It's super-geeky, but I love the dialogue in Deadwood so much I made audio mp3s of the episodes to listen to on my ipod.

That's probably my favorite line from anything, ever.

That sounds like a really amazing experience.

Continued my way through a stretch of Mad Men Season 5 in an attempt to catch up to real-time: Far Away Places, At the Codfish Ball, Lady Lazarus, Dark Shadows. So good. The middle of S5 is shaping up to be my favorite stretch of episodes since Season 3. (Which I know I'm apparently in the minority for really liking,…

I had a very similar reaction to "Oh My God", and this is  coming from someone who has been a fan since his very first half-hour Comedy Central Presents. I think he may be overexposing himself; between the narrative parts on Louie, and the stand-up bits and pieces, and the occasional email I get from him…

Liked for umlaut placement.

That is exactly why I cancelled my Netflix account over a year ago. I got really sick of them playing video roulette with what was available to stream. Being charged a monthly fee for access to an indeterminate mess of content that they could pull or change at any time started to feel like a rip-off. (And all the…

I love The Prisoner's finale, and it still amazes me to this day that something that bizarre actually did air on American television in 1968, even if no one was watching.  The times they were a-changin', indeed.

Even though it ended too soon, I really like the note that show ended on (which of course, happened because they didn't know for sure it was the end, at first) - more like "new beginnings" than an ending. And "Ripple" was a perfect song to play it out with:

Great call on both of those. I felt the same way about Lost in Translation, not wanting to leave those characters. It's rare thing when a movie can make you feel that, like these are actual people you don't want to say goodbye to.

Watching the rest of that season could feel very anti-climactic if you've avoided all this time, but I think there's enough good stuff in it if you're a fan of the show. At the very least, you should check out the Flowers for Smatthew episode.

Billy Bob's story about what happened to him on the bus was great.

"The Last Run" with George C. Scott is another Sharp-scripted film that's pretty good, it's out as a Warner Archives DVD-R. It has a similar existential viewpoint as Night Moves, if I recall, just not executed as well. But George C. Scott is really well-suited to the material.

The A.V. Club should stop wasting its time with these weekly themes and devote the "Watch This!" feature solely to Gene Hackman films.

In retrospect, The Rock in all it's relative, um, "modesty" actually does seem like Michael Bay's arthouse film compared to the rest of his filmography, doesn't it?

Very cool to think it could be the influence of hanging around the Green/Hill/McBride gang that got him back doing good stuff again. (As they have good taste in movies and a range of highbrow/lowbrow influences.)

Everybody loves that line. That's why they call it line!

It means 1) he has great taste in movies 2) great taste in movie posters 3) Has a large amount disposable income and 4) I'm jealous.

I find it too ironic that people who can't afford to pay for their own Netflix account wouldn't just use torrents. Is there really that much moral difference between "stealing" downloads and "borrowing" a Netflix account? If you're going to Not Pay for Entertainment, you should go with the option with the best…

A thousand times yes.