I just hope they include the "I'm Han Solo" song from Kinect Star Wars, which I unironically adore.

I was genuinely astonished to discover that the "gang-bang" quote isn't just one that Sean made up.

I posted a list of some of my favorites on the What Just Happened? review, but if I'm going to be honest, I enjoyed the fuck out of Joe Eszterhas's two Hollywood books, up until the part when he became a born-again Christian.

I'm astonished by the accuracy of this description.

I liked the book a lot, but it seemed about two hundred pages too long, especially since I knew that (almost) every character was basically screwed anyway.

I actually read that Hal Hinson review years ago, in a collection of reviews called Love and Hisses, and it inspired me to check out Hudson Hawk for the first time. I loved it, and I still do.

"Sorry, I couldn't resist."

The Studio sounds awesome. I read Hit and Run years ago, although I don't recall much about it.

That mine-cart chase is gorgeous. Growing up, I don't think I realized how good this animation is—you just need to compare it to the first season of The Simpsons, which premiered just as Duck Tales was canceled, to see how far ahead of the curve Disney really was.

I enjoyed the book, too, although I can't remember most of the details.

Speaking of fat girls, whenever someone mentions The Poseidon Adventure, I'm always obliged to quote Pauline Kael on Shelley Winters's performance:

That Rachael Yamagata cover of "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday" is the ultimate sad bastard song. I've had a soft spot for Yamagata ever since "Reason Why" on the Last Kiss soundtrack, which announces exactly what kind of song it's going to be within the first two seconds:

On Directing Film is one of my favorites, too. His later books on the subject aren't as good, but that's probably the most useful guide to storytelling of any kind I've ever seen.

I think we have a winner.

Despite Mamet's recent case of the crazies, I'm still a fan, and definitely watching this, if only for the moment in the trailer when Rebecca Pidgeon throws a slushee in Pacino's face.

Whenever a book here gets an F, I feel obliged to link to Todd's review of Still Missing, and the ensuing comment thread, which is still my favorite thing ever on this site.

This is the approach I'd recommend. There's a fairly good consensus on the twenty strongest episodes of the show, and if you work through them chronologically—and there are classics, like "Ice," very early on—you've pretty much experienced the best the show has to offer. (This is my favorite TV show of all time, or at…

It isn't the same thing as lip-syncing at all, and it's misleading to make it sound like she was just faking it. Mike Doughty had a nice piece about this on Slate:

The only correct answer here is The Raid: Redemption.

Todd VanDerWerff = Odd, fervent dwarf.