sorry Matt and Ben, you only get to be in modern movies. You don’t work in period movies, you just look wrong. Kylo Ren there tho, he’s fine, he gets to do modern, old-timey, space movies, anything. Sorry, there’s rules, nothing i can do about it. Go make a Jason Bourne or something, but whatever it is, you need to…

The Apple TV remote is a great idea. But what i really want, now that Logitech aren’t in the universal remote business, is a really good universal remote app. (Which makes more sense than another physical object anyway.) Anyone got a recommendation?

that Sparrow Envy book sounds excellent. Just special ordered it from my local bookstore - good job AVClub!

oops - sorry...

good shout - it’s really good. Made me want to explore her other work. 

it looks remarkably dumb, and not in a fun way either. 

“Dan pries some more information about his future/past from a no-nonsense commander (Yvonne Strahovski), whose strategy of withholding said information seems to be dictated by a screenplay rather than any official military regulations.”

major props for resisting using a slowed-down echo-y version of the Sammy Davis song on the trailer. 

I’ve got season one on DVD right in the next room. Feel free to borrow it. 

worth the anticipa-

“Barney Rubble - what an actor!”

I think she was supposed to be in the show more but there was a contract issue? She was signed to a studio that Garner had sued in the 60's, so they decided not to do him a favour. Or something like that?

oh c’mon, dish....

“Dhaliwal has grown as a visual storyteller” is an understatement - this looks so much better than Woman World, which looked way too amateurish for me. But Cyclopedia Exotica looks great. Really good book.  

Hoffman is at his best in this. And his accent is flawless. It’s a great example of an accent working because the actor built the performance from the inside out.

“sharks with hooks in their mouths... can easily become agitated sharks.”

for all Pacino’s ham, his reading of “...oh, i have so many names...” is lovely. But Keanu is awful in this. My favourite moment is close to the beginning, when one of Pacino’s cronies hands Keanu a business card. Keanu reads the name on the card, and his reading is terrible. Thats right, he couldn’t even read aloud…

excuse me, but it’s spelt “wankah” over here, have some respect for my heritage, you’re welcome.

how many little boys have to point at Julie Taymor before she’s not allowed to direct again? Seen The Glorias? It’s embarrassingly, cringingly bad.

first time i’ve watched the entire show in forever, and yeah, they got more wrong than right, but damn that opening was amazing. The walk, the titles - it’s felt like Soderbergh wanted to do another Oceans but with Regina.