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The disgusted head shake that Robinson gives her when he makes her perform is fantastic.

Look, I came here to think about Milton Berle's enormous member. I don't need you trying to distract me.

That's definitely a much better way to read it—even though it's clearly a Von Trier film, it works much better as a Bjork film. Her music and performance are the best things about it, and carry the film past the point where Von Trier's ideas run out of steam.

Poor Toth. He wanted a high five and everyone just left him hanging…

Yep, though Freeway is a close second, and I'd like to imagine she was channeling that white trash glory of a performance during this incident.

It really seems to have struck a chord with you. I didn't find it boring at all, but I'll admit that I'm sort of it's target audience (I love slient films and taught film history for years). I think the way it fused a children's film with one about the joy of making movies really worked—it conveyed that sense of

As a fan of the film and film criticism in general, I find your post confusing. Would you kindly elaborate?

Totally agree on McConoughey making Killer Joe work. It's such an unsettling performance and without the edge he brings to that role, the film likely would have just been too over-the-top otherwise.

Thanks, Burl. Now I have no choice but to name my first born son Lavatory Jones.

Goops! Spoiler alert!

You got a 24-pack of law degrees and should have shared some with the rest of us.

The Coke bottle face smashing in The Long Goodbye is a really effective, scarily violent moment in an otherwise not-violent movie. It's also so strange that the guy doing the smashing directed On Golden Pond.

Agreed. My favorite of the three. It's such a fun time travel movie.

"It's right here, Frank. You want me to pour it?"

Texas ain't wild, Dolly.

Of all the scenes cut from To The Wonder, this is the one I want to see the most.

Absolutely feel better getting rid of it. I have a soda maybe twice a year now, and even then my enjoyment is mostly nostalgia—corn syrup is nasty once you've stopped consuming it daily.

Such a great cast and they are all fantastic in it. But as in A Fish Called Wanda, Kevin Kline steals the whole thing whenever he's onscreen.

The outlandishness of this newswire reminds me of Soapdish, which is something I enjoy being reminded of. So, thank you.

The Vine videos are mostly for people who were at the show I think. I was at the last NYC one and my girlfriend pulled up the Vine video of it after to see if she could spot us in the crowd. It sort of reflects that the show is a balance between a podcast and a live experience. There are aspects of the show that