I recently saw Highlander for the first time, and now I know where Tommy Wiseau learned to act.

I've only read them once, but I still agree with you.  I read them and watched the show last summer.  Side by side the show looked a lot worse.  It may be fairly high budget for a tv show, but good lord are they not good at hiding the limitations the budget imposes.  Also it makes them cut action for long scenes full…

I watched the first two episodes of Girls last year, and liked them, but I stopped watching because the conversation around the show was making me too sad to continue.  I started up again last week and am now seven episodes in.  It's completely cured me of my desire to have sex.  It's great.

It's weird to me that you criticize Miyazaki for his boring, default, stereotypical, Japanese values, yet praise Summer Wars.  Summer Wars was ruined for me entirely because it seemed to unthinkingly embrace boring, default, stereotypical, Japanese values.

This week's Stephen Chow movie is Mad Monk.  Chow plays a mid-level god within the heavenly bureaucracy.  He doesn't believe in predestination and bets that he can change the fates of a seven-generation beggar, a seven-generation prostitute, and a seven-generation villain.  Relinquishing his godhood, he becomes a…

I had the exact opposite reaction to that news.  I think the 15 minute version had enough plot for a half an hour, so maybe the extra time will be used for what I love.  Won't know until we see it though.

Neely's best gift is verbal surrealism.  The web shorts had mundane plots that let the language be front and center.  The problem with China, IL is that the plots became crazy and the language took a back seat.

The HarryPotterCentral version is the vastly inferior first recording.  Second version forever.

That Goro is quite the trooper.  Working on in the face of his father's withering disappointment.   And of course it's Hayao's script that stands out.  Poor guy.

Neither have anywhere near as much incest as Watch Your Mouth

Not every character can be as nuanced as Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel.

Scooter was so lucky to get this gig too, after losing his previous one overseeing The Onion's twitter account.

I read the entirety of Watch Your Mouth in one all nighter of insomnia brought on by a sugar rush brought on by a failed experiment in making pralines.  I can't think of a better way to experience the book.  The paranoia that your girlfriend may be fucking her father, the fear of golems, it all made so much sense that…

Say what you will about That's My Boy, at least it had the good taste to be in extremely poor taste.

Also in terms of war crimes, the Spartans tended to be on the better end of the scale. Except of course their perpetual war on the helots.

He was here

This week's theme pretty well scuttles my plans of doing a recommendation of a Stephen Chow film that fits the topic.  The only band I can recall in Chow's oeuvre is in that one scene in Shaolin Soccer.  It's a great fucking scene, but doesn't quite fit this week's theme.  Oh well we'll see about next week.

Hot Fuzz.  Movie's a fucking Swiss watch.

Every so often I regret not finishing my script reworking The Wire as a three camera sitcom.  It was 2008 and the series had just ended, so I figured I missed the window.  How was I to know that Wire kitsch was going to increase in cultural cache over the next couple years?  I think I really have missed the window…

Isn't that how you want a dick to grow?