Fourthing the assent that Withnail & I is indeed all kinds of awesome. Love the scene of them wading through a creek in the English countryside, hunting by shooting a shotgun randomly into the water. And, really, everything else in the movie.

This episode was the least subtle one the series has ever done (even beyond, as Todd described, the "Hey, remember when kids used to play with plastic bags?" moments" from season one), but Dr. Edna does give me a bit of hope for the characters. It's pretty well-established that Betty and Sally could benefit from a…

I think the 60s vs. today comparison is more in the audience reaction. There once was a time when adults could take an interest in children without people automatically assuming the worst of intentions. In the words of Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, "Thou shall not think that any man over 30 who plays with a child who…

Marc Forster is one of my least favorite directors currently working. Finding Neverland showed me that he has no idea just what's interesting about his source material. The extras on Quantum of Solace showed me he can sure can blow threw a budget jutting around the world from location shoot to location shoot, but the…

Battletoads is amazing, excellently designed with every stage requiring a different approach, if not an entirely different mode of gameplay. I spent a lot of my childhood playing the SNES and Game Boy iterations, though I don't know of anyone who didn't give up at the Turbo Tunnel on the orignal NES version. Shame -…

Forget this - where's the sequel to Lady Terminator?
Made in a land beyond good taste and strict copyright laws and probably movie ratings, they could put in all the violence they want and not worry about how the rating will affect business.

The Apostle Paul (1 Corn. 7:8) also suggests that the unmarried should remain unmarried, if I recall, mainly because getting married is a hassle and a complication in devoting one's life to God. Also, he's writing under the assumption that Jesus is coming back soon, so everyone's got at most a year or two left of…

Nothing keeps people together like shared interests and mutually-implicating blackmail evidence. I agree: they're in it for the long haul, and will die happily and loved having lived a full and productive life together - him, with his arms wrapped around that body pillow shaped like a bottle of wine.

I think in the DVD extras Edgar Wright said that if they had ever done a third series, it would have had Tim and Daisy married with a kid or something, and he wasn't sure that fans of the show would have wanted to see them having 'grown up' like that.

May economic circumstances force you to start an unfilling second career as the lowest-ranking wench at the harem of a medieval fantasy motorcycle gang.

Darkon
was a documentary about LARP'ers from a few years back that spent a lot more time than this (judging by the review) attempting to understand what it was about the game that attracted its participants, in addition to contextualizing the game within their lives. Definitely worth a watch. Anyone else seen it, or…

Phlogiston

I recall Heathers being fairly well-known in my high school from the early '00s. People knew about it - it was a VHS tape that got rented, a lot of people had seen it, most had forgotten the details and moved on to other movies, and a few people really loved it and watched it with some frequency. If we had asked any…

Demonlover on the horizon
I watched it a few months back and found it mostly dull and not very good. Does it really have a following?

I thought the ending the DVD extras said Waters wanted was JD blows up the school, and all the students find themselves in a prom in heaven. Which would have been perfect. What other 'lame' ending were you referring to?

His James Bond title song grew on me the more I listened to it, and though its not saying much, is probably the best of that series since before Soundgarden was formed. Though I enjoyed Soundgarden a lot back in the day, I never much followed him afterward.

"marks the first time a music album will be simultaneously released and bundled with a video game launch."
Somebody forgot about Killer Instinct for SNES….

It pissed me off when they killed her on Heroes. That was a show that could have benefited from thinning the heard and exterminating half its characters, and the one character they chose to kill was played by the show's most attractive actress.

I'm with Blaffair. When I saw Pete Campbell stroking that gun at the end of season 2 and thought he was going to off himself, I was disappointed and was relieved to see him alive at the beginning of 3. Mad Men is a low-key show that shows people struggling with their lives. Suicide is much too dramatic, too cliche,…

Smuggy - I agree with your criticisms, that the movie offers up a straw man of a racist boogeyman that the audience is able to dismiss as the Other, and thereby feel self-righteous while avoiding confronting their own issues.