MAKIN' LOVE TO OTHER GAY FISH (GAY FISH)

I love The Vanishing, but I don't think "Closure" earns the comparison, at least qualitatively. "Sein und Zeit" is fantastic, but the second part reaches too far for its titular emotion and winds up wallowing in willowy CG sentimentality.

Who else sounds just like Jon Hamm? Sucks that it's not him. I'm waiting for Fincher to make another Zodiac, and casting him would be a sign that this project's not crap.

Part of the problem is that Cruise is middle-aged. Part of the problem is that he is openly crazy. Either of these traits alone would not necessarily limit his success as a movie star, but combined they make him a risky investment. At this point, his movies may or may not make money; his celebrity will neither do them…

Grown Ups opened to $41 mil because people always go to Adam Sandler's least ambitious, intellectually and compositionally crudest comedies. Ever since The Waterboy, all he has needed to get a hit is sloppy direction, mugging, former SNL castmates, and bodily fluid jokes that can go in trailers. Anything that tries…

The black oil was the aliens' intelligent blood. I know. The animals didn't have anything to do with anything. Scully's pregnancy was a miracle. Really. The clones were supposed to serve as slaves for the aliens after they colonized Earth. Everyone else was supposed to serve as an incubator. The super-soldiers were…

I'm not too fond of "Soft Light," mostly because the idea that his matter-neutralizing shadow should obliterate everything it comes into contact with- buildings, people, the very Earth itself. Instead, it does that corny-looking shit to people.

Yeah, but that was a fabricated backstory. He really lived in suburbia with Veronica Cartwright and that little douchebag he nearly burned to death. And Samantha for a while, for some reason.

There's a definite sense of overdetermination in the case of Mulder's sister that makes the episode revealing what happened to her deeply unsatisfying. Here goes:
1. She's targeted by a serial killer on Martha's Vineyard.
2. She's kidnapped by the Consortium/aliens before he can get her.
3. For some reason, she's raised…

Eventually, we learn that Smokey has a greater filial affection for Mulder than for his legitimate son, and that he was protecting Mulder.

Even if that's the case, Todd, you still have contradictory depictions of the alien menace and the Consortium that brokers with it. But my problem with the end of "Anasazi" is that it's shortly revealed that Smokey is most likely Mulder's father. That happened in s3. If Smokey suspected as much in s2, he wouldn't have…

"Burn it!"
That scene makes for a fantastic capper to s2, but it makes absolutely no sense in light of the information that starts to trickle out at the end of the next season. "Anasazi" is a fine episode, but like most mythology episodes, it's undermined when placed in the larger context of the series. Ah, well.…

Homicide was the only show whose interrogations were actually based on the real thing. Typically, the interrogations we see in TV shows and movies are whole-cloth fictions, mere variations on a genre theme. Angel's is no different. But the interrogation in Buffy s3's "Consequences" is notable for being entirely…

Angel didn't stop being a douche until he came back from Hell. Rewatching the first 2 seasons of Buffy made me realize that all the Buffy/Angel shippers whose minds were made up in those first two seasons are nearly Twilight-level crazy.

Jaclson's best work is in the horror/phantasmagoria/psychothriller mode. The Hobbit is much less in this vein than LotR, but hopefully Del Toro's influence will still be palpable enough that the entire project will be suitably off-kilter.

He should have done this instead of The Lovely Bones, actually.

There's a difference between not liking a band and pointlessly tying a wholly music-unrelated story to one's distaste for their music simply because it feels good to take a dump on their numerous fans.

I mean, Christ. Here they are, making critically acclaimed album after critically acclaimed album, slowly building a massive audience over years of hard touring and self-conscious artistic growth, not making obvious attempts to get a hit, not following obnoxious trends, not appearing in annoying commercials, and…

He's not a doting man doing ballet on a coffee table, fer chrissake!

Fool for Love
…is an excellent episode, but I think that Buffy and Angel generally do a poor job of depicting the long-past. The strength of the episode comes from the scenes between Spike and Buffy, which are beautifully played by Gellar and Marsters.