Have any of you seen Rango? It's Verbinski's best film by a fairly wide margin. It has all the spectacle of Pirates and the eerie visual wit of The Ring, but it's completely, joyously self-satirical. It might be the most subversive movie put out by a major studio since Wall-E, and it's one of the most effective…

I think Verbinski is one of the last great Hollywood hired hands, a lesser Michael Curtiz or Victor Fleming, but there was nothing he could do to make those movies anything better than gorgeous nonsense. The screenwriters Elliot and Rossio, are superb at crafting two-person comedy scenes, and the first Pirates is…

If you're at all curious about the band, here are two live videos I recorded at their show two weeks ago:

I prefer to bloviate more openly these days. C'est la vie.

Well, I loved I'm Not There. The people sitting behind me in the mostly deserted screening room left before the opening credits were over. So it goes.

Boy howdy, the level of discourse on these boards has devolved lately.

Audiences just weren't ready to spend their hard-earned money to watch a biography of nudity about a thoughtful vagina.

I'll second The Lovely Bones. Fascinatingly awful movie.

I thought this got a cursory theatrical release so they could at least say they tried.

Southtown, part of the reason for its value is its rarity, and its wonderful cover art- this is a record you could frame and hang on your wall.

1. Madvillainy
2. Vaudeville Villain
3. Born Like This
4. The Mouse and the Mask
5. Take Me to Your Leader
6. Mm… Food?
7. Operation: Doomsday

Idiotic, or brilliant? If any record is worth it, this one is.

I agree; it's one of my favorite aspects of the series.

Yes, he smoked. I'm glad I quit, too.

The night I saw TV on the Radio in Cincinnati in 2008, I saw Gerard Smith outside Bogart's after the show dressed impeccably in a three-piece suit waiting for a car with two incredibly beautiful women and I thought, "There goes one suave son of a bitch."

I completely agree. And live recordings from that period are stunning.

Tecumseh, we can agree to disagree about Lost (my own enthusiasm for that show has dampened a bit over the last year), but the plotholes in s7 of Buffy are almost comical.

I'm @PereKidA on Twitter, Superdeformed.

The preview for next week's episode promises further adventures for young Samsung Galaxy Tab!

Walter has already grown far more stable, consistent, and self-reliant! Just a few weeks ago, he was competent enough not only to synthesize the amber used to seal interdimensional rifts, but also to decide to use that substance regardless of its effect on his family. That's a more mature, more logical Walter than…