For all the crap that Akiva Goldsman has given the world, I find myself unable to truly hate the man. He helped to give us Fringe and I love that show with an undying passion. No man who contributed to a show like Fringe can ever be truly evil (even though most of his movie scripts tend to be awful).

I think Inland Empire benefits from the total commitment of a brilliant actor like Laura Dern. The movie is deliberately bizarre and opressive, but Dern is that movie's anchor. It's ultimately about a woman who gets the role of a lifetime, ends up falling the rabbit hole of method acting and alternate realities or…

Very few artists have earned the right to be given money, support and creative freedom and David Lynch has 100% earned it. I'm enjoying new Twin Peaks (even though my patience is probably going to waver as we head to the finish line) but even if it ends as a complete nothing, I'll still be happy I took the ride. Lynch…

It really is beautiful. He's so gentle and friendly. Even though it's not clear if he has a single coherent thought in his head, you can tell he has an immediate, genuine love for his "son" (and even Janey-e as the weeks go on) and he completely helped out that old lady at the casino even thought he had no conception…

Snyder certainly nailed Riddler's charming smugness. As a character, Riddler was written really well. But what he did…it's way too big. Way too much. Mainly because after that what can the character do? He somehow goes from killing a huge city and enslaving the population to…robbing the criss cross dry cleaner?

The riddler is a fairly flexible character. Turning him into a law abiding private eye is really clever, because Riddler maintains his central character quirk (a compulsive need to prove he's smarter than everyone) while making it fresh. I imagine he was applying his "I'm better than you!" logic to fellow police…

A couple of years ago, I read a trade paperback with all of Riddler's early appearances. The surprising thing was that Riddler had goofy death traps right from the very beginning. It's the sort of thing I would have sworn was only added to Riddler's character as some sort of misguided "gritty" reboot. Granted his…

For those are us who are too lazy/busy to read the books (what with our high flying lifestyles and constant parade of beautiful women) would you say the movie is going to be understandable? Like if I wanted to see a dumb movie where Idris Elba shoots people while McConaughey presumably chews scenery, would it be easy…

According to an article on Variety, the lack of marketing on Dark Tower was related to a convoluted deal between the production companies and Stephen King where each company needed 100% approval on ANY marketing element (and King also had veto rights). So there was only one trailer because that was the only trailer…

I'm cautiously optomistic for the Dark Tower, but then that's because I haven't read the books and the idea of a short movie about Idris Elba as a cowboy fighting satan sounds kind of fun. It'll probably be awful but Idris Elba is always great. Worst case scenario, with a bad Idris Elba movie you can always just yell…

Personally, I'm excited because I haven't actually read the book but have heard great things about it.

I'm quite loving a lot of the marketing for this movie. The trailers are entertaining but mysterious, the poster is gorgeous and it's remarkable how the studio is getting an incredible amount of hype from younger audiences. I haven't read the book or seen the tv series, but I understand there's a LOT of crazy stuff…

That makes a lot of sense but for the sake of poor Dr Jacoby I really hope not…

I want this to happen.

It was pointed out last week in the comments, but that crazy honking lady from last week was totally an audience stand in. "We have to get moving! We're running out of time and there's still so far to go!"

Like the reviewer, I'm pleasantly surprised at how much Albert we've gotten. As memorable as he always was, Albert is only a small handful of old episodes. Here he's been fairly prominent and seemingly going to continue being important. Lynch always seemed to enjoy wacky Jerry so I guess it makes sense he's getting so…

He's learned to give respect! R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Respect!

Grades are often meaningless but the new Twin Peaks makes it particular difficult to grade an episode. Each episode seems to have three or four different plots and sometimes whole scenes of nothing happening. I completely agree that last week's episode was far better but maybe the reviewer objected to the lengthly…

*bangs a desk bell* The Norwegian ceiling fans are leaving! The Norwegian ceiling fans are leaving! The Norwegian ceiling fans are leaving! *continues banging desk bell*

I'm prepared for Big Ed to have probably a fairly brief cameo. Word was that the actor retired and vanished so far off the grid that David Lynch only resumed contact via individuals on twitter who helped hunt him down. I'm hopeful he shows up as Norma's partner. Poor Norma deserves slightly more to do and given that…