notice now. Nick pokes around in Wynant's office with Asta, in the dark, in silence for like ten minutes.

You should also complain about how the black characters are always presented as servants. I mean, as long as you want to complain.

Dowd doesn't mention it but another common attribution for the couple is Dashiell Hammett and his wife Lillian Hellman. Hammett's most autobiographical work? It was his last novel.

My favorite series. i even drag the first two out every year for the holidays, as the first is ostensibly a Christmas film and the second takes place at New Year's. So i've been celebrating New Year's 1936 since high school.

Still waiting for that trite "i will not rejoice in the death of another" MLK misquote that was so popular after Bin Laden's execution to make the rounds on my FB. Seems strangely silent at the moment, though.

I just 'flag' everything now instead of down-voting. What the hell.

This is from Comic Con 2012:
http://youtu.be/p4T00j7W-XE…

Guessing they'll skip another chance to bring Mandy back, because i guess no one else wants to see Jack vs. the ultimate bisexual assassin.