I recently finished Joe Hill's "NOS4A2," which is pretty good, though he lays on the pop-culture references pretty thick at times. Still, he shares his father's gift for creating distinct characters and having them interact with each other in (generally) realistic ways, then making them reluctantly realize they're in…

To this day, my mind tries and fails to imagine the size of the seed bell that Hans Moleman is being quoted.

My first thought was The Pogues, too. Though I'd go with "Sally MacLennane" or the entire "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" album.

You misread "brain" as "stick up your ass."  Besides, this movie has one enormous stick up its own ass. That's the problem most people have with it.

Allow me to deliver a reasoned rebuttal…

Howard Hawks said a good movie needs "three great scenes, no bad scenes." In that respect, I'd say "Up" more than qualifies.

I am shocked. SHOCKED!

It's an interesting idea, but it's a horrible execution (no pun intended.)

He's pretty bad in "Robin Hood" and "Wyatt Earp," but you have a point that usually it's the movies he's in that are worse than his actual performance.

For being burdened with such horrible dialogue and a shitty role, Costner's really good in this latest movie. The best thing I can say about "Man of Steel" is that it reminded me to re-watch "Open Range."

Tony Soprano was and shall remain one of the great achievements of modern fiction. Television would not be the same without him,

"If Superman was strong enough to twist Zod's head in the opposite
direction, then he was strong enough to hold his head still, right?"

@avclub-3c23902822283144c09d87f123545c87:disqus "commonly accepted definition lifetime passes apply strictly to the
artist and not the individual pieces of work that artist creates."

Nope. A lifetime pass means saying "I still love [artist] for the great work they did, despite any/all shit they have also done," not "I'm going to proclaim my love for everything [artist] does just because I loved their previous work."

"Lifetime pass" doesn't mean you have to pretend their shit doesn't stink.

Can't say for certain. I think it's like that line about pornography: you know it when you see it (or in this case, hear it.)

The word "genius" gets tossed around far too loosely these days, but YOU, sir…

It's a shitty song, but I have a soft spot for it since a former stripper friend pointed out that it's a great song to strip to. Now whenever I hear it, I think of her (to steal a line from "Louie") fat, natural boobs.

Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn"

I'm working my way back through Jason Aaron's "Scalped" for the first time since it finished. He lays it on a little think here and there, but it really is an excellent series. I have to imagine the only reason it hasn't been optioned into an F/X series by now is because SAG only allows two Native American actors at a…