Sometimes, when you suddenly learn that Terrence Malick made a movie about the Austin indie-rock scene and that it's premiering in just a few months, it doesn't seem like such a bad world.

Okay, look.
I love Sherlock. I really do. Not as camp, not as a guilty pleasure, not as a hatewatch, I unabashedly love it. Everything everybody always criticizes about it never bothered me, and in some cases was a positive for me. I have never seen an episode I thought was bad, or even middling: every episode from the…

No, having revisited the books last year to read them to my younger siblings, there is definitely a real darkness to them. It has elements of dark comedy, a lot, actually, but the overall grimness of the story is absolutely not meant as a joke. The later books actually get pretty deep into some heavy ideas about the…

Boom, exactly. I think a lot of people are still a little raw from Carrey's performance, who leaned too far in the other direction, making Olaf a purely comedic loon and sucking all sense of menace and control out of him. If anything, the danger for this show's creators would be to take that backlash to heart and make…

No problem! I was dumbstruck a few years ago to discover that an incredible artistic movement was happening under my nose on Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, of all places, so I'm always happy to spread the good news. Here's a few slightly more detailed descriptions of those shows I mentioned, so you have a bit…

Well, some of the greatest TV produced in the past few years came in the form of children's cartoons; that's always a good bet. Steven Universe and Adventure Time are ongoing masterpieces, and Star vs. the Forces of Evil is starting to get really interesting; those will all be airing new episodes this year. For…

I have finished the original run of Evangelion. And while I understand why that finale was unsatisfying at the time to people who wanted more of a resolution to the story (And didn't know one would be coming with the movie), I will take serious umbridge with anyone who doesn't find it to be an extraordinary work of…

He's making jokes about W(h)ales!
(60 points to anyone who gets that. Just for being that interesting.)

I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show.
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes.
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain,
And celluloid heroes never really die.
—Ray Davies.

It's the least funny, but has the most fascinating characters. I'd say it's a fair enough trade-off.

New Year's Eve plans: sit down with my mom, eat some awesome soup and drink sparkling cider, and marathon the Cornetto trilogy.

Only Lovers Left Alive.

DreamWorks just keeps throwing away its own credibility. They had a chance to reinvent themselves as the go-to people for really smart, action-oriented family movies, but they just can't stop themselves from putting out juvenile bullshit like this. And now that Illumination has cornered the market on juvenile…

Is there any band name/sound synergy better than Morphine?

Ain't no better way to feel okay with condoning evil than convincing yourself that the persecution you're a victim of is worse than anything you could ever put anybody else through.

Somehow I made it through a few months of knowing that movie's title without being aware that it was Jarmusch. I'll be hitting up my local arthouse theater shortly.

I got a pair of audio-technica headphones for Christmas and English Settlement sounds incredible through them.

Oh, I know all about that third movie. I'm choosing to view the movies as a completely seperate canon, one which I have no strong desire to see. S;G is definitely on my list, and I'm looking forward to it a lot.

…let's put a pin in that.

By the way Shini, as you may have surmised, I finished Madoka, my thoughts on which are essentially "It's like Watchmen, but as an anime." To follow it with something older, I decided to finally check out Evengelion, my thoughts on which so far are essentially "It's like Ender's Game, but as an anime." I think I'm…