Well, that's the EuropaCorp aesthetic in a nutshell: utterly generic material that manages to surprise simply by being just slightly better than it really needs to be. You don't actually need actors of Pearce's or Neeson's calibre to pull this stuff off, but the fact that Besson & Co., go to the trouble of hiring…

I think I've already mentioned that the Cars universe becomes marginally more palatable if you think of the movies as all being sequels to Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive, and the reason there are no people in them is that the machines have already systematically massacred all of them.

Yeah, pity there's no commentary, as Cronenberg's commentaries are invariably worth listening to. He's always thoughtful and articulate both about the technical process of filmmaking and what he was trying to do thematically as well.
You should check out Fast Company when you get a chance though. It's hardly…

You know, I can't help thinking that naming your superintelligent chimp "Caesar" is just asking for trouble. I bet if they'd called him "Mister Bobo" or something instead, things would have ended up differently.

Mostly, though, A Hard Day’s Night preserves a particular, unrepeatable moment in pop-culture history,

"Does this ice cream taste funny to you?"
"No. Not at all."

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Razors pains you, Rivers are damp; Acids stains you' And drugs cause cramps. Guns aren't lawful, Nooses gives; Gases smells awful, You might as well live."

It'll be interesting to see how Silicon Valley deals with this problem: in the last episode they explained Christopher Evan Welch's absence by saying that his character was "on safari with Lorne Michaels and Jay-Z," but ultimately he was too important to the show (and gave too memorable a performance) for them not to…

Jesus. When they announce the winner of this thing, are they going to dump a bucket of pig's blood over her head, too? I mean, why not go all the way?

Cosima's the hottest, but Alison's the most reliably entertaining (and, as already noted, any scene with Alison and Felix is going to be Comedy Gold).

That last bit where she asked Ramon "How's your mother?" after picking out her piece made me laugh out loud.

I'm now trying to imagine Diane squaring off against Victoria Grayson …

Heck, I've never seen it at all, but was able to get a reasonably good idea of what they were going for purely through whatever throwaway references I've happened to catch in other pop cultural venues.

I thought it was a mostly solid episode, further enlivened with some vintage Revenge wackiness, like the poisoned face cream and the occasional bit of drive-by snottiness from Conrad. What really got me excited, though, was the preview for next week, which was almost gleeful in promising the long-awaited return of…

Here's to one of the all-time great "hey, it's that guy" guys.

Welp, that's another year or two of Andy Zaltzman needling John Oliver taken care of.

Nah, not enough Tatiana Maslany for that.

Tatiana Maslany and Tatiana Maslany, investigating the murder of Tatiana Maslany by Tatiana Maslany, Tatiana Maslany, or Tatiana Maslany and its possible connection to an earlier murder of Tatiana Maslany, which had been thought to have been committed by Tatiana Maslany but may actually be the work of Tatiana Maslany…

Well, I always did suspect Jobs swiped that "one more thing" bit of his from Columbo, so there's that …

I'm kinda hoping it refers to The Monarch from The Venture Bros. myself ….