Big-screen adaptation of TNG's "Lower Decks," written and directed by Whit Stillman.

Watching TRAINSPOTTING with my 18-year-old nephew last weekend:

The first movie is the cheapest-looking major motion picture I've ever seen. It looks like a USA Network pilot. Like I wouldn't be surprised if we found out that the cast and crew conspired to spend $5M on the movie itself and then split the rest.

My favorite moment in any Christmas song is in, uh, The Christmas Song (aka Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire). It's the "everybody knows" bit of the line "Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe…"

I was going to mention this in one of the year-end threads, but it probably works best here: the quality of conversation on this site has markedly improved in the last year or so.

Ignatiy, I applaud your masterful use of ambiguity in the phrase "2.5 hours of […] CGI disasters."

Did the original PSH-starring pilot for this actually get shot? Wikipedia claims that John Cameron Mitchell (of Hedwig fame) directed it, but there's so little information out there about the show, including no Wikipedia entry and a laughably thin IMDB post, that I find it hard to believe they had a cast and crew in…

I love Joel to death, but a group of his friends need to sit him down and gently explain to him that they know he means well, but that nobody, nobody!, wants to hear what celebrity you think they look like.

Probably won't be as interesting as when "Frank Sinatra" covered The Pixies.

I just finished Ancillary Sword, the followup to Ann Leskie's Ancillary Justice, which won every major science fiction award and then some last year.

This is really cool, though: at some crosswalks in Germany, you can play a game of Pong with a stranger across the street while waiting for the light to change. Link to video

Ha ha you dumb Nazis, you coulda had video games but you ran good guys like this one out of town and now you ain't got squat. Hit the bricks, you dunces! Nobody wants to hear your master race nonsense.

I think that Kubrick's place in cinema history is remarkably overstated, that pseudo-intellectual Kubrick fans are the worst kind of film buff, that 2001 is incredibly dated in the way that it confuses "baffling and psychedelic" with "deep and philosophical"…

Yeah, I looked through Rosenbaum's list and the NY Times list, and TSPDT resonated with me the most.

I'm going through a list of 1000 movies, too. Which one are you using? I'm doing the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They meta-list.

I've always really loved "Thank You" from a really young Bonnie Raitt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJFDHRPE94

One unacknowledged reason for the decline of these shows, though, had nothing to do with reality show trends or shifting cultural tides. It was the rise of high-definition television.

That was a really vague (in a good way) FJ; there was very little there to grab onto and make an educated guess. "Fantasy" got me stuck thinking of LOTR and GoT.

Okay, I'll give it a shot I guess. But I'm telling you right now: the first time the show makes a "nuclear Winter" joke on the main character's name, I'm out of here.

Sweet, I'll start with The Deep Blue Goodbye. Thanks for taking the time to respond; sorry I didn't reply sooner…Disqus waited until this evening to notify me.