I'm pretty sure that it's in Danse Macabre, his entertaining (if occasionally rambling—this was during his drinking days) take on the horror genre in different media.

Part of the problem, I think, is that probably the thing he's best known for in America is his role in the movie of V for Vendetta.

Stephen King once described that kind of film as the type where, halfway through the first reel, you find yourself wanting a cigarette. I knew exactly what he meant, and I don't even smoke.

@avclub-022199896b1f52952c180b60caa681bd:disqus : And that fucking alien episode with James Brown.

There's probably a direct relationship between the quality (or average grade) that a movie with Gerard Butler in it receives and the number of minutes of screen time or lines that Butler has in it. (I almost accidentally typed "Mutler" there, and it's apropos.) I'm half-tempted to look up an old female acquaintance…

Well, it's certainly true that no one is forcing us to watch Tim Burton films, just as, of course, no one's forcing you to read AV Club comment threads. In fact, I stopped making a point of watching Burton's stuff a while ago. It's really too bad, because, as you could see if you removed your wooden suppository for…

One of the things that I'll never understand about Pacific Heights  is why John Schlesinger, who should have known better, put in the opening sequence where it's established that Keaton has a shady past. It completely undercuts the rest of the movie, where he starts out seeming a little quirky and inconsiderate and it…

Him listing his qualifications.

@avclub-27e87cc851baee4401e8eed1d89fa6ba:disqus : Earth Girls Are Easy is way too aware of its own kitsch to be really funny. Just about everyone in that movie has done much funnier things, except for Julie Brown, whose act is tolerable for just about the length of one of her songs and not a second longer.

Depp didn't ruin Burton; Burton would probably have found some other actor to play a quirkily-damaged man-child in the endless iterations of his shtick that have formed his oeuvre for years and years now. And Burton hasn't ruined Depp, although Depp's later attempts at more serious work seem to have been ignored in…

Deep Space Nine had a new arrangement for the theme (a much better one, IMO) that was accompanied by shots of the Defiant leaving the station.

Frankie Muniz could have a cameo as a double for Jesse; he looks so much like Aaron Paul these days that it's creepy.

Hell, there was the ep in which some dudes bully the boys into letting them cook meth in the family garage while Hal and Lois are away. (King of the Hill also had an anti-meth ep around this time, which makes me wonder if Fox had some sort of deal with the DEA to get PSA credit by inserting anti-meth messages in their…

ZOMG: "“@CrawfordTaylor: @deanjnorris do you kiss your mother with that filthy mouth of yours?” No she's dead. Thanks asshole. #crying fuck you"

Celebrities don't get the same treatment as other Scientologists; they've got their own special center in Hollywood that they can hang out in. What they do there, I'll leave up to your imagination.

The last thing I remember Buster Poindexter doing was finishing his run on SNL by bitching about how they always stuck him on at the end of the show and by the time he got out of there his favorite bars had already called last call.

I can believe that he didn't have a lot of money; there's something about some of his descriptions of old New England houses (think of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", for example) that puts one in mind of a penniless guy wandering around parts of town that have seen better days, thinking that he'd love to fix up this…

The problem with saying anything bad about Firefly, and Serenity especially, is that it's such a distillation of both Whedon's best points (dialogue, characterization) and his worst (world-building), that people who like it are seemingly completely blind or, at worst, indifferent to its faults and shortcomings. It's…

The comic of this was actually one of the things that led me to pretty much* give up on Warren Ellis, after he closed out his forum by lecturing the commenters on why they were the problem with comics because they kept buying this superhero crap, and he was moving on to bigger and better things… and then publishes…

Redrum!