Oh yeah. Somewhere along the line I blew it with Ensign_poo.

Maybe you could tell that to my ex?

Some years ago, I dated a girl who claimed to have minor psychic abilities, and cited as evidence the phenomenon (which I think everyone has had) of receiving a phone call a split-second after thinking that someone was going to call. I told her that because our consciousness lags behind events, she was scrambling the…

Education and higher income. Surefire way to reduce the birth rate.

Does that ever remind me of Malick. I'm looking forward to this one.

For a very brief moment, I thought that the #1 choice was from Monty Python.

Ledger's Joker was fantastic. The Dark Knight would have been much less enjoyable without him.

Probably hostages.

I was thinking of destabilization as well as revolutions. But I forgot to mention the American Revolution - whoops. Let's add that to the pile of things that Nolan doesn't recall about America.

"Or, to put it another way: revolutions and the destabilising of society have happened everywhere in the world, so why not here?"

It hit me about thirty minutes in - right after Fusco and Carter discover that they have a mutual friend - that Acker must be Root. Partly because of the Turing name, partly because Acker seemed like too big a guest star to just play a random damsel in distress - but mostly because this show pulled the exact same move…

Now I'm picturing a Frank strip with aliens running after him and his weird toaster-dog companion.

That's Hicks.

From pure awesomeness.

It just hit me how terrible most of the Alien franchise is.

As the article points out, tundra forestation may increase the rate of climate change.

I found Clark's remarks to be more gracious and humble than you did, but I agree that Doug Jones would make an excellent Vision. If I had my way, I'd have a big Doug Jones shaker that I could sprinkle into any movie I wanted. Or maybe some Instant Doug Jones.

That's a movie I'd pay to see. Ray Liottas just messing up everyone on Mars.

I love the hokeyness of the ninth ray. Or more accurately, the Ninth Ray. You can hear the capitals rising up out of Dejah Thoris' lines.

The Fleshbot review has a slideshow. Some of the actors look disturbingly close to the originals. And the vampire makeup is just as good.