'As Don Draper reminds us, the literal Greek translation of “nostalgia” is “the pain from an old wound.”'

oh god, going by this trailer my favourite rapper Gussy Flow-Bear will be rolling in his grave.

she was so fab in Treme :~)

This week, on Dominic West Fucking: Dominic West. Fucking.

Alas I don't live in the states, but I'd love to see smaller cinemas implement it in Australia where I'm from or the UK where I've lived before, if they don't already.

American critics, or maybe just anglophone media-outlet critics generally, seem to be obsessed with the running time of a film. If it's over 2.5 hours (or if it's between 2.25 and 2.5 but without significant 'heft'/awards season cred) then that immediately becomes a cross against its name, something to attack a movie…

Lucy Prebble's a talented playwright as well, good stuff

I love the shit out of this idea in principle. I wonder if it's viable for smaller, independent cinemas.

Not techno.

Bloody hell, it really was 15 years ago. I remember my 11 year old self recording these two episodes on VHS. VH fucking S!

lol this show is jokes

That's an interesting position, and it's one that many people seem to hold. But I don't really agree with it at all.  Essentially, you could write a list of writers and works that have had the criticism 'nothing happens' levelled at it at one point or another (a criticism which posterity typically shows to be…

Why does a film (or a novel, or a play, a work of fictional art basically) need a 'story' (or as the reviewer puts it: "a narrative […] - to the limited extent that the film has one"), to be of merit?

but… he's piss funny as Christopher

and you don't do the broken voice…

^ what he said ^

Thick is so, so much more than Tucker 'carrying it'

Luv u Bunk but this would have been baaaaaad

I think you've completely misread Shame

his films share co-writing credits with Enda Walsh and Abi Morgan, respectively, two highly respected playwrights