Michael Bay "gets" that Transformers 2 will probably earn more than all Woody Allen movies combined did.

I've seen overhead luggage compartment come open during a hard landing and shit fell out. I can see how that might kill a person. Especially since people try to pack every god damn thing they own in there. They're spring-loaded by the time everyone gets all their bullshit smashed into that tiny space.

"A bit of crushing reality to the start of an otherwise carefree weekend…"
People still have carefree weekends?

Ed! Is! Dead!
Ed is dead.

I think of Nick Cave/Warren Ellis for "Blood Meridian". Listen to "The Proposition" soundtrack and tell me I'm wrong.

Bernard Herrmann
Day the Earth Stood Still
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Jason and the Argonauts
Mysterious Island

Even more awesome would be if his last words were, "Fuck you, Rupert Murdoch, and your snivelling little Fox News weenies."

You guys forgot Billy Bob Thornton getting bitch-slapped by Kurt Russell.

Why even set a number? Why 5 or why 10? If the Academy thinks there are 3 movies in contention for Best Picture, nominate 3. If they think there are 14, nominate 14. That way, a banner year like 2007 might have a whole lot of nominations while a year like last year might not.

Hey, shoutout to my hometown of Bitchass, Texas, pop. 791. SA-LUTE!!!

Yeah, according to "Elah" all of us who went over there starting killing, raping, and torturing everything in sight as soon as we set foot on Iraqi soil. I call bullshit on that movie.

So, if I'm understanding this right, his next movie is about vampires and basketball? Because that might be awesome.

Speaking of coincidence, "Ed is Dead" by the Pixies came up on my playlist while reading this article.

And Curly Joe, the forgotten Carradine brother. He died in a self-immolation incident.

I loved the original "Jaws" as a kid (still scared of sharks). Then "Jaws 2" came out; pretty disappointing, but it had a couple of moments, like the shark eating the helicopter, though, like most people, I was cheering the shark to eat the horrible, horrible teenagers. Then came "Jaws 3D". I thought, what the…

Any chance of a Clint Howard Random Roles?

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"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Season 4 releases in September, the same month that Season 5 premieres on FX. YEA!!!

I paused on the credits and saw that this has Aasif Mandvi in it. Do you think he's really there or just in front of a green screen?

And thank you A.V. Club for running the Tonight Show clip instead of the Cash 4 Gold clip.

Concur. It looks like a dry how-to guide, but it's actually very interesting, both the autobiographical part and the nuts-and-bolts of writing part. While he may not be Cormac MacCarthy or Thomas Pynchon or Dostoyevsky or Kurt Vonnegut, the guy can write, and knows a thing or two about composing a novel and selling…