It works both because that's exactly what the audience is thinking and because, as we soon learn, Palmer himself has become a Thing, which gives the statement about three layers of additional possible meaning.

Always a joy to scroll down the AV Club's home page and see the abomination straight out of mankind's darkest nightmares.

That would be worth all the gold in Gringotts.

That was a stunning trailer, suggesting a return to the pulpy adventures of the earlier movies. The shot of Darth Vader's old mask was chilling. And we finally got to see Han!

He was initially chosen to direct, although Rowling preferred Terry Gilliam. Eventually he left the project because he wanted it to be an animated movie with Harry voiced by Haley Joel Osmont, which violated Rowling's one request that all the primary actors be British. He also didn't have a lot of enthusiasm for the…

I'll always regret that we never got to see the Spielberg Harry Potter.

Shutter Island, like Cape Fear '91, is an excellent pastiche of Hitchcock.

Anthony Tighe comes back in next week's episode. If Locke's father wasn't the creepiest recurring character on the show, he was pretty damned close.

That sounds like what happens in Heavenly Creatures.

That movie is better than it has any right to be, largely on the strength of his performance.

James Mason is a lamentably underrated actor. In hindsight he tends to be overshadowed by the James Stewarts and Cary Grants of the world, but he was the equal of any of them.

♪ Birds do it
Bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it
Let's fall in love! ♪

Can we assume that Nick Offerman will play Teddy Roosevelt?

Too bad they couldn't get Bea Arthur.

Seriously, people should actually familiarize themselves with his work before attacking his book, which isn't just a re-hash of his Twitter account, from the bits that I've read. He also does a twice-weekly radio program in the UK where, among other things, he shares his knowledge of folk / psychedelic music and…

If you don't follow Tom on Twitter, you should (MySadCat, his regular Tom Cox account, and several other cat accounts). He is a genius.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?

Darkness on the Edge of Town is a great album. I don't understand the love for Blowup. I tried watching it but never managed to watch more than a half-hour. It's pretty but empty, and has no discernible plot.

Finished Season 3 of Poirot, re-watching Inspector Lewis, reading a book about Japanese yokai spirits. Finally finished Girard's book on Shakespeare, which was phenomenal.

There was a SEQUEL with Michael Caine? How did I miss this??