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The Manipulator
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Someone needs to stop Neil Labute from being allowed to write or direct anything ever again. The world has enough hate and misogyny as is and we don't need his help.

In the trailers for this, Foxx looks exactly like Rog from What's Happening when he puts on those glasses. It's uncanny.

Disappointing to hear but I'll still check this out when it hits Blu-ray, because Knight is a good writer, Statham is almost always fun to watch, and…Chris Menges!!! I didn't even know he was still working.

Screw you and your fancy foreign coin! Someone who calls himself the Most Popular Commenter should award us with drugs purely on the basis of our surefire wit.

Hand them out and live up to your name already!

Good god was that movie bad. I don't know why so many critics liked it—I almost walked out and I never walk out of movies.

We should have been berated by someone less angry and shouty, like Dan Fogelberg.

Passions was amazing—the only time daytime soap to actually exceed the craziest nighttime soaps. Kimberly and her scar got nothing on Timmy!

No, tl;dr would be a talk show hosted by Tarkovsky's Former AD.

Prometheus was both pretty and dumb.

I had no idea O'Donoghue wrote Savages. Now I have to see it.

I saw that movie a few years ago, knowing virtually nothing about it ahead of time, and it promptly blew my mind.

Birds of America is so fantastic. Moore is probably my favorite, still-living, short story writer.

I'm ashamed to admit I've never seen a Merchant Ivory movie pre-A Room With a View. Any recommendations on what of their earlier stuff is worth checking out?

Yes. They meet in the basement of the Alamo.

I should really commit a horrible crime just so I can actually finish one of DFW's books.

I've been out of town. Did anyone suggest the baby should have the middle name "NorthBy"?

Taken 3: Tekken

His hipster knowledge of silents? He mentioned silent films that are known by anyone with even a cursory knowledge of film history. Seriously, my mother has even heard of those movies. They aren't exactly obscure…