Night of the Hunters is her best album since "From the Choir Girl Hotel." I was a superfan of hers in the 90s, then kind of drifted away through the 2000s, but that was the first album of hers post-2000 that made me sit up and pay attention.

…and Shannen Doherty out of her latest made for SYFY movie.

Ditto. They could be interpreted as him ruminating over the conversation that just took place, "Killed them, of course" could very well be an act of his restating what other people think he did.

VOD has garnered a degree of respectability above straight to video. It's still not "only in theaters" respectable, but it's better than straight to video used to be.

I generally dislike Mumblecore, but "Humpday" was great.

This was shit. It didn't even get half of the details right.

I don't know. I thought this was genuinely dumb enough to be funny. I went to a Christian school as a kid, though, so I've always found faux Bible speak hilarious.

I really hated season 1 of Birthday Boys, but then it suddenly got good in season 2.

I laughed, but I almost think it's a really messed up drama. To appreciate the show I think you have to always be conscious of the fact that Brule is supposed to be writing it. The best parts of the show for me were the bits where Brule's psyche shows up in the script (like the scene where his mom brings him lunch…

Urinetown seems to dependent on theater in jokes to work on screen.

I say "Caroline or Change." It's the rare show whose book is good enough that the actors could merely read the lyrics with no music and it would still be compelling. But the music is really, really, good too.

The best composers working today tend to write really show specific lyrics that don't translate well to standards because they don't make sense out of context.

There are already really great quality video bootlegs out there. I'm not really itching for a movie, though, as "Into the Heights" is one of the biggest discrepancies between book and score of the past decade. The music's pretty good, but the show itself is like a bad, ABC family, sitcom.

I love "A Grand don't come for Free," but I love Dizzee Rascal's first album more. That still sounds like it was produced 20 years in the future to me.

Hey, in one song he takes back a DVD.

"Elegies" is great. He also did "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," which I liked.

I love "Marie Christine" so much. LaChiusa's other stuff usually has some good moments, but often seems like he's just treading water (maybe because for a period in the late 90s and early 2000s he was doing like a show a year). Marie Christine is one of my favorite shows. I've never actually seen it, though. I wish…

Yeah, he did "Grapes of Wrath" in Minnesota. Which was interesting. He was always kind of "art song" and "song cyclish," though. "My Life with Albertine" is maybe his most traditional musical, but even that isn't especially accessible.

Nah. At least in academia, film professors love to teach BoaN because the whole racism controversy spurs discussion and engages students a bit more in what is otherwise kind of a boring movie for modern students to watch.

I would suggest everyone play the "Game of Thrones" RPG that Cyanide did a few years back. That games has its flaws, but in terms of combat, it plays very similarly to DA2. And it has a very similar, "low stakes political intrigue / character study" type approach to the universe, only it pulls off its plot and…