Yeah, he had a resemblance to Hodgman, especially his voice. When I was trying to figure him out, I thought he was in "Mad Men" as well.

Wow, this is sad. When I watched "The Master" I couldn't place him, but during the whole scene it bothered me that he looked and sounded so familiar. Thing is, I hadn't seen him before (and I've only seen "Lincoln" among the rest of his work so far) but I think that sense of familiarity came from the way his…

I wasn't sure how familiar or fluent in Spanish you were, so I just threw those titles at you. Believe me, if you were even more fluent I'd recommend classic songs that had nothing to do with this drug stuff. I think we need a music website of Spanish songs with great English translations done by professionals.

You're welcome! And like most artistic things in Mexico, there is a lot of rich and unexplored history (outside of the country that is) so obviously I didn't expect people to be familiar with it. We need a bunch of Primer articles or better blogs and websites for that.

I look forward to it. Esposito is awesome, Brown is a fascinating character and Harris is pretty good at playing firebrand warriors (see "Walker"). Although I was looking forward to Tarantino's biopic.

Most of the drugs harvested and sold by the Cartels go to the States. Legalization and de-criminalization are needed in the US. Certain regions of Mexico get the brunt mostly because they are the home base and because of splintered factions duking it out like maniacs.

Most governments have been (and still are) in cahoots with different cartels. Only the allegiances change. The out of control cartels that make it in the news (Juárez, los Zetas, the former Familia in Michoacán) are the embattled ones, while the cartels of Sinaloa and Tijuana have had behind the scenes pacts with Peña…

Sure, it created "a culture", but Mexico already has several different cultural manifestations before narco-culture somehow (and unfortunately) became the most well-known and interesting for people outside of the country. Inside Mexico, most people deride it. Back before this ridiculous drug war, narco-ballads was…

This new wave of the narco-corrido is very different from the original manfiestations of the genre. The narco-corrido became a powerful genre starting from the 70's, but it was like old-school ballads and gangsta rap in the sense that most of them were just chronicles of real life events and people or narrative…

Sometimes I wonder whether the resistance to hot and spicy food compared to other countries that don't have it is due to genetics or developing a resistance to it. I honestly don't know. I'd love to have children with fireproof digestive systems like mine.

One of the biggest disappointments in my younger years as a movie geek was the revelation of Blofeld…as Donald Pleasance with a scar. Now, mind you, Pleasance is terrific and one of my favorite actors now, but that's not the Blofeld I expected from the previous movies where he is faceless. He had gray hair and a suit.…

I had a great movie experience in High School. Besides the movies shown as part of the curriculum for all the English classes (Luhrman's "Romeo and Juliet", Branagh's "Hamlet", the Charlton Heston-starring "Julius Caesar", "In Love and War—a young Hemingway biopic with Chris O'Donell and Sandra Bullock—"Tom and…

Orlok's rat and corpse-like appearance owes more to traditional Eastern European folklore than Stoker's (or many of the Western European writers like Polidori). Stoker's Dracula is an aristocratic older gentleman with a thick mustache and hairy palms who grows young every time he gets his drinking on. His brides are…

I go back and forth on FFC's "Dracula". I think that it is the closest adaptation of Stoker's novel (the movie includes all three of Lucy's suitors, who are usually taken out or compressed into one or two characters). I do think it is very creepy and unnerving in a bizarre, nightmarish way that many other horror…

I love the Halloween series, and I don't care to admit that I really enjoy the hell out of 4 and 5. I like the Jamie Lloyd arc (until "Curse", that is) and there are so many thrilling moments in the movies that get me every time. I don't like intense horror movies, but 4 and 5 manage to be really fun for me. I like…

I am a big Martin fan, but I do think he exaggerates. In ASOIAF and BB there are characters with different levels and kinds of morality, heroism and villainy, just like real life. There are more psychotic or brutal villains in each series's that surpass Walter White in "evilness" or "justification"…Walter is still a…

Polk is one of the worst presidents you ever had. I agree that it's too bad he is not remembered…people should know what a war-mongering P.O.S. he was.

Sam Neill or GTFO.

Big Red…No, actually I'm OK with with this.

Something that boggles my mind and makes no sense: this crappy band has a really crappy song and video on Youtube that has garnered more than 74 million hits and always shows up as a "suggested" video. I checked it out once to see what the deal was about and couldn't believe it had so many plays. It wasn't even…