Even after watching it again, I still think the end of "Black Eyes and Broken Hearts" rings false. It doesn't feel like Mac recognizing what he had done, it felt like the show wanting to soft-pedal what had happened. What makes it frustrating is that everything up to that point had felt real (especially in the…

Mine is still the one about the photographer who goes crazy trying to take a close-up of the horizon.

Margaret Sheridan, who was so good as the female lead in The Thing From Another World, was originally supposed to play the role, but she got pregnant. I always wondered what the film would be like if she had been in it instead of Dru. Perhaps she might have been able to pull off that ending…perhaps.

If nothing else, Delaney's performance in "Hereafter" sealed the deal.

It came out the same year as The Square, a terrific little neo-noir, and while there was no galvanizing performance in it like Jacki Weaver's (I do concede she deserved all the attention she received), it's a much better film.

I must admit I sort of liked L'Auberge Espagnole, mostly because I saw it during a particularly brutal winter here, and thus was probably more susceptible to a movie that takes place entirely in sunny locales, even if it did play out as The Real World-Barcelona. However, I haven't seen it since, nor have I seen the…

Aside from the Chubby Checker and Buddy Holly songs (I forgot about the Bowie and Elton John ones), the very first songs I thought of when I saw this was an article were the Bobbettes "Mr. Lee" ("1, 2, 3 (hey), look at Mr. Lee (oh-oh)/3, 4, 5 (hey), look at him jive") and "I Shot Mr. Lee" ("6, 7, 8 (hey), Mr. Lee had…

"Are we dead yet?"
"No."
"Are we dead yet?"
"Look, if we die, I promise I'll let you know!"

It was a gut punch, and such a powerful ep. I was grateful for the bits of humor, like Elizabeth calling it "Teen Day", and Keri Russell's absolutely perfect WTF expression when she's listening to the pastor's sermon.

I kind of like The Impostors, though he's barely in it, as well as Antz. I guess Play it Again, Sam doesn't count because though he didn't direct it, he wrote it?

Mechanical (robot kisses him)…Well, so it's mechanical!

You forgot one of the best moments; when Waller is at her desk, her private line rings, she answers it with, "Yes, Mr. President," and it's Batman.

Yeah, the fact she and Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long) were both ignored by the Academy is still outrageous to me, and makes it one of the times when the Golden Globes actually was smarter than the Oscars.

A couple of things to keep in mind here:

To me, it was like being accosted by a drunk at a party who makes really bad, unfunny jokes, and then grabs you in the face and screams, "Why aren't you laughing?" I liked the idea of the movie a hell of a lot more than the movie itself.

They're like, um, seven years too late, man:

The funny thing is, I don't remember what episode it was used in, but Gabriel's stripped-down version of "Here Comes the Flood" (on his greatest hits album "Shaking the Tree") was used on Felicity.

Thomas' young-adult novels are pretty good. Rats Saw God is probably my favorite, but I also like Slave Day a lot.

"Dry" may not be the first word I can think of when it comes to Norman's book, but I couldn't really get into it either. It felt self-congratulatory to me

Song is a toughie - sometimes, I say Eleanor Rigby, sometimes I say She Loves You - but album is The White Album. Yeah, it's four solo albums instead of a group album, but there's so much great music on it.