"she's already easy to paint as leftist"

What's really unnecessary is that the scene with the Crazy 88s takes place *before* the scene with Vernita Green, chronologically, but is shown *afterwards* in the movie. It's a meaningless non-twist that's seemingly in there only because "Tarantino's the guy with the nonlinear storytelling."

I wish more shows would be willing to radically shake up their format. For instance, I was disappointed with the Battlestar Galactica crew left New Caprica after, like, four episodes. If I'd been in charge, I would've set the entire 3rd season there (not all of it under Cylon occupation though; in my alternate…

Well c'mon, when you barge into someone's house four years after you dumped her, the least she can do is blow you. That's just common courtesy.

I'm glad to see the Wachowskis are obeying the law requiring every science fiction movie to have blue as its dominant color.

I'd have to slightly disagree with that. If the Republican Party stands for anything, it is "defense of privilege." The privilege of the rich over the poor, of bosses and corporations over employees, and (the largest class of all) of white people over everybody else. Now, they may not know precisely what socialism…

I thought it was about the English musical group The Cure. And yet, even after reading the article, I'm still not wholly convinced it isn't.

At least they all know successful shows have short titles. Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, ER, Mash. The creators of "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" and "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" were absent the day they went over that lesson in television show creator school.

I'm so sick and tired of the "blue and glossy" look apparently every big budget science fiction movies has to have today. When did this start—Minority Report? Watched Altered States recently—love the warmer but mainly just more realistic colors and textures in that movie. Today's overly stylized looks undercut the…

The millions of dollars cushion the blow.

Isn't it weird when you realize stuff you were taught in school isn't true?  They taught me Noah's Ark was on the slopes of a mountain in Turkey, but the Turks wouldn't let anyone explore it because they're communists.

Especially because you can just steal everything you would normally get from television using your internet connection.  Cable and Netflix are superfluous.

"it was so important to Showtime’s long-term growth, that it simply had to stick around for far longer than it had story for."

Thesis: Suits = Mad Men

Hey, she's not a one-hit-wonder.  She wrote that book about, like, local politics in a British village or something.  And then that other thing that was published under a pseudonym?  Those were, like, books that exist.

Potter?  But I don't even *know* her.  
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The thing is, not owning a TV today says nothing about whether you watch television programs or not.  If you have a computer and an internet connection, you can watch them.  I haven't owned a TV for 4 years, but I still watch plenty of television.  The other day I asked someone (who I know owns a television) if they…

If you shot a whole movie that way, you probably would be discomfited, but we're talking about a single shot.  Can you really draw such a specific inference as "they're not part of nature" from a solitary detail of a single, very ordinarily composed shot?  Maybe if the shot was weird, the case would be stronger, but…

"But they’re not part of nature—they don’t have any feet."

Speaking of Vincent Gallo, has anybody seen the movie "Stranded" that he appeared in?  AKA "Stranded: Naufragos."  2002, or possibly 2001.  I.e., not the Christian Slater movie of the same title that came out this summer.