One more season to go before I'll have to search for some other PYT to fawn over in these reviews.  Awww, who am I kidding?  I won't need a private detective to find one of those.

Let me finish it for you: "...couldn't make me sit through this crap again."  I honestly don't know where it went wrong, but Sean Penn in this role certainly was a considerable part of it.  Read the book instead.  Hell, do anything else instead.

A look at the interesting and sad culture of uninteresting celebs trying to look like they're happy in the misery that is the LA music business.  The subject of the documentary is unfortunately so tragic that you want to know more about him and then want to kill yourself in light of those revelations.

Okay, Labyrinth it's not.  It really takes a while for this movie to get started, and it's sort of desperate and nonsensical (in artistically boring way), but ultimately it picked up I got more into it.  Unless you're a fan of Gaiman?? and ??? , you'll need drugs to suppliment the inspiration that wasn't present in making it.

Hokey, which is sad because it's a Hemmingway adaptation, and that ought to have given it balls at the outset.

I suppose we're supposed to be shocked about this story of a teacher on drugs, but I've been a teacher, and I wonder how most get through the day without drugs.

For years I heard this was good.  It isn't.  The "portrait" is painted so poorly that you would never identify the guy in a line-up. Still, you'd figure a movie about a serial killer would be interesting, right?  Well, this one isn't, and it just (I swear) becomes comical for all the killing that goes on.  To me, that's a worse crime than the murders that inspired it.

Proof that a film doesn't have to be perfect to be engrossing.  I could nitpick, but I'd rather you just go see it, so I'm going to shut the fuck up.

I have it on good faith that you'll really like this movie if you've done a lot of meth.  I failed that drug test, but I enjoyed the picture anyway, especially McDermot McMulrooney in a very un-McDermot McMulrooney role.  And if you're a David Lynch fan, you'll appreciate a sort of Wild At Heart film minus the pretentiousness and/or weirdness that usually obscures the story itself.

Another great series that's on its last leg (i.e., one more season to go).  I'm surprised how far it traveled considering how slowly it moved.

I'm still trying to figure this one out.  If you hate Lynch, you'll probably never bother.  If you love Lynch, you'll talk about it for years (no, literally; the internet's full of entries in the guessing game this one inspired).  Honestly, it's my favorite film of his, and that's saying a lot.

Personally, I have trouble getting through anything based in fact.  There are some liberties taken here (i.e., the protagonist is an invention of the original novel's author), but knowing something really happened when what is depicted is incredibly unpleasant doesn't make for enjoyable viewing.  Forest Whitaker is incredible regardless.

I'm trying to find exactly where this series jumped the shark.  That's one that's harder to solve than most of David Lynch's puzzles.

It's more than the Indian My Big Fat Greek Wedding.  Like one of my other favorites, Love Actually, I think this film does a great job of exploring the multi-faceted nature of love from more angles than simply the romantic one the title suggests.

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