Oh, they knew HBO and the kind of content that was allowed in its shows. It's my mom's friend Robert's fault; he works for HBO, and he just had to sell the show to us, knowing we were a family that was pretty R rating-friendly (my parents were OK with us watching, say, most of HBO's Tenacious D specials, to give an…

Two most awkward experiences:

Two most awkward experiences:

Precious seems more awkward than White Ribbon to me. White Ribbon's disturbing but in the fulfilling psychological sense. Precious is just really icky.

Precious seems more awkward than White Ribbon to me. White Ribbon's disturbing but in the fulfilling psychological sense. Precious is just really icky.

I remember when I was 10 and just getting into anime, my mom discovered we had The Anime Network on our On Demand menu and was excited to share it with me. Not knowing what most of the shows there were, we ended up watching the first episode of Golden Boy (not a hentai, but really dirty sex humor). She was split…

I remember when I was 10 and just getting into anime, my mom discovered we had The Anime Network on our On Demand menu and was excited to share it with me. Not knowing what most of the shows there were, we ended up watching the first episode of Golden Boy (not a hentai, but really dirty sex humor). She was split…

I must say, I get kind of sick of seeing Finns/Fionas at conventions these days. They've replaced L from Death Note as the go-to lazy person cosplays. More creative Adventure Time costumes are welcome, of course.

I must say, I get kind of sick of seeing Finns/Fionas at conventions these days. They've replaced L from Death Note as the go-to lazy person cosplays. More creative Adventure Time costumes are welcome, of course.

My Orthodox aunt and uncle interestingly have no problem with the stuff about religion in the song. Their thinking's basically that when Meshiach comes, there won't be any need for religion as it exists now because then we'll have all the answers about God and such. So they view it not as ending religion as a cause…

My Orthodox aunt and uncle interestingly have no problem with the stuff about religion in the song. Their thinking's basically that when Meshiach comes, there won't be any need for religion as it exists now because then we'll have all the answers about God and such. So they view it not as ending religion as a cause…

One of the songs where the original has zero effect on me except prompting me to sing the Weird Al lyrics.

One of the songs where the original has zero effect on me except prompting me to sing the Weird Al lyrics.

Would that work necessarily? Like, I get why it would sound cool, but a lot of the more complex shots in the film were based on 2D perspective tricks that would fall apart in the third dimension. A shame this whole transition to 3D seems to be threatening a lot of craft; Peter Jackson's had to abandon a lot of the…

Would that work necessarily? Like, I get why it would sound cool, but a lot of the more complex shots in the film were based on 2D perspective tricks that would fall apart in the third dimension. A shame this whole transition to 3D seems to be threatening a lot of craft; Peter Jackson's had to abandon a lot of the…

@avclub-049b8c570e6cc662b4a3d7e3c86e236f:disqus : You do know Darren bought the remake rights to Perfect Blue, partially to prevent a remake from happening and partially to borrow scenes for his other movies but use them in different contexts (Black Swan has similar scenes and themes but it's really not that similar…

@avclub-049b8c570e6cc662b4a3d7e3c86e236f:disqus : You do know Darren bought the remake rights to Perfect Blue, partially to prevent a remake from happening and partially to borrow scenes for his other movies but use them in different contexts (Black Swan has similar scenes and themes but it's really not that similar…

I'd say absolutely if not for the fact he was in competition with Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

I'd say absolutely if not for the fact he was in competition with Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

I actually quite like The Corpse Bride. It's not as fun as Nightmare Before Christmas but there's an interesting sadness to it that's pretty daring for a film of its type. Sweeney Todd's actually one of my favorite Burton films; the greatness of the songs themselves as well as some great staging, particularly the By…