Doctor Who is a lot like a comics series or anything that runs for a really long time. They get rid of somebody, they bring them back, they kill somebody off for realsies, then bring them back anyway, they kill somebody, burn the body, then go into parallel universes to kill off all of their incarnations, then come…

There's a really good Audio Adventure called "Master" starring Sylvester McCoy. I can't remember who plays the Master in that one, but he's really good.

She's 65? Judging from that picture, I'd say she's about 30.

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And keep on celebrating right into next year.

To be fair, they are doing jobs none of us would ever do. Who the fuck wants to burst out of John Hurt's stomach?

And as somebody who loved District 9 even though the second half was not as good as the first, I have about a 98% chance of seeing this in theaters.

Well, if there's one thing for which you can always count on David Fincher, it's slick visuals.

I dunno how American Idiot would work on film, especially because the appeal of that one, to me, is largely spectacle. The plot is wafer-thin and the music is, well, it's Green Day, but I saw it with John Gallagher Jr. and the rest of the original cast, and it has so much energy that I didn't mind. (I especially liked…

I think the problem might be the place that movie musicals occupy in our cultural consciousness. I saw Into the Woods with my family on Christmas day. Seems like exactly the sort of thing you do with your family on the holidays, doesn't it? A few years ago, we saw Les Mis, which, also, is exactly the sort of thing a…

I have issues with Wicked as a show, yet I still think that "Defying Gravity" is one of the best Act I finales I've ever seen. I have a hard time imagining that being anywhere near as powerful on film.

I found the film version of The Producers musical to be damn near unwatchable. The original film is so funny. The stage musical is so funny. So how could a film version of that musical miss? By not so much adapting the stage show as just filming it. Had director Susan Stroman brought cameras to a live staging of the…

The first act is pretty solid, the second act rather uneven. The pacing is off, and good Lord, is "Your Eyes" a terrible fucking song. When I was in high school, I thought Rent was the greatest thing I'd ever heard. I don't still feel that way, but it's not bad, it just lacks polish.

Don't forget "Once More, With Feeling", which had a similar tone and style.

Oh God, those Theon scenes were absolutely insufferable. Could they not just write Alfie Allen out for a season or so? There's just no reason for us to have to fucking watch this shit.

My favorite season so far is season two. The only major problem with that one is the Daenerys storyline. I never could figure out why I was supposed to care about the bald sorcerer dude assassinating the high council or whatever was going on over there. Other than that, the season has so much awesomeness, from Arya at…

The only problem with that movie is that bizarre Broadway Melody sequence that goes on for, like ten minutes. Other than that, it's a near-perfect film, and one of the best screen musicals ever.

I thought 2046 was a bit harder to get a handle on than In the Mood for Love, which means it didn't flow for me the way the first one did. Still a good movie, though. If you haven't seen Happy Together, see it. it's one of the best portrayals of the way that a relationship can progress from intense, hungry desire to…

Most Mike Leigh films tend to be very well-acted and subtle, but kind of depressing. I saw Another Year a year or so ago and found myself rooting for the Lesley Manville character even though everyone else seemed to think she was hopeless. The way I see it, she just needed to stop hanging around people whose lives had…

I just got the new issue of The Economist in the mail. It has Putin's creepy face on the cover! I can't wait to read all about private schools and stuff. I went to a Catholic school and found it an odd experience. They tried really, really hard to impose Catholic dogma on it while trying not to seem as if that's what…