I love this episode, but I can't help but feel that the Fry-Leela dynamic was best captured in Time Keeps on Slippin'.  Still, nothing quite beats the opera!

Whoa, this is heavy…

Wait…they did that?  That's something that happened in earnest?

FRINGE NOTIFICATION!

Roger Ebert was my gateway drug into cinema-as-an-art-form, and even after I started exploring the depths of film criticism, his reviews never lost the appeal they'd had when I first stumbled across them.  People seemed to like to call him "populist" for his widespread appeal, but without that I'm not sure I'd even be…

The hatred those people have (had, I guess…) towards him is both astonishing and saddening.

Fun fact: the Mormons get their own rules even within the BSA.  Until like last year, they couldn't camp on Sundays in my district, and it only changed because their bishop changed his mind.

I agree with the majority of your post, but I'd like to add that the anti-gay parents whose voices you hear in the media are hardly indicative of the majority of scouts and their parents, at least in my experience.  In fact, that's true of the organization at large - the super-religious people (read: LDS) by no means…

Definitely.  I (an Eagle scout myself) am of course opposed to their anti-gay stance, but so many people seem to want to condemn the entirety of scouting over it when really it's just a small faction that has control.  Most of us just want to go camping.

100% agreed.  As a musical theater fan who's still a bit of a neophyte, some sort of regular feature would not only introduce many of us to new works, but also show us why we love what we love.  Which I suppose is part of the point of all great critical writing.

Cheryl's running commentary on the murder, just barely audible, was easily my favorite bit.
"Oh, I'll NOT have what he's having!"

"The subject of this conversation is….extremely personal."

I can kinda see where you're coming from - I felt the same way about Haywire, where I could appreciate what Soderbergh was trying to do while still feeling a little cold about what he was actually doing. But what separates The Informant in my mind is the way it uses humor to warm the audience to Whitacre before…

This movie is so amazingly underrated.  The story's intriguing, the narration is hilarious, and the comedy is handled deftly such that it never cheapens the material…but for some inexplicable reason, nobody I've ever shown this to has been as crazy about it as I am.  Which is sad, because as far as I'm concerned it's…

Fun fact: this movie was shot at my school. I think I accidentally ruined a take for Owen Wilson, too.
Not-so-fun fact: this looks like it's gonna *suck*.

Eh, CinemaScores are a reflection of how general audiences felt about a film, not objective quality.  And that D+ seems on the mark, seeing as Haywire took in $18 million on a $23 million budget.  I know that when I watched it with my family, while I enjoyed the subdued/realistic fight scenes and Soderbergh's stylish…

An emotional ending to one of my favorite shows on television - really couldn't ask for much more.  It may sound weird, but I'll miss Peter, Olivia, Walter, Astrid, and the rest of team.  Farewell!

The first one to mind upon reading the headline. Glad somebody mentioned it!

The first one to mind upon reading the headline. Glad somebody mentioned it!

I cannot overstate how happy I was to see the return of the NPR station - they parody public radio *so* perfectly.