I always wanted to see John Cusack as Dan Drieberg. I still dream about it sometimes.

It has a lot of the same regulars who post here. Everyone (myself included) is just super excited to be talking about movies with smart people every day. So far the comments have largely stayed on-topic, which I enjoy but I can see why others wouldn't.

Now I feel like I need to make a list of good ones to defend their honor, but it'd mostly be The Producers and a bunch of Richard Lester movies.

Harold Ramis just died, so it's time to reevaluate and overpraise his lesser work!

Candace Cameron seems like a nice person, especially compared to her smug big brother.

I just don't see it at all. It has Noel Murray writing a column about licensed movie tie-in products, which is just as engaging as "A Very Special Episode" or anything else he wrote here.

Ha! That's with an earlier Doctor, I assume? It doesn't sound familiar.

Austerlitz is the only one I know of.

IFC was running it as recently as January, I know.

I read Austerlitz's book Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy, which was pretty frustrating in a similar way to how this sounds. Each chapter in that book is devoted to a different figure/pair/group, from Charlie Chaplin to Judd Apatow. It's an entertaining enough read, but it's more a collection of…

I agree completely with everything you said. This is a crazy story, but it's executed with such confidence that it works really well.

I watched Undeclared for the first time last year, and I was surprised by how little I enjoyed it. I guess I was expecting something more similar to Freaks & Geeks, I suppose. It does have the same low-key vibe, but the plots are so much more outlandish. Nearly every episode is a stock college story (kegger in the…

Isn't that also the one where they keep saying "Quantum CD-Rom"? Because that's HILARIOUS every time!

Right, because that's a plot point in the story. If Davies had written a different story, that element could have been removed entirely. When people say they dislike the ending, they don't mean "This specific story should have ended differently." They mean, "I wish Donna had gotten a completely different finale."

Approaching the Elephant sounds great. Thanks for recommending it! (And thanks for covering T/F in general.)

I'll say this for "Minuet" - I really did enjoy hearing the Brig meet up with 8. But just about everything else is rough going. The accents, the 51st state, that weird semi-BUFFY character, and especially all of the sexual abuse that poor Charley suffers. Just an unpleasant episode all around.

I bet Moffat was talking about governess/barmaid Clara, who fits that description much better and was apparently planned to be the regular companion at some point.

I've said this before, but the ending of "The Chase" is so lovely that it makes me wish for an Ian/Barbara series set in 1965 about them just hanging out.

I'd say the answer is "Davies should have just written her off in a completely different way."

That makes sense!