If she left a third of the way through Pina, she wasn't for you. God help whoever she is for.

Yojimbo is a good primer for Kurosawa. Seven Samurai really doesn't need a primer though. It's fairly awesome on its own.

Like most people I'm meh on the finale, but I still think the back half of season 4 is the best. It has more ups and downs than most shows. The peaks are so very, very high, but there are also some valleys each year. Maybe I loved season 4 most because they saved the valley for the end.

It’s been a long week and I just can’t muster the energy to do individual write-ups on everything I’ve seen. On Thursday my laptop and camera were stolen. I won’t go into specifics, but it left me with a lot of time sitting at home making calls and waiting for people to call me back. I also worked several overnights…

What!? Nobody? Seriously?

That's too bad. As a Boondocks fan with no interest in the new season I'd been looking forward to this.

That describes most of Breaking Bad and its treatment of the myth of the outlaw.

Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn, 2014)
I had a mixed reaction to Guardians of the Galaxy. Initially with Iron Man 3, I was excited by the possibility that Marvel movies might capitalize on their invincibility. Instead, they’ve just gone from knocking off Iron Man to knocking off Avengers. The design work here is…

To be fair, 150 years is a long time for everyone to remember all the proper nomenclature for an extinct culture.

11 Monkeys (preceded by 12 Monkeys Jumping on the Bed short film to bridge the gaps)

Unique, Individual Cerebral Viewing Experience

I'm legitimately tempted by this, and I cannot afford it at all.

Catch 22 (Nichols, 70) - An unnecessary adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel (which I finished last week and absolutely adored), due in large part to the fact that Kubrick and Altman had both captured the spirit of Catch 22 on film with much success. Still, I wanted it to work, because the moments that did play were…

FRIDAY
*Mouchette* (Bresson, 67) My first Bresson, and I can already ours will be a long, healthy relationship. It's a very dour film, some might even say miserablist, and as an American with a short attention span and an innate sense of what Tarkovsky called "fatuous pseudo-optimism" I sometimes have trouble with…

I'm 100% on board if it's all Arrested Development-style knockoffs of Beatles songs.

I thought they could have done way more with Unalaq, particularly exploring how he resented his brother, how he tended to embrace the spiritual out of a dislike for humanity, and how his particular brand of moral elitism could serve as a foil for Korra's own tendency to violently go off on her own against the wishes…