Thursday midnight: Prometheus, with my chums. Gorgeous, works as a sci-fi thriller, and the Caesarean scene was completely awesome, but even as I was watching, I knew it wouldn't hold up as a classic. Basically, when you are watching a movie where humans are getting menaced by very scary aliens determined to kill…

Thursday midnight: Prometheus, with my chums. Gorgeous, works as a sci-fi thriller, and the Caesarean scene was completely awesome, but even as I was watching, I knew it wouldn't hold up as a classic. Basically, when you are watching a movie where humans are getting menaced by very scary aliens determined to kill…

Clueless is great — one of the best romcoms of the past 20+ years… or really, one of the only watchable ones too.

Clueless is great — one of the best romcoms of the past 20+ years… or really, one of the only watchable ones too.

uh, it really goes:

uh, it really goes:

Finished reading Buffy season 8 comics… was not terrible as I've been told, but it was seriously flawed and weird. Still better than season 7, in that it was funny and kinda fun: Buffy felt like Buffy, her sleeping with Angel still leads to the Apocalypse, and Spike was snarky and sarcastic and awesome (instead of…

Finished reading Buffy season 8 comics… was not terrible as I've been told, but it was seriously flawed and weird. Still better than season 7, in that it was funny and kinda fun: Buffy felt like Buffy, her sleeping with Angel still leads to the Apocalypse, and Spike was snarky and sarcastic and awesome (instead of…

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is on my list of perfect short stories. Nabokov read it in a short story compendium (one of those "best short stories of the decade" dealies), and he penciled a grade next to each story; Salinger's story was the only one to get an "A."

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is on my list of perfect short stories. Nabokov read it in a short story compendium (one of those "best short stories of the decade" dealies), and he penciled a grade next to each story; Salinger's story was the only one to get an "A."

Season two was not so great, sigh. I was SO looking forward to it too. It feels like they were trying too hard to push the envelope and be amazing. I just know that the first episode was kind of over the top, but I loved the actress who played Irene Adler, so it was probably my favorite.

Season two was not so great, sigh. I was SO looking forward to it too. It feels like they were trying too hard to push the envelope and be amazing. I just know that the first episode was kind of over the top, but I loved the actress who played Irene Adler, so it was probably my favorite.

The first time I saw Serenity, it was a special fan preview with special surprise guests… Alan Tudyk and Gina Torres. They walked out after the movie was over to an extremelt traumatized audience. Awkward,

The first time I saw Serenity, it was a special fan preview with special surprise guests… Alan Tudyk and Gina Torres. They walked out after the movie was over to an extremelt traumatized audience. Awkward,

Concur with bitter. Love Rushmore and Fantastic Mr. Fox, while Royal Tenenbaums was great when I saw it, but less resonant after I actually thought about it; it gave me such an icky feeling that I deliberately skipped his next two movies until I was lured back by his stop-motion Roald Dahl movie (two damn things I…

Concur with bitter. Love Rushmore and Fantastic Mr. Fox, while Royal Tenenbaums was great when I saw it, but less resonant after I actually thought about it; it gave me such an icky feeling that I deliberately skipped his next two movies until I was lured back by his stop-motion Roald Dahl movie (two damn things I…

Darlene's poem from that Roseanne episode. Didn't hurt that Sara Gilbert sold the shit out of it either.

Darlene's poem from that Roseanne episode. Didn't hurt that Sara Gilbert sold the shit out of it either.

If you took away all of Miyazaki's other movies, all of them erased from history except for Spirited Away, I'd still happily agree that he's a genius.

I think it was Anthony Lane that said that film as a medium was closest to poetry. Multiple critics have compared longform television to novels. They are superficially similar media, but in form and expression, very different.