What happens when you take 26 horror directors and assign them a letter of the alphabet to base a short film around? You get a mostly shitty movie. There's one short that I genuinely loved ("Q is for Quack", in which Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett of You're Next fame deconstruct the concept of the film to great effect) but most of the rest are grotesque nonsense. Only a few of them manage any real shock, and when they do I ended up disgusted in the bad way. "L is for Libido" is genuinely one of the more sickening, disturbing things I've ever seen in a movie, but I wasn't impressed with the short because of that. I just felt ill. It wasn't bold or groundbreaking. It was just shock for the sake of being shocking. You could say the same about most of the shorts. I did like a few, though. "Q is for Quack", as mentioned. "C is for Cycle" is confused but kind of clever. "J is for Jidai-geki (Samurai Movie)" is probably the funniest short. It's like an R-rated Spongebob episode. If you see it, you'll know what I mean. "N is for Nuptials" features a joke as old as time (or at least as old as parrots) but the short is so quick and unapologetic about itself that I thought it worked. "O is for Orgasm" is really interesting visually, but I'm not sure it has any place in this film. But then you get shorts like "F is for Fart," which is at least a trainwreck in an interesting way. I can't say the same for "I is for Ingrown," which was baffling and made absolutely zero sense. "M is for Miscarriage" is so bad that there's basically nothing to say about it. The reveal at the end is played as horrific, but I sat there and though, "Oh, yeah. Okay. I guess I'm supposed to be shocked here." It's another strike on Ti West's filmography for me. I have yet to like a single thing the guy makes, but he has this reputation as a great horror director. I don't get it. "R is for Removed" features a style of filmmaking that I really detest. It's basically a series of pretentiously-shot sequences that don't actually add up to anything, even though they're presented as "dramatic" and "intriguing." It's really lazy filmmaking. Speaking of which, "W for WTF?" is the laziest short of the bunch, and I'm surprised that the producers even let this one in the film. It starts in the same place that "Q is for Quack" does, but it takes it in a mind-numbingly dense direction. And then we close with "Z is for Zetsumetsu (Extinction)" which nicely sums up what The ABCs of Death is as a whole. Vulgar, gory, gross, "shocking," loud, and dumb. It's too bad that only a few segments lived up to the potential of the concept. Maybe they'll get some better directors for the sequel.

Not sure if this is the same guy, but apparently there was one actor who auditioned for the show more than any other actor, and they finally found a role for him in Jack's crew. He even got a few lines.

He's a film blogger. He represents the rest of us, so he should know better. Alex Billington is a child. There was also the time he tried to blackmail Universal into inviting him to a secret Scott Pilgrim screening by threatening to reveal when and where it was taking place.

Okay, this whole issue just leveled up big time. Alex Billington, blogger for firstshowing.net, CALLED 911 on a dude who was on his phone in a TIFF screening today. And he's super-serious about this too. He's on Twitter and Facebook acting like he's some kind of hero for "elevating the issue" of movie texters. He's saying that change wasn't going to come until someone took the issue as seriously as he did. He's acting like a martyr for the cause.

Fuck Alex Billington. He makes all of us look like lunatics with no sense of humor about ourselves. He's not only dragging down public perception of film buffs/critics, he's forever sullied the reputations of every internet journalist looking for a press pass to a film festival, especially TIFF. He's pathetic, and I hope he's banned from future film events for this reckless, inappropriate behavior. Fuck. Alex. Billington.

That's not inconceivable. My friend caught up on Netflix in early 2012 and he thought that the season 4 finale was the last episode. And it could be, had they decided to end it there.

I love that idea. You could spend 4 hours talking about trailers. There's so much to cover.

But seriously, the final segment of "Reincarnation" might be the funniest thing that Futurama ever did.

Agh. I was writing a whole post but my browser refreshed and it got deleted, so here's the tl;dr.

US Office is funnier and all-around better than UK Office ever was. Parks and Rec is better than both of them.

Late-period Futurama is in a lot of ways better that the original Fox run, and episodes like "The Late Philip J. Fry" and "Lethal Inspection" carry a lot more emotional heft than "Jurassic Bark" or the one with Fry's lucky clover.

Archer and Bob's Burgers are brilliant. Bob's Burgers especially in how it captures its central family. Each character is so unique, and yet you can totally see how they developed in the world of the show. You can see which aspects of the kids' personalities they took from their parents. And it's just a sweet show that never resorts to cheesy messages or morals to wrap stories around. Also, the musical numbers. "Electric Love" from season 3 is just indescribably good.

Yup.

Vince Gilligan said that a future Blu-Ray release will have both Walt and Jesse's tapes in full.

But would they have set up all the events leading to Jesse's confession only to throw it out that easily? I'm not sure. But that tape will be a major player going forward.

Final episode: Walt is rotting in jail, everyone he loves is dead, and the lottery ticket that he bought with the coordinates of the money ends up winning him millions of dollars.