Quality-Spoiler alert, but yeah, it really, really is.

It got bogged down when the showrunner wouldn't budge from the title This Shit Gets Me Hard.

Don't applaud his work on the JFK assassination!

Me too. Especially as a pretty damn smart kid with an overactive imagination. It took some extra time for my mom to convince young Johnny that something like this wasn't going to happen to me.

I went to a Chris Rock show some time during the Bush Jr. years and there was this lady in the front row who got all rankled when Chris Rock shockingly made jokes at Bush's expense. She started trying to tell Rock why he was wrong and was clearly upset and it was just extra funny and bizarre at the same time. It's so…

Any time I see people unbelievably close to an active volcano I think of, "Vancouver, this is it!" and how brave-crazy you may have to be to be a volcanologist in the field.

It's still a little bit bewildering yet satisfying that the face of N*Sync, once thought of as the lesser version of The Backstreet Boys, went on to become perhaps the best overall American entertainer working today. He can sing, he can dance, he can host, he's funny and charming, and a serviceable actor. He even has…

Reading Lauren Owen's The Quick at the recommendation of a friend. That same friend also tried to recommend The Winter People to me, but I'd already listened to its audiobook and found it thoroughly disappointing, and outright bad by the end, so I'm wary of The Quick turning down the same path. So far, the writing is…

I've still never read any of the Necroscope books, but they stick out in my head because I remember being intimidated by their paperback book covers (almost always a variant of a skull with ridiculous fangs) when I was a kid.

Aw, but I like Danny Elfman….

Well, ideally… but then you read about how many kits are just sitting around…

Bless you for your defense of the endzone fumble rule. The arguments against it are at least as silly and arbitrary as they claim the rule itself is. From the Yahoo article: "Had the ball gone eight inches to the left, it would have gone out of bounds before the pylon inside the Washington 1 and been first and goal…

His earlier standup stuff is, I think, really really funny. But he's basically in a holding pattern at this point. He hasn't been good in anything movie-wise when he's been the star, not that I can think of, but that happens to a lot of standup comics given starring roles.

If nothing else, you just can't pass up on the title / name combo of "President Lawless."

It made up for its domestic troubles internationally (as is so often the case), so "flop" was an inaccurate overstatement on my part. I'll try to weasel out of it by saying that a $110m, PG-13 action thriller with a big, big name lead doing break-even domestic business and having modest overseas success is still a…

He looks like a cosmic Mrs. Doubtfire in that header pic. He looks like kindly old Auntie SpaceWitch, the secret benefactor of the lead in the new Disney Channel series, Gal Axie.

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Well, those figures for The Professional and The 5th Element both ARE the worldwide totals (check the breakdown numbers with the-numbers.com or boxofficemojo; some sites, like Wikipedia and others, present the total gross without the breakdown). Domestically, The 5th Element did just $63m and The Professional did just…

The 5th Element and The Professional have a certain "cache" among certain people, but neither of them was a major, mainstream box office success, and neither would be an indicator that Lucy would be as financially successful as it was. The 5th Element was a domestic box office disappointment, though it did decent…

Theater Usher: "I'm sorry, we're going to have to ask you and your child to stop doing flips."