Who'll Stop the Rain is Nolte's prime! He's Rust Cohle's spiritual father.

Great novel. Lyrical, dark, thematically and structurally complex. It's another character study masquerading as a (fantastic) work of genre.

I'd agree that Rust has two gaping holes in his understanding: 1) he doesn't historicize, 2) he overvalues his own experiences as a platform for his generalities.

He probably has an agent (10%), a manager (10%) and a lawyer (5%). If you're making any money at all in Hollywood, 25% goes right off the top of every check.

He also wrote "In the Ghetto."

Once it gets going, the movie is a pretty relentless visceral experience. Visceral and noble. But it's not really a story. It's a series of lengthy action set pieces in search of a story. Watching it made me long for movies like The Wild Bunch and The Great Escape where the action was tied to story and character and…

Watched this the other night. C+ is maybe a little generous. The direction is pretty awful. The "opening up" of the play really is pointless and wrong-headed. Wells tries to shoe-horn in cinematic moments even though the strength of the play is its relentless verbal energy. Only the dinner scenes capture the play's…

1) Rectify
2) Eastbound & Down
3) Breaking Bad
4) Masters of Sex
5) The Americans
6) Enlightened
7) Longmire
8) Justified
9) Brooklyn 9-9
10) Bob's Burgers

I wouldn't call it incompetence. But I would call it a bizarre lack of investment and connection to probably the best new show of 2013. Or, if not best, then a close second to Rectify. Sonia sounds like a sports announcer getting fixated on a team's best player and only analyzing the few things that player *doesn't*…

Top ten favorite Pearl Jam songs:

That whole run of lyrics is magnificent, but the shrugged off "I suppose" just slays me every time.

In my experience, almost all of the heavy lifting on a shoot is done by the DP (director of photography) and the AD (assistant director). They're the ones who know the crew, the cast, and the show's template and spirit. Episode directors get 1-2 weeks to prep — sometimes with as little as a detailed outline to work…

Vanishing Point hits the absolute sweet spot between 1970s drive-in cinematic viscera and 1970s New Cinema pretensions.

So Gervais found Christ?

It could make for a good novel, if the writing brought some interiority to the characters. Instead, we sit around waiting for a bunch of inert, inarticulate ciphers to generate some kind of active response to the obviously deranged machinations of the world's most boring sociopath. Thrilling.

Fucking hate this movie. 

First recorded by Anita Carter, June's much hotter, much more talented sister. Though Anita's version sort of sucks airy, gossamered ass.

I see season two as a pretty big step forward. Basically, the crime-of-the-week element was done as well as season one. But meanwhile, just about every supporting character got fleshed out and deepened. Some actually changed (Branch and Ferg) and grew.

I can see why people may not like the show, but this is such a strange argument, to say that Longmire shouldn't be focused on the murder of the week.

Okay, I get it now. Zack Handlen used to love masturbating to Starbuck. He's angry that Longmire focuses on traditional storytelling instead of providing Sackhoff fap material for overweight sci-fi fanboys. Thank God these shitty, shitty reviews are ending.