I was no spring chicken by the time Crouching Tiger and Hero came out, but watching them made me feel like a giddy child. Not for the action, which was well-staged, but because I knew I was watch visual poetry. The movies live, for me, in the quiet moments rather than the frenetic ones - the moments where the martial…

Why should he? Everybody knew who Trump was DECADES before he ran for office. Neither Fallon nor SNL, whose hypocrisy in profiting off of anti-Trump sentiment since they had him on is astounding, should have those asterisks wiped off their records. They should be hoping that what they've done since will ameliorate…

It was a bad and cheap joke.

If nothing else, this show has taught me that I have a type, and that type is Briga Heelan.

Charles Hurt of the Washington Times wrote a rebuttal to this clip that made me physically ill after reading it.

One of my favorite lines in literature. Seriously.

As I recall, he wrote the script (and several of the songs) on a flight in between his home and one of his movie shoots. That he ever got it produced was something of a fluke. I also love this movie because it is absolutely rife with easter eggs from Apollo 13.

That would be Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters - Lenny Haise's favorite band.

"I Need You (That Thing You Do!)," the song that plays over the end credits, isn't that bad either.

She had just recently started nursing her newborn before taking the role, which explains why that dress she wore looked ready to explode from the strain.

That was swingin', babe!

Fitting this shows up on the day Jonathan Demme died - he played the "Major Motion Picture Director" of Weekend at Party Pier in That Thing You Do!.

Also - Boyle's Chip Rockets backstory, and the fact that Hitchcock and Scully both have their pistols ready while taking parallel dumps.

Shoutout to B99 including Jake's wipeout on the BMX bike as a callback to "Hot Rod."

Scott Baio - another sad has-been who is resorting to being a public asshole in a desperate last reach for relevance.

My theory: they're establishing continuity for when Kristen Wiig's character shows up, says hi, and then abruptly gets killed by a falling satellite.

Larry asks if he's mentioned that he has an extra testicle.

It would certainly help retcon the prequels into something resembling a greater importance. But it's not like there weren't hints of it in the original trilogy, either.

More like that Internet video meme of the German guy jumping onto a frozen pool: "Motherfucker! Fuck the fucking world, and my new band is called LUKE-KILL!"

What excited me most was Luke's line about the Jedi needing to end. To me it seems like the franchise has taken pains to show that the Jedi Knights are not the saintly heroes they were hyped to be in the original movie. Machinations, manipulations, etc., and Luke may be feeling that all of the misery in his life is…