Pacino's performance as Satan was "the hammiest of his career"?  I completely disagree.  I think it's one of his better performances, and it's hard to imagine another actor who could have pulled it off as well.  He's quiet and restrained when he needs to be— I'm thinking, for example, of the wonderful "Maybe it's just…

Look at it this way, Angry Black Man— there are a thousand and one web sites which review movies, but very few (arguably none) which provide intelligent coverage of TV shows.  Where else are you going to discuss Game of Thrones?

Your comment reminds me of a news story from a while back.  Near the end of their career, the Beastie Boys tried to organize a music festival without doing business with any Chinese companies— because they were horrified by China's human rights abuses.  In the end, they had to compromise… because it just wasn't…

"A last-minute request that she graciously obliged?"  Fuck you.  The phrase "graciously obliged" doesn't apply when you are getting paid an amount of money which exceeds most people's lifetime earnings.

The matchup of Kevin Spacey and Parker Posey, as Luthor and his girlfriend, was inspired.  Before the movie came out, Posey told an interviewer that she and Spacey were going for a "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", marriage-gone-sour vibe.

OK, so a 40-year-old female writes in to say that she is having problems with her sex drive post hysterectomy… and the response is, "It may be a good idea to consult a specialist in sexual health"?

I wonder why people seem to dislike Small Town Romance?  Apparently RT doesn't like it either— he "persuaded" his record company to let it go out of print for a while, according to Wikipedia.

Martin Freeman was great in the British version of the Office, OK as Arthur Dent (although not as funny as Simon Jones), and seems pretty good as Bilbo.  The problem is that all of these roles have been variations on the same character— the likeable, mild-mannered everyman who is thrust into absurd situations and is…

There's a truly horrible Pretenders song called "My Baby", which includes the line "I see you dancing, a natural beauty".  It always calls up an unfortunate image of the little dude from Simple Minds dancing.  (The song also takes the prize for Most Gratuitous and Self-Aggrandizing Use of Mixed-In Audience Noise ever……

I heard this song many years ago, when I was still a teenager… and I remember feeling that it was difficult to sympathize or care about a protagonist who was such a complete cipher.  The main theme of the song seemed to be that she was an empty conformist with no real desires or passions of her own.  Of course, things…

@Super Nintendo Chalmers: Martin Amis did that once, wrote himself into a novel (London Fields) as a character— although he did it more in a more self-effacing way than I imagine Clive Cussler would do it.  Anyway, when Martin's dad (the late great Kingsley Amis) got to that part of the book, he was reportedly so…

(Actually wanted to reply to Dan Tacos but disqus won't let me, what's up with that?)

I gotta say that on paper, Hansel and Gretel sounds like one of the greatest dumb movies ever made.   Mostly due to the presence of Famke Jannsen.

Ha, that takes me back.  I remember I did the same thing on the Apple II (and I see about 12 replies from those who did likewise).

They're building a different school?  Why?  Was the building itself somehow the problem?  Sounds like a very expensive bit of magical thinking.  (Not saying that I disagree with the rest of your post.)

No one's going to mention Michael Keaton as Batman?

No one's going to mention Michael Keaton as Batman?

Well Zevon always had a ton of guests on his albums, didn't he?  And the ones on "The Wind" are mostly pretty unobtrusive, Don Henley sitting in on drums or whatever.   The only one which really sticks out as "hey, it's a famous guest" is Bruce Springsteen.

Well Zevon always had a ton of guests on his albums, didn't he?  And the ones on "The Wind" are mostly pretty unobtrusive, Don Henley sitting in on drums or whatever.   The only one which really sticks out as "hey, it's a famous guest" is Bruce Springsteen.

teadoust: I'm not excusing what Richards did, and I think you are correct that he was motivated by racism.  I said as much in my post, so I don't see why you need to frame this as a disagreement.