Like six months after the trailer premiered, I still find "look at my muscles look at my muscles look at my muscles look at my muscles" popping into my head every couple weeks.

Oh, weird. I was going to post a comment saying that it seems like a lot of people don't understand the concept of this list…that it's a followup from last year's "here's what we're looking forward to in 2014" article. But now I see that the actual explanation is buried in the first entry, so I'm not going to blame…

Oh, weird. I was going to post a comment saying that it seems like a lot of people don't understand the concept of this list…that it's a followup from last year's "here's what we're looking forward to in 2014" article. But now I see that the actual explanation is buried in the first entry, so I'm not going to blame…

The scene where Ralph has to wreck Vanelope's car might be the saddest moment in the history of cinema. Yeah, I said it. The only way I got through it on a recent re-watch was imagining the scene being analyzed in Mark Cousins' halting whisper in some future edition of The Story Of Film: "The young girl…betrayed. The…

Does that collection have Amis' review of Shakespeare In Love in it? I forget the setup, but somehow he ends up seeing it with Salman Rushdie, who laughs uproariously throughout the film but then says it was terrible once it's over.

I loved Hearthstone when I played, but it led me to a really important discovery about my gaming preferences: I'm just not that into the meta-game of anything I play…putting together a deck is just close enough to work that it makes me feel like I should probably be doing something more productive with my time. That's…

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
I saw this on the big screen with my sister and a surprisingly full theater on Christmas Eve. I already posted a bunch of (mostly positive) thoughts about it on Wednesday's What's On Tonight. No man can predict the ways of Disqus, but I think if you click right here it might take you to my earlier…

[EDIT: Eh, I had something here but then I re-read it half an hour after I posted it and it came off really insufferable. Trust me, you weren't missing much.]

This show reminds me of the first Expendables film in an odd way: both are really befuddling because they're pitch-perfect examples of long-extinct genres (snippy British sitcoms / 80s action films) but you can never get a grasp on what the intent is. Are they ironic re-creations of the genre, played with incredibly…

Every single time I see that feature photo on the front page, I think that's Matthew Broderick in (slightly) older man makeup.

Hey, iTunes…if I buy the Doctor Who Christmas Special, can you guess when I'd like to watch it?

Just got back from seeing It's A Wonderful Life on the big screen. I'm reminded again how everyone, including myself, always forgets that what we think of as It's A Wonderful Life isn't actually that prominent a part of the film. It's like a 110-minute biopic of a small town businessman with a 12-minute supernatural…

Heh. He got it from the Sony hack, where else?

I love that, of all the things going on at Sony right now, they still somehow still found the time to greenlight this.

"Tentatively titled Living On Video"

I haven't seen A Million Ways To Die In The West (though I don't doubt it was as terrible as everyone said it was) and I can't stand MacFarlane but I found the first trailer to be pretty hilarious, and it got a pretty good reception here as well if I remember right.

I wonder if there's a "false advertising" aspect to not including original material in trailers, in that it could be argued that the trailer is an advertisement for the film and should only feature material that will be present in the film. I'm not a lawyer or anything, I just wonder if that's why it's not done more.

I think the original Oscar Wao novella (which I think is still available on the New Yorker's site) is superior to the full novel. It's much more focused and one of my favorite pieces of fiction.

I posted this up above, but if you haven't read this New Yorker article about Kyle, I highly recommend it.

If a Chris Kyle movie had to be made, I really wish it had been based on this New Yorker article instead of his autobiography.