This is a good review, but the grade doesn't seem to match it. It's a C-range movie at best. I saw a screener last night and wanted to walk out several times. Here's my review: http://www.flickchart.com/b…

The Man Who Shot Liberty Burns would be a good follow-up. Flanders comes to clean up the town by the book, but ends up thinking he's shot Mr. Burns. He's guilt-ridden, but rides his success to the mayorship and maybe beyond. Then in Part 2 as a powerful but increasingly corrupt and hypocritical Flanders sinks into a…

Flickchart did a good one of these earlier this year: http://www.flickchart.com/b…

I definitely think they're equally good. They're so different that they're hard to compare.

Until this week's We Hate Movies episode about The Lost World, I had forgotten that that movie includes the first book's family on the beach scene.

It seems like for years now there's been some kind of Hannibal Lecter-inspired TV show on that I keep expecting to go away, and it keeps sticking around. I need a Primer on it, or on them if there are multiple ones. I don't know a damn thing about it, but I did rewatch Silence of the Lambs last week, and what a fine…

I'm cool with it, I go against the grain on a select few sacred cows, too. The Conversation, for one. I just don't think I've ever heard anyone dislike The Apartment so assuredly. But carry on!

Grant is the opposite of an everyman, though, Stewart is an everyman called to action in extraordinary situations, and Tracy is a mouthpiece for writers and messages (not that that's a bad thing). Lemmon is a middle-management, workaday man for the postwar, pre-radical era. Brando and Dean are his rebellious younger…

I figure so.

I hope so.

That's… definitely a first for me. OK though, interesting.

I don't think I've ever heard a negative word about him until now. Overcooked, is he? Hm. Well, he plays hectored, frantic, awkward types, but how can you not love it? THE APARTMENT for chrissakes.

And by the way I am watching Antiques Roadshow. Silly to go up against that.

I just turned on my TV (no cable, no satellite) to watch Antiques Roadshow, as I do on a Monday, and there was this new channel out of nowhere right below PBS. Weird.

These clips are really bad, though. I'd have to see one with Rosalind Chao to say for sure.

That one definitely had the potential to be the best, just on premise.

Jocularity, jocularity!

A key demographic!

A great spinoff would have been "Winchester," in which Charles moves from Boston to Seattle to be a radio doctor, and he lives with his equally-neurotic sister and their beer-drinking father Charles II. Klinger as the live-in housekeeper, perhaps?

I think they swapped the middle names. I think it's supposed to be "John Patrick Francis Mulcahy" and they made it "John Francis Patrick Mulcahy," which just sounds weird. They may have even shuffled the first name into the wrong spot.