Jennifer Love Hewitt: "I'm still here!"

Jesus, one time at bar trivia they asked us to give the character names from Party of Five. I had Neve Campbell, Matthew Fox, Lacey Chabert, Scott Wolfe, and That Baby off the top of my head, but evidently the show had "characters" with "names." Baffling.

This movie has an appealing cast. If it develops a reputation for being funny or otherwise enjoyable I will watch it. That is all.

I concur. But I don't like his movies very much in general.

It does bug me. She has a particular set of themes - the role of women in social structures that provide power but not purpose - and she expressed them interestingly in movie after movie. It's (kind of) fair to criticize her for a narrow focus, but not for her skill in exploring it.

Incidentally, that version of Wuthering Heights was fucking awesome.

That's what I meant - I couldn't think of a better phrase. It also has more abrupt departures in tone and style than his other movies.

Baz Luhrmann used it, so the terrible community theater uses it. I had completely forgotten that joke in Hot Fuzz. Maybe I've been too harsh on it all these years.

Ah limewire. You how you fuck up a computer? Try to download porn on a P2P service.

Bottom of my list is Reservoir Dogs. It's not a bad movie, I would just rather watch any of his others.

That's the tough thing - the cuts in Medicaid are going to take effect over time, so while a number of people will feel the pain immediately, more and more people are going to be left behind over the next ten years, by which time a lot of those people will forget who even passed this bogus legislation.

At the turn of the 20th century the American Medical Association was staunchly opposed to any kind of third-party payment system for medical services and would only support people paying their doctors directly. Because logging camps were so isolated, the logging industry was able to negotiate a system where companies…

The idea of the Republicans "proving" that they can one-up Obama is sad, but the bigger shitshow here is that hoping to cut Medicaid. Society spent a large chunk of the 20th century building services that protect is vulnerable members, but this cadre of asshats managed to convince people that things were better in…

Having watched several of them as an adult, I can confirm that Congo and Street Fighter are pretty funny. I never plan to watch Harriet the Spy or Home Alone 2 again, but I feel okay saying that they are not very good.

That's true, and that whole riff is really, really funny, but in terms of "things that make me feel a little bad for the filmmakers," that's high on the list.

What I love about Shaun of the Dead is that putting a very effective romantic comedy in the foreground lets the first part of the zombie apocalypse play out entirely in the background. Then literally the protagonist wakes up one morning, and the world is overrun by zombies.
It's very effective and something that a…

Three things:

One quick thing about Scott Pilgrim Vs the Word - Wright shoots most of the fights scenes (the first one is the most obvious) following the visual grammar of a 2D fighting game. The fighters start in profile on opposite sides of the frame (usually with Scott on the left in the "Player 1" position), and the shots…

Of the three, Hot Fuzz riffs on the things that I find least interesting - I don't love cop movies or British countryside detective shows. It's a funny movie, and I've seen it several times, but it's still never really clicked with me. Shaun of the Dead is still my favorite of those movies - it arrived when I was at…

I saw it four or five times and enjoyed it without loving it. And then I saw the Final Cut in the theater and something clicked - I do think that version is more satisfying to watch.