I've been pulled over by an actual CHiP on city streets, so it does happen. I mean it's not like they would be chasing some guy on the freeway and then when he pulled off at the next exit the highway patrol just stopped dead in their tracks and said, "well, that's as far as we go".

Oh my!

Oh me…

Fitzcarraldo…
…is a total rip-off of "Steamboat Willie".

Fitzcarraldo…
…is a total rip-off of "Steamboat Willie".

Reading Horsefellow's posts is like reading "Flowers for Algernon".

I don't have access to any model airplane glue just now. Would spray paint in a paper bag be an acceptable substitute?

@Trurl - It's funny you mention that, because I remember seeing a segment on 60 minutes when I was a kid back in the 80s about Dungeons & Dragons and how it was driving kids and teenagers to commit suicide. 60 minutes has always been just about the most respectable news program on TV, but as my brother and I (who…

80s vs. today
It's not that I disagree with your basic assesment of the wholesomeness movement during the 80s (although the excesses from the 70s seemed to be even more pronounced in some ways). Having Reagan in the white house seemed to be evidence of this if not the spearhead for it. But that clip from 20/20 you…

"This Is It" only has backing vocals by Michael McDonald. That doesn't count as a duet, does it?

yawn
If Branagh brings some of the silly soap opera melodrama he brought to "Dead Again" and "Frankenstein" this might actually be fun. But based on that trailer it looks like he's taking it way too seriously. It may not be as bad as "Daredevil", but still…

I thought the original Gary Shandling Show was on Fox back when the network was fairly new. The fourth-wall-breaking one with the self-referential theme song, right?

Here's issue #2.

You'd think his presence in "Fail-Safe" would have killed the tension in that movie and yet it didn't bother me at all.

Okay, so it's a bishop, but the symbolism still holds up. She's part of an elaborate game being played by someone else. And in fact I think it's interesting that all of the totems we see are essentially toys. The top, the die, the chess piece. Even the pinwheel becomes a kind of totem for Cillian Murphy within the…

Shutter Island and Paprika
I've heard a lot of (rightful) comparisons to "Memento" and "The Prestige", but I almost immediately thought of "Shutter Island". Not just because Leonardo DiCaprio is in both, but also because it involves a possibly self-inflicted delusion regarding his wife and kids that would take up the…

Totems
Just to (maybe) clear up about how the totems work. Cobb explains that they are meant to let you know for sure whether you are in your dream or someone else's. If the totem is something that only you have ever touched then no one else would be able to create the exact weight and texture of it in their dream…

So. Wait…
What is a Ptavv?

So how did this come about?
Did Tasha audition for that new show that Ebert is putting together or did you guys just meet in a Chicago screening room?

Wait. Uncle Ben from Spider-Man or Uncle Ben from the rice.