To Kill a Mockingjay

I watched this on Pitchfork. It's pleasant enough, but there's really not much interesting in it - next to no time is spent discussing the history of the band, for instance, and there's not much archival footage of the band. Plus, "Common People" is a good song, but I don't need to hear the band play it twice on top…

Yeah, Frances Ha reminded me of several people I know - it's not especially unrealistic for the most part.

She has no stable identity as an artist yet, which means some of her stuff is quite good (e.g. "Honeymoon Avenue", "Love Me Harder") while a lot is totally generic.

I like the track with Robyn, but the whole album didn't really grab me.

Chocolate McVitie's are great, but they're totally different from Oreos. Both are good if you're in the right mood.

I enjoyed The Illusionist but I recall it feeling quite a bit different from other Tati movies - more character-based, less formalist. Not that that's a bad thing, but I think it would be out of place in this box set (even besides the fact that he wasn't involved with the actual production).

Their song What's This Shit Called Love? is pretty solid.

That is, of course, the face Jimmy Stewart makes when he masturbates.

Yeah, the transitional period is great. Why and Albatross (both among my top five or so Fleetwood songs from any era), Jewel-Eyed Judy, Future Games, Heroes Are Hard To Find, Homeward Bound, Sentimental Lady - all excellent songs.

I'm not a huge fan of this version, but I love Wing's cover of ABBA's "I Do I Do I Do I Do".

To me the mishmash of tones is one of the strengths of the movies - it brings more poignancy to the moments that need it, like the dialogue-free applying-blackface sequences.

"Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Check My Blood Pressure"

They did do "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone" (albeit before the Monkees' more famous version), and did a bunch of covers on the Just Like Us version (I like their "Catch the Wind").

This is probably my favorite PR&tR song - totally atypical. The whole "Spirit of '67" album is great.

Surely if NFL players wanted to show off their income, there's a lot more expensive headphones they could buy?

Worth mentioning Pamela Franklin's very good performance as the young girl - she'd close the '60s giving what I'd argue is the best performance in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". Then she'd do a bunch of terrible-sounding movies in the '70s.

Yeah, the Britten opera is great (though I'd pick "Death In Venice" over it if push came to shove).

Hold me closer, Tiny Detective.

All the city complaint songs you mention somehow make "Edinburgh Man" even more uplifting.