And yesterday on my phone, I watched "The President's Last Bang", a completely bonkers 2005 Korean film about the assassination of President Park Chung Hee in 1979. What made it so bizarre was that it was apparently a spur-of-the-moment decision by the Korean CIA boss to kill Park, after Park and his buddy pissed the…

I'm at work. Can't really get away with watching it on my monitor.

I'm watching "Ida" on my phone right now, and man, it is just the apotheosis of the European Oscar Bait art film. Black and white, a lot of dour Communists frowning, the Holocaust, etc.

Newman does knock it out of the park, though.

That was a revelation to me. They kept that rack well hidden in Zero Dark Thirty.

These are Troy McClure projects, aren't they?

You are incorrect. "Hank's Unmentionable Problem" is the best episode of "King of the Hill" ever made. "Ode to Joy" playing after Hank finally poops—priceless.

The Revolution chapter in "The March of Folly" by Barbara Tuchman is a pretty good break down on how pigheaded and self-defeating the British policy in the colonies was. All they would have had to do is give us a few seats in Parliament and they could have cut the Sons of Liberty off at the knees.

Home is the place that, when you go there, you can take off your pants.—Robert Frost

Well, those people are morons.

It's Kelly Brook. I'd do it.

Why do AV Club writers have to be so stupid? Copy editing and fact checking really have gone down the shitter here.

Set a series record for "Cheers", which is running on the Hallmark Channel. It is finally about to wrap around to the pilot next week. I've been deleting every episode while waiting for the pilot, but this morning I had to watch the last "Bar Wars" episode where Harry Anderson pops back up and helps Sam get final…

Watched "The Verdict". Great movie, hell of a performance by Paul Newman. And it was funny to see Bruce Willis as a random spectator in the court. But even a layman like me could figure out that the legal rulings at the climax were nonsense. Could not fathom how the judge not only managed to rule out the copy of…

You don't "see" the Hound die in the books either, and it's vaguely implied that he might still be alive and in hiding.

I had issues with the ending to "Bullitt". For a badass supercop, Bullitt sure does completely fuck up apprehending that dude at the airport. Still don't know how you can have a guy trapped on a plane, which is about as trapped as trapped can be, and allow him to escape back to the terminal, thus precipitating a…

From what I understood the problem with Dujardin doing more stuff over here was that he isn't fluent in English.

Hello from 2015! Great movie.

I think we are supposed to think that, as the narrator has gone quite mad. Works for me.

Apparently the Spanish found the Great Plains quite disorienting. Featureless flatness for miles and miles and miles like nothing they'd ever seen anywhere.