Sounds reasonable to me. The Bourne movies are like potato chips. They're good while you're consuming them but once you've had your fill, they just don't seem as enticing. They're also both full of empty calories. Okay, that's as far as I'm going with this metaphor.

They should just rename the previous Damon lead Bourne film, the Bourne Penultimatum.

This makes far too much sense for a Hollywood studio to come up with on its own.

For whatever reason I could never get into U2, even their earlier work. But the way people are piling onto the band makes me almost feel bad for them. I might even listen to the album. But probably not.

I'm always puzzled by the criticism that George Lucas was only concerned about marketing. It's clear from those movies that he made them on his own terms. Some of it was good. Most of it was not. I have enough distance from the prequels these days to appreciate what bizarre blockbusters they are.

I've been watching the Clone Wars cartoon, so I immediately thought that a movie about a young Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jin protecting the Duchess of Mandalore would be a great story to show. (Spoilers: I'm kind of pissed that the show completely discarded the Duchess for no good reason by the end of the series).

I think the difference between Interpol and latter day R.E.M. is that R.E.M. was still interested in experimenting. Their output never quite recovered Bill Berry's departure, but they also didn't seem interested in staying still. Interpol is a band that doesn't evolve much, which isn't a problem if all of their…

That Pitchfork review read like it tried to collect all of the common cliches about Interpol in one place. Did it make fun of their lyrics? Yep. Did it call their music shallow? Yep. Did it claim they ripped off Joy Division wholesale? Yep.

People treat J.J. Abrams like he's Uwe Boll. And while he's made a few clunkers, he's got some talent. Into Darkness's take on the "War on Terror" was more sophisticated than most Hollywood blockbusters that have taken a similar route. And I like that they purposefully created a sci-fi analogy for real world…

I remember being a little disappointed with this show first. I was expecting a sweeping historical epic that dug into capitalism and the American dream. I started enjoying the show when I realized that it's really just a modern day extension of a 1930s gangster flick, a damn good one. Boardwalk Empire is best when…

I completely agree. They did a wonderful job recasting those roles, which would be pretty hard to do considering how iconic those characters have become and how long they have been associated with certain actors. Lots of people have singled out Zachary Quinto as Spock, and while he does a wonderful job, I actually…

Yes and no. The original series has some really great episodes, but there are some real clunkers. It can get really bad. There were a series of reviews of the original show on AV Club. I would use those to figure out what are the worthwhile episodes and which ones you can skip. The third season is mostly…

You would know better than me. I've only caught latter episodes randomly on television, so I'm not that familiar with it. I just needed a point of comparison.

My favorite thing to come out of Star Trek V is a review where the writer notes, "Only someone with an ego like Shatner's would direct and star in a film where he goes up against God…and wins."

Star Trek's rightful place is television. The type of stories the series is most unique at telling are mostly fit for the smaller screen. Star Trek as a summer blockbuster has a much harder time really delving into different moral quandaries (although they tried with Star Trek into Darkness; it's just too bad the…

That's a tough one, because the lyrics are really uncomfortable but, man, that freakout during the last half of the song is amazing. I'm sure Gordon Gano meant to make the lyrics push your buttons, but I'm still not completely certain what he was going for exactly.

Like everyone else, I thought Kanye's last album, Yeezus, was a neat sonic turn for the artist. But it may very well contain some of his worst lyrics. The weird conflation of misogyny and civil rights discourse was really cringe-worthy. And for whatever reason no one really called him out on it. "Black Skinhead"…

Also, and this might surprise you, but many people don't celebrate Christmas. So if you don't know them well enough it's probably safer to just say happy holidays in order to be polite.

I actually enjoyed Longmire. It didn't revolutionize television, but it is probably the best police procedural on television. It follows much of that genre, but it throws in enough elements of the Western to make it seem a little fresher than something like CSI or (latter day) Law and Order. Plus, it had some…

Even relatively well-known movies are not available on disc from Netflix. After it was featured on AV Club, I tried to get Passenger 57 on DVD, and it was unavailable from Netflix. I have a list of fifty or so movies that Netflix doesn't have in stock. At first all of this streaming promised every movie at your…