I figured he'd given the memory paper he took from his daughter to an actress, and used it to play Holmes for fun. But that wouldn't make sense — what actress wouldn't be creeped out by that role?

Thanks for the IGN review heads-up, I liked that one. For some odd reason, most reviewers are fawning over this episode, which does have fine acting in it. But basically if the point was to make Sherlock less of a social maladjustive, there would have been 10 ways to do it better than this "Bourne Identity" shite.

I simply didn't take it as a realistic story; more trying for a message about America and racism (I didn't think the message quite worked, but I appreciate the effort.)

That was weird, I had the same experience.

Yeah . . . you can film in 70mm if you like but projecting it properly is another matter. The machines capable of showing it are old, the projectionists haven't run them in forever, and unless you have a very big screen, 70mm doesn't look any different from digital.

Exactly! I kept expecting him to land the chopper on the hotel roof. Maybe if you do that they charge you extra, and Bond's hotel budget was already exhausted by raiding the minibar.

The score was underwhelming, after I thought Newman did a good John Barry impersonation last time.

Easily my favorite thing in the movie was the interplay of the MI-6 team. I want more of those four even if Craig's moving on.

I'm not as excited for the new film as I once was. "Skyfall" looked amazing. Why not use Roger Deakins again?

He was pretty great in "Big Eyes" as a garden-variety sleazebag abusive con artist. Not sure I need to see him as Evil Mastermind Baddie. After a point I prefer Alan Rickman getting to wield his acting chops instead of being another damn supervillain.

I thought "LTK" had one good subplot and one terrible one. The good subplot was Bond infiltrating the drug organization and staying one step ahead of the narcos trying to discover who their leak was.

Haven't seen it yet . . . but where does Spectre get their money? I mean, they hollowed out an active volcano and put a space program inside. That's a lot of dough. Especially since all their big-budget extortion plans are foiled by Bond. Even Apple can't keep selling Dick Tracy watches nobody wants forever. What's…

Um, the tone is a bit off . . . snarking on Oliver for going after an obvious target when that show often goes after less obvious targets. And had last year's wonderful interview with Ugandan transgender activist Pepe Onziema. The show's never going to be "Democracy Now" but it is worthless because it's very…

Interesting article, good info and research connecting different musical history trends. I wouldn't agree with all of it ("country music . . . was, after all, the sound of the counterculture" is a stretch) but I definitely enjoyed reading this and thinking of those Stones songs in a different way.

"Remain In Light" has a pretty terrible cover, for such a wonderful album.

The Simpsons people are punching the clock, for ridiculous amounts of moolah (the writers, at any rate, not the animators) and more than happy to acknowledge creative cartoonists doing good stuff.

The second season of "The Fall." Because cat-and-mouse killer-dances-with cop stories are the stupidest ever, but the first season was perfect when I was too sick to rouse myself from a prone position. Everyone was depressed and miserable. It fit.

Yeah — my first take is that it's really sleazy.

Vincent Kartheiser's the best. To pull off a line like "the king ordered it!" with such skill is simply amazing.

Gary Indiana once wrote that the thing about being Catholic is, even if one chooses to consciously reject the religion later in life, you can still feel the mechanisms ticking away inside you.