Precisely—it's not that I missed the point of the article, it's that there's nothing here that's particularly new or enlightening about the process.

This reminds me of that NewsRadio where Bill wants to do a story about how offensive rap lyrics are, and Dave tells him to get a time machine and go back to 1988 to be one of the first thousand journalists to report on it.

Oh come on, Marquee Moon isn't that bad…

"heavy-handed enough to make will.i.am roll his eyes"

He is indeed, but he's pretty much great in everything I've seen him in.

It's genuinely great, one of the most underrated action comedies. It also has possibly the best cast of any of these kinds of movies: De Niro, Grodin, Phillip Baker Hall, Yaphet Kotto, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano and a scene-stealing John Ashton.

Mom, it's late, go to bed.

I was trying to recall the craziest casting ever for a president, and I think this might be it. Tiny Zeus Lister as president is even more insane than Terry Crews.

Spring Breakers is one of the best movies of the year.

No need to knock on Paxton. That said, I like Bill Pullman every time he shows up in anything. He's in Igby Goes Down for less than 5 minutes and he's the most memorable thing about the whole film.

"It's just a flesh wound."

This is like reading one of those Family Ties clip episodes.

A shot rang out in a butter-filled sky.

I, for one, would read your poems and admire your paintings. It's a niche culture now, embrace it.

Good to know. Edelstein can be really hit-or-miss but he seems to be pushing this as lyrical and romantic, which is what I was hoping for.

Agreed, this is absolutely hilarious. He had me at "Well, I’m going to choke the life out of him before he reaches 69."

I can never figure out how to reconcile the often comedic treatment of sexual assault within Almodovar's comedies—I remember seeing Kiki with a group of friends (men and women) and we all agreed that the rape scene that's essentially played for laughs somehow didn't offend us. Conceptually, this idea sounds…

The Jarmusch one sounds way better. I was curious about this, even though I haven't really loved a Jordan film since The End of the Affair. I'll generally give him the benefit of the doubt though, since The Butcher Boy is one of my favorite movies of the 90s.

Landscape filmmaker is exactly right. I remember seeing Chain and being pissed that certain sequences in it were identical to a short I made in grad school. The guy knows how to frame people against large industrial buildings, kind of like a rural American version of Antonioni.

His previous films were fairly well-covered in indie film circles and played well on the festival circuit. He's not that obscure.