The view from my desk...

... is an infinite regression. I hope you can resist falling into the void. Me, I plan to fall into the real world for a while today and do that life…

More about those movie quotes.

I TiVo-blogged the whole 3-hour AFI movie quotes show last night, so it's kind of silly to have anything more to say... but it just so happens …

Howard Dean declines the "gladiatorial contest."

Analyze the stuttering stumbling at the end of the quote: I detect dissimulation. ADDED: I've been reading old blog posts -- reminiscing?? -- and…

"It's my theory that this chap Meade is the arch-criminal and he's behind the whole thing."

"Meade" is in 210 phrases in 30 movies (with a lot of repetitions in "Gone With the Wind"), but "Althouse" is in none.…

"The Top 5 Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Masterpieces."

Come on. Let's watch "Primer." And "Dark City." And "Gattaca."

"Crash."

I mentioned the other day that the Oscar nominations made me want to see the movie "Crash." It came in the mail yesterday, and I watched i…

"A film adaptation of the classic ‘80s video game 'Tetris' will be falling into theaters sometime in the near future."

"'It’s a very big, epic sci-fi movie,' Threshold’s CEO Larry Kasanoff tells Speakeasy exclusively. 'This isn’t a movie with a bunch …

Didn't we reach the point weeks ago

where everyone who had thought environmentalism would seize the public imagination because of the film "The Day After Tomorrow" got embarra…

0%.

The #1 movie at the box office has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (i.e., not one good review). That's got to be a record. The next four movies …

"It's an alternative food source."

..."And not because it doesn't taste great." ..."Again, sustenance, that's the key."

There's kind of a theme here today...

Don't you think? Althouse Vlog #3 explains: ( Link .)

Oscars slideshow.

Way more entertaining than actually watching the show.

Extra bad.

"If you don't like your life, change it."

Just an intriguingly simple bit of advice from Laurence Olivier , who, had he lived, would turn 100 years old today.

Sopranos! Look out for the glass! Kumquats!

What a truly great episode of The Sopranos! I just have a completely off to the side remark. When Tony was watching TV, the movie was It's a Gift…

"The Dictator... who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.”

"Everybody hated something. I hated the heights. Red Buttons hated the water. Stella [Stevens] hated the dirt and so did..."

"... Ernest Borgnine. Shelley Winters hated being fat and Jack Albertson hated Shelley Winters." Said Carol Lynley, years ago, talking abou…

"It's my theory that this chap Meade is the arch-criminal and he's behind the whole thing."

"Meade" is in 210 phrases in 30 movies (with a lot of repetitions in "Gone With the Wind"), but "Althouse" is in none.…

Does "United 93" have a "documentary feel"?

Plenty of critics say so, but Christopher Althouse -- who's got a blog! -- disagrees : Anyone who claims this movie has a documentary style has…

"You can't fix it. You gotta yank it."

Says Sandy Berger , who should know about yanking. He's a yanker of historic proportions . I wonder what brainstorming went into the choice of t…