A chilling vision of things to come.

Well, McGuirk - quite like Phil Hartman's character in Newsradio - very often provided the perfect comedic exclamation point in Home Movies. But the show as a whole wouldn't have worked with him always at the center, he had to be positioned just so; so I don't quite agree that Coach McGuirk really MADE the show.

Agree with A Big Jerk. It was especially disappointing to see Brendon Small do something as grating and off-putting as Metalocalypse coming off Home Movies, one of the gentlest and funniest series of the decade.

Well
Let me be the first to grumble haughtily that I've never seen any of these.

Saw it last night
It's pretty unbearable. Jemaine's performance as Chevalier is by far the only saving grace - he gets laugh out of just about every line and inflection. But minus him, the movie isn't just not funny, it's actively unpleasant and sort of vile.

Good Hair
Not a perfect movie (there's a fair amount of material on the Bronner Hair Show that could have been cut) but I thought it was pretty damned interesting.

I stayed there last week
. . . and it very much is just another ritzy Manhattan residency at this point, albeit once with a palpable sense of live-in history.

'Too many mature trees' is always my biggest complain when I see a movie.

Really Enjoyed It
As much as I generally love the Coens, they aren't always gimme for me (Burn After Reading left me cold, and I hated Intolerable Cruelty), so this one really earned my appreciation. I found it most similar in temperament to The Man Who Wasn't There, which means some people will probably find it to…