Am a huge fan of both films, but Shaun of the Dead—as well plotted as Hot Fuzz is—is a masterpiece. It's one of the tightest screenplays since Back to the Future; nearly everything in it has a payoff somewhere down the road. Plus, any movie that has a joke about The Stone Roses's second album is okay in my book. Am…

Well, I was comparing it to Brazil because of some of the dream imagery, but you're right that it doesn't share any of the same themes. But I wasn't reacting to any hype; I thought the Dark Knight kind of sucked; this blew me away.

Memento meets Brazil
Saw this last night in New York in Imax; blew me away; it's an amazing movie. It's sort of like Memento meets Brazil; a truly amazing movie; Nolan is well on his way to becoming the new Hitchcock (which I hope he does instead of becoming the new Spielberg, since Spielberg's a hack). Also, Nolan's…

give it a chance; it's good
Have got to say, I really liked this book. It's pretty subversive in the sense that it's billed as a sequel, and is told in the same short passages, in the same amount of time, as Less Than Zero, but it's really a new story using the old characters. And while it's sort of the most modest of…

not perfect, but worth it
I'll admit straight off that I'm a huge Gervais fan; I've seen him live twice (including just a few weeks ago in New York) and have seen and liked more everything he's done. That being said, I agree that this film is a bit weak (as is Ghost Town, a film he starred in but did not write or…

The Oakwood
I'm from Southern California and I used to always see the Oakwood from the 101 freeway whenever I'd travel on it as a kid with my divorced dad. It always seemed to hold some allure, so it's funny to hear it mentioned in this interview. I also read an interview with Frank Black where he said that it's where…

wow; this is mega (and meta)
Totally loved this article; this is exactly what's right about the Internet. I read something similar in Spy magazine 20 years ago (yes, I'm old) where they compared the big summer films and rated them on whether they had morphing in them (in the days of Terminator 2, that was the big…

all that violence
Okay, I'll admit that I'm 40 years old and am not really a fan of any of the movies this person has been in, but he certainly comes off like a moron in this interview, saying that Ebert's view is invalid because he's old (which he's not; this guy thinks he's 85, which is the typical response from…

"I'm a genius too, you know"
Does anyone else think it's odd she's married to the Death Cab from Cutie guy, but she still makes records with M. Ward? Wouldn't the conversation go something like this in the Gibbard/Deschanel household? Zooey: "Gotta run, babe. I'm going to the studio. I might be out late." Ben:…

their growing pains are our scars
I'm a big fan of both the book and movie, but I totally agree with Kurbrick and Burgess's American publisher in terms of not filming/publishing the 21st chapter of the book. Burgess has long said that, in fiction, characters need to change; if they don't then the book doesn't have a…

Morrissey's "Teenage Dad on His Estate."
Morrissey, and the Smiths, have always been great with B-sides and album cuts, but a recent Moz B-side I've been loving is "Teenage Dad on His Estate." It's on his recent B-side collection Swords, which is very solid all around. Great, great song. Could have been an album…