Spielberg has a facility with child actors that very few other directors I know of can match. Christian Bale's performance in Empire of the Sun is one of the best by any child actor ever. Lex and Timmy weren't my favorite characters in Jurassic Park, but neither were they particularly irritating. Mainly, they're not…

Just make sure you watch the one with Bruce Davison. There was a version in the 90s with James Caan and Lisa Bonet that wasn't as good.

Yeah, I think It Follows could be the best horror movie of the last 10-15 years. I like my horror to be mostly psychological. Of course, it also helps if there's a little shock and gore, and that's why the opening scene is so effective. You have to walk a fine line when it comes to scaring people. If you're too…

Anthony Lane had a hysterically negative review of Age of Ultron in the New Yorker. I thought it was okay, but not the best MU movie. I hear Whedon is going back to creating his own universes next, which I am definitely in favor of. I kinda hope he does another Shakespeare adaptation if he ever finds the time.

My understanding is that Overdrawn at the Memory Bank is one of several made-for-TV movies that played on public TV at the time. (Another was The Lathe of Heaven, which is pretty fucking good.) Raul Julia was an ardent public TV advocate, so he did that film for little or no money. I thought it was hysterically awful,…

I had the good fortune to see the Pippin revival on Broadway two years ago. My cousin is an actor and he swears it's the best show he's seen in all the years he's been living in NYC. The story is good, the music is good, and the stunts/circus tricks were incredible. Where did you see it?

Have you seen the rebooted Cosmos? It's good, but I understand that it's a little bit watered down in comparison to the original. Still, if anybody is going to be this generation's Carl Sagan, NDT seems like as good a person to do it as anyone. He's a very likeable fellow, in addition to be all smart and knowledgeable…

I'm liking Sense8 even though the dialogue is a bit stilted. The Wachowskis clearly have a thing for everything-is-connected metaphysical stuff and JMS has never been subtle, so I shouldn't be surprised to see that it wears its intentions right on its sleeve. Still, there were times where I wished the action would…

The one year I went to Pride, a dude tapped me on the shoulder (more like rubbed my back, but never mind) and said, "How old are you?" When I told him I was 21, he turned to his friend and said, "See, I told you." Going to Pride means seeing a LOT of exposed skin. Fortunately, most of the guys are ripped.

Holy shit, I didn't even know Florence + The Machine had a new album out. Thanks for the head-up.

Bit of housing drama this week: Turns out they're jacking up the rent on my apartment. The lease expires in July, and since my roommate's name is the only one on it, it's up to him whether or not to renew or seek alternate housing. I really hope he doesn't choose the latter. It took me almost four months to find this…

Does anybody else think V for Vendetta was actually pretty good? That film seems to get a lot of hate around these parts, and I'm not sure why. (And yeah, I know they didn't direct it, but the script is still a pretty big part of why a film works or doesn't.) I thought the graphic novel was rather flawed, frankly, so…

I'm inclined to believe that Chappelle was just stopping in to say hello, but either way, I would love to see him return to acting sometime. I was just thinking back on how funny his Malcolm X riff in Robin Hood: Men in Tights was.

They've got the same team working on both the Deadwood and Looking movies. Expect them both around the time the people who caused the 2008 economic collapse are duly punished and O.J. finds the real killer.

Well, at least that film has nostalgia appeal. Not that I'll see it, but still.

I would rather have sex with Danny Devito than Kevin Connolly. Just sayin'.

You should hear me on 7th Heaven sometime. Seriously, they let Ruthie get away with everything. And there's an entire episode about the blond kid's principal catching him giving somebody the finger. The mom storms out of a conference with the principal, and when the principal tells the dad to go talk to her, he says,…

I'll keep that in mind, thanks.

Read this and tell me if you still think Adnan might be guilty: http://www.thefrisky.com/20…

It's a well-shot film. There is some good camerawork in the opening and closing scenes, anyway.