Seconding Will.i.am. I thought he was the most serious on the UK Voice about trying to help his contestants' careers. Like on that one pre-finals group outing, the other coaches took their teams out for recreational activities, but Will took his team into the studio to lay down some tracks. If nothing else, those guys…

I think he's either sincerely enthused for the contenstants, or faking it well (although I'd argue that someone choosing a career where they deal with the public all the time probably is a people person.) One moment that kind of endeared him to me in the first season was when one contestant got through and Carson was…

Yeah, I was also thinking that the show has become like a pathos arms race. It's at the point now where you can pretty reliably tell who's going to make it through based on how sad their story is. No heartrending family tragedy? BZZZT.

As a New Mexico resident, the thing I relate to most about Midnight Sun is being in a situation where you're either cursing the extreme heat, or cursing the extreme cold. I've lived here for several years, and every summer I'm like, "fuck this heat, bring on the cold — I can't believe I ever cursed the winter!" and in…

It's interesting to see a lot of people saying that this was their first, or among their first, Twilight Zone episodes. I couldn't honestly say what Twilight Zone episode was my first, but I remember it as the first, possibly because it freaked me out so much as a little kid. There are episodes I've seen since…

SPOILER ALERT

2017: Ben Affleck IS Bobby Orr in Number Four.

Fitzcarraldo

Watching "It's a Good Life," I can't help trying to think of a way that Anthony could be stopped. The best I could come up with is maybe someone sniping Anthony from a distance (assuming rifles still existed) while blanking out their thoughts, while someone else distracts the kid. Or maybe setting up some kind of…

The moment when Dan's berating Anthony, and while Anthony's distracted by his anger at Dan's bad thoughts, Aunt Amy reaches for the fireplace poker, but ultimately doesn't take it, is one of the most horrific things about the story for me. Of anyone still surviving in Peaksville, Aunt Amy probably has the best chance…

Thanks for the link. I can't say it did justice to the original, but it was very cool to see Billy Mumy reprising that character as an adult, and casting his real-life daughter as Anthony's daughter was brilliant — she's eerily similar to young Billy. I just wish the story had been better thought out, since much of it…

I just watched the sequel on YouTube, and I'm not sure if it really answers the question. In the sequel, Anthony says he can't bring anything/anyone back once he's wished it away. However, his young daughter Audrey, who begins to exhibit her father's powers, is more powerful than Anthony in that he can't read her…

It's hard out there for a pimpf.

I also have an upcoming "autobiographical" show, about a guy who spends the bulk of his workdays reading and/or commenting at a popular entertainment website. It's even called Maron! Oh, actually no, my title is slightly different.

And we know that helium caused the Hindenburg to go down. 

This is kind of an odd rant in that it laments the sorry state of documentary filmmaking while giving exactly the opposite impression by pointing to numerous examples of awesome, well-made documentaries, some of which I'd never heard of and intend to check out. Reading this actually made me feel encouraged to see that…

How bad would it be, really, to play a bunch of pool games until someone beat you?

@avclub-e26b78638818a53ee00db17b7f13ad99:disqus is great! Apologize at once!

Machesty Kills

Right…I don't know why I take it for granted that some artists make music into their golden years, while with others, when I see that they're still releasing music I respond with disbelief. I feel kind of shitty for having that response, since it implies that only "important" artists or artists who still sell…