There are too few direct winks to camera in cinema these days. Ditto for harp solos and dangerous dance-moves.

*manic hand-gestures*

I'm torn on him. I like Malkovich and Adaptation with some reservations, and I think Synecdoche is something of a grand, commendable failure of reach to meet grasp, but Eternal Sunshine I love without any qualifications whatsoever, and it's one of my favorite films of all time. He seems a bit like Jesse Moynihan:…

I've been observing a Catch 22 emerging throughout film and TV criticism, as well as non-professional analytical viewers such as myself. It has to do with the quality of the integration of subtext, allegory, and theme, and is as follows: "If it's plain enough for me to see it, it's too obvious." There seem to be…

"Hi, I'm Samantha."
"I'm JT the—the dog. I'm Jake the Dog."

Hey, jerky is just a term non-jerks use to bad mouth innocent jerks.

She was on Q.I. once, and she told a story that Stephen corroborated about how she used to appear naked at the top of his stairs, which for some reason would always send him into a panic, and he would scream very loudly and try to get away. She would usually have locked all the doors in the building so that he…

I was all set to declare this the weakest episode of the season so far, but then I realized something: this was a perfect example of what Finn has to be now. After his encounters with his father and the catalyst comet, Finn has reached an equilibrium, and he won't be having any more internal struggles for the…

Going by this trailer, it's really just the teeth that annoy me. The tats are stupid, but it looks like he's not shirtless for most of the movie, and the ones on his face are small enough that I can ignore them. The hair is fine, the skin tone is kinda perfect, and while I'm not the biggest fan of the glam-jacket, he…

I actually love So Long…, but I'm with you on Mostly Harmless, that was a fucking slog.
EDIT: I swear to Christ I wrote that comment before I scrolled down far enough to read Steven Potter's. I'm not even kidding. Holy shit, that's creepy.

As much as I disliked The Dark Knight Rises in general, I think it proved rather definitively that Tom Hardy can be physically imposing, no problem.

I for one am looking forward to hearing about all the ways this show could be better if it acted more like a comic book than a TV show.

"Sons Of The Silent Age" is the shit.

I think my favorite is "Dollar Days". It's an old-school Bowie Ballad with a gorgeous chord progression. "I'm dying to push their back against the grain and fool them all again and again…"

Man, "Teenage Wildlife" is great. I honestly think it's one of the best things he ever recorded. It just gets more and more beautiful with each new melody it introduces, and the lyrics are breathtakingly direct for an artist so obsessed with dadaist obscurity. And at the same time, it just plain rocks, moreso than…

Yesterday, I played "Papa Won't Leave You Henry" for my mother, and she said it was the greatest song she had heard in a while. My family is cool.

I had a dream, Joe. You were standing in the middle of an open road. I had a dream, Joe. Your hands were raised up to the sky, and your mouth was covered in foam. I had a dream, Joe. A shadowy Jesus flitted from tree to tree. I had a dream, Joe. And a society of whores stuck needles in an image of me. I had a dream,…

So, does it just seem this way because this election is the first one I'll be old enough to vote in, or is this year's election really way more highs-takes than the last one? I remember watching the 2012 election, and not finding Romney especially scary, and not finding Obama particularly extraordinary, and I thought…

Isn't this what they call "Profile pic/comment synergy"?

So, it turns you into Oogie Boogie?