MMMM's ending disappointed me. I felt like her irresponsible behavior (1. joining a cult 2. escaping the cult in broad daylight 3. not attempting to hide herself/change her appearance/go somewhere unexpected 4. endangering her sister and brother-in-law) deserved some kind of narrative consequences. She couldn't…

I need to see Out of the Past again. I don't remember any of this.

I've walked out of two movies: United 93 and The Hurt Locker. I thought they were both really good, but I was too nauseated to stay. For Hurt Locker, I actually walked outside, did some deep-breathing for about ten minutes, and tried again. Couldn't make it. Had to race to the bathroom and throw up. The lady behind…

I heard somewhere that she's doing her own makeup. She is delightfully insane.

I don't think the movie is as black and white about married couples with kids as Tasha makes it out to be. Early on, Westfeldt and Scott see their couple friends being assholes to each other and make this pact. But the other couples have other issues which contribute to that behavior and make it all more complicated…

The scene where he broke up with Fox didn't bother me, because I think it was meant to be symbolic of a larger disconnect between them: he loves his kid, and she's never going to love his kid. She wants to have this awesome selfish kid-free life and it doesn't mesh with what he already is. (Unrelated note about Fox:…

I thought the tide turned on blondes versus brunettes on TV when Alyssa Milano started to get hot on Who's the Boss?

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I copied my queue into Excel a couple of months ago. I'm like a Netflix survivalist now, just waiting for the nukes to hit.

I watched Justified (through season 2) with library DVDs. I just got the first season of The Wire from there, too. I was like, 500th on the waitlist when I first requested it. Only took about three months to get it.

I watch PBS all the time—and they are awesome about putting their content up on the web next-day—but isn't most of their content licensed from other providers, like the BBC et al? And the rest are super-cheap talking-head docs. It's a nice fantasy that HBO could subsist on monthly pledge drives, but they wouldn't make…

The reason this doesn't work is because all of the providers want to compete with each other and theoretically drive each other out of the market. And the losers are us.

@classic flynn: YES THIS EXACTLY. I would be happy to pay $10, 15 a month for access to HBO Go or Starz or Showtime or whatever, just streaming service. I pay for Netflix, I pay for Hulu Plus. This summer I bought Breaking Bad through iTunes, and I'll do the same for Mad Men in March. But I'm not getting cable again,…

That was making me crazy, too, but a few weeks ago they started posting stuff day after. Has that not been happening for you? (Maybe it's only for Hulu Plus subscribers?)

…or you could buy a VCR. You can probably get one for 8 cents somewhere.

Friday night, finished a book about malevolent fairies that steal babies. It was good. (Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon. Those are mythological fairies, by the way, and not stereotyped gay men.)

I'm an Oscars geek, so I do keep track. I have been following along with all the pre-Oscars awards and Midnight in Paris hasn't won any award yet that didn't have Screenplay in its title. The Artist has won the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, the Producer's Guild and the Critics' Choice Awards so far. It has momentum,…

All I want to know is, who is considering Midnight in Paris an Oscars frontrunner? I liked it a lot, way more than certain other nominated movies (The Descendants, for example), but I don't see it having a snowball's chance in hell at Best Picture. It'll get the consolation prize, Best Original Screenplay, Woody Allen…

The end to Another Earth shocked me. And then I was like, "I'm an idiot. I should have seen that coming a mile away." But I must like being an idiot because I loved that movie.

I loved the end to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It was one of those movies that I was ambivalent about while I was watching it, up until the end montage with that kicky French song, and then it fully won me over.