I recognize that Malcolm X is a better movie than Bamboozled, but I saw both of them about 11 years ago and while I remember X being good, I've probably thought about Bamboozled once a week ever since.

I wonder what Spike Lee's legacy is going to look like in 20 years - he's made a handful of movies that are basically perfect, a bunch of movies that are incredibly entertaining (and a few movies that are non-beloved), and his public persona really made him the face of black cinema in a way that few people can claim. …

Yeah, I would hold up Marc Webb and (especially) Colin Trevorrow as cautionary examples rather than aspirational figures. I feel quite comfortable calling Jurassic World hateful, incoherent, and borderline unwatchable. With that said, Safety Not Guaranteed was enjoyable but fell 100% in the "Hollywood audition"…

As time goes on, that movie seems eerily like a postmodern pastiche of a 90s rom-com rather than the genuine article. It's a relic of an era where Nora Ephron was a bankable hitmaker, Meg Ryan was a box-office draw, Tom Hanks was boyish, Barnes and Noble was an economic juggernaut, laptop computers had wired dial-up…

I could see where film students are young people who probably got interested in film during their preteen or early teenage years, so they haven't had a ton of time to broaden their interests. Also the film students I've met have been most interested in the potential of movies to evoke a response, and older movies are…

I really like seeing in stuff, mostly because I assume he lives his life in that Brilcream-tweed-and-hornrims outfit from Mad Men and has to dress down for anything set after 1975.

To give the devil its due, the beginning of Willow's S6 storyline does grow pretty organically out of the characterization we've seen - particulary in S4 and S5, where her use of magic regularly crosses into potentially destructive arrogance. The start of S6, where she uses magic to fix a problem (Buffy's damnation)…

This show did capture the particular kind of irritation that comes with watching a person you don't particularly like do something incredibly stupid because they're too inebriated to take care of themselves.

I mostly stopped watching the show during S4 (a combination of my age, the fact that Buffy was in college when I was still in high school, and the fact that I disliked the scifi turn), but I tried to pick up watching again in S5. I admit that when they revealed Dawn at the end of "Buffy vs Dracula," I tuned out of…

Also, there's the fact that Tara's getting eaten out at the end of the song - the lyrics are filthy double-entendre, but I can't believe the censors allowed off-camera cunnilingus just because some little continuity cuts imply they're "just cuddling."

It helps that David Boreanaz is a handsome slab of expertly coiffed tofu. Angel benefits from being a compelling and well-written character, but Boreanaz is not my favorite actor on the series. His comic timing is much better than his ability to sell menace or passion - a trait he shares with Mark Blucas, actually.

Just reading the phrase "encore presentation of 'Beer Bad'" gave me cold chills. That one is up there with the "all-purpose holiday episode of Daria" on the list of "television episodes that you can skip during a series run, no questions asked."

The first season is hit and miss (actually, all seven seasons are hit and miss, but 3-5 hit harder and miss a little less). That said, I taped the first two seasons when they were airing and watched them a lot in junior high, so I won't pretend that "Teacher's Pet" isn't engraved in my memory. You're doing yourself…

Arguably Hannigan's role on How I Met Your Mother owed a lot more to her character in American Pie than to Willow. In terms of overall career success, one could argue that Buffy was her stepping stone to a blockbuster comedy, which led to another series.

The avclub has a pretty good interview with him from a few years ago. It's linked in the article in the Buffy movie. He talks some impressive shit about Donald Sutherland.

Last question: how did they do that scene in Much Ado About. Othijg where you deliver a monologue while running up a flight of stairs? The effects are really amazing for such a low budget movie.

I loved that movie as a preteen. The first time I heard an ad (a radio spot, in fact) for the TV series I assumed it was a joke. I was actually kind of impressed that they picked such an amusingly obscure movie to riff on. Imagine my surprise…

That's nowhere near the level of involvement of a film director, though. Obviously there's no particular reason to believe this, except that Stewart is repeatedly agreeing to play Professor X in stuff that isn't part of the main X-Men franchise.

The footage is still in the movie, they just replaced Sauron with a troll. Which is hilarious if you think about it.

IIRC, Jackson originally put the elves at Helm's Deep to reunite Arwen and Aragorn, and then left them there after deciding (rightly so) that a romantic moment would have been out of place in that part of the movie. Personally, I like that scene - they're elves!