Perhaps they'll both do c'caine!

I'm still not convinced about this show - its wackiness and reliant on ridiculous characters with ridiculous accents for some reason reminds of an English-version of a Mexican late night sketch show; and my dislike for reality shows is enough that I don't even want to see parodies of them -  but the "Screws" sketch…

Despite its awful, awful ending - which tacks on a dozen twists, nearly all of them stupid - and a Zack Snyder-like obsession with doing things with the camera just because "it looks cool", Running Scared is one of the great studio sleepers of the 00s. But yeah, it was doomed to failure: it's was far too late for the…

Yeah, while his reputation in America (what little there is) pegs Vian as this post-surrealist, proto-twee writer, his novels are all pretty downbeat. The driving philosophy: everything that's good and joyful in life can, and will, be taken away and destroyed by time.

SoS may end on a downbeat note, but man, this novel practically pulverizes you in the second half with its descent into the tragic (and not just in ways suggested by its "lover with a disease" premise.)  No, it's not a Haneke film, but it does require a delicate balancing of tones, and frankly, I think Gondry will…

No love for the Boris Vian novel? or Vian in general? The book's a masterpiece!

If it's any consolation, the original novel ends with some good old-fashioned body horror style violence.

The Big Hit has aged surprisingly well. Which isn't to say it's not dated. Or it's particularly good. But it very of-the-moment melding of Tarantino schtick and Hong Kong pyrotechnics make it a fascinating artifact of the late 90s.

The Big Hit has aged surprisingly well. Which isn't to say it's not dated. Or it's particularly good. But it very of-the-moment melding of Tarantino schtick and Hong Kong pyrotechnics make it a fascinating artifact of the late 90s.

Martin McDonagh's point of reference is Joe Orton, not Tarantino. Strike it from the record.

I always thought more American directors would be well served doing that, if only as a lark. I would be shocked if most of them couldn't some sort of funding.

I hate to say it, but Weisz is the cringe-inducing weak link in this film almost as much as Straithairn is the MVP.

On the contrary, I think it looks like it has plenty of Park's style.

I still stand by my opinion that if you could redact Rob Schneider, Knock-Off would be a pretty worthwhile piece of 90s cheese.

Europeans seem to do pretty well, especially when they're escaping political repression.

Yeah, fuck this guy for not being as seasoned as people who've been doing stand-up for twice as long or longer.

It's surprisingly a similar situation:

I'd like to think you spent that next day staring longingly out the window, like a dog waiting for its owner to return from work.

"Doesn't compare to Wendy's.  I've seen filth and depravity this side of a Pauline Reage story inside the bathroom at a Wendys."

I went to that same screening, and at the appropriate moment, I pissed myself.