At least he can take comfort in the fact that D'Angelo is also something of a Miyazaki sceptic, so he's not alone amongst AV Club contributors in that. It's still a little sad, though.

I have never seen White Men Can't Jump, but apparently it was one of Kubrick's favourite films!

It would explain the drinking problem, amirite?!

What I find especially amusing about critic-bashing tendencies that have appeared here ever since Dissolve exodus is that most of the grades handed out by the new crop of reviewers align very closely to what the older staff hand out on The Other Site. Also, D'Angelo was/is just as harsh as Dowd when it comes to…

There'll be more Miyazaki films! Goru Miyazaki films! And aren't they just as good?

Is the big secret that he's cutting 20+ minutes of the film and adding in a load of unnecessary title cards/voiceover for the nationwide release to make it more palatable for the American public?

I've been waiting (ha, get it?!?!?!) for great job, internet! to pick up on this all day. The D-Plan are back, baby, and on the basis of the first two tracks they've made available this is going to be album-of-the-year levels of good! Wheeeeeeeee

Not a bad cover, though I think it suffers from being one of AF's weaker songs. Still, glad to hear TFF are recording new things. I just listened to The Seeds of Love today and really liked it, and I'd rank Songs from the Big Chair as one of the best albums of the '80s, so consider me excited.

I've gotta be honest, I absolutely love the title track. Sure it's unbelievably cheesy (and the video Guess the Gimmick linked to above somehow makes it cheesier still), but damn I just enjoy it so damn much that I don't care. Just a really fun song that doesn't take itself too seriously (of course it probably helps…

I guess you have to also take into account that this seems to be a historical film whereas his previous anti-war themed films (Nausicaa, Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, etc.) are all fantasies where the themes are very much backgrounded. Here it looks like Miyazaki's tackled Japan's real military past, and,…

Oh. I consider myself a slavish devotee of this website and yet that article somehow slipped through my fingers… oh well, good job av club!

The paedophilia special of Brass Eye

How about Multifacial? It's all on youtube if you want to check it out and it's only about 20 minutes long, but Vin Diesel is really good in it, plus he wrote and directed it, too!

Steven Moffat, is that you?

Gotta disagree with this. The film is really, incredibly beautiful, as all Ghibli films are, but the story never really engaged me, especially after the halfway point where the maid becomes evil for no real reason other than to provide some semblance of conflict, which the movie doesn't really need at all.

I'm going to be honest, I didn't really like Arrietty and I think seeing the British version was perhaps part of that. I thought Saoirse Ronan was great in Hanna and Atonement, but her voicework here was kind of…well, bland. I mean, she nails the British accent but it comes at the cost of most of her dialogue being…

The Dissolve got him in the divorce.

I liked it, but it does contain one massive plot hole which considerably diminished my enjoyment of it.

Fair enough, that's a good point. I'll try and bear that in mind when I eventually get round to rewatching this…

I'm glad that this thread exists because it's making me think I might have been too harsh on District 9 first time around. That said, the reason I dislike District 9 compared to other action fare is because most actions films are content with being entertaining and, for want of a better word, mindless. D9's invocation…