I swear to God, that's what that SciFi miniseries Tin Man was supposed to be - law enforcement in Oz. Then it got turned into some sort of Heavy Metal remix of Oz in the process.

I remember Monsters got a lot of credit for getting the "scope" of Mexico. Which made it really fucking annoying when there's a scene where the two leads find an untouched Mesoamerican temple in the middle of a jungle… within visual range of the Rio Grande.

Sadly, not without installing Bootcamp. I've checked.

He's better as Vampire Bender, a.k.a. Smiling Jack, in Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines.

Eh, while the scene is wonderfully awkward out of context, it makes a good deal of sense in context. It's one person trying to show another person how to pretend to be happy and cheerful in the face of apocalyptic destruction. The person trying to show it has been thrust into this world at the worst possible time, and…

I wouldn't necessarily call it just "suits." I haven't seen this many button-up short-sleeve leather shirts since my last trip to The Eagle.

I'll be honest - when Madame Gao let out that delighted laugh when Kingpin shows up after the rest of the cabal has been staring at the blood and flecks of skin on his SUV, I thought it was like when Cheryl laughs after something gets set on fire on Archer.

Agreed. Furthermore, it's a movie that shows the perils of half-finished deconstructions. It sets out to demolish the Hollywood idea of the Strong Female Character, the one who kicks ass while flashing panties, by showing that isn't always going to save the day. But then… it offers no alternative. Five girls enter…

The lasso then makes another appearance. She places it on the thug's chest… before torturing him for information. Complete with the sound of breaking bones. The whole thing was like some grotesque parody of Wonder Woman without one ounce of irony.

"Emma. Emma! EMMA! EMMAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"WHAT?!?"
"Heh heh heh… Daaaaanger Roooooom."

For tonight, they said "not the one you think" re: the Cage movie. So, there's a vague part of me that's holding out hope for Knowing, if only because there's a part of me that delights in seeing that turd set alight. Many movies piss me off, but it's rare the movie that offends me on a deep, personal level. Knowing…

It also felt like the show knew that it had to step up its game and, after a whole bunch of missteps in the back half of the second season (both the Duff sisters are given prominence! Adam cheats on Joan right the fuck out of nowhere!), there was a finale that said things were about to get a lot more, well, Biblical,…

There's also an aspect of how society builds up the idea of the "good worker" and how people try to craft themselves to match a successful, professional ideal, even if there's nothing underneath. I know whenever I find myself filling out cover letters and repeating the same "I am a good, professional person who can do…

Because his ideas are relatively high-concept and studios usually have an army of staff writers ready to prune all the truly miserable bits out with hedge trimmers.

"Wait. Why would I die in a dessert?"
"I dunno, like, a big chocolate mousse?"

All right. How do I, a gay man, reach somebody who views the idea of two girls on a cartoon show walking off into the sunset together as the dire encroachment of filthy sodomites upon every aspect of modern existence? Whose defense, when called on acting like the show's creators shat on his dog, is "I don't want to…

I don't think Correia's demonstrated views on torture (at least, I don't know). His thing seems to be gun porn, the idea that the federal government bollockses up everything it has a direct hand in, and the eternal perfidy of FDR.

T** K***man

Yes, I should make that clear. It's not that he held repellent political opinions, because he likely did that from the time he sprouted pubic hair; it's that he used an SFWA resource to promote not just an attack on another member, but one that basically put the organization's voice behind the sentiment of, "Fucking…

And some of the people who want to escape are female, or queer, or trans. The problem is, that escapism runs headlong into chucklefucks who view that sort of presence in their playground as something that infringes on THEIR escapism. Suddenly, they have to deal with the dreaded… "politics."