That's probably true, he did do a nice job with the scale and feel of those battles.

Mel, being Mel, got the torture part pretty close to what we're told was done to Wallace, with the understanding that American theaters wouldn't show the man's genitals being sliced off and thrown in a fire, because seeing a penis onscreen would be terrible.

The Scots raided the hell out of northern England after the Battle of Stirling Bridge, as they did for most of the Scottish Wars of Independence, but they never came close to attacking or much less taking York. You'd need a hell of siege train for that and the Scots were usually happy to just launch raids and steal…

Fair.

Rob Roy is the far, far superior men in kilts with swords film to Braveheart, anyway.

Point of order, calling Fox News "low-information news" is simply wrong. People who watch Fox know lots and lots of information, it's just maybe not necessarily in accord with reality, but they can tell you all about whatever it is they're upset about with Benghazi. In general, strong partisans on either side know a…

I remember when North Korea hacked a bunch of their emails and revealed the executives just spend all day writing back and forth plotting how to reverse the upward redistribution of wealth that's happened since the 1960s and create racial, gender and class equality in the whole world while arresting human-caused…

One of dad's few cultural pronouncements was to threaten me for speaking ill of Barbara Streisand.

I was going to make this comment. That list seems much more like "things that you'd think would often get made, but haven't yet for some reason" than some kind of collection of unproduced brilliance.

Bluebloods is my show that I know is in reality pretty milquetoast blink and you miss it fare, but for some reason it just annoys the hell out of me with its boring, smiling facism.

Am I misremembering a popular joke Christmas song?

The ahistorical homophobia is pretty jarring these days, too.

If anything Roth outdoes that name. If the idea of he, Brian Cox and John Hurt as villains sounds good, watch it.

This was after he appeared in a Simpsons episode which satirized the idea of Mel Gibson killing someone with an American flag in a remake of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.

I like it, too. Save us, o lord, from a bunch of newscaster voices on our TV shows.

Jamie Farr!

Demon and angel played by the same actor would be fun. Not sure if it'd be too on the nose, given that they were both sorta allies/friends somewhat at odds with their superiors, or just the right amount.

Rickman would have made a hell of a Crowley if a Good Omens adaptation had ever happened.

As a late Christmas gift to yourself, everyone should get the audiobook of Curry reading A Christmas Carol. Wife and I listen to it every year and it just gets better and better.

Medieval Wallachia was the only place that was true.