Now take your cheque for $100,000 and get outta here!

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::raises eyebrow, smirks::

I assume you were forced to cut short your impression in the following fashion:

I quite liked this film - reminded me a lot of Adam Curtis' BBC documentaries - but I thought the Cold War stuff was slightly shoehorned in. The filmmaker made a better point when he compared Hitchcock's work in television with the role it played in the 1960 Presidential election - a maligned art form, overshadowed by…

I loved The Devil's Backbone - much more so than Pan's Labyrinth, in fact.

Coming after Mesrine, the French really seem to like their epic-length biopics of violent criminal assholes.

The Solaris remake is actually damn good. It looks beautiful, has a great Cliff Martinez score, all of Soderbergh's New Wave stylistic tics work in the service of the story, and the cast are all spot-on.

It's like the anti-Grease (or at least, a version of Grease that starts from much better first principles and produces a far superior end result).

1, 2, 3, 4…!

Love this film. I mean, I love The Ramones, and it doesn't skimp on the performance footage, so it's kind of a foregone conclusion. But the film as a whole has tons of charm. Soles is great, the supporting cast (Clint Howard and all) really sell it, and there's room for moments of complete randomness like the…

Bob Odenkirk and/or Kurtwood Smith playing a "complete jerk"?
Now that's counter-intuitive casting!

"Hard to believe that a week ago he'd booked himself in for an experimental gamma ray treatment for mumps, when the eyeball of a sex offender got in the chamber. But when you sell your body to medical science to make a quick buck, you've gotta roll with the punches."

OP: my (very recent) introduction to The Wedding Present was Bizarro, and I loved it.

Believe it or not, Default, the reason I raised my dislike of Phonogram was not because I "hate my life" but because I gave the comic a chance (more than a chance, in fact - I'm predisposed to like anything that references Britpop, The Pipettes or The Long Blondes) and found it lacking.

"a comic that you desperately want to like, but just can't bring yourself to enjoy"
…is exactly how I'd describe my view on Phonogram. I bought the first trade and thought the art was nice, but the writing was smug and obnoxious. I was going to see if things had picked up in the second volume, but I've been burned…

Oddly enough, I feel the same way about Swingers, when Favreau leaves that never-ending message on the girl's answering machine.

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I'm willing to bet that before Lost hit it big, a few of the cast members only took their parts for a all-expenses stay in Hawaii.

I only discovered them about a month ago when I picked up the #1 Record/Radio City double-disc, and I haven't stopped playing it since. Really sad to hear this news.