It was pretty common for talented black actors in the late '80's into the '90's to explicitly say "I won't play a criminal, especially a drug dealer" because those were the only parts they were offered in quality films. Some even went so far as "I won't play a slave" too. Don Cheadle only did "Out of Sight" to work…

They have done that from time to time. For a while, studios didn't like the rental version of movies to have the special features, and would manufacture special "rental only" and even "Netflix only". I have seen some Netflix-specific labels. My guess would be that, at this point, it would be more likely that…

If you're getting a car that needs a discman to play CDs, at this point it's a good bet that it's new enough to have a USB, as opposed to old enough to have a cassette player.

The actual spoiler space tells more than just the premise. I get the impression that D'Angelo disliked the ending itself strongly enough that he finds it impossible to discuss the premise without talking about what he felt the film was actually building to and what it arbitrarily concluded on instead.

BLJ is one of the first times I remember, as a kid, realizing "Wow, this just really isn't any good."

Is the computer misinterpreting badly written programming or sinisterly designed? I'm really amused by the idea of it overreacting to people's everyday problems, like "You spilled the milk? No use crying over that, you should just kill yourself."

I asked this a month ago and was pointed to 'Alpha House'. Can't speak to it one way or another myself.

Of the speculations I have seen, I like the idea of The Mountain being resurrected without a head, but I think that would be a step too far; if you can bring people back without a head, then they really can just bring back Robb and Ned and anybody they want. Plus, sending *just* the skull immediately implies that…

Consistency? Yeah, nobody else can raise the dead in 'Fire of Song and Ice'.

"He didn't even say "lesbian woman"."

"So because he's not 100% Arabic, he's white"

Disqus won't let me edit that post — I was wrong, it wasn't his start, but it was a really early big bump for him to work on 'X-Files'.

Fourth time — Gordon got his start on 'X-Files'. So, actually, first time, and maybe fourth also.

TV writers only know two things to do with married characters, and it's rare that a show would let the leads go through a divorce, so that just leaves kids.

I don't think the reviewer meant it's insulting to consider a foreign nation "exotic". The point is that it's the setting for the show, so if all they did was present this foreign nation as a place for American characters to walk around and think "Oh wow, this is so exotic", then that is "insulting" in that it is…

"But he wasn't allowed to have a fair trial, so he ran."

"but I can't think of a time where they've been ahead of the curve"

Crash is a bad example, because it isn't *just* disliked because it beat 'Brokeback', but because it's a lousy movie. Plus, because it came out so far before the Oscars, film fans had already settled on "not very good" before it was named Best Picture.

A lot of their recorded stuff has different punchlines. I don't think there's any recording of "Dead Parrot" which uses the same punchline as any other version. [My favorite of the assortment is:
"We're all out of parrots… I've got a slug."
"Pray, does it talk?"
"Yes!"
"… Oh, jolly good, I'll have one of those then."

I don't think he wrote it "to be adapted" in the sense that you mean, he wrote it so that when they were making a sequel, they would have a specific property to pay for the rights to rather than writing an original sequel. I mean, he got *some* money for 'Jurassic Park III', but he got a lot more for the film rights…