Oh, knuckles, knuckles knuckles. My poor, sweet knuckles. I'll never let the crass celebrity entertainment industry ruin you, knuckles. I'll never let you realize that their money is predicated on our distressing human tendency towards schadenfraude.

let's have a blamestorm, you guys, c'mon. seriously: everyone knows that alcohol is never to blame. It's helpful!

If you think Zuul rhymes with Burl, you need to brush up on your ancient mesopotamian gods.

Oh, man, The Orphanage. When I heard about this movie (Orphan) I just shook my head and sighed, knowing that it wouldn't come close to touching The Orphanage. Now there was a… well, damn, Roonil already said what I was going to say.

BG
I grew up there. Went to Stevenson High instead of BG High, but I know the area and the school pretty well. But, yes, this movie looked like crap, reviewed like crap, and it probably smells like crap, too. It is only out of a vague curiosity for how well it represents its home city that I would even remotely bother…

I had some kind of crazy spam dish when I was in Japan. the Japanese love that shit, and now I love it too. Damn!

A giant snake WITH A GIANT APPETITE? HMMmmm? No? Are we going to have to be serious here?

Terry Moore
is Echo actually any good? I was ambivalent about Strangers in Paradise — parts of it I loved, parts of it I hated — but the more I hear people talk about Moore's work, the less I actually want to read any of it.

I don't know why
But every time he said "psychic" instead of "mental" I felt like punching my monitor.

Country Matters, dude.

Yes. The books devolved into supernatural gobbledy-gook, which the series wisely avoided. The first season matches the first book pretty closely, though.

I KNEW HE LOOKED FAMILIAR.

Joe Hill's "20th Century Ghosts" has some excellent short stories in it. Also not science fiction, but definitely weird. He won the Bram Stoker Award for best fiction collection for it.

I'm on a dolphin, doin' flips an' shit…

A lot of awful horror movies can gather up a few truly spooky moments. Not all of them encourage you to tuck and roll across the endless void of space.

You know, I was thinking of the shotgun blasts in Match Point too, and I remember it as being this really nasty visceral moment. The other posts here bring up that it wasn't on-screen, though, which is maybe why it stuck with me so strongly. It was an intense moment, which doesn't happen often in Woody Allen movies.

You know, the A.V. Club has a feature just for that — or rather, they did. Book Vs. Film last updated when Watchmen came out.

It seems like a fine line: if you're a talented writer, and it makes sense for the characters to do the deed (which, I don't know, dragon-on-girl? There better be some pretty extenuating circumstances), then you've got to show what's going on. A lot of people get pissed off by a cut to the next morning or whatever,…

I wish I hadn't already registered
because "Vampire-Based Hitler" is an excellent, excellent username.

I had to watch this twice
because the first time I was busy making out with my girlfriend. Seriously, miss five minutes of this movie and you are utterly, hopelessly lost.