There'd be some potential for an acting-based riff on Misery, but you know Stephen King would sue the writer's ass.

I concur that most of the financial frauds I've personally looked at were precipitated not simply as cash grabs, but because the perpetrator was in a bind and desperate for money or, in the case of investment advisors or traders, was afraid of losing their job if they underperformed. A few were just looking to enrich…

Monetary damage, sure, but a hold-up thief is more likely to physically harm somebody, intentionally or accidentally, I don't think that's an irrelevant distinction. I would consider a guy who pulls a gun or knife on somebody and demands their money to be more dangerous than a Ponzi-schemer, or a pickpocket, drug…

When Madoff’s assets were liquidated before he went to prison, he was worth about $80 million. There’s a hell of a lot left unaccounted for from all those billions, and at the end of the film we’re just as in the dark about that missing money as when we began it.

There's an awful lot of overlap between the Goths and modern fans of the Pre-Raphaelites. I think you guys could have gotten along. Unless the similarities just ended up highlighting the friction — a "People's Front of Judea/Judean People's Front" kind of thing.

I suspect a more literal association was at work regarding the literary movement — I'm not clear whether Walpole himself noted any connection of his work to earlier German literary traditions, but German authors rapidly embraced the genre. Since the ancient Goths were popularly considered the ancestors of the modern…

In personal talks previously I've dubbed that the experience of being "trapped with the film". There's a greater degree of intensity possible when a director is operating within that sensibility, and more flexibility in pacing. I wonder how the increasing prevalence of streaming and hand-held devices as a medium will…

John Banner knew, but always denied it.

It hit some of the same notes as a workplace comedy, if the authoritarian boss you were always putting one over on was a Luftwaffe Colonel.

Of course he wasn't. He plays that talk show host… Dr. Phil.

Having one planet crumble could alter the orbits of the rest, such that a complacent crew on a routine "make sure there's really no life there" mission might decide this planet was close enough to the orbit they expected.

I thought about that, but as I recall, per Rabin's definition, a Fiasco is supposed to display some ambition and imagination, however misguided or foolish. The sort of management by click-bait trend analysis at work here seems anything but.

It is, but as a management decision, it still rates as:

I'll also give them credit for an entertaining time loop twist that let them shockingly kill off Ben Franklin, but yeah, by the time the season was over, I had no interest in coming back for the third.

Season 2 repeatedly seemed promising to me, but it seemed like time after time they'd choose the least interesting direction to twist the plot, and ignore potential callbacks that would have had great potential. When they had Katrina "turn evil", with minimal and lame motivation, after ignoring multiple ample plot…

It's not the years, it's the… mileage?

Nowadays he could have videoed that and launched his own YouTube channel.

I'm a little surprised that the discussion of One Tin Soldier didn't reference the Coven cover actually used in Billy Jack, and that band's whole early Satanic rock angle.

I can't quite defend Dark Lady as "good", but it's glorious camp theatricality, and I enjoy it greatly, even before you throw in the cartoon video.

Certainly we could have assumed that opening comment about the non-existent East side of Chicago to followed up with a reference to the South Side, and Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown.