People actually play Boom Beach? Aren't there, like, real games out there?

-The President Show three times (I was with different people each time, and they all needed to see it).

I've been dying for someone to do a portrayal this vicious for months. Atamanuik is absolutely ruthless and I'm reveling in every minute of it.

Would've been neat if he had died in '09.

Uuuugh, I'm so fucking sick of Chris Pratt but I can't not see it if Malcolm is in it.

God damn do I need to see Viridiana again. Is it out on blu-ray anywhere? Last I checked Criterion only had it on DVD, but it wouldn't be the first time another company put out a former Criterion title in HD.

God damn it, I'm in love with that poster, but if I buy a copy I'll need to get a TFA poster as well, and I didn't really care for any of those designs. But I can't have my OT posters, and then a space, and then the one for TLJ. I wonder if I can get my hands on one of the Struzan ones from D23. That's probably the…

Entirely too much time was devoted to that tracking device.

I just finished obtaining all of the 2012 LPs, so I'll pass on the vinyl. The surround mixes are intriguing as hell, though.

Picked up a vinyl copy of Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins yesterday that I've been wearing out since.

I think Pete might actually be my favorite Mad Men character, because even though he's a horrible human being, the shit he has to deal with never feels like a karmic comeuppance in the way it does with Don. There's something existential or Sisyphean about Pete's struggles. He's a shitty guy in a shitty world and he's…

I would think Fox would be motivated to do this sooner rather than later, since they lose the rights to the other two in three years. They already made deals for the steelbooks and the streaming releases. I don't think distribution rights are going to be a huge problem. It's money for everyone.

My understanding is that Lucas wasn't even as dead set against it as people seem to think; he simply had no interest in spending his own money on a restoration. It's been suggested that he might have included a clause in the Disney deal forbidding them from releasing the theatrical cuts, but I really don't think he's…

Kind of hoping the price drop on the Star Wars box set is an indication that they're trying to move inventory before announcing a new remastered version at Celebration in two weeks. In a perfect world that would include the unaltered versions of the original trilogy, but the color is so janky and the transfer so…

Considering how much the First Order is already associated with the Unknown Regions after things like the Aftermath books and Lost Stars, a retooled take on the classic Thrawn story would fit right in. Probably not feasible to do an out and out military campaign given the state of the Imperial remnant after the…

I'm very relieved that Thrawn made it out alive. It would have really taken the air out of Zahn's new canon origin novel next month if we knew going into it that the character was ultimately a one-season-wonder on a cartoon. I hope they keep Thrawn around for a long time. I'd like to see him reassigned to the Unknown…

Just discovered the wealth of Mountain Goats material on Prime music, so I've been getting a feel for that. I've loved Tallahassee and All Hail West Texas since friends turned me onto them years ago, and I'm a big fan of John Darnielle's novels, but I haven't had the drive or money to delve deeper into the Mountain…

According to Wookieepedia, the only canon source that makes any mention of the seven forms is this:

Of course the poses are callbacks to moments from earlier fights from earlier movies, but I'm sure the "Form IV", "Form III" etc nonsense from whatever Legends-era video game it started in is not on anyone's mind. It's the same kind of thing as when Daisy Ridley and Lawrence Kasdan had no idea what people were talking…

I think that I was more moved by the setting of Tatooine itself than anything else in the episode, including Kenobi (he was damn good, though). Like many, I experienced some pretty significant Tatooine fatigue immediately following the prequels; it got to feel like going to Tatooine was just a box that had to be…