Also, a Dirty Harry relaunch where Harry Callahan (Mark Wahlberg) takes on a terrorist offshoot of Occupy protesters seems like it would be a terrible inevitability (rated PG-13 for some violence, language).

How about reboot of the Dirty Harry series so he can reprise the role of Axl Rose?

I think Dune is one of those rare films that succeeds as both a good movie and a so-bad-it's-good movie simultaneously.  Starship Troopers is the other one that comes to mind.

I hope to finish Peter Nadas's A Book of Memories today, which I've found to be mostly impenetrable.
Either Visit from the Goon Squad or the Henrietta Lacks book is up next.

I rented Another Earth, which for me was more effective cosmic-scale introspection than Tree of Life.  Also Contagion, which I also liked.

Angelina Jolie as Maleficent sounds hotter to me than it probably should.

No.

Everything is tangentially related to this article. Everything.

I am definitely stealing this for future use.  Sorry if I forget and use at this site.

Not get hired after my last job interview. Regained all the weight I had lost the previous year in less than a week.

Who is David Wain?

Fuck you.

Oh shit I actually did this. [ replaces with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the correct answer for online dating]

Nicolas Cage likes twins. And pachinko.

I enjoyed Zwan, Zeitgeist, and the Teargarden stuff.

I think the Monitor was released last year, but it was one of the best.

I couldn't go to many shows this year, but Ty Segall/Mikal Cronin was probably the most fun.  Also, Torche, Flaming Lips/Superchunk, and Neko Case.

I guess this is where my unsolicited list goes:

I watched Tree of Life at a nice university theater for a buck-fifty, but had to endure 19-year-old fuckwits yelling and laughing loudly through the whole thing.

Yes, DBT.