Well, it's a show about vampires. Of course there's going to be stakes.

Jeez, I am blushing. That's so nice to hear. (And yes, it is KC Green: you have proven yourself quite awesome yourself.)

@avclub-bf3eb25e65e1f87dab76829f15a0907a:disqus At first I thought your ellipsis in "is Martha Marcy… on Netflix instant?" was a hint at my use of, uh, Torrance…but I guess you're really asking. I don't know: I live in Singapore, where there's no Netflix or Hulu or what-have-you.

NEW NO NO!

It does get ridiculous, though, even if I do initially agree that Marnie would be reluctant to be naked as a character. But for example: in the scene where she sleeps with Elijah, she's clearly in a position where HE can see her breasts; but she's shielding them from the camera with her arms and then hair. Why this…

Yeah…some…

Why, thank you! That's why we make these lists, isn't it? So that someone will tell us we have good taste?

I'd argue that on the home invasion front, nothing can top the French film Inside. (A lot of its best parts were stolen by The Strangers later.)

I think it's after the full-screen main credits, before the credit crawl. Yeah, it's them in a black & white two-shot facing the camera, looking like characters out of Kill Bill, in some sake bar in Japan. They deliver some purple dialogue about their future plans and wave some guns around. It's really strange,…

Finally someone who isn't afraid to tell it like it is.

It doesn't have much in common with the manga beyond the basic premise. There's actually been 9 Tomie films total, starting in 1999; the others look more faithful but less crazy.

While I was not as impressed with Pontypool as you were, I would like to second the recommendation. One of the few films in recent years to do something genuinely new with the zombie genre (and no, curing zombies with the power of love doesn't count). What did you make of that strange Tarantino-epilogue?

You're welcome; films like Hausu are few and far between, aren't they? For a more recent example I'd mention the newest adaptation of Junji Ito's Tomie manga, Tomie Unlimited by Noboru Iguchi. It's certainly not as good - few films are, but this one is kinda objectively shitty - but it has that same incredibly…

OH MY GOD

Since I gotta assume that Ken-L-Rashomon is about a bunch of dogs recounting their different accounts of a horrible dog murder, I gotta go with that one! Only if it's with live-action, real dogs though. None of that Marmaduke bullshit.

I am not in agreement that Comedy Bang Bang the TV show isn't good, I really liked it and would put it in my top 5 of last year's TV season, but you're right about the already-established characters. Cake Boss, Dom DeMillo or Bob Ducca aren't gonna be funny in five minute increments, especially just spouting…

Ahem, no. What was the last name of Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining, again?

Last night I watched Room 237, the documentary about certain crazy fan theories about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. I had been looking forward to this for a long time, being a huge Kubrick fan and somewhat OCD about hidden meanings and symbolism in pop culture…and I was a little bit let down. It's interesting, but…

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