So we all just take it as a fucking given that smartphones are "so beautiful and life changing?" My God, if it weren't for this man we wouldn't all have our heads up our asses playing Bejeweled Blitz as time and tide blithely pass us by. Shudder to think! The guy made billions exploiting a pathetic flaw in human…

The AV club (where I am reading this) gave this piece of shit a B-. Have to take your word about the last 3 episodes, as I was done 12 minutes into the first. Squandering Martin Short is like a show biz mortal sin.

Guy was in "You Can Count On Me." Call him back and ask him about that, please.

whoever that dude is, he loves EVERYTHING. you can sometimes even tell a show is shit from his effusive praise (his love letter to "Ballers" leaps to mind). I wonder if it's better to have some soft touch so as not to offend any future potential guests.

Every Radiolab has about four minutes of an interesting thought or piece of information, and 52 minutes of the two hosts trying to get it through their thick skulls. Take a sip of beer every time Krulwich asks "are you telling me…?" in response to some direct statement of simple fact and you'll win up in an ER.

Regarding Elvis C., "Almost Blue" appears on "Imperial Bedroom," an album which also orphans its title song. Not an awesome tune. "Figure 8" which kind of an awesome (schoolhouse rock cover) song, doesn't make Elliott's, "Figure 8."

yes, I too, could not help but miss Tak Fujimoto's camerawork. Indeed, my inability to not miss this ruined the movie. But what could I do? I could not help but miss it. WWTD? I kept thinking. I could not help it.

It will be of interest to no one that the novelist and screenwriter Richard Price wrote two noir reboots, "Night and the City" and "Kiss of death" that originally BOTH starred Richard Widmark. Further fun fact: Neither was particularly good.

I want to get the lawyer Josh Gad got when I make my eternal pact with Satan.

He actually made a conscious decision to be clean, and used to do some pretty blue material. "Something about a man with a beard that tickles my ass." An extended bit on a gay superman leaps to mind. probably wouldn't fly, so to speak, now, but it was gentle.

I think it'd be really cool and worthwhile if you could do some kind of feature on, "The Guardian." The idea that that show was even allowed to exist, given how subtle and grown up it was. I can still recall the wonderful, very disorienting feeling of being surprised by how a t.v. show unfolds. So yes, if racking…

In the movie—this is really nerdy—you can, if you listen, hear Nicholson type, "All Words and No Play Make Jack A Dull Boy." Actually, that would be next to impossible, but it's ten words, spaced out accordingly.

This smells of disaster. And I dug whiplash and completely agree about Simmons' excellence. Not even basing this on the fact I have had just about enough of Emma Stone for two lifetimes. Maybe i'm just in a lousy mood. But no, I think I'm in a good mood. Musicals with A-listers who feel sure they can carry a tune is…

I like the indie snob distinction regarding the superiority of "Early 'Teen Wolf.' " Later on this beyond unnecessary reboot of a pisspoor Michael J. Fox movie just totally sold out, man. I will say I am delighted you came down on this new bit of cynicism incarnate with both feet.

Johnny Depp's fall from grace a lot shorter than you're making it out to be. Heir to Brando? The guy from "Secret Window?" Who made gems like "Nick of Time" in what you consider to be the prime of his unstoppable career. This dude and his "talent" were fugitives from reality. Reality caught up. Slop like "Mortdecai"…

Designated Mourner's pretty awesome. There's a movie of it (that's 3 people just sitting there) that' does it justice, but can be challenging viewing, if you like movies where people stand and move.

Fun fact: My Dinner with Andre was shot in Virginia. So thousands of pilgrim tourists may be disappointed if they go to Cafe Des Artistes. I didn't know until today that's where it was supposed to take place, though. No wonder Wally was freaked out about money.

Yeah, but none of the movie takes place in Brooklyn, it takes place wherever they went to college. The location vagueness extends to the airport, as well. Grover plans to move to Park Slope, and never gets around to it. At least in the course of the movie. I'm sure Prague is still thousands of miles away.

The aptly named "Superbad" sucks. "Dazed and Confused" pretty good.

Clearly you didn't see "Freedomland." I don't use the word, "godawful' very often….