this is pretty cool but I don't really see why it was necessary?

the Physical Kids in The Magicians

the reason we don't have hoverboards is because we are in the darkest timeline

Smallville was woefully inconsistent, but it gave us one of the all-time great performances in Michael Rosenbaum's Lex Luthor. He was really the lead character, and he leant the show a tragic dimension - and a sense of humor - that it seems to have lost the moment he left.

but how would we classify Walt and Skyler

I adore this podcast - it feels like the sort of thing The Handsome Family might write if they gave up music and started making weird podcasts. But I read a chapter of the novel last week (I think it was excerpted on Vulture) and wasn't overly impressed with it. The plot was almost too linear, if that makes sense.

I think it's a plausible reading, knowing Shakespeare's gift for seeming to give people what they wanted while subtly deconstructing why they wanted it. Rene Girard has even suggested that Hamlet is the real villain of Hamlet, and that Shakespeare included the gratuitous, over-the-top violence to make us deeply…

me too! when I had to recite "Once more unto the breech" for my Shakespeare class in college, I swept into the room carrying a huge honest-to-god sword. The entire class was on the edge of their seats, whether because they were enthralled or terrified I don't know.

and Michael Williams as English peasant soldier Michael Williams!

I always wanted to be Dickens until I read his biography. now, maybe Stephen Colbert or Brandon Flowers.

Whataburger is perfect.

I've lost interest ever since moving back to Texas. The only reason I ever went in every day was for the McChicken sandwiches on the dollar menu. They don't even have those here. Instead they have "Spicy McChickens" which is (a) not the same, and (b) infuriating.

I read two or three before realizing they were essentially the same story with a different monster or magical item. Looking back, I admire the way he was able to spin a fairly repetitive series of by-the-numbers Twilight Zone knockoffs into literary gold. I think it was Stephen King's re-appraisal of him - in his…

I've been wanting to see this ever since reading Matt Zoller Seitz's write-up a few days ago. A Victorian drama directed by Soderbergh and featuring Clive Owen seems like the sort of thing one should not miss. I'm surprised it hasn't been talked about more.

the dream sequence in VERTIGO might have been my first experience of surrealism in film, and it stunned me.

He was, and early drafts of Toy Story nearly led to the shuttering of Pixar.

♪ you might as well enjoy your life and watch the stars play ♪

I would personally love to see it as a BBC series. one season for each novel. same with Lord of the Rings. we need to get Middle-Earth away from Peter Jackson.

a movie series marketed to children was really the wrong choice for His Dark Materials. those books deserved so much better.

This show had better be decent; if they mess up one of my favorite books, I'm going to be so sad.