Totes. I feel especially that way with hip hop. Since Black Star and Aesop, I haven't liked much of anything—and I suspect the hip hop world is fine with that.

Oh, in no particular order…TV/film: Malick, Scorcese, Kieslowski (mort), David Chase. Ang Lee is youngish at least. Music has been a grim tide of reaper's work, but: Dylan obv, Bowie (mort), Zeppelin, Stones, with Metallica still youngish but posting a liver-age of well over 80. I guess if Casablancas or Aesop Rock…

You just named my favourite respective artists in film and music. I believe deeply in the value of aging with grace, and so I count it a spiritual good to ready for the day when we consign them to dust.

Sorry; that's me calling him over-hallowed. Your taste is your taste. I loved the bloody silliness of the beginning but that's taste. I think calling the sex idea gratuitous and counter to meaningful storytelling, though, is a shaky argument. You don't have to like it, but there's plenty of justification in the…

Amen. Francis is a pastoral barrier-breaker, a great servant of peace and healing. Also, his lyrics scan way better than yours. Your meter is shit.

Yeah. Bryan Fuller, head of Hannibal and a bona fide visual master poet, was all like, 'I have an idea about how people respond to loss, shock and horror,' and then an over-hallowed author was like, 'I recommend differently,' and then the resulting scene was great, and then minor gossip came out about the small moment…

Also, I thought this episode was a sovereign fucking episode of television. Full disclosure: Neil is an acquaintance of mine, who has been so kind about my own work that I call him a friend (though he doesn't need much from me), but I don't like his stuff overly much. I thought this drew out his best ideas in the book…

I think avoiding the blowjob was a great decision, but I'd like to push against this 'out of character' chorus. Trauma is disfiguring. 'Identity' and 'character' are consistent things only in the frankly false and manipulative world of fiction. We applaud 'complex' characters in fiction but earning the moniker usually…

Outstanding.

I parry, ninja. The raw ingredients were the same. The uses were very different. The central conflicts were new, the characters were unique, the mythos of SW universe history weighed on them without dictating a repeat of the stories and priorities we've seen before. Look past the superficial resemblances. Shakespeare…

I hotly disagree. She cycles through delirium, then sexual vindictiveness (with a side of carnal self-empowerment), then ultimately weeping impotence as means to somehow survive her grief. He is badly behind in his own cycle of reactions, clearly longs for true contact, but recognizes the false relief of a fallen…

As a buoyant Catholic, I don't much truck in 'disproven' being the opposite of 'faith' the way the New Atheist universe insists on continuing to do. The Middle Ages are over, and pseudo-Thomism is a waste of people's time, to practice or attack.

Not to worry, friend—such places are secretly anti-*French* havens. Proper Anglo-Saxons never would've consented to this 'c is pronounced like an 's'' shit until the Norman invasion. They're just de-Frankifying the language! You're gold! Karen's biskuits and gravy are a-waitin!

What? That layabout? She just sits around in little red recovery rooms in her bra.

Anyone else married and finding that watching this together has effectively mothballed your sex life? Any lust, at any time of day, feels nauseating. I find myself fantasizing instead about, like, standing quietly on the sidelines at women's rights marches, muttering 'I'm sorry' over and over through my tears while I…

It was expensive, long, fraught, and nerve-racking to make, and seemingly destined to fail. And Theron almost certainly wouldn't be in the next one; Miller's MO has always been to tell new short stories with Max as the ancillary witness (sorry, BroVerse, but he's never been the star). Hardy isn't such a surefire box…

Let me dare to dream here: is there anything in the first movie, which is so bizarre a shrug at the source material that I've taken to calling it 'Ultimate World War Z,' that prevents the sequel from essentially just going back and doing the book this time? For around 200M production budget it would need to lace…

Sorry. Transposed a lot of other 'meh' comments from elsewhere.

Well, fuck. That…that had not occurred to us, Dude.

I sort-of demand a rival gang deploy Laibach as a dueling-grand-piano war-band, and they and the Warrior can have a Doof-Off.