I thought Steve Perry dropped out and they decided to use some Filipino dude they found on YouTube as Smaug instead?

At Rotten Tomatoes, this review is characterized as "rotten.'  How does a largely positive B+ review reflect negatively on the film?  This undermines my faith in RT's rating system.

I've got my popcorn and a comfy chair.  Keep 'em coming.

It's actually a vintage refrigerator.

I had assumed they'd be played by '80s band The Thompson Twins.  Seemed like a natural fit.

No, apparently he just received some bad medicine.

Wonder if that was some last-minute rewriting to work the Occupy Wall Street message into the film, or at least the trailer.  (Ann Hathaway's line about "living so large and leaving so little for the rest of us" is pretty much the "1% versus the 99%" point in a nutshell.)  Cool that the film is apparently addressing…

That still solves the problem, though, since the issue is inconsistent loudness.  If everything is loud, you can just turn the box down.  Next time a republifier says that government can't do any good, I'm pointing to this!

Pretty much every line of dialogue in every movie is overdubbed later, by the same actor, since it's really hard to capture clean dialogue in a noisy room with noisy camera equipment that interferes with recordings.  So it's entirely possible this line was lip synced, while still being Brolin's voice.  (The process is…

You're a feeder, eh?

Ty-Lor's plan was to mark the steaks on the grill, and then fire them in the oven at the last minute (takes only a minute or so) to get them med-rare and hot right before serving.  Lindsay got antsy and worried the steaks wouldn't be ready in time, so - since Ty-Lor was outside grilling and no one else would stand up…

I think he writes it stream-of-consciousness as he watches the episode, and then does a minor amount of editing afterwards.

I'd say Ty-Lor is also a class act.  He had every right to call out his teammates for poorly firing his steaks, but he just took all the blame himself and didn't try to shift it at all.  Plus, he's got a history as a softcore gay porn model - how can you argue with that?

Wasn't she, like, 13 in that picture?  Undercover agents are surrounding your house now…

The man owns Craft and Craftsteak, two of the absolute best restaurants in the country.  His "sandwich shops" make some of the best sandwiches, anywhere (comparable in my book only to Xoco, Rick Bayless's place).  The one time last season where he stepped up and cooked on Top Chef, the contestants (and me) were all…

You guys are just saying that because you didn't hear the live version performed on MTV.  It's much like the studio version, but the vocals are consistently a quarter-step off in one direction or the other and the drummer drags.  Awesome!

I was saying "Boo-urns."

Read her "blog" (really an interview) at the Bravo Top Chef site.  It's all explained in detail there.

There's an entire state full of Texans that would fight you to the death for that statement.  Whatever you might think tastes good in chili, "Texas chili" is by definition flavored primarily with chiles and contains only meat.

You can freeze it and keep it up to 6 months.  That stuff is like liquid gold for babies, so she likely didn't want to waste it.