Yep. Same with Australian cinema of the 70s — it really was a great era but there was still an awful lot of dreck that never got to an outside audience.

I doubt that S. Korea has any worse of a serial killer problem than anywhere else, but I do think the subject is catnip to any director who enjoys lurid filmmaking and Korea certainly has its share of those.

There are only 3 serial killers in the movie. The other 2 are just petty thugs. But, yes, having seen both this and The Chaser, it occurs to me that Korean serial killer movies don't really take much of an interest in plausibility. (Although I haven't seen Memories of Murder, which I believe is a procedural based on a…

Diving Under the Influence?

Anaphylaxis ain't a Greek opera singer.

Seven Samurai. When you're young you think it's a great adventure story. When you're older, you get that it's a story about sacrifice unrewarded.

"They were like totally not American!"

I was thinking the same thing reading the piece. So Kaufman died and/or faked his death. Yep. I guess that covers most possibilities.

What? Lots of people have done it. Elvis, Lennon, McCartney…

After many years of reading and arguing with creationists, trickle-down economists, global warming deniers, and anti-vaxxers, I would say that huge numbers of people would rather stick with being wrong than check the evidence.

Sure, but since children are getting murdered, and NRA-stooge senators are doing their damnedest to keep the grinder going, then it's fair game to make pointed humour out of it.

Father Ted already solved this problem.

But he was never really the lead in any of his hit movies before, either. He was part of an ensemble in the LOTR movies, and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies he was carried by Depp, Rush, Knightley, Davenport, Pryce, and Crook. I mean, I don't hate seeing him in movies, but he only really works when he has an…

1. Casablanca

Nobody should be defending De Niro here —

If they're made with a stilton.

Show me on the doll where the horseman probed you.

Right. That would be why the founder of AVEN is a self-identified asexual male.

But who is the walrus?

Best modern Western: Lone Star.