Too old and dignified.

You know, Bowie as Cirdan the Shipwright wouldn't have been half-bad. The Gatekeeper for those who depart this world for Valinor. Alas.

Rabbi Tuckman: "A moyel is a very important guy. He makes circumcisions."
Scarlet: "What, pray tell, sir, is a circumcision?"
Rabbi Tuckman: "It's the latest craze. The ladies love it!"
Little John: "I'll take one!"
Ahchoo: "Hey, put me down for two!"

Now I'm imagining George Michael in the next movie as a double-agent of the Resistance planted as an officer in the First Order seducing Kylo Ren. "I will be your Father Figure."

Since Elle King's "Ex's & Oh's" started getting radio play, I've wondered if she wrote the song half-intending for it to be incorporated into an episode this season, with the traditional letter-puppets swarming her with affection as she walks down Sesame Street.

The cuts and scene synchronicity are excellently done.

Well argued and not inaccurate. But the dialogue was so distractingly bad that it crippled any joy or earned respect.

Ep III had the requirement to get from Ep II to Ep IV, which meant it had to advance the story at least somewhere close to the status/standard Ep IV started at. By sheer gravity of preexisting narrative, Ep III was going to be somewhat decent.

#GoodMuslimBadMuslim is really quite excellent. They also declare jihads against entities that deserve it, like spiders.

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Joss is actually the Junior Partner of the WCSIK consulting firm; the Senior Partner is George RR Martin.

It is a nice thing, and much respect for a great job done over the past 25 years.

I'm glad the casual late night talk show Kierkegaard mentions haven't completely gone away post-Craig Ferguson.

That's because he wasn't being a politician for most of the interview, he was being a father.

The end of House of Flying daggers was so … melodramatic, in a way that might make sense for a Chinese audience, but was just ridiculous to the American audience I saw it with, where the whole theater was just laughing at the she's-not-quite-dead-yet-because-of-love! climatic scene.

But if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why does he keep on doing it?

That's because Pinky pronounces it with a silent and invisible tilde.

I have not read the book. But in terms of dark humor, that was probably the only way to make the movie tolerable for 2+ hours, as opposed to repeated tragedy & injustice, decade after decade.

To Live is the only film to make me shed a tear as an adult. Absolutely incredible and, I think, the best way for a complete outside to get a sense for how the Cultural Revolution affected average Chinese people.

I think you mean you were watching drunk, confused Matlock.