At least Secret Invasion gave us Dark Reign. All Civil War gave us was  One More Day.

"Sex Criminals" is a blast so far. The little sex-position diagrams her friend draws are worthy of Barney Stinson. I kept expecting her to describe "The Muddy Werewolf" or "The Flying Wombat."

They have a similar weirdo-violent tone, but Warren Ellis is way, way better.

Agreed, and not in a bad, critical way. If you like Blink 182, that's fine. Knock yourself out. But it's not punk, it's pop.

Well great. Now I have to go back and watch "High Fidelity" again, including the deleted scenes.  Though it is October, and for a while in my 20s, it did sorta qualify as a horror movie.

"OK, here's your ticket, and here's your backstage pass to meet Minmei after the sh— sir! SIR! Where are you going? Oh god, he's headed toward the hangar!"

I also would have loved to be at the concert (or even just the filming of the scene) of the Yardbirds in "Blow Up." They absolutely destroy their best song (twice!) and the sheer intensity of the scene (in both senses of the word) causes the crowd to go proto-mosh pit on them.

I gotta go with Sharon Apple's concert in "Macross Plus." It really has it all:

It's either, actually.

I am genuinely mad at myself for not thinking of that first.

Oh hai, Season 3 cliffhanger!

I agree with the part about how premieres are always a little clunky. They've gotta serve up exposition and lay groundwork more deliberately than at other times.

For me, this episode was Season 2 in a microcosm: it featured some terrific moments of great character writing syncing up with strong acting, yet almost everything plot-related was - as Todd so eloquently put it - "cuckoo bananapants," up to and including the writers/characters treating her bipolar disorder as some…

For a film that - up to that point - hadn't done more than hold my interest and occasionally made me smile, the line "Conspiracy A-Go-Go" nearly gave me a heart attack.

I can't remember the last time I said, "oh shit, it's George Hamilton!"

You can do better, Jeff.

On Robocop:
"That movie will be around forever, man."

I haven't seen the film version (varying reports rank it somewhere between "ok" and "bad") but I was lucky enough to catch Mamet's "American Buffalo" the last time it ran at Steppenwolf. The first lines:

Lotta great stuff here, but I'm gonna go with a deep cut. In the Pulp Fiction-themed IFC episode of "Greg The Bunny," Warren the Ape asks what role he'll be playing in the infamous 'basement scene.' His response is a 'fuck you" that carries three or four different connotations, and is a great example of what the…

well-played Kaufmanesque trolling. B+