I have a hard time wrapping my head around the hate some people have for the guy. He's a horrid little goblin, sure, but I can't think of another critically-beloved director in the modern canon who gets shit on this way. You don't see people getting like this about Scorsese or Goddard.

Five movies ago was Jackie Brown, his most humanist, least violent movie.

Hateful Eight, is, I think, one of Tarantino's weakest, but it's also the best moviegoing experience I've ever had. I saw it in the 70mm Roadshow version on Christmas day in a sold-out theater, close enough to the back to hear the projector spinning, and it was the most magical that going to the movies had felt since…

I get that it's a crappy year, but if anything, that makes a movie whose central point is "America is a savage and racist land and what little civilization and humanity we have has to be dragged kicking and screaming from the bloody morass of our history and built upon a frame of comforting lies" even more prescient.

So that you can actually own your property instead of paying to license it.

I briefly met Buzz Aldrin once when I was in high school, just running into him while he was promoting his children's book about the moon.

"I doubt he's omniscient. I know he's myopic."

Fuck.

The winner for me is "my cat's breath smells like cat food."

In one alternate universe, that actually WAS Rick Berman!

It's not a direct Diablo clone, not being isometric, but the master of RNG-dominated dungeon crawls is the original Phantasy Star Online for me. Combining the random loot hack and slash with Yuji Naka's sense of rhythm and movement (and the balls-out tacky 90's psychedelica of Sonic Team's art direction) make for an…

They don't work for the same reason there's never been a movie novelization that was great literature. The two media are so radically different— one works by making you a direct participant in its world, one by making you a passive recipient. Games with bad stories can get by based on being fun and exciting, but…

It's the one that made me realize, as youngun, that she was in movies other than Star Wars and that she was awesome.

Leonard Cohen fell down and hit his head after spending years of clean living in a monastery. Fuck that person.

Let's hear some respect for her Blues Brothers role, too. Such a fun running thread in the movie and a great performance in a movie full of them.

"They say I was very lucky to be shot in the throats and survive, but I think a lucky man would not have been shot in the throat."

Also because they were paying Klan members to be in it. That was the actual reason it was cancelled, as the article states.

Bravo.

My recipe can't claim authenticity or precision, but I put a couple tablespoons of gentian root into a jar with 750 ml of brandy and let it steep about 3-4 days before straining. It's probably a lot coarser than the actual stuff, but it works for me.

Shame Ezra Pound isn't available.