So many good performances, but in particular, Julianne Moore just ripped my heart out, whereas an acquaintance thought she was pure ham. He was wrong, obviously.

It's also probably the only genuinely good performance Jennifer Lopez has ever given, and if Soderbergh can carve a good performance out of that lovely block of Formica then he's the ultimate actor's director.

Serafina Pekkala would have to be REALLY rewritten to make that possible, not least because she's the queen of the Lake Enara witches, and she has to disappear into land of the mulefa for quite a while, whereas nobody would particularly miss Mary Malone from her world. I don't know anything about the play, mind you.…

Getting rid of Mary Malone — an ex-nun! — would unbalance the whole book, taking away the Serpent from the Garden of Eden. Anyway, Lyra has plenty to do in the World of the Dead and, you know, killing God without also spending all that time with the mulefa.

I think the modern craze for hairless men started in the fifties with the rise of bodybuilder culture: a shaven/waxed body shows off musculature better. (And THAT began in the late nineteenth century thanks to Eugen Sandow, who even by modern standards is breathtaking.) The sixties and seventies saw a resurgence of…

Are you kidding me? I would do him like a month's laundry.

I've seen at least two film versions of "Pride and Prejudice" but I absolutely cannot get into the book, despite having tried three times, because Mrs. Bennet drives me around the bend. I hate her SO MUCH, and yes, I know how irrational this is, but I can't get past her.

Family Plot isn't great Hitchcock but it is a terrifically fun little movie (with a literal wink to the audience at the end) and I would gladly have read an entire interview with Devane just reminiscing about the filming of that.

FINALLY someone who answered the supervillain question correctly.

What are you talking about, one-shot? There are bunch of edits in "You Are A Tourist": one at 2:05, another at 2:13, at 2:31…. Really obvious ones, too, not even cloaked by a swish pan.

Liartown USA is so great. The Apple Cabin flyers are consistently funny and weird, and the list of e-cigarette flavours, for some reason, almost made me wet myself. ("Italian Sonogram: baby powder, olive oil." "Prayer Breakfast: myrrh, coffee, corned beef hash.") http://liartownusa.tumblr.c…

I think I saw it in exactly the opposite way: Betty was around for only a few episodes, she made a typically impetuous and foolhardy decision to jump, and we never did find out what became of her, despite that haunting Post-It note. I felt as if I knew so little of her that she became a mystery. Daisy was just some…

Oh. Okay, then.

Really? I never warmed to her. She couldn't hold a candle to Jazz Age spitfire Betty Rhomer.

Perhaps you're right: but I, personally, can't watch it. At all. Just can't.

Not the point. John Cena was perfectly presentable in "Trainwreck", Roddy Piper did a decent job in "They Live". Nop doubt some wrestlers could do a decent job with a decent script. But the universal script for wrestling calls for such ludicrously exaggerated, outsized personae that nobody, not the greatest actor in…

The problem with wrestling isn't that it's fake: it's that it involves literally the worst acting possible, acting that makes Tommy Wiseau look like Sir Laurence Olivier. It's embarrassing to watch. My stepfather, bless his heart, loved it, and I just couldn't be in the same room. I couldn't even laugh at it. I…

By "diversity" I assume you mean "almost unearthly attractiveness".

I dunno, though. There were some ridiculous showoffy shots like the camera going through the handle of a teapot, but Fincher himself said that point of all the tricky camera work was to give the sense that you're a sort of omniscient security camera, that you can go anywhere and see anything, to enhance the trapped,…

The first Monday of August is the holiday. It's not really called "Civic Holiday": that's just a catch-all name because it has a bunch of different local names. In New Brunswick it's called New Brunswick Day. in British Columbia it's called British Columbia Day. In Alberta, it's called Heritage Day. In Nova Scotia and…