The best film criticism I heard all year was when the lights went up in the theatre where I saw "Blackfish" … A little girl about eight was clutching her mother's arm so tightly her nails were digging in & tears were running down her face … "MOMMY!!!"

Another inverse example is Surf II — part of the joke being that there had been no Surf I … Anyone who's experienced this lovely work of art knows that it's an example of a cult film that truly deserves its cult !

Dylan calling his memoirs Chronicles, Vol. 1 several years ago would seem perfect for this list … Somehow I doubt he's ever going to get around to Vol. 2 but I might be wrong

I only care about Terry & Julie in Waterloo Sunset … I think there's hope for them — they seem like classy Londoners maybe … None of that white trash chili dog stuff for them!

I've seen this & quite liked it — & it simply didn't hit me as being offensive in that way

This is the point … It's pulp noir — like Tell No One , or The Last Seduction, or Fatal Attraction … It doesn't hold up to close inspection … And she's indeed presented as a ludicrous Lecter- level super-villain to the point of total absurdity … Therefore considering her as pro- or anti- feminista is intrinsically…

This movie was only enjoyable if you view it as neo-noir/ trash/ pulp … As with "The Last Seduction" or "Tell No One" or many other examples — as Maltin would put it, "it doesn't hold up to close scrutiny" — to say the least! … These kinds of films can only be enjoyed if you "turn off your brain" and suspend disbelief…

Because it's already in the damn thirties maybe!

The one at the Portage looks to be about a billion times better! (To say nothing of more exciting mugging prospects when you step out for air!)

Wild Kingdom — based on the famed Marlin Perkins show which I've never in fact seen in any incarnation — was probably about my favorite game growing up

Ironically enough, doesn't John Lennon's "Mother" qualify for the list — since he has a verse in there in which the primal rage is strongly directed at the male parent also!

Incidentally, is 10K Maniacs "What's the Matter Here" not right for this list — simply because it's a song about a next-door neighbor observing somebody else's shitty father ? Or I guess maybe it doesn't really qualify as the disgust is directed towards both of the neighbor boy's parents??

Although I understand that the Cat Stevens song doesn't belong on this list since it presents an ambivalent image of the father figure, who actually makes very good, if conservative points in his alternating verses; nevertheless, I just wanted to express that it's my favorite "father & son" song of all by far — for…

I nominate Arch Hall Jr. in "The Sadist" !!!! Anyone who's seen it knows that after this guy and his lady friend way lay you, it won't be very long before you realize that they, shall we say, might not necessarily have been the valedictorians or top SAT scorers of their grade …

What better way to die then watching Agutter teasing "Do I have a choice? Then this time I'll say … 'yes'!" … & then you're in heaven … Purrrrrr …fect!

Weiner mentioned on Fresh Air last week that one of his major influences was Sherwood Anderson — one of whose most famous books is "Triumph of the Egg"

One remaining episode MUST end with "Easy To Be Hard" — that's what I say!

Wow! What a HARSH, AWKWARD episode … Nothing worse than that kind of awkwardness when everyone's talking about you & you don't fit in … It's like first day of kindergarten feeling or something … Sitting at the circle table in the middle knowing that everyone who's supposed to love you is conspiring against you !…

Yeah that blew my mind, having just seen that in the midst of a horrific Midwest winter — went to the rep house to see that one & Demy so brilliantly captures the feeling of LA with a foreigners' eye — but in Feb it was hard not to want to be there already for god's sakes — especially once Aimee appeared on the scene…

I'd be very satisfied just to know how in the hell I get my up & down arrows back once they force me to log in through the pop-up way every single time these days …