Well, there were those Crusades. Oh, and all that pedophilia. But, you know…

Tommy Lee Jones was like 50 when this was made. Ever since Lonesome Dove, he's been playing the contemporary of men 20 years his senior. He's the modern day Wilford Brimley (50-something when Cocoon was made).

Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.

Well, I think it's time to retire this feature before the next movie to pop up here is Battlefield Earth.

Bingo

Hey, I got a Side By Side: The Science, Art And Impact Of Digital Cinema notification for this!

Wait, I got a Mocking Bird Lane notification for this?

Edit (wondering what was here, ain't you?)

Certainly am. It's more of a piece with the 2nd and 3rd seasons, and they really minimize the case-of-the-week type story-telling (although it's still there a bit). But it's both to its benefit and detriment that it is the most plot heavy season you'd could possibly imagine. It keeps you watching to find out what is…

Deadline is reporting that Casey Affleck has been cast as Zantana.

So I got it from the library and finished it last night.  It was fine, even good.  Not great, but certainly better than the fourth season. Still a pretty big step down from where they were going, and certainly don't expect them to ever go back to the world or the characters from the first three seasons, because that…

Hands down my favorite Scorsese film since the day I saw it when I was 16. It reminds me of Network, another favorite, in that it was both timely and prescient.  It only looks better with each passing year. I thought the ending was very much of a piece with the ending of Taxi Driver, and that both endings were not…

I'm going to give it my best shot here to make you happy.

The library is a marvelous place.  I almost never have to buy DVDs any longer.  And, of course, there are some things called boookies, or something like that. I've tried a few of these as well. They are like audio stories that you tell yourself.

The library is a marvelous place.  I almost never have to buy DVDs any longer.  And, of course, there are some things called boookies, or something like that. I've tried a few of these as well. They are like audio stories that you tell yourself.

I'm going to crack open S5 tonight.  I have the first disc, so I'm going to give it a go. I tried last night, but I just couldn't get motivated after my disappointment in where the fourth season went, and my lack of enthusiasm for a fifth season set 25 years after the time and timeline I cared about from the first…

A few more things (I'm always jonesing to talk after binge-watching):

Yeah, now I also need to move onto DVDs for S5, and I do have the first disc from the library. But I put it in last night and turned it off after 15 minutes. It wasn't bad, but they do jump ahead 25 years in the future, and it appears that will be the thrust of the next season.  Like I said, it wasn't bad or anything,…

In rereading this, I'm probably too hard on all but the finale.  I actually do think the idea of Peter sacrificing everything to save the worlds from the future he witnessed is a pretty great story.  And then him having to move on inside the new, and very strange, alternate world he created is a great hook for…

Considering the first season and a half was wildly uneven, and often outright stinky; and that this wet firecracker of a finale had the feel of someone saying, "Oh shit, we only have six episodes left to wrap up the whole series," I'd have to say that Fringe is the most mediocre show I've ever binge watched. It's a…