I wasn't completely on board with the performance at first, but what sold me on it were the flashbacks to his brutal, working class upbringing. I know we all do our best to pay lip service to the American ideal of the classless society. That's why everyone analyzes the performance in emotional terms, as Fisk covering…

And Rabbi Nachtner in A Serious Man.

I live in Tucson currently, but I'm originally from Missouri Valley country, so it was a bittersweet night for me…

Though I've enjoyed Brad Dourif performances for decades, to me he'll always be the man who "can feel the fuckin' click of the gleet…"

The only good thing that came out of Harry Potter is Wizard People, Dear Reader. And Brad Neely never read the books either.

I gave up on Torchwood: Miracle Day when they incinerated that doctor who was the only interesting new character that the writers came up with.

Rudy? An improvement?

This is my favorite Metallica album. And I hate metal. But a friend gave me a tape of this in high school, and to this day I totally dig "Battery", "Sanitarium", and the title track, though I'm not sure I ever made it to the second side.

Shadow of a Doubt is so overlooked. I almost overlooked it myself until I popped in the dvd one night from a box set I received one Xmas. I had no expectations, but was just blown away from the very beginning (the lighting & the shadows in that opening scene with Cotton lying on the bed and the landlady in the…

I don't remember which season it was, but the prototypical example of this rule in my mind is the time that 7-foot tall white dude with dreadlocks from Michigan used frozen puff pastry he bought at Whole Foods to create a maple-flavored dessert to represent his home region in a dish in the first episode of the season.…

Mel Brooks AND Sam Elliott, as I noted elsewhere in these comments.

It's what's for dinner?

Sam Elliott is one lucky bastard…

Nah, "dude bro bravado barely held together as entertainment" is Limp Bizkit.

Don't even get me started on the salsa levels of Jimmy's floating nachos when he was in the pool at that resort!

Aw, who cares about all them furriners anyway?

I caught up with this show on a binge just recently in, like, 2 days. It was probably the easiest binge-watch I've ever done. So excited.

After reading the set-up in the 2nd paragraph, my own instinct was immediately to pair Serious Man with Llewyn Davis, since their apparent literary forebears, Job and Odysseus (both of whose books the Coens claim never to have read, of course), are similar in the sufferings and trials that are heaped upon them by the…

The opening sequence in the airport is really good, though. When it came out, Gene Siskel recommended that people sneak into the theater showing Airplane II in the multiplex and watch the first 10 minutes, then go see another movie.

Procreate the species? I don't even know she's!