Also, did I hear correctly and was the password to get in to see her ordering a "Highsmith [something]? I was thinking that might be a pointlessly obscure reference to Patricia Highsmith and … um … I'm overthinking this, aren't I?

Yeah, the Brown fight song Bow was singing was the real thing. She was even singing the parody version ("we are ready with our beer", rather than the somewhat dorkier "we are ready with our cheer") that pretty much every student substitutes for the real one.

Though I'm a bit disappointed that when naming Baloo's voice actors, no mention was made of Phil Harris, who first played him in the original Disney Jungle Book as a variation on his proto-hipster bandleader character from The Jack Benny Program, and whom the subsequent animated portrayals resemble much more strongly…

Scrapple.

Or vice versa.

You can see this with Eyes Wide Shut as well, whose reputation seems to be getting gradually more favorable with the passing of time.

Fair enough. And thanks for the link.

No love for Ghostwatch?

I think you're right — it is personal for King: I think he sees Jack as a kind of alter ego, someone who, despite dealing with various personal demons — the same demons King has dealt with in his own life — is still a fundamentally decent man who ends up being corrupted by whatever supernatural forces inhabit the…

God, just the mention of that thing makes my skin crawl.

I'll have to see if I can find an old copy of that somewhere. FFC's BS's Dracula's score (by Wojciech Kilar) is outstanding.

Yeesh.

Holt was downright manic this week (or at least as manic as Braugher could be without completely breaking character). I have to admire how over the course of three seasons he's evolved from a straight-laced foil to the rest of the gang's lunacy to someone we realize is just as deeply weird and eccentric in his own…

Am I the only person who thought Thing wasn't just a disembodied hand, but in fact some sort of creature that lived in the walls of the Addams house and whose hand was the only part we saw as it reached out through various trapdoors? I realize its mobility in the tv show was limited by the special effects available at…

I expect by the time the real Joker shows up, the general reaction will be, "What? Another one?"

Hey, the guy's also been spending the last few years making techno albums, putting out his own line of gourmet coffee, designing yoga gear, and doing a daily weather report, so, all things considered, voicing a regular character on a little-loved cartoon show doesn't seem particularly out of character for him.

Hey, say what you like about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler. Therefore, by not killing Hitler, Gwyneth Paltrow is objectively worse than Hitler.

Dark Matter is decent if somewhat generic space opera. I like to think of it and Killjoys as "Firefly methadone."

I seem to remember Reed being okay in Thirteen when she was younger, but haven't seen her in anything since; I can certainly see why convincingly playing a contemporary teenager would ill-suit her for this role, however. As it is, she has entirely too modern an affect which makes her very jarring to watch in the…

Well, to be fair, I think that, at least as far as Continuum goes, its creators were not only aware of how problematic its setup was (I used to tell people that it was basically The Terminator told from the Terminator's point of view), but after at first seeming to embrace it, ended up actively deconstructing it…