Brian Terrill’s Small-Screen 66 – #52: “MythBusters”

Small-Screen 66 – #52: MythBusters (Discovery, 2003-Present) “Don’t try anything you’re about to see at home.” “We’re what you call ‘experts.’” This admonition, in addition to being whole-cloth hogwash (if no one ever “tried this at home,” how could anyone BECOME an expert in the first place?) opens each episode of today’s selection. Fortunately, the…

Brian Terrill’s 100 Film Favorites – #52: “Hot Fuzz”

100 Film Favorites – #52: “Hot Fuzz” (Edgar Wright, 2007) As with selection #69, X-Men: First Class, this is another instance in which my opinion of a film is greatly influenced by the conditions under which I first saw that film. Hot Fuzz was the first R-rated movie I saw in theaters without adult accompaniment.…