I was going to watch it eventually since it's on the AFI 10th Aniversary list, but I hadn't heard anything about it. It sounds like a pretty fun one though, I'll definitely move it up the queue!

I haven't read the book, though I probably will if I like the film. Though coming off of To Have and Have Not, I really don't see how I could dislike a Bacall/Bogart picture. They're both ridiculously charismatic and have fantastic chemistry together.

I read a bit about that one, it's definitely the next De Sica I want to see.

Watched Bicycle Thieves yesterday. I loved it. Incredibly bleak, but with great moments of levity throughout. The kid actually did a pretty great job.  I figured going with all unknown actors could have been quite the crapshoot, but it seems like it turned out pretty well.

Fun* fact: I played Vandergelder in a high school production of The Matchmaker!

I'm honestly not sure. I'm not a fan of breakup songs in general, and I got enough terrible pop country growing up (my mom loves Garth Brooks, Toby Keith et al) so I try to stay far, far away from whatever it is she's peddling.

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Totally worth it if a horde of record execs devour Taylor Swift onstage.

@avclub-b5af0324c7abe943994b4aae5d5eafbd:disqus I'm sure Miller does. Because he's a fucking hack.

I liked Messianistic Myths and Ancient People enough I guess, but it definitely wasn't one of the show's stronger hours. Completely with you on the other two, though.

Seriously. I love Community, but loading the review for a comedy with stern pronouncements about how the show has "lost its soul"?

@sweetsadness:disqus  Oh well glad we've got that all figured out then. Your replies truly brim with logic, facts and references. Good show!

I think you accidentally the joke.

Plus it had a fantastic whacked out Ennio Morricone score.

Honestly, out of all of the directors on earth Miyazaki would be the hardest one for me to pick fights over. His entire canon is just so fucking good that I couldn't start to put them in any real order, let alone get mad at somebody else for it.  Even for something like Ponyo, which I would probably list lower, I…

Porco Rosso might be my favorite Miyazaki film. It's low key attitude and his obvious love for the machinery of the time (plus his own fantastical additions) make it just perfect.

I started and then finished Ready Player One. Finally got around to it, I've been interested in reading it since I first heard about it on boing boing. It was very, very good.

I started and then finished Ready Player One. Finally got around to it, I've been interested in reading it since I first heard about it on boing boing. It was very, very good.

Saw Silver Linings Playbook at the free second run in my hometown while I was visiting for the Sportsbowl. It was good, but not nearly good enough to deserve the Best Picture Oscar (especially when you put it up against most of the other nominated films).

If we get too many straw feminists in this thread, we're liable to have a conflagration.