This is the source of so many of my fiancee and I's favorite lines in the series- "What have I done to deserve this flat, flavorless Manhattan?!" and "I made a game of it. I saw how many times I could dribble the ball in a day, and then I tried to *beat* that record."

Season 8 is better than any since 4 or 5, but season 9 is just awful. For one thing, Gibson Praise is a terrible character. For another, Jeffrey Spender is the Cousin Oliver of The X-Files. Those characters should have been incinerated together in a shallow pit full of alien bodies or something at least moderately…

I've been calling it Bellivia since last night. Seems to fit the variant naming scheme.

That said, "Gethsemane" is terrific as an episode of television; it's as an installment in The X-Files' mythology that it fails miserably.

Gethsemane
Well, here it is, folks: what should be the end of the line. The mythology has been chugging along pretty hard for a while now, and though it seemed improbable, even silly at times, it clearly had a point, and that point was that ALIENS ARE REAL, MAN, AND THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD. But here's…

Fringe's presentation of hallucinogen and pot consumption is absolutely remarkable. Probably the most realistic in the history of network television, and a great deal more realistic than in most films, too.

That's true. This show is full of ideas I don't think should work, but it always sells the hell out of them. I'm just afraid this may be one of the few times it sticks the execution.

I got the ringing bell, but the voice really was more than a bit much. I hope this plays out better than it seemed in that last 20 seconds.

Yeah, but one assumes Bell sounded like an old man because he had an old man's vocal chords. Bellivia should have the intonations of Bell, without the old man rasp.

Torv has been fantastic all season. I thought her joyous reaction to the new relationship was totally believable; she's consciously trying to loosen up to be the person she thinks Peter needs her to be, and she's finding that she likes this looseness.

Dygitalninja is right. Walter's distress is due to a series of realizations:
1. He is responsible for the universe unraveling.
2. He has no idea how to stop it.
3. Stopping it might involve sacrificing untold lives- including his son's.

Despicable Me is a remarkably unfunny, labored, obnoxious, shallow, LCD-baiting feature-length advertisement dressed up as a kid's movie. Don't bother with that one.

It is remarkably stupid.

It's not supposed to be reviewed until it officially opens, and it can't be submitted for awards until opening, either.

Through the Crucible of Fire,
…of plumes splayed and skewed as the serpentine follicular tendrils of Medusa, through the primordial spray of Kilauea she hath passed, erect, magnificent. Like helmeted Athene, she hath shunned Arachne, she hath strode forward, ever onward, into arthouse cinemas where no one sees her…

If a BD transfer looks too clean, it's probably because of Digital Noise Reduction or a second generation source. The best BD transfers have stunning film grain reproduction.

Wow.
The Clash's self-titled and Low are candidates for the greatest album ever made, "Heroes" is fantastic, Blank Generation, My Aim Is True, Talking Heads '77, and Lust for Life are fabulous… 1977 may be the whitest of all the great music years, Exodus aside.

Like I said, without an analogous leap in screen sizes, 1440P is moot. 80'' TVs are not about to become standard. Besides, DVD was the only existing home video format for the first seven or eight years of the HDTV era; it's not likely that a 1440P home video standard will evolve as quickly as TVs do, if those ever…

*Points*
Ha HA!

If you shop for a good price, you can often get as much as 50% of the price of a Blu-Ray back through reselling a DVD. Of course, that's not always the case, but it usually is with Criterion titles and such. There's no good reason to throw a movie away; if only they and their packages were completely recyclable, there…