12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing are both, in the conventional sense, more successful movies than Brazil. But Brazil is still a pure masterpiece.

Real Genius
Is such a great movie.

I think once you've taken a good look at the forest, which this show already has, it's not a bad idea to go up close and explore the merits of individual trees in a more detailed way.

Missed you last week.
Now you are back! Wheeee!

I seem to remember this site hating duplicity…

That was the first thing I checked too.

Rolling Stone in general has awful reviews. They're just embarrassingly non-discriminating. The thing about being a good critic is you have to hate it when people make art that is shit. Ebert hates it. The AVClub hates it. Rolling Stone gives it a good review anyway because they think someone somewhere might like it…

Eau Claire has a big Hmong community. There was an incident a couple of years ago where a Hmong hunter was given grief by a buncha red necks so he shot them up. So yeah, there's some tensions.

I like to say things are best when I don't actually mean that. But yeah, it's really good.

A true story about A Christmas Story
So I'm British, but I live in Eau Claire, Wisconsin where I'm married to a math professor. I have never seen A Christmas Story. The math department is recruiting, and when universities recruit professors they have these day-long interviews that are about 50% formal interviews and…

Infinite Jest
Doesn't get a better late than never?

I loved the suit.

The skitching wikipedia article is broken in that it doesn't mention the Christian Slater vehicle "Gleaming the Cube"

I saw this in the theater
I was 9. I remember liking it. I also remember almost nothing of what you describe above. This is partly because I am English with vegetarian parents and had never encountered McDonalds or CocaCola and so wouldn't have recognized Ronald McDonald. I do remember the bubble at the end.

More Ana Marie Cox
At the avclub, please.

Also cried during the final scene.

A single short coming
In any otherwise perfect episode, I found the jump to the committee hearing somewhat poorly worked out. One moment echo and Alexis are talk, Topher is in Glau's office with her knocked out, and the next Topher is back in LA and Alexis is evil. It felt like there was a transitional scene or two…

I'd like to see them make more of her character than that-which-Ballard-must-save though.

Yeah, although I thought the grabbing by the balls thing was a little cliche.

Apparently you didn't see this weeks episode of Friday Night Lights. But yes, Dollhouse was superb.