And that cane. Dude is a pimp.

Just had to say I adore this album, "Democracy" in particular. I'm partial to his earlier work, but just about any Cohen is good Cohen and this is some of his best work.

Elbow's sixth album ended up being one of my favorite albums of the year. And The Magician's Land was satisfying, though unexpectedly cheerful. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

I wasn't fully sold on Freaks & Geeks when I started it, but the ending of that pilot, when she takes his hand and they dance, was perfection.

I'll always mourn the fact that Jackson didn't make The Hobbit as a single film before he filmed the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Reading a Girardian study of Shakespeare and "The Ocean at the End of the Lane," both presents. Finally getting over my writer's block. Finishing the first season of Poirot and re-visiting my favorite adaptation of The Hobbit, the 1977 Rankin-Bass cartoon. Oh, and I live-tweeted my annual viewing of Harry Potter and…

His performance reminded me so much of Bryan Cranston.

Not surprisingly, the movie was originally entitled "Imagine."

I imagine Twister would sync well with The Wizard of Oz.

When I saw the trailer for the new Al Pacino film, Danny Collins, I just had to laugh. The movie will almost certainly be terrible, but at least they packed it with Lennon's songs.

Hmmm… The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, City of God, Kiki's Delivery Service, the first five seasons of Buffy, the collected works of Rene Girard. Hannibal. Poirot. The music of Elbow, The Silver Seas, and M. Ward. Oh, and a novelised version of The Mahabharata.

That might be my favorite song in the movie.

Yep, the AV Club even reviewed it last year. It's gloomy and beautiful and terrific.

LOVE the Roll Call scene.

This is why I love the Henry Winkler version of A Christmas Carol that's set in America during the Great Depression, because it acknowledges that America can be a really terrible place, especially at Christmas. And the political message makes it closer in spirit to the original novel than to just about any traditional…

I have mixed feelings about the Muppets' adaptation of Treasure Island. Tim Curry is phenomenal as usual, and the opening musical number scares me to this day. The island scenes are disappointing, though. I was disappointed when I watched it a few years ago to discover that it wasn't as great as I remembered from…

And it was supposed to be a *kid's* movie!

Even when I read the novel, I always hear those lines in Gonzo's voice.

Only in the Special Edition.

Well, him too :) But Alec plays the ghost of Jacob Marley!