Um, Scanners does NOT hold up, because it's got one of the worst lead performances I've ever seen in a film. It's astonishing.

You've never been the first (or second) obvious suspect in a missing person / murder case. Neither have I. But we might act differently if we knew the cops were going to be looking carefully at us. Nailing down our alibi might be pretty close to the first thing on our minds.

So… Say that? It was set up as some strange tease. But now let's hear about adnan helped the nerd on the soccer team (eyes rolling straight up and out of my increasingly bored skull).

A perfect example of the frustration of Serial these days: She starts the episode with mention of a hot rumour that if true basically blows the whole case up in Adnan's face. Then… she doesn't tell us the rumour.

We've had about 4 "odds and ends" episodes lately.

That's not an unpopular opinion. There's really that group of PTA fans and a second (ahem, bandwagon) group that became aware of him with There Will Be Blood and consider that his best.

PTA dropped out of film school and has written some of the best scripts, well, ever. Mario Puzo had never written a screenplay before the Godfather. When it was time to write his second movie he thought, "I better actually learn what I'm doing." He consulted a screenwriting text. He was surprised to learn that the…

I would suggest re-visiting the film. I've seen it four times. As a big PTA fan, I didn't love it at first and was disappointed as well. But with each successive viewing I found it warmer, funnier, stranger, and richer thematically. It's now one of my absolute favorites.

Um… 3 times no.

The (original) Comeback was just a vastly inferior re-tread of the U.K. "The Office," with Lisa Kudrow doing a terrible David Brent impression. Yet, have we grown so accustomed to The Office re-treads at this point that the Comeback might actually be palatable?

It's the second best movie I've seen this year, only trailing Boyhood by a hair. And if this year's Best Picture race comes down to the two of them, it will parallel the Avatar vs. Hurt Locker contest of big box-office vs. small. Except of course this year the "big" movie isn't a piece of cartoonish, cliched garbage.

Are you thinking of the videos from their 1997 live tour?

Did not know that. Feellikeadick.

She shouldn't have passed on Parenthood. That was a miss.

Well, commercials.

"an Everyman whose concerns—affluence that’s loaned to him, children who torment him, a wife who asks things of him" - betraying your own biases there, Genevieve?

I don't really want to defend this song. I really don't. But I feel like the main point of it is being missed here. "He's got an interstate running through his front yard, you he thinks he's got it so good." — then the other verses are the same - look at this shitty life we have, but you know what, we're doing all…

Right. In fact, the only thing I found misogynistic was Flynn's first rendering of Amy through those diary entries. That flighty, pleasing-her-man, manic-pixie-dream girl. But then of course that characterization was immediately subverted.

I would argue that the book does EXACTLY what Fincher did. Nick DOES become the hero. Amy DOES devolve into a "crazy bitch." The "cool girl" commentary is indeed the best and most insightful thing about the novel, but Flynn betrayed her own promise there in the way the book finishes.

And he can do a podcast about 5-10 times faster than he can write a column.