Sounds an awful lot like Hush. I thought the concept of the home invasion victim being deaf was interesting, but not quite enough to sustain a full movie. Hopefully the "victim" being blind in this flick is more interesting.

Also, there are well known, highly undesirable tradeoffs in breeding for longevity, both for animal quality of life and in terms of their usefulness to humans. In other words, even if we could breed dogs that live 50% longer, they would probably sleep 20 hours a day and beg you to kill them if they could talk.

I interpreted it as "oh shit, after this I have to go back to my life as a 45 year old virgin who lives in his mom's basement."

I guess in his way he's done a lot good for the world, but obviously he doesn't know what he's talking about much of the time. He seems to be a particularly egregious example of this slick, authoritative demeanor that I see in doctors whereby they're pathologically unable to to say "I don't know enough about this to…

"make your life a happy one."

This is probably the most extreme disparity I've ever seen between the
reaction of reviewers/pros and the "word on the street" from average
gamers. I'd like to think that Hello Games isn't just straight up paying for good reviews, but reviewers presumably don't have to pay for their copies, so maybe it's a lot easier…

I absolutely agree that Inland Empire is his most ambitious and uncompromising artistic statement, but I've finally come around to the belief that Mulholland Drive is his best. It's kind of remarkable how much Mulholland Drive's stock has risen in the past few years, but it doesn't surprise me too much, and for me,…

Oh yes. Somebody really, really tried to make Yahoo Serious a thing here for a year or two. I think today he is maybe best remembered here for that very fact, as commemorated in MST3K:

That's weird, because I was actually thinking that the one instrumentalist in RHCP who never really blows me away (Chad Smith) is the one who I'm really impressed with on their new album, including that song. I always thought he was a fairly mindless pounder/timekeeper, but something about the relatively raw,…

Absolutely, I had a cutoff of about 2013 for my definition of "recent" because I've seen almost everything before that. But if we go back over a decade or so, it's been a heck of a time for time travel-related sci fi: Primer, Time Crimes, Looper, …

A few weeks ago, I went on a binge of recent indie/semi-indie sci fi movies by following a string of imdb recommendations. This resulted in me watching Coherence (2013), The Signal (2014), Predestination (2014), Time Lapse (2014), and Synchronicity (2015).

Does Lars not know, or does he just not care, that mixing the drums like that makes the band as a whole sound practically toothless? At least it sounds like he's using a snare drum and not a trashcan lid this time.

I don't know exactly what it is that we're supposed to hate about them (The white boy rapping? The flimsy lyrics?), but I do know that it's impossible not to crack a smile if you're driving along and the opening riff from Down comes leaping out of the speakers.

How are you guys getting that blurry, film stock look to it? Mine all look perfectly crisp and digital.

Penmanship: A-. Literacy: D+. Take a look at the third stanza:

Ha, nice. I went to an Angels game a few weeks ago, and the music was nothing but Hot 100 crap, except for the national anthem and Take Me Out to the Ballgame. (How long until they get rid of those?) I guess the thing now is that the players each have their own theme music when they come to bat, like wrestlers…

I think that would be pun overload.

At first I was turned off by the use of the corporate mascot, because it seemed like it was trying to make a political statement of some kind. But now it's clear that McCheese is just an everyman, and the fact that he's a cheeseburger is kind of a clever way to keep us interested while the strip makes its point about…

I had no idea there was a person in there, and I still don't see how it's even possible. Did his legs actually correspond to R2's legs?

I can just see the Aubrey Plaza-like intern rolling her eyes, going "whatever," and then spending about five minutes slapping this together.