Kevin Costner's Robin Hood isn't very good overall, but I rewatched it about a year ago for nostalgia purposes and the segment from when they sneak into the castle through when they stop the execution is shockingly well put together. It's a wonderful example of a director building tension and then releasing it at…

Man, I had forgotten about the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players. I caught them in New York oh so many years ago. They had a fun gimmick, but they also seemed to have a clear expiration date. If I remember correctly, they had bought all of the slide shows from random garage sales.

Everyone compares Schumaker's Batman movies to the Adam West show, and while the 60s Batman series is obviously a major inspiration, the difference is that Adam West's TV show was actually funny and even clever.

Truth! "Mask of the Phantasm" still stands as my favorite Batman film, but it generally gets overlook because it's animated and was originally intended for the home video market.

The Single Guy was my introduction to Ernest Borgnine. It was pretty strange knowing him as a friendly doorman and then seeing him as an asshole railroad conductor in Emperor of the North. I had actually forgotten that Ming Na was in that show.

Hold on a minute. I just visited Jonathan Silverman's IMDB page, and it turns out that he has four—FOUR!—movies that are currently in post-production and look like they will be released in 2014. One of the movies is titled National Lampoon's Snatched, but still. 2014 is looking like it might be the year of…

Speaking of inoffensive everymen, whatever happened to Jonathan Silverman? I don't know why he popped into my head, but maybe because he was kind of like the poor man's version of Ron Livingston. Maybe AMC can find a role for Silverman. Why couldn't he be Samuel Adams or his cousin John? Get on it AMC.

But is it canon????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting. I'm sure we have plenty of those over here in the States, but I'm going to guess that the precocious drama-school brat epidemic is more strongly felt across the Atlantic.

Hey, hold on a second. Are you trying to tell me that Nell Tiger Free is the real, not completely made up name of one of the actors on Game of Thrones next season? Because i find that a little hard to believe.

I'm lukewarm on Abrams as a creative force, but I still enjoyed the first Star Trek reboot. It got a lot of the surface elements right, and it reinvigorated Star Trek in popular culture. Sure, there were a lot of dumb coincidence that were necessary for keeping Abrams's roller coaster going, but when the film was…

Hey, I bet you haven't heard the one about MLK Jr. telling Nichelle Nichols to continue playing the character of Uhura.

No, wait. The author changed it so that the "T" now stands for the Clone Wars cartoon movie. I'm just as confused as before.

So I've been recently revisiting the Star Wars EU in anticipation of the new trilogy. I had never before read the Thrawn series, so I started with Heir to the Empire. I remember really enjoying the Courtship of Princess Leia when I was a kid, but I was also like 11 when I read it. This book doesn't come up a lot…

I think the "T" is supposed to stand for Episode Two, not Episode Three.

I really loved the Clone Wars series, but I absolutely loathed the return of Darth Maul. He was a cool physical threat in Episode 1, but he wasn't the sort of character we needed revisit, especially considering he didn't really resemble his film counterpart.

I understand that people get attached to these characters and these stories, but there were also a lot of terrible EU books and comic books. I recently reread parts of Dark Empire, which is considered one of the better EU stories, and it's really terrible. Some of the authors and artists who helped create the EU…

I didn't really understand the outcry that accompanied Disney's decanonization of the EU, since Lucas said he would ignore the EU whenever it suited him anyways. I guess I never really took this stuff as canon, even when it was nominally canonincal.

Netflix is a huge company that would easily stab me in the back if they thought it would make them a few extra bucks. Still, they're pretty much the only thing standing in the way of a cable monopoly at this moment. The government sure as hell won't listen to the millions of Americans that have been hurt by unfair…

You're not supposed to like the characters. In fact, Nick has become the go to example of an unreliable narrator. I believe he lies about how often he's been drunk, for example. Even as he's trying to present himself as an upright citizen among all of these floozies, you realize that he's just another shallow…