Well, I wouldn't say the premise of 'The Lobster' felt forced (minor spoilers to follow) - I mean, it's basically a stealth sci-fi film, and I think it had a perfectly good sci-fi premise to start with (a bit reminiscent of older sci-fi stories: 'what if the society of the future was based entirely around X'). My…

This weekend I saw three films in the theater:

This feature actually has legitimately helped me to start getting rid of lots of my old CDs. (For anyone who cares: the ones I like get ripped into my computer and backed-up on an external drive - I don't really like streaming services.)

It's a very small low-carb dairy-free pizza.

Also, you know, she probably really needs the money, because I guess all those movie-star and modeling gigs just pay in free drinks and pizza or something.

Yeah you know him

Oh and just to add: if he were actually a nerd, he would've followed a path more like that of Mayim Bialik, who went from playing TV's 'Blossom' to getting a PhD in neuroscience (and authoring vegan cookbooks). Instead, he's tried to make his name by behaving dickishly on reality TV, appearing in sleazy porn videos,…

No, they're making fun of the concept of measuring time in months, duh.

Yeah, I've never met the guy, but pretty much everything I've ever heard about him gives me the impression that he's a total asshole, up to and including the photo at the top of this article.

Hey man sorry about that evisceration but it was, like… an accident?

Ah right, it should be: "We weren't just making jokes. We were making story."

So, on the subject of My Neighbor Totoro: I saw it for the first time recently, and I wanna ask - does anyone else read it as a very dark, very sad film? Because I did, and I was actually pretty surprised at just how dark I found it to be - like, I wasn't really emotionally prepared for it and was in a weird state of…

I was kind of shocked by how good the food was at 7-11s in Tokyo - like, U.S. 7-11s have something approximating "food" but the ones in Japan have, like, FOOD.

Rolfe's channel had about 2 million subscribers at the time he posted the video, and even his lesser videos have view counts in the hundreds of thousands - the video in question has 1.5 million views and counting. Even if Rolfe's video had been meant strictly 'for his own fans' (and I don't really buy that it was),…

"Sir, they're attacking. Our only possible defense is the Omega Device - has anyone been able to crack the launch code in all these years?"

Yes, very true. I'm not sure exactly why the myth of the instant genius is so embraced by U.S. culture at large; like, you might think that Americans would be more fond of the concept of people finding their talents through perseverance and dedication, rather than being more-or-less born with them, and yet, we often…

I haven't made any highly-influential, era-defining albums (or, indeed, any music whatsoever), but I have read a lot of books, so… I guess I'm more of a genius than Kanye West? Cool!

To this day, my proudest brush with fame is the time I pissed in a urinal next to Steve Buscemi.

…the original "Doc and Mharti" videos?

I get the feeling that most of these are gonna be along the lines of 'bad movie with a good soundtrack,' but to add my own: A few months ago I watched the movie 'Dark Places.' It's not very good - it squanders its potentially-rich psychological themes in the interest of being just another so-so, serviceable thriller…