i'd also like to know how it was possible for Avery's DNA to be on the key but NOT the victim, who was the owner of the vehicle and would have used the key all the goddamned time. what, he was smart enough to wipe off all the victim's DNA but then stupid enough to recontaminate it with his own?! does that sound…

killing avery would have been more work and more risk and wouldn't have ended the wrongful imprisonment lawsuit… but, as we see, framing him did.

i think it's important to point out the jury should have been instructed - and should have acted upon! - the idea that avery was presumed to be innocent and that it was the job of the prosecution and the cops to PROVE beyond a reasonable doubt that he was in fact guilty. whether you or i or anyone else "think" he is…

i need to see this but every time i consider sitting down to it, i flash back on my first attempt to do so, waaaaay back in the early 90's (and so well before the days of omnipresent internet verification) when i mistakenly rented the John Carpenter version of Assault on Precient 13 and got as far as the dude in the…

wellll… not really, although i see what you're saying. i mean, yes: the re-edited version which was shown as a two-parter on television was disavowed by Lynch and was credited to Alan Smithee but the theatrical release was and is still a David Lynch film. he may prefer not to discuss the movie in interviews (according…

we just got back from spending a couple days with my family in my hometown, Manitowoc, WI - which is now famous as two things, the home of Agent Coulson AND the setting of the new (and incredibly infuriating) Netflix documentary, Making A Murderer.

i'm not informed enough to weigh in on allegations about specific individuals* but i'm always curious to know why people think "we'll never get the whole story with him being dead" - do you really think people would be honest about their bad behavior? if asked about it, people would just give some self-serving…

well, because The Thing and the T1000 were using their shapeshifting abilities in pursuit of different goals: The Thing was trying to remain undetected and, argueably*, to secretly infect everyone so there would no longer be any danger from being uncovered. the T1000, on the other hand, was programmed to eliminate a…

Fitzcummins P. Gonderscobbie, the Third!

doesn't he mime holding his dick with both hands in the anarchy burger scene, like he was holding onto a firehose? i laughed out loud at that, which almost queered the show for me, cause i was watching on a lawn chair at a drive-in theater, drinking a 40 out of a paper bag.

As any hotline operator can attest, the Yuletide season is noteworthy for the spike in suicide attempts it annually garners.

Yeah! Wikipedia tells us "the Japanese word for Japan is Nippon."

you really think they faked the body hanging off the pole in front of the firing line?

maybe there's a reason revealed later but wasn't julianna's reaction to seeing her sister gunned idown in the street awfully… subdued? i mean, i get that wartime or living under an occupation might have a chilling effect on public outbursts and, yes, the episode does demonstrate julianna's mastery of (or subservance…

he bought a banner ad.

yeah, okay - but this fits on a postage stamp.

you forgot the giant iceberg of PRON. (it's probably a continent.)

that's similar to my postage stamp-sized definition of noir: Men Are Stupid, Women Are Evil.

i never gave much thought to channing tatum one way or the other but the off-hand way he declares "your dealer's probably selling you some pretty stepped on shit" during patton oswalt's class in 22 Jump Street cracks me up every time i think about it, just as much as the gleeful delight on ice cube's face when he's…

more people need to do this - i have no documentation at hand and can't be arsed to google it, but someone posted an excerpt from a speech by one of the executives at one of the big two who basically said, we're gonna keep ratcheting up the price of comics until people stop buying them.