LORD PALMERSTON!

LORD PALMERSTON!

It has a great opening five minutes, and then it coasts for an hour and a half on Audrey Hepburn's charisma. It was a very disappointing movie, yellow face aside.

There was an organization in Illinois that posted similar rhyming signs about the importance of unrestricted gun ownership all along I-57, so I saw them every time I drove to and from college. It kind of ruined that whole advertising model for me.

Good point. It's not like feminism and civil rights sprung fully formed from the American psyche after the Kennedy assassination.

"Here's his ancient Chinese secret: Racist economic and social policies in the early 20th century made it nearly impossible for him to find gainful employment. Because he didn't want to work as a domestic servant, he decided to open his own business. Unable to obtain line of credit as a Chinese immigrant, he opted for…

It works best as an unanswerable question - the movie raises the possibility that Deckard is a replicant and then leaves the audience - like Deckard himself - without enough information to know whether or not it's true.

I rented a PlayStation from the video store to play Resident Evil 2 when it came out. They had a model with standard coaxial connectors in back instead of the Sony-designed AV port on the later models. Hooking that thing up taught my tweenage self all I needed to know about illegally duplicating VHS tapes. What a time…

At the end if the day this kind of reportage exists to stimulate empathy, which is just the process of telling stories that resolve our worldview with the cursory details available.

I liked the Year One movie, but the Dark Knight Returns movie was disappointing. I thought they skimped on the voice acting (a LOT of the extra characters were clearly one person, Joker was too campy, and even Frank Weller sounded checked out), and while the animation was gorgeous the direction really didn't add much…

When it takes an FBI-NYPD task force to track someone to a "friend's house" 500 miles from home, it's usually a sign that things aren't great. Just going to venture a guess that she has some pretty serious mental health and/or substance problems. It's nice that she didn't die, because (as you point out) many people in…

I got a Journey of Natty Gann notification for this?

I work with of kids who have cancer. You know who uses a lot of Medicaid funding? Children with cancer. You know what kind of society I want to live in? Obviously one that forces states to ration their Medicaid dollars - because I can only do my job if I know that my patients are literally taking Medicaid dollars…

I thought "the blacks have the upper hand - Helter Skelter, here we come!" was going to be Maron's funniest line of the series, but then - in the very next episode - we get, "I could've pulled out, but I was just too lazy."

I don't know where I implied that. He's a supremely talented writer and director, so I think he'll make a fine piece of entertainment. He can stage some fun setpieces and write snappy dialog which is batting 1000 in Star Wars terms. But hopefully that will be the end of it, and then he'll get back to making smaller…

That's interesting - I don't love Hot Fuzz, but I think the World's End (apart from the ending, which I didn't love) was his best written movie at a walk.

At the end of Shaun of the Dead, it's not even that he grew into their relationship better, it's that the near-apocalypse made his girlfriend accept the doldrums of their existing relationship. He's still exactly the same guy.

"Fuck em, eh, Ed? They don't appreciate you. They accept your genius, but they don't appreciate you. Fuck em."

Has he ever met Claude Rains? Because neither have I!

Hopefully Rian Johnson will be able to pivot off of Star Wars and make something more exciting than another Star Wars movie.