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Interesting that you say the movie makes Will sympathetic. I had the exact opposite reaction. For a movie about some sort of natural "ultra-genius", the film had a deeply anti-intellectual tone, or at least anti-academia. It seemed to portray university students and faculty as beneath contempt.

Oh come on
Does that mean the AV club will be padding its content for the next 10 days with links to good-to-awful-films in a crappy embedded viewer that nobody outside of the good ol' USA can view?

Yes, I read it (and liked it). There are actually two moments in the book that cause you to rethink everything that's been going on. Sure, it's a little manipulative, but also atmospheric and fun. Plus, this is Dennis Lehane we are talking about, the guy has a sterling track record.

The good thing about 3 (and even more so, 4) is that they don't rely on the tired "obsessed tragic villain with superweapon threatens planet, Enterprise only ship that can stop him, big space battle at end" plot that has became the one and only template with recent Trek films. Well, I suppose Doc Brown was trying to…

I was not a big fan of The Prisoner's final episode. This had less to do with expecting big answers (I would have been happy leaving things ambiguous) and more to do with the overly psychedelic, metaphor-becomes-literal tone of it. It went from a mysterious series with fantastic elements, to pure fantasy.

Speaking of Whedon/BSG crossovers…
Oswalt guest starred on Whedon's Dollhouse (one of the mid-season episodes where the series finally began to show some promise). So it's a double crossover!

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Jeez, I thought that was Ron Pearlman! Which would be cool enough, but Tom Waits is even better…

Okay, you obviously know what you're doing… :) Keep up the good work (and have fun at TIFF).

Replying to my own comment…I can see now you are trying to match up the Buffy seasons with the Angel ones. But, frankly, there is no burning need to do that. There are one or two crossover episodes, but for the most part the shows are quite independent of each other. It's not really worth the joint reviews, certainly…

Angel deserves its own AV Club entry
I really enjoy reading these reviews, thanks for doing them, and I'm glad you are covering Angel as well. It seems a little unfortunate, though, that the Angel reviews are quickies tacked onto the end of the Buffy reviews.

I was rather unimpressed with the recent Futurama movies, so my enthusiasm for the new series was not overwhelming to begin with (though I did hope a return to episode-length shows might help). Then, hearing they were cutting the budget for the show reduced my enthusiasm even further.

The original is an ugly, ugly movie. Good actors, yes, interesting director, no doubt, but it's really hard to sit through. It's one of those movies where you may be able to admire the craftsmanship, but that doesn't mean it should have gotten made.

The article linked to below is about Mulholland Drive, not Lost Highway, but it's a great behind the scenes look at Lynch's problems when he tried to get MD made as a TV series. This was published before it was re-cut and turned into a theatrical film. A fascinating look at Lynch, how he works, and the enormous…

TomWaits for Snowman has some great comments up above about how to interpret Lynch.

Orangecrush, you just made me a sad, sad man.

Chris was a little bit smug and preachy (having recently re-watched some of Northern Exposure), but was still a fun character. Seeing Corbett reduced to playing the bland romantic interest in this film (and isn't this his second pairing with Vardalos?) and Sex and the City is sad, but a man's got to eat.

@ danrimage "I just have a problem with him being mentioned next to Scorcese or Kubrick when he's very much a Stone or a (Ridley) Scott."

I'm wondering if the people who are downplaying Mann have actually watched his movies. Did someone really compare him to Ron Howard??? Go back to watching Transformers.