Ooh ooh! If we're going to talk Thai cinema, I'm pretty sure everyone here would like "Citizen Dog", which is not a horror film at all, so I'm pretty off-topic. Whatever. It's more in the magical realism category, and is as good an introduction to Thai a capella indie rock as you're going to get.

*sigh* … Herd immunity. That's why everyone needs to be vaccinated. If 95% of the population is immune, the disease does not have enough carriers to spread. If less than 95% is immune, then the disease spreads. Without herd immunity, the immuno-compromised, the very young, the very old, those for whom the vaccination…

The banhammer would be particularly appropriate here.

Yeah, what mythology has god wiping out an entire civilization, leaving the few survivors on some sort of "ark" … oh, wait …

I should add, though that I read this comment board before watching it on hulu, so my expectations were rock-bottom.

2nded; I thought it was pretty OK, and it did get a few honest laughs out of me. It wasn't perfect by any means, but those few laughs are way more than I've gotten from family guy or the simpsons in the last few years. I'm usually the first on the hater bandwagon, so it's like I watched a different show than everyone…

@mrs. izzard:

Lists! Mine goes 1) Totoro, 2) Spirited Away, 3)Castle in the Sky, 4)Mononoke, 5) Kiki, 6) Porco Rosso; and Nausicaa and Howl's Moving Castle tied for Worst Place. For whatever reason, I really didn't get any redeeming value out of the last two, at all. Which is weird, because the first 6 are all among my favorite…

So, how about it, web site overlords? Any plans for a chicago-based AV Club Film Festival?

Even if you've just had Never Let Me Go spoilered for you, it's still a good read. For my part, I had heard it compared to the Island, and I knew the plot of the Island, so I figured out the plot twist about 10 pages in. But that changes none of the unsettling atmosphere, nor the complete joy of Ishiguro's writing.

Maybe the DVD will have an option just to watch those scenes?

Anyone here tear up to The Lives of Others? I've got a friend who can't even TALK about that movie without sobbing. I thought it was great and all, but I'm not sure I get the weepy part.

Well, I maybe did jump in a little early … in any case, I messed around with the game a bit, and it seems like a really good find.

Oh, you can download it here first:

I'd like to play this game.
but I'd need to know where download it … before that.

The two times Rachel Ray has been on a TV in front of me - both times! - she was teaching me how to make spaghetti with red sauce. Not reruns, either; she's devoted at least two distinct episodes of her show to making spaghetti with a can of tomatoes thrown on top. Thanks rachel! No more eating dog food directly from…

The Rock was on SNL last weekend (?), and it turns out he does a fantastic Obama impression. As in, he had the voice exactly right. Way better than Armisen (not that that's hard). I was kind of shocked to find out dude has real acting chops.