Dick Van Dyke gets older, Elmore Leonard stays the same age.

Dick Van Dyke is awesome.

@avclub-517f24c02e620d5a4dac1db388664a63:disqus There's no control group though.  That's why we'd need to slide to an alternate reality where everything's the same only Orson Scott Card's mouth is different.

The very pants I was about to return!

I would think that any deviation from confirmable fact should be qualified by the author as a "what if" though.

I think this used to be more true of me, but it tended to be that if I picked a piece of media to consume, there was a good chance I'd like it.  Now I think that's still basically true, but I'm better at analyzing it for its strengths and weaknesses.

"In a World…" was the number one film this weekend on a per screen average.  The box office total was $70,980 across three screens for a per screen average of $23,660.  To say it didn't make a dent is technically true, but doesn't place it in the context of the the three theaters in which it played.

Something something Mark Felt.

More American Graffiti Too: The Peel Outquel.

It's also an unreleased Prince song because he also knows that some numbers sound like words.

Witness 4: The Prosecution

Witness To: Murder

I just saw a bunch of trailer in front of the last foreign film I went to see on Sunday and most of them were subtitled.  Actually I don't think they had narration in those trailers, they relied on the subtitled dialogue like Hollywood trailers.

I was referring to Flag on the Moon, having not seen the film.  You would of course have a more informed opinion.

I'd say my favorite trailer of all time is for Operation Mad Ball: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Trailer narration is a "trope" that's been around as long as sound film, so it's hardly specific to the last 30 years.  That said, I think a great way to make trailer narration sound very fresh is to bring in female talent, as was done in the trailer for Gone in 60 Seconds in 2000 (I didn't see the movie, but I think…

I'm curious.  What was annoying about it?  Was it just that there was a narrator?  I assume not, because that's been a convention of movie trailers for like 80 of the last 85 years of sound film.

I remember the TNG era Trek episode trailers all being basically the same too.  It seemed kind of incongruous for even most of the lighter episodes to be sold as action-packed thrillers.  That said, I suppose it was incongruous for most of the episodes to be sold that way since Trek on TV is usually much more…

From what I've read elsewhere this has been getting pretty solid reviews.  It's at 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, on Metacritic it's at 74%.  Just on the AV Club it's one of the higher rated new movies.  I've been looking forward to this for a month or so, but I may have to wait a bit longer for it to come to Boston.

The narrator's voice will return in Boomshaker.