Considering that In Rainbows
…is, in my opinion, the second-best album of the 00s, and Kid A the fifth-, this is some good fucking news.

Information, LOST makes no sense whatsoever unless you watch pretty much every episode in sequence. There are a few you might skip, but generally the show goes to great lengths to make characters pay off over long periods of time and to merge mythological development with character development. So it's not like The…

Don't knock the blubber 'til you've wrapped yourself in it for warmth, is all I'm sayin'.

I'd pork my whale, but she's a cold fish!

My heart goes out to film editors. I can't imagine sitting through, say, Dumb and Dumberer. But their job entails sitting in a room and watching clips of movies like Jonah Hex and Dumb and Dumberer until their eyes go numb, and trying to assemble something coherent from them. I wouldn't be surprised if half the…

I'd put White at 6.8-7.1.

He claims in his Hex review that other critics derided that film because they weren't bombarded with advertisements for it in the way they were for most blockbusters. Of course, that's ridiculous, because critics often criticize movies that are advertised on everything from buses to the surface of the moon. But it's…

Not only that: In his (positive) Jonah Hex review, he describes how director Jimmy Hayward learned "visual craft and genre savvy" on Toy Story and Toy Story 2. Yet in his TS3 review, he says the Toy Story franchise is "for non-thinking children and adults." He can't even keep his own bullshit straight for a single…

JONAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In anticipation that this film will eventually be considered the greatest ever made, I am naming all my male children Jonah.

"Nails are like candy to robots, and we'll eat tires instead of licorice."

Drew Goddard, Brian K. Vaughn, David Fury, Elisabeth Sarnoff, and Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse all had distinctive voices on LOST, and their episodes were usually a cut above the rest.

Holy shit. I knew he was a nerd, but damn.

The latter, Joe. I laugh to myself whenever I think of the line and work it into too many conversations. It's also a fixture of my inner monologue. I say it to my dog. It's distracting.

I recently saw an episode of Homicide in syndication that featured an almost episode-length stakeout. It was brilliant, as the show usually was.

I would think "The Chinese Restaurant" is the most Bunuel-esque of all these.

…But "In the Closet" has Buckethead Wendy. They're both brilliant. The same is true of their polar opposite, "Tinfins," which is almost never set on Sealab and features numerous explosions.

"Fusebox" is definitely more ballsy, though. And it's funny as hell. I still say "There can be only NONE!" with disconcerting frequency.

He never got particularly good. Later credits include "El Mundo Gira" and "Teso Dos Bichos." But "The Pine Bluff Variant" is quite good for a Shiban episode, and most of his later work was in collaboration with Gilligan and Spotnitz.

Curiously, though, Shiban frequently collaborated with Gilligan, and their episodes together, and their collaborations with Frank Spotnitz, are often excellent.

"Teso Dos Bichos" isn't THAT bad. "Schizogeny" is, though. And "Two Fathers"/One Son."