I used to have a visceral aversion to Tom Cruise. When they cast him as Lestat, I think I groaned with everyone else. But when Anne Rice went after him with such venom before she'd seen a single frame, I got oddly defensive. At least give the guy a chance to screw it up. Then he knocked it out of the park.

Since…

Ditto, but my song would be the live version of Great White Buffalo. Damn, that's amazing.

MLTMCMXXXVIII*.

*Mystery Literary Theater 1938.

Mea culpa. Good catch!

Corman's autobiography, How I Made 100 Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, is terrific. Self-promoting, as you would expect. But it has so many great anecdotes of pumping out those films and working with people who would become titans. And it says something that while all those filmmakers complained about the…

To this day, I don't think I've seen another movie that changes as radically in tone as Something Wild. It goes from kooky road movie to white-knuckle thriller in the blink of an eye. And Ray Liotta arrived like a bolt of lightning.

I love following the exploits of the Corman crew. There may have never been a better…

I got two Jackson Five songs on Alpha Bits. I remember having to comb through the boxes to find ABC, which is the song everyone wanted.

God, we're old.

No, but it did have a Batarang in one episode….which only emphasized the lack of Batman.

Exactly. The promos for Great News don't even hint at the co-dependency hook described in this review. Just as Trial and Error used only the broadest jokes from the pilot, without hinting at any of the incredibly funny East Peck stuff (just the conversation about the Judge's name would have sold me on the show).

If…

His "criticism" cuts both ways, doesn't it? I was surprised so many people missed/ignored that part.

David Muir, the living embodiment of everything they were warning about in Broadcast News.

"You're absolutely right there, Joe…"

Boy, Sandra finding that mouse took me back to my misspent youth. I worked at a place with a snack bar, and after the management learned poisoning mice could lead them dying in impossible-to-reach places (and causing unspeakable odors), they switched to glue traps. Glue traps create their own problems. not the least…

I still remember my group's collective reaction that opening weekend: Why did they have to turn a cool sci-fi mindfuck into a dumb shoot-em-up? Granted, it's a well-choreographed shoot-em-up. But it's still a cop-out.

That said, the reason the sequels didn't work was that The Matrix was one of the last sci-fi action…

In the end, it turns out they're all robots in a futuristic theme park.

That, my friends, is the flat circle.

He was nominated for an Oscar. People forget that.

His heart, combined with his grit, are unprecedented in human history.

They got extremely lucky with Lithgow in season 1. He's odd enough that you believe he could do it, but charming enough that you hope he didn't.

I'm not sure they can sustain the mystery aspect through a second consecutive season, so they'd almost have to do a case where the defendant clearly did it, but had an…

The owl brushed against the door frame as it flew out.

That's what I mean. What was the flatbread, sauce, and cheese combo the Italians ate before the Americans got hold of it? Was it a Pizza Margherita? If not, can you still get the thing the Americans tried to recreate, resulting in a pizza?