So glad they made mention of PALOOKAVILLE. Great little movie.

There's a fine line between "too many bees" and "just not enough."
THE HAPPENING and LaBute's THE WICKER MAN remake are prime examples.

Girl Genius comic books
Phil & Kaja Foglio's series starring Agatha Heterodyne is Steampunk front and center.

Nor reading this entire thread, but wanted to add that Steven Soderbergh ALSO is the Director of Photography and camera operator on all his own films under the alias Peter Andrews.

I wouldn't call Lily Allen's repurposing of "Straight to Hell" dance pop; it's slower and ethereal. Faint whiffs of Elfman-esque music box circus Xmas soundtrack. Not even something you can even slightly sway to while standing in one place wordlessly like at Williamsburg indie band's live show or something.

He kind of cut his teeth on this dark tone (it sounds like) with a little movie that snuck around Cultville a few years ago called "King of the Ants." Tight mean and nasty illustration of actual violence and its consequences, with way less caricature and more psychological underpinnings than the average Hollywood…

In a nutshell, the airplane scene in ALMOST FAMOUS contains both what's great and what's not about Cameron Crowe (HERE BE SPOILERS): a cipher of a main character that witnesses instead of participates; stellar character development and conflict, note-perfect monologuing, laughter amid darker contest (the plane's gonna…

Agree on Final Cut. Steven Bach is so literate and lyrical and honest about what he reports that I'm stunned he ever worked in the film business.

'Cos Frank calls the shots for all those guys.

I love this band and have been with them for every entry, and will definitely support them on this and future efforts and tours.

I agree. Critics tend to be revisionist.

Google
Number of hits for "Neil + Strauss + douchebag" = 1,120
Number of hits for "David + Faustino + "douchebag" = 308
Number of hits for "Corin + Nemec + douchebag" = 52
Number of hits for "Parker + Lewis + douchebag" = 4,110

I think it's a compilation of her past few years' worth of output or something. Pitchfork did cover this video a while back.

Pop's secret weapon = Sweden
There's some seriously amazing music coming from Sweden lately. New Violators, Krezip, Caesars, etc. Unpretentious straight up garage or alternative or pop that isn't hung up on its perceived Pitchforkiness.

— was the first collaboration with Rudolph and Willis, also starred stinker-magnet, Demi Moore, and it's still Rudolph's highest grossing movie ever by far (almost 19 million).

— is another movie that just seemed impossible to adapt. Although that one had some serious all-star bona fides — Mike Nichols, from a solid Buck Henry script. But even when they seemed to get some of the Mobius looping narrative right, and the casting (to me) almost note perfect, and the tone, there was really no…

I like Spielberg and agree that his treatment of kids runs counter to how most storytellers (at least in the movies) portray them. Spielberg usually never loses that sense of awe and wonder — and understands that sometimes the source of the awe and wonder can be scary, or even dangerous. His child protagonists are…

Right now, my two no-doubt best of 2007's are "Zodiac" and "Once."

I thought Pan's was more a marketing bait-and-switch — I went in seeing only the dark fantastic elements as they tied into the girl's POV, but then realized that was overshadowed by the real-life atrocities of the Fascist regime and the history.

Sweeping generalization, but it seems that American films don't have the chops to ever carry off this style of movie. They always try too hard with white knuckles and they crash and burn spectacularly.