I don't know if I'd say the motive is theoretical. Would you say the motive is "theoretical" in a case where the chief suspect stood to inherit millions of dollars from the victim? After all, we don't even know if the suspect likes money.

No, it's an idiom. The verb "pore" doesn't even have any meaning outside the context of the idiom.

"Pouring through"

I feel like a lot of people have brains that are burnt out or desensitized to scary things. The Babadook was terrifying.

Never.

I always see that one on Netflix. Somehow the metacritic score had scared me off, but looking now, it's not that bad. Maybe I'll give it a look over the holiday.

I've somehow managed to miss every single movie featuring Colin Farrell. I'm sure this remarkable streak will end at some point, but for now I'm enjoying the run.

Indeed. For example, a surprising number of people hold the wrong opinion that Zodiac is a good movie.

Actually, Zodiac is not a good movie.

"The kinds of circumstances where things like false confessions and false memories and the like arise usually involve much longer interrogations combined with a lot of intimidation and sleep deprivation."

The first part of his initial interview was not recorded, so we don't know what his state of mind was. And although keeping one's mouth shut often is the best strategy, very few people actually do that.

It's pretty obvious you have no clue what's going on here. Until the Daily Mail got in touch with the victim two days ago, everyone, including Wahlberg himself, thought that he had blinded the victim. It does not violate any journalistic standards to report an apparently uncontested fact as a fact because of the…

Well, essentially no one gets pardons, so this is just asking that Wahlberg be treated the same as anyone else.

But that essentially requires that Jay, at the time, was buying into Koenig's "Oh, who remembers what they were doing two weeks ago?" frame of reference.

I think it has a separate etymology from the holes in your skin.

"has spent years pouring over their experiences"

"poking a jab"

Good insight into Fincher's '90s work (I haven't seen anything of Anderson's before There Will Be Blood). Fight Club has curdled in the years since its release, but it certainly seems like he meant that and Seven more deeply than anything he's put out in his recent "adaptations" phase (and I'm sort of throwing Social…

It had a really good script. And the subject was extremely zeitgeisty. I certainly enjoyed it, but for me, it was not great.

Fair enough. I don't think he's a bad director, but he's never made a great film and shows no signs of having one in him. It's ludicrous that you have TVDW* dropping "legitimate claim to the best director of his generation" on this guy.