I remember seeing that and enjoying it, but nothing whatsoever about it. It was just over fifteen years ago, but still...

Seven Samurai is a classic action movie by Akira Kurosawa, about seven wandering samurai who are hired to defend a peasant village against the overwhelming force of an army of bandits. It was remade as The Magnificent Seven, a minor classic in its own right, but the original has a lot going for it: some of the…

They had two seasons left on their renewal when Howerton sort-of left, didn’t they? Even if they don’t have to take it, I can understand that it’s hard to turn it down, particularly for the sake of the rest of the show’s staff.

I should really watch some more non-animated foreign films, btw. Where should I start?

Psychopaths are not (necessarily) psychotic. “Sociopath” and “psychopath” are largely overlapping terms, mostly stemming from different schools of psychiatry, more than from any actual difference in what they describe.

A lot of what you say is eminently reasonable, but if you’re going to call Jeffrey Lord a Nazi sympathizer, I would hope you have better evidence than a tweet clearly intended sarcastically. (Or do you also call James Gunn a pedophile?)

I’m interested to hear on what basis you’re claiming the recidivism rate is “so damn high”, since the couple of times I’ve tried to look it up, I recall the research showing the documented rate of recidivism to be similar to or lower than that of other crimes, that the details of this case do not fit the factors…

Not sure that’s a good example of a movie with “no interest in franchising”. Mute is set in the same universe as Moon, and Duncan Jones has talked about turning it into a trilogy.

I don’t really see how you can call Moon underappreciated. It’s almost guaranteed to be the first film mentioned when people talk about smaller-scale, more thoughtful sci-fi movies.

That sucks, because I find him one of the funniest (a lot of the time).

Is it? He knows what happened to Hector, he has the medical files, he saw Nacho give the pills to the paramedics, and he got a report of him throwing the real (i.e. fake) ones off the bridge. It doesn’t seem like that big a leap.

Howard screwed Kim over on his own behest (he was angry because he thought she’d been in on one of Jimmy’s schemes – the unapproved commercial, IIRC – which reflected badly on him personally); it was actually Chuck who persuaded him to go a little bit easier on her.

Still with this?

I was a teenager at the time, and pretty much everyone got that it was satirical. Satire as a concept is not beyond teens.

Dr. Mrs. The Monarch (who I should probably just call Sheila from now on, because the lady deserves a name)

Yeah, or another drink.

Does this read to anybody else as if Shalhoub is really sick of all the questions about Monk, while the interviewer just keeps going on and on about it?

The Suchet Poirot series makes a number of plot changes to various stories. Not all of them successful, but not all of them bad, either.

I don’t for a second believe that his change in demeanor is due to genuine relief. It’s him putting on a mask.

But it’s how Chuck would have wanted it.