You may be confused because you are skipping a very important step.
You TURN THE BOX ON at a given time — say, 1pm — and then you wait however many hours. Say, until 5pm. Then you enter the box. You then wait however many hours it has been and leave the box at 1pm. So time didn't "stand still." You've just…

I was pretty disappointed in this when it came out — not because I had high expectations, but because it just wasn't funny. Its relentless not-funniness left me feeling like it failed.
But in retrospect, I really enjoy it. In some ways, I prefer it to the original.
At least some of the comedy of the original has…

I say this every time he gets mentioned, but there isn't a single photo of Paul Williams from, say, 1965-1985, which doesn't look like he is just marinating in cocaine and other people's body fluids.

I was very disappointed in this when it first came out, but I admit I've gone back to it many times and it is one of those movies that I always found fun to watch (though I did get kinda sick of it after awhile). Still, it didn't quite get there for me — when Lost World came out I remember hoping that it would…

Absolutely. I was so happy to see his profile increase in the wake of this movie, even if much of what he did either didn't ask him to do much other than show up and be British (Bridget Jones) or make kinda an ass of himself (Moulin Rouge). Either way, he got a lot more high profile parts and more people were on the…

I love this movie but it's too fucking bleak and brutal to be my favorite of his.
I prefer Secrets & Lies and Topsy-Turvey, both of which make me smile and laugh and feel generally good about the world.
The latter is one of the best, if not THE best, movie I've ever seen about artistic creativity, and the former is…

SPOILERS below…
One thing that has always perplexed me about Mad Men was the whole angle of Don's past, and specifically his false identity. He could have come from nothing and built himself up without the false identity (that is, the show could have been written that way) and there's nothing intuitively necessary…

I thought this was funny and clever when it came out, and still defend it. I don't think it's a lost masterpiece or anything, but it certainly is a silly good time, as good as most anything Arnold ever made, and way better than Mrs. Doubtfire.
Am I correct in remembering that the tag line for the Ah-nold "Hamlet"…

Yes, I fully expect people to be reading this, three years later. Sigh.
Anyway — re-watching this season lately, and I was thinking about the criticism that some people have raised that the whole arc is entirely too predictable. And in looking at these early episodes, I see it, but I also see it as a feature not a…

I want a Spring Breakers poster with the tag line "Kinda like a more uneven Anna Karenina"

I will always treasure this episode because of its gratuitous attack on Vassar, and its equally gratuitous defense of the place from Homer Simpson.
I'd like to think all Vassar grads enjoy this episode, for just that reason, or at least all Vassar grads who were there in the 90's, for whom this was a timely joke.
But…

Awesome, they got the guy who wrote ESB! Oh, shit, they got the guy who wrote ROTJ.

Completely agree. What's funny, too, is that seeing how convincingly he plays a nebbishy goofball, and how iconic he was as the Fonz, you also realize that the dude can ACT. I wouldn't have listed "Happy Days" as a source of quality acting, there it is.

Waxing pretentious for a bit:
This really is one of the best series finales ever, all the more impressive for having been unintended.
It works perfectly for the same reason the Angel finale worked perfectly: it didn't try to end the series with a note of finality because the series was about progress and change. …

See, but the problem with that scene was the exact OPPOSITE of that. Instead of a cool, prolonged action sequence, we got a three-second non-sequitor that was over before it began. And then it happened again, for good measure. At no point was it suspenseful and at no point did anyone care. Maybe if they'd dragged…

I like the image of Morrissey escaping via the fire escape only to realize it's a fake fire escape on a set, and then slinking out the back door like a normal person.
I'm a big fan, btw.

I have to admit — and may have admitted on this site before — that while I enjoyed F&G, it never struck me as the greatest television show ever. It was pleasant. As always, expectations may have played a big role in this. I saw Undeclared when it first aired, and I was blown away by how much it got right about the…

Wow, seriously missed opportunity in writing this up. Some suggestions:
"Word on the street is that producer Howard Deutsch's long-gestating adaptation of Encyclopedia Brown has finally gotten off the ground. When reached for comment, Mr. Deutsch remarked, 'There's no way I could be putting a film into production. …

Dude, it's worth it just for the subplot you're referencing.  Viva la revolucion!

What, no Unstoppable?  "She's coming in too hot!"