But this one will be a little easier to market.  It is slightly more conventional in that it's a detective story.  I'm not saying that it's going to be a blockbuster, or that a good marketing strategy in this instance would even remotely reflect the actual movie, but I think that they could at least get some asses in…

@Antoniooo:disqus  Holy shit dude I just checked out The Dissolve.  Thank you so much.

@Antoniooo:disqus  definitely not kidding about Rabin.  He was easily my favorite writer on here and one of my favorite pop culture journalists/essayists in general.  And he was the only AVClub writer who I really thought knew how to write rap/hip hop reviews.

I know it's rare.

Same here.  I think Anderson and Tarantino are tied for my favorite.  Anderson makes "art" films and Tarantino makes "genre" films, but I'm glad that I have to put those words in quotation marks.  What makes both of them so vibrant and interesting is that they make movies that are exactly the kind of movies they want…

I disagree with you but I give you mad props for not hating the man or calling him talentless.  Which you may very well believe, but at least you said it in a civilized way.  I'd rather hear someone say "I don't like _____" than "_____ is total shit.  Why the fuck does anybody like ____?"  I rarely have movie…

Zing! I think D'Angelo is turning into the old crank around here who hates everything.  Which makes it perplexing that they keep sending him to the festivals.  And I think they know it here too, cause you'll notice that when those festival movies get wide release and a proper AVClub review is posted it isn't by him.…

I can't wait to hear what Mike D'Angelo has to say about this one!

Brilliant analysis.

Very true.  About his portrayal of Florida, I'm from Florida and was always a little embarrassed of it.  Until I read Rum Punch and then Out Of Time, and realized that Florida wasn't just a large, sterile, free-range nursing home.  So the most important thing Leonard gave me through his art was an appreciation for my…

It's times like this that remind me how much better the AVClub commenters are than anywhere else on the internet.  Those assholes over at worstpreviews.com (I have no idea why I still go there, much less read the comments) either confused Elmore Leonard with James Ellroy, or they had to let everyone know that "Leonard…

I used to get into debates with my father over what made good literature.  My father, a fan of such authors as James Patterson, Dean Koontz and (shudders) Dan Brown, would say that I was being a literary snob and that the books he liked were thrillers, and thus shouldn't be held to the same standards as, say, Cormac…

CGI sucks ass.  Which is ironic, because there wasn't any CGI used in Human Centipede.

He didn't even say that his wife slapped Marie.  Can you read?

@avclub-10f39a4e9c2ee00d453cd84c10667ac8:disqus What kind of argument is that?  "It's television?"  What does that even mean?  Where and when was it decided that television was something that didn't need character development?  In theory, television is the ideal place for character development, especially in a drama,…

I may be the only one but the two detectives that question Jesse, the same ones who held him at the end of season 4, remind me of the two detectives from Barton Fink.  Especially in the way they both seem to be consciously playing the "bad cop" role.

I honestly don't know how I feel about Polanski, as a person or as a director.

Seriously.  The first time I heard "Blurred Lines" I thought, "Cool, somebody sampled 'Got To Give It Up.'"  Then I read an interview and Pharrell specifically mentioned that they were trying to make a song that felt exactly like "Got To Give It Up."  So I'm still with them, because that's been done before and it's…

Another movie that only barely fits this theme is The Prowler, directed by Joseph Losey.  Any time a discussion of movies with morally disgusting protagonists comes up its the first and only one I mention.  Van Heflin not only plays a guy who kills a guy for his wife, but the only time he starts to feel any thing…

I'm so glad Miyazaki's retirement isn't real.  Because we need him.  In other great news, Isao Takahata also has another movie coming out soon, his first in fifteen years I believe.