One thing I've very much enjoyed about the FX originals is that with a few exceptions, the shows have ended when they were on a high note (notable exceptions being Sons of Anarchy, which went about 3 seasons longer than needed, and Always Sunny, which is entering it's ninety-twelfth season as we speak). I prefer…

She has her moments, I'll give her that. And like Keanu in the 90's, she's not horrible - just kind of stiff in a lot of places. But overall, I thought her performance was one of the weaker links in the movie.

I really loved the movie, but I'm still not 100% sold on Gal Gadot as WW. She kind of alternates between kissy-face and Keanu-Reeves levels of wooden expression.

That earthquake you just experienced was my boner erupting at the thought of Lexi A. starring in and directing Wonder Woman. Holy fuck, I didn't know I NEEDED anything as much as I need that.

I could have sworn that this made it into Master of None but I just skimmed the two episodes I thought this was in and can't find it and now I'm wondering what alternate dimension I came from originally where this story wasn't too crazy for the show and maybe that's the one where Trump got elected oh shit never mind…

I caught Trent on the Nailgarden tour a few years ago, and it was the best indicator for how old I've become. Although I knew better, I still wanted there to be hot goth girls running around in fishnets and electrical tape. What I got were a bunch of former goth MILFs in sexy-but-sensible "rock" clothes who had…

Is Rush really nostalgia rock, tho? Most adult Rush fans I know are super-fanatics who keep buying the new albums. I think it only qualifies as nostalgia rock if the listener is only going back to the same handful of songs/albums (like me, who readily admits to only really listening to Moving Pictures and Permanent…

I disagree, but I keep rereading the damn thing every six months or so when I want something familiar, intriguing, entertaining, and shortish, so maybe I never got the distance. That said, there was a decade between my first and second readings in my early adulthood, and I don't remember ever thinking that it didn't…

For anyone who's a little forgiving of the film and wants certain gaps filled in, the great Alan Dean Foster has produced an official novelization of Alien: Covenant that, while not solving any of the story's major issues, at least addresses certain issues (for example, the idea of the Xenomorph growing too rapidly is…

He's like a post-nuclear Wong Feihong (Jackie Chan's character from the Drunken Fist / Master movies). Wong actually existed, and was a legit kung-fu master (Hung Gar, "Master Killer" Gordon Liu's style), and there are several verifiable stories about him. But the number of unverifiable tall tales about his exploits…

This video comes pretty close to my personal theory about the Mad Max movies, which is that each film is a story about "Max," told from the perspective of a different storyteller from a different culture. In other words, each film is the depiction of a local myth about a multiregional central figure in the new…

Hadn't before. That's pretty cool.

Classic rock: the first solo in "Comfortably Numb."
Guitar virtuosity: Steve Vai's "For The Love Of God"
Overall guitar solo piece: Eric Johnson's "Trademark"
Sheer bombasity: Tomoyasu Hotei's "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity"

Heading to Taiwan soon, will have to try this. I love me some Hainan Chicken Rice, and this sounds right up my alley.

Blair Witch 2: Book Of Shadows. The late show on a dreary Sunday night, by myself. I'd left my girlfriend's warm, sexy embrace to go see this train wreck that really should have killed off Jeffrey Donovan's career. Walked into an empty theater, then single-handedly emptied it some ninety minutes later.

And that policeman is finding out "to his dismay" that assaulting a paying customer on behalf of a major corporation is not Chicago PD policy.

Here's to hoping that they tour the US. I can't claim to be a big fan of Canadian indie music, but I loved the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack and what little I've heard from BSS.

Taiwanese-style deep-fried stinky tofu is fucking delicious. So good. It's one of the few foods in Taiwan that doesn't really have a regional variant - the preparation is the same in Kaohsiung as it is in Taipei.

Super stoked to see Sean give Hal Hartley some love. Henry Fool is great, great work.

I love Hiroyuki Sanada and am psyched that he's in this movie. Hopefully, he gets more non-genre work as his career in the US continues.