Peacock, Red Lights, Intermission, Watching the Detectives would have been interesting to talk about. It's a mystery as to how Murphy's performance as Scarecrow is more interesting than his performance in Transcendence or In the Heart of the Sea. Fischer…as the parallel to DiCaprio's character, it seems to me to be a…

Talk to your bathroom mirror. One of you will, at last, be right.

My point is that it doesn't…but the show thinks it does. But if you watch with the understanding and taste you post with, you'll not be able to see the problems.

Agree about the Canadian thriller. I even like Jay Baruchel's performance in this, but Speedman really impressed me here.

Despite the cliches about how drama is about conflict, it seems to me that it's comedy that's about conflict. In the long run, I think the most satisfying comedy is one in which the conflicts are reconciled for a happy ending…believably. Which is why I've told my friends for too many years now that the last fifteen…

For some peculiar reason, Butterfly Effect, Spread and Personal Effects are the only Ashton Kutcher movies that I remember seeing. And I haven't seen That Seventies Show nor was I watching Two and a Half Men in Kutcher's years. It seemed to me the guy could do a competent performance as an actor. I'm not quite sure…

I wish this was true. But I can't think anyone would have given Victor the line about "proper woman," for any reason other than to endorse Bronastein's view. Her denunciation of Dorian as a spoiled child is also intended to be taken as gospel truth too I think. The pile of hands was pretty much a feel good moment,…

Mentioning Byzantium is possibly a reference to the Nike revolt, where the Blues and the Greens (popular factions developed from chariot racing team fandom…no the English did not invent football hooliganism, which long preceded football.) That would make Dorian make over 1 4000 years old. Except that the name then was…

Thanks for the reminder. It is a little puzzling that a psychic never quite figured out who killed Sembene or what it may have had to do with Ethan's departure.

That takes all the MRA out of his scheme to force Frankenstein to make a proper wife for him, then.

About Chandler, as he seems to be again: Killing Sembene doesn't matter any more. After all, Kaetenay is another melanin-rich dude who lives to serve, so it's just like Sembene has come to life. No crime to atone for, especially if you never quite get around to confessing to Malcolm. So now you can regret abandoning…

In my town of about a third that population, there are five churches within two blocks of my house, three of them Baptist. Why are they so godless in your neck of the woods?

I haven't been able to read the small print on the sign. The name of the church certainly sounds like an independent congregational name. It is very common for names to be like Such-and-such Baptist Church. Or XXX Freewill Baptist, or XXX Southern Baptist, or XXX Old Regular Baptist, or possibly even XXX United…

Hypnotism just doesn't work that way.

You yourself say the IRA was totally unprepared for a civil war required to retain the north. Yet this is why "the" IRA was never going to impose a free state style Church dominated regime over all Ireland. You're not even listening to yourself.

By the way, any fans of Wristcutters?

I'm sure you're right. The first episode even had a scene where the neighbor talks about how he and his wife knew something was up but didn't realize how bad it was, irresponsibly ignoring all the evidence. But seeing the same scene over and over really undermines the scrap of dialogue, i feel.

Point taken that you aren't criticizing the choice for not being from an auteur. I was really commenting about how although no one officially believes the auteur theory, in practice pretty much everyone acts as though they do.

Skateboards get free parking! (Criterion is a classy outfit.)

The scenes of church life bear no authenticity at all. For a start, Protestant preachers are not officially required to be married…but they'd better be. To continue, there are people called deacons who have a lot of input into how things are run and maybe a board. To finish, lest this goes on forever, services usually…