"Young adult" seems a lot more formalized as a genre now than when I was young (IE, the 90s). Back then, I understood "young adult" to refer to whatever your middle school library was stocking that wasn't a mass-market paperback, books written with young people in mind that kids typically moved on to after mastering…

"Young adult" seems a lot more formalized as a genre now than when I was young (IE, the 90s). Back then, I understood "young adult" to refer to whatever your middle school library was stocking that wasn't a mass-market paperback, books written with young people in mind that kids typically moved on to after mastering…

I agree, even if this particular version (apparently) didn't turn out so well. If you have a beef with a movie, take it apart from within.

The Sorcerer and Raiders shout-outs are some of my favorite visual gags from the series. Very funny in-context, even if you miss the 'references', and the speed at which the latter (especially) comes just goes to show how thick the joke density on the show was during its prime.

The Sorcerer and Raiders shout-outs are some of my favorite visual gags from the series. Very funny in-context, even if you miss the 'references', and the speed at which the latter (especially) comes just goes to show how thick the joke density on the show was during its prime.

High school: watch show as broadcast, find it hilarious.

High school: watch show as broadcast, find it hilarious.

There's a tint of "American democracy bailed out all those Europeans with their antiquated governments" to the museum's narrative tone, but there are a lot of artifacts, and the architecture and layout make it among the most beautiful museums I've visited.

There's a tint of "American democracy bailed out all those Europeans with their antiquated governments" to the museum's narrative tone, but there are a lot of artifacts, and the architecture and layout make it among the most beautiful museums I've visited.

Between the visuals and the musical numbers and the explosions and whatever the heck was going on thematically, its an extraordinarily engaging hour of television, whatever it means. Alfonso Cuaron's quote about cinema (and presumably, TV) being hostage to narrative - The Prisoner finale at least found a way to…

Let me re-phrase: the show always introduced more plot threads than it resolved, so I was less interested in an overall 'resolution'.

Carnivale worked great on an episode-to-episode basis, but because it was so obviously plotted on-the-fly - without much forethought as to the overarching story - I didn't have much investment with how it ended, premature cancellation or no. Who knows though - if it had another season or two, it might have pulled…

Eponymous, I think you nailed part of why the Seinfeld finale didn't work: it just created a "story arc" for the series out of nowhere, throwing everything together in an arbitrary jumble that might as well have been the clip show that preceded it. Also, it wasn't funny.

Home Movies is at the top of my list of great finales. Seeing the elementary school kid-characters (who already talked with the world-weary voice of adults) realize they were growing up was both emotionally affecting and somewhat disconcerting, with both a melancholy closure for the ostensible hook of the show and…

I think if I were to re-watch Borat today I'd react more negatively than I did when it first came out. Funny as it can be, I think its satirical revelations are limited: much of the movie seems selectively edited, half the people involved seem like fairly innocuous individuals being pushed past their breaking points…

It kind of has a  "Pick-a-little, talk-a-little, pick-a-little, talk-a-little,

How has The Bachelor been running 16 seasons!?

'NARC-y' is a brilliant description of the tone of Miller's descriptions! But I don't think he's trying to convince fence-sitters that he 'knows all about the secular life' so much as he is, for one half of the audience, flirting with things he thinks his audience would find semi-dangerous, yet intriguing (see also,…

Maybe not provincial politics, but class wars and generation gaps were among the more pronounced themes of Harry Potter, so looks in some respects she's sticking to the same territory.

I think the movie does have a ready-waiting audience - or at least, I know a number of people who loved the book, and found insight and value in it. Like the movie "Saved," it's more or less squarely pitched at college-aged kids from conservative religious backgrounds who wouldn't think of abandoning their faiths, but…