Yeah, I don't get that comparison either.  I'm still hoping PJ goes back to her Rid of Me ways, but the album Let England Shake, or the song "Leaving California" before that were social/politically conscious and interesting in slightly offputting ways.  Florence and the Machine is… not. I tried to pick up a Kate Bush…

My folks had a VHS copy of Flying Deuces when I was a kid and it's true: it's perfect for children. I watched the heck out of that every chance I could, though I don't think I've ever seen another L&H movie. Probably should though.

Audition: the phone rings and rings and rings and then the woman gradually smiles and the bag MOVES!  Easily the scariest thing I've seen in a film in the past decade.

Yeah, that was a jolt from nowhere.  The look on Colbert's face at that moment is of a man who simply does not believe that he does this for a living.

The Dark Horse story takes place 10 years after Aliens, so Henn would had to have played older, or the storyline changed a bit.  And I still dislike Alien3 because I can't get over how much better simply making a film of the Dark Horse comics would have been. By the time of Resurrection, I could enjoy it for what it…

Y'know, I read Where the Red Fern Grows a bunch of times of times as a kid, enough to get a bit choked up just from the name, but had to go on Wikipedia to look up the plot.  Weird how your mind can separate emotion and actual memory.

What! People don't like The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco?  That's one of my favorites.  It's over the top in all the right ways.

+1. The Civil War is jaw-dropping television and there are just loads of political and social details. Also has some of the most stomach turning descriptions of battles. I tend to think that the Battle of The Wilderness has the most horrific details, but then I remember Shiloh or the Siege of Vicksburg or…

I sometimes go on the website just to read reviews, in particular the Great Movies.  Not that I watch many movies these days, but just for the writing and the passion he brings to it. I think his review of the surfing film Riding Giants, of all things, is a masterclass in criticism.

"Everything Counts" is not my favorite Depeche Mode song but I'm really glad for the introduction to Einstürzende Neubauten.  That song is striking.

Rowsdower! Rowsdower?  RowsDOWER!

That's awesome!

You can't just drop "Tabitha Soren" out of nowhere like that!  Talk about causing adolescent fantasy flashback whiplash.

I was real late to getting around to Yojimbo and Sanjuro (Rashomon, Ran, and Dreams were my entry point) and had no idea Sanjuro was supposed to be funny.  The scene near the end where all the samurai are dancing around the room in celebration, and then one by one realize that the "prisoner" is celebrating with them,…

Amen to that. I saw the note that Habeas Corpses is next week and thought "Hey, is that the one…?", checked and found that it was indeed the one. We'll all be saying "Angel will make us forget about that Buffy episode" a lot from here on out.

The makeup people are going to have to work overtime to make Gwendolyn Christie as horrendously ugly as described in the books. Is that what counts as ugly in Hollywood?

I agree with rootboy. The entire time he was on screen, I was thinking "Hey, it's that Apple commercial guy!" It was just ridiculous to introduce a joke cameo into THE "this is what is going on" episode, when there were literally five more episodes left to wrap up the series. What I'm saying is that John Hodgman is…

Lilah is easiest the sexiest woman. While I appreciate the obviously-starved seemingly-16 year olds that Joss loves to cast as much as any other straight guy, Lilah could teach a man things that Fred can't find in a book. [SPOILERS]I have a theory that Wesley's eventual bad-assedness has everything to do with Lilah…

I'm glad others find the Chanterelle/Lily/Anne arc to be as rewarding as I do.