According to IMDB, a Twits movie is in pre-production.

I found Equilibrium to be a lot of fun, while still being incredibly stilted and derivative and humorless. But it has gun-fu.

Yeah, that was another disappointment. The trailer looks so beautiful, and the actual film just about put me to sleep, for many of the same reasons. Excellently observed parallel.

As in, ablative armor.

Every year, usually in December. Here's last year's:

Nathan's all over that shiznit. Two commentary tracks, by the way.

Oh, sure. I react like that to crappy action movies on a fairly regular basis. Like G.I. Joe, which everyone in the universe thinks I rated too highly, possibly including its stars and director. Women are allowed to like explosions too.

12 months. Four in each country. Sorry, people who can only afford six months of vacation a year, you can only have half-assed enlightenment.

She visits Italy to eat, India to pray (at an ashram) and Bali to love. Sorta. That's the way it works out, anyway.

The reason I didn't list any books is because I had access to a library as a child and I pretty much read whatever I wanted; there weren't really forbidden adult books I didn't have access to, because unlike with R-rated movies, there was no gatekeeper standing in the way, and they didn't cost money so I didn't need…

Duffy isn't specific about this at all, but both from general context and his attitude elsewhere—not to mention the boys'-locker-room tone of the actor commentary—I got the impression that he wasn't worried about Benz holding up to the other leads in terms of her acting, it had more to do with whether she could deal…

I'm looking forward to the Thursday livechat largely so we can do a click-poll and find out what everyone's most and least favorite sections are. It really does seem like every section has its strong fans and non-fans.

I actually haven't thought much of "Paprika" since I watched it, but now I am deeply ashamed we didn't put it in our "films taking place in dreams" inventory. Thanks!

Eh, it isn't something I feel bad or good about, it just is.

I've been getting "I thought you were black" my entire writing career. To be fair, every other Tasha Robinson I've ever met or heard from has been black. Maybe when my parents picked my name, they thought I was going to come out black.

I see Michael at screenings all the time, but we got to communicating professionally when I was freelancing film reviews for the Tribune. He was apparently the one who brought my name up as a possible web guest.

The former is not true. How could we get our drinking in in the office if we all left at 4?

I'm not displeased with this movie for its stance on Christianity. I'm displeased with it for being shallow, simplistic, and overwrought, and bending or inventing history to make some fairly cartoonish and utterly unnuanced points.

I'm a TRS-80 : It was Unico! Unico I tell you!

"I read a while back about a place where they do big outdoor screenings of Jaws with a screen set up by a lake - you watch it wearing a lifejacket floating."