I work at a bar in New Orleans that does a Geeks Who Drink quiz night. Definitely ripe for material - regular characters, bitter rivalries, stunning comebacks, upsets, dance-offs . . . pub quizzes are the shit.

Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father. The premise is exactly what the title suggests at first; the filmmaker starts trying to paint a portrait of a murdered man to share with his infant son once he comes of age. Then it all changes. It's one of the saddest movies I've ever seen - I think it even made the…

Lockout had a surprisingly nuanced message about prisoner's rights and the ethics of detention - and it was Escape From NY in space! Great film.

When Brambell goes missing and George claims, "He's concealed about my person!" is one of the movie lines that I quote all the time even though nobody knows what the hell I'm talking about.

I want a 30th season.

I thought this episode was pretty good. The cheerleaders weren't portrayed as stupid, but their oglers were. The "Very Euro" joke made me chuckle. Marge's hostility was understandable, Homer historically argues with his much smarter brain - all of this is fairly classic Simpsons. The fake cheerleader merchandise was…

The Two Towers book had a better ending (Shelob! Sam alone outside Mordor with Frodo captured!) than the movie, but the movie was still the best of the three. No hours of exposition to deal with, and no hours of resolution. Just meat.

The Two Towers book had a better ending (Shelob! Sam alone outside Mordor with Frodo captured!) than the movie, but the movie was still the best of the three. No hours of exposition to deal with, and no hours of resolution. Just meat.

Gollum leaves the mountain and goes in search of the ring, gets captured by Sauron, and that's how Sauron finds out about the ring. Given the elevated role of the Necromancer (that is, Sauron) in the first Hobbit, and the inherent marketability of the Gollum character, shouldn't we expect to see this happen at some…

Gollum leaves the mountain and goes in search of the ring, gets captured by Sauron, and that's how Sauron finds out about the ring. Given the elevated role of the Necromancer (that is, Sauron) in the first Hobbit, and the inherent marketability of the Gollum character, shouldn't we expect to see this happen at some…