Another compilation, Endless Summer is probably the most iconic Beach Boys album, for better or worse. I can quibble with some of the choices (the inclusion of the weaker version of "Help Me, Rhonda," for example), but it was a pretty decent overview of their pre-"Pet Sounds" catalog. On the other hand, Endless Summer…

"And you wouldn't have Peppers without Pet Sounds, it egged The Beatles on… so no contest." Yes, though by that logic you wouldn't have Pet Sounds without Rubber Soul.

I read the review for this in the paper (still an actual newspaper) the day it came out and thought, "This sounds pretty awesome." And I so went down to the theater and saw it, and it really was. It was just a nice little example of a movie actually living up to and exceeding my expectations.

Zep were pretty awesome (even if you subtract the "controversy" over them basically covering/ plagiarizing (depending on how you look at it) everybody under the sun). Still, they can't match the 'Stones run of albums from "Beggars Banquet" through "Exile on Main Street." Also, "Some Girls" rocks "In Through The Out…

Some of the individual tracks off of Pet Sounds are among the greatest ever recorded. Other tracks, while technically outstanding, still suffer from Brian Wilson's habit of getting too much in his own head. I know a lot of the other critics in the article will vehemently disagree, but I share Alex McLevy's opinion on…

"The plot is a mishmash of everything from Rocky III to Rocky Balboa to Creed." For a second I thought you were going to say, "a mishmash of everything from Rocky III to The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Now THAT would make for an interesting Cars movie.

So, I kind of expected a few snide comments to this article from people who are apparently perplexed and confused by the fact that HJO didn't magically grow into an adult-sized version of himself in "The Sixth Sense." But I'm a little taken aback by the predominance of them. Guess what: puberty happens, folks. FWIW, I…

Not commenting at all about Cosby's guilt or innocence, but just a few minor points of law that the A.V. Club's ace team of legal reporters apparently hasn't picked up on:

Oddly enough, my earliest memories of seeing Adam West on TV are not from "Batman" but on "The Last Precinct," a short lived screwball comedy created by Stephen J. Cannell and co-starring Ernie Hudson and Wings Hauser about a police precinct filled with a bunch of misfits and oddballs. According to IMDB it lasted…

First, he needs to unsuccessfully attempt to move to Israel as a retired investor living on a pension, who wishes to live there as a Jew in the twilight of his life.

I've always found Mia Farrow's defense of him particularly ironic.

The idea was that, after pleading guilty, Polanski would be sent to a facility for "psychiatric evaluation", then after this was completed he would be given credit for time served and probation. But this was just the Judge's indication of what he was going to do; Polanski had yet to be formally sentenced. Later, word…

Things that are classified as crimes are considered a harm to the entire community, not just one individual who was actually victimized. This is why if you sue someone civilly for hitting your car the case would be entitled [Your Name] v. [The Other Driver], but if that person were to be prosecuted for running over…

That's basically true, though there has been a movement towards "victims' rights" in the law recently. Mostly this has taken the form reforms which, say, shield the victim in a case like this from having personal information revealed, or which might give them some form of advocacy or input into the trial and…

He pleaded guilty, so actually he has been "convicted." He absconded before he was sentenced.

Virtually all decent movies are "saved in editing" insofar as it's rather unlikely that even a film that was made from a very good script, acted by talented and well-directed actors, and expertly lit and photographed, would really seem all that good if it was edited in a poor, or merely indifferent fashion.

Except that, if he said, "I make my movies in the editing room," and what he means is that he goes into the editing room with a steaming pile of crap and his editor helps him polish it into a diamond, then, uh, you should probably give the editor a little credit. And that isn't especially a knock on Lucas, either. A…

Well, is that inclusive or exclusive of exhibits? If it's just 1,272 pages of the lawyer arguing for his client's release, yep that's pretty excessive. I'm guessing that length is probably due to the inclusion of transcripts of witness testimony, police investigation reports, and possibly lab analysis and other…

"[W]hile self-taught experts nitpick about evidence details they usually know jack shit about?" You could very well be describing the process of "expert" witness testimony in criminal trials right there.

Yeah, I guess that within the last 10 years or so the trend it seems to have faded. Though, until "Deadpool," Reynolds was kind of lumped in the category of "failed to take off." Kiefer Sutherland, though definitely very successful, I always categorize as more of a character actor who is occasionally cast as a lead,…