I remember it being gloriously stupid, but not so stupid I ever want to see it again. Ditto Flatliners.

I only played Shenmue once, several years ago, when a friend hooked up his old Dreamcast. Visually it holds up decently, and the early cutscenes seemed adequately loony, but man, I think 40% of the gameplay experience was that "opening a sliding door" animation. It's cool what they were going for, but they seemed to…

Absolutely, and to be fair "movie star" means something a little different now than it did a few decades ago, and there are probably fewer roles for a woman who does serious projects without being ostentatiously Method.

It's true, Joel Schumacher does best when he's punching at his own intellectual weight: Having the Barbarian Brothers dance on the roof of a taxi in DC Cab.

Note to young humans out there: The concept of a "digital footprint" is a marketing tool foisted upon your generation by social media companies that profit from your wasted time. Everyone enters adulthood with a trail of embarrassing poetry, correspondence, and yearbook photos - there's no reason to amass a…

It's not about wanting to, it's about knowing the option is there.

(Puts on Carnac the Magnificent hat)

If you want digital footprints, my friends and I once found a lengthy, twenty-year-old Usenet post about the last episode of Twin Peaks when we were Googling a guy we knew from our college town. It was right underneath all the mugshots and local newspaper reports on his kiddy-porn ring.

I've found that semicolons work about one third of the time you want to use them. The rest of the time a second sentence, a conjunction, or reorganizing your thought is the better way to go.

He's designating the clause that starts with "containing" as separate, which isn't mandatory but is appropriate. If the second to last comma is included, the last comma is necessary (or else "that" modifies the wrong word).

What, you don't like cheap, artificial misanthropy masquerading as satire?

Depends on where those explosionz are coming from - there are action movies that get a lot of flack but also no shortage of action movies getting graded on a steep curve for being less dumb than the genre demands.

If you live in a town with a used media store you could get the whole series for four bucks. Twilight movies are pretty much ballast for $1 DVD bins.

She's a movie star. She has a limited range, but within that range she commands the screen with a facila expression. Harrison Ford is similar. Ditto Clint Eastwood and Audrey Hepburn. When she has scenes with Ryan Reynolds in Adventureland, not much happens, but it's hard to look away. Because they're movie stars.

In Empire Strikes Back Irvin Kershner deliberately gave the imperial folks English accents and the Rebels American ones. It's a charmingly old fashioned approach.

To be fair, the letters this week were specifically asking about hiring escorts, so it wasn't the usual "got a problem? Hire a sex worker!"

How could it be worth money if people are just typing words into it?

Last.fm: making the pointless sexual assaults references other sites don't.

I just don't see where the juxtaposition of "working class job" and "artistically inclined" is ironic or absurd. That subgenre of movies where a person (or pet) performs above their abilities tends to exaggerate the level and value of those abilities (he's not just a janitor who's good at math, he's better at math…

In retrospect there was something surreal about the evening I spent in college failing at the last mission in San Andreas, then doing all of the firefighting missions so that I could beat the mission with fireproof powers. Besides being a water of time, it's such a surreal way to play a game.