Yup. It's a Christmas movie for us.

I saw this movie as a teenager, and I think it was the first time that I recognized really great acting. It stills remains one of my favorite films, and one of my favorite performances.

I did not hate Crash when I saw it. It has already won Best Picture and I'd heard it was terrible, but it was fine. Then I watched Brokeback Mountain, which was moving, and amazing, and so overwhelmingly better than Crash on every level that I hated Crash in retrospect. I'm going to guess I'm not the only person who…

Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book. I love it to pieces, and am so happy you have found it and are enjoying it.

One correction to your statement above, because I think it is important to be factual even on the Internet: based on what I have read none of the emails were from or (as far as I can tell) even to Hillary. They are from and to DNC staffers. You can still be bothered by what they say and how it makes you feel about the…

I know people like to crap on the new Star Trek, but I really enjoyed the first one, and am slightly embarrassed to admit that I got unexpectedly teary when Hemsworth Kirk died. Still one of the most unexplained emotional reactions I've ever had watching a movie.

Absolutely agree with everything you said. It is an amazingly well put together movie that pulls in many different film genres but never feels disjointed. And all with a woman in the lead!

I agree about the before Marine planet scenes, which is annoying because I like pretty much all of the other scenes he added back in, especially the automates sentry guns sequence, which is a great suspense scene and one that I miss when I watch the theatrical cut.

I think that is probably the issue. I don't see Aliens as in any way an actual sequel to Alien, so I've never been disappointed in the differences, and almost never compare them directly. They are two very different movies trying to tell very different stories.

I'd be curious why you think Aliens is overrated.

As an adolescent, Phantom of the Opera was the musical that got me into musicals. I listened to that thing on a loop non-stop. As I got older and wiser I sought out better stuff like Sondheim, Sweeney Todd and Assassins specifically, and earlier Lloyd Weber, like Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, which I will defend…

Don't feel shame, the same thing happened to me. Well kind of, I never actually went to see the movie, but if the movie hadn't been terrible, I wouldn't have read so many articles about how much better the show was. It was actually Tasha Robinson's impassioned defense of the show on this site, even though the movie…

Even those this is a bit late, I can't not post it. LeGuin's Earthsea, the gap between the third book Farthest Shore (1972) and the fourth book Tehanu (1990). If you read it, get a version that includes her forward which explains why she wrote it and some commentary about why it was so divisive when it came out. It is…

If it makes you feel better, if your wife is anything like me, she knew what she was getting into. I wouldn't change him for anything.

As someone who married a pianist, this is very accurate, but the piano usually wins.

No mention of probably my favorite throwaway joke of the whole season, Lillian crying a single tear because someone recycled a can that was thrown on the ground in front of her stoop. Just perfect.

In the first season Daddy's Boy is what turned this show from really good to great for me. Just so goddamn funny and perfectly realized. The Spiderman 2: too many Spidermans I also loved, so the fact that they just decided to do a whole episode referencing fake musicals makes this my favorite of the season. I guess…

I didn't mind it because the story was more about Jacqueline than Buckley. I don't think about it as an indictment of medicating kids, but more another step in Jacqueline's evolution from completely selfish to not quite as selfish. It works because she never actually cared about Buckley, but is still able to put his…

I think that has to do with what Hamilton was trying to do, which is create an economic system that would allow America to compete with the big dogs in Europe. He was correct in realizing that economic power went hand-and-hand with military and diplomatic power, and that trade and credit, not agriculture, were the…

Lions fans would like to have a word with you.