Oh, hah, didn't even notice that you were commenting on it. Thought about leaving the apt, accidental pun in, but what the hell.

My favorite movie complaint from a sitcom professional woman remains Elaine Benes' not-so-happy experience watching The English Patient, a movie that I loved. "Quit telling your stupid story about the stupid desert, and just die already!"

I own both Have You Seen…? and the latest New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Might check out his latest, despite the bad review here. Disagree with him a lot but he can be a very good, interesting writer, and he's a passionate cinephile and historian of film (The Big Screen is great). Having said that, I'm still…

Nicole Kidman under-the-radar has become a great actress: her work from The Hours (where admittedly she did win an Oscar) to Birth, has been phenomenal, but has anyone noticed instead of commenting on her face? David Thomson was right (about this one thing)!

There is no safe place with a gun in the house. How many suicides per year are with guns, because they're nearby? What facts are there for keeping things the way that they are when we have such a big gun death rate? Your side is only influenced by cold logic? As I linked to the other thread, Adam Gopnik at the New…

If I'm not breaking any internet decorum here, I will link to a long exchange over last week over at EW, when they reported Rebel Wilson's tweets on gun control here vs. her native Australia. I knew what I was getting into, but still it was maddening and frustrating. I thought I made common sense points but the guy,…

Swing and a miss. It's a pretty lazy joke but also mean to a woman whose movie was the setting for two deaths which she thinks about "everyday." That's no doubt what the shooter wanted to do—stop her with a gun.

I was thinking Perfect Strangers reboot. Amy's Balki.

I was thinking Perfect Strangers reboot. Amy's Balki.

Most villains are humorless; he was prankish and had a deadpan wit. Plus he hadn't killed anyone since the pilot despite having plenty of opportunity. He could have killed the trainer, for instance, but only locked him in the closet, which led me to think he wouldn't kill him at all. And I had a theory that he was…

This might sound arrogant and elitist but people who care only about plot miss out on so much.

Well, I take back what I said last week: Malvo is evil. It's not that heroes of entertainment can't get killed in the story, but that Molly was given such a character, and played wonderfully by Tolman, that to kill her off doesn't feel story necessary but shock value TV cliffhanger. I don't know how many surprising…

For the past few episodes I've been racking my brain trying to figure out where I've seen Amia, Eszter Balint, before. I just found out her name now and thought she was played by a known and famous actress. Maybe it's her hair that's very familiar. IMDB lists an 18 year break between her last thing, the movie Tree…

I never thought those two sentences could go together.

His followup, though, sharing a plot point, Dolores Claiborne, on the other hand, is one of his best novels.

What To Do With All This Money I Get From Movie Adaptations of My Works: A terrifying story about the existential nature of man and what constitutes real happiness. There will be a lot of disembowelings and fart-related humor.

I've seen her on a few chat shows and she's more of a dry wit than voluble. Though either she's that too and just doesn't express it that often or someone on her staff told her to be more enthusiastic.( I think the former and honestly I prefer it, especially on the late night talk show circuit where the actor has to…

#Whitepeopleproblems

I watched both of them and I had the exact same question. Perhaps the publicity dept. want newbies to watch the season finale based on the buzz and then go back and see the season 1 DVDs. Two observations on the late night appearances: 1) Holy Hell, Keri Russell has great legs. 2) First time hearing Rhys' natural…

Anecdotally, from my perusal of online comments, it appears people have trouble accepting the concept of an anti-hero and her story in cinema or fiction, but not in TV—the latter's audiences getting that the shows aren't endorsing their behavior. Shame people who complained about ZD30 thought it was jingoistic excuse.