"breathlessly thrilling"
…is one of the reasons I immediately thought "this article is going to suck". And while it doesn't totally suck, I can't believe the author would put Coney Island Baby and Sally Can't Dance on a pedestal and totally ignore Street Hassle or Take No Prisoners (the latter certainly better than…

One Trick Pony (ending)
#spoiler ahead#

@ fastandsloppy - Feel free to finish the rest of the season - it's worth it.

Don't forget the Ghost Dad.

How many seasons have you seen?

Dexter, or, How Not To Develop A TV Show
I can't believe I watched the first four seasons of Dexter. It started out with a lot of promise - overracting, whatever…it's a cop show about a serial killer who's a cop alright - but then the creative team literally and figuratively lost the plot in the second season. It…

Ricockulous
Should we boycott Kubrick because he didn't direct an Asian dance-musical before he died? Should we criticize Spike Lee because he's never made a film which focused on camping in Alaska during off-season months? What compels people to criticize Woody Allen (or any filmmaker for that matter) for *not*…

Re: John Candy, I believe Wagons East was the last one he shot, whereas Canadian Bacon was the last one released (Moore, if I recall, spent a lot of time in post and/or finding a distributor for it).

Oh Sir Walter, Reilly!

@Richard Doyle: after you pay for your alleyway blowjob, could you tell me what exactly are your Canadian TV expectations based on? You write from the standpoint that "all Canadian TV is bad, so there!". To simply malign Corner Gas is pretty lame (albeit a very safe choice given the fact that most people here have…

I was introduced to Sigourney Weaver one night at a party. Having been told I work in post, she proceeded to ask me my opinions on VFX use in film, followed by explaining how they shot the ending of Alien with the man-in-the-Alien-suit. He was Tutsi. I was speechless.