There are no parents in Bottle Rocket, but the precocious, over/underachieving son in Rushmore is ashamed that his father is a barber and attached himself to a steel tycoon, so there's a little of that same dynamic. Don't let that keep you away though, I still consider it his best.

The quick cuts in the Bourne movies work not because they add tension, but because they're disorienting—appropriate to a series about an amnesiac secret agent, not so conducive to the oppressive, bleak and unrelenting atmosphere that Children of Men does so well.

Yeah, the long shots in this movie don't work because they're more "realistic," they work because they're thrilling and exhausting, keeping you tense and attentive by denying you the "Pause" that a cut gives you.

Alternately,
"Steven Spielberg to Remake 'The Simpsons Movie' for TV"

Congratulations, you'll fit right in with Brooklyn four years ago! You will now be needing tortoise-shell glasses, sperry topsiders, a tweed suit, and practical familiarity with at least two obsolete professions.

John Adams got worse as it went along because each episode had to cover more and more time—the first one takes place over a couple weeks, and the finale spans the last 30 or so years of his life—it was more like a montage than a story.

……the very pants I was returning!

Isn't Kermit Cratchitt in that movie? I think you mean Michael Caine is the Peter Sellers. Is there a gritty, naturalistic Scrooge to match with Daniel Craig?

The thing I most remember about the Finney version is the terrible, terrible songs, like maybe they were being made up as they went along. The makeup was good, though.

This would make Jim Carrey the Timothy Dalton, then?

well, Ian McKellen: Evil
Christopher Plummer: Evil
Richard Harris: Dead
Patrick Stewart: Bald

but the underhanded reds will listen in on where the americans are planning to fire, and then discretely move them to an area already covered by the americans' torpedo sweeps.

You can shoot these new Lincolns
but it just makes them glitter.

The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893?

I'm also curious about the Wallace connection, from the other side. I read "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", and even when I liked what he was writing found the way he wrote it so intensely irritating that I took "Infinite Jest" off my reading list. But it's a decision I occasionally waver on, especially…

My sequence of reading Pynchon has been: Lot 49->GR->M&D->AtD->GR again->Vineland->Inherent Vice, and it's gone pretty well. It also helped that I read Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton" and McCullough's "John Adams" right before "Mason & Dixon", and got a bunch of essays and criticism from the library to accompany the…

the car is a white hearse—you can't see on so small an image, but it's covered with death/surfing puns.

Congratulations, TomWaits, I know that you and the AV Club will have a long, happy marriage.

A gentleman quoting Shakespeare does not mention the author's name.

…Sweeney Toad?