It all bleeds together
Dub is one of those genres I like a lot, have a lot of, but know very little about in terms of who's who. I mean, I know the history and the siginificance (and I recommend Dick Hebdige's 'Cut 'n' Mix' for that) and I know the major players covered by the article, but when it comes on the old…

'Lifeforce' should have been called 'Naked Vampires from Space'. It is not a classic but it is a must-see.

There—diagonally!

Lore has is—I have nothing against Hooper, but Spielberg's fingerprints are all over 'Poltergeist'. Notice how the opening sequence uses the family dog roaming from room to room to establish both the geography and the inhabitants (and their characters) of the house—It's so natural and fluid that you don't realize how…

Also, Singleton was nominated for his amazing debut, 'Boyz in the Hood' against Jonathan Demme (who won) for 'Silence of the Lambs, Barry Levinson for 'Bugsy', Ridley Scott for 'Thelma & Louise' and Oliver Stone for 'JFK'. He should've won.

I don't think it's at all hyperbole to suggest that 'The Wire' is a cop/crime drama in the same sense that 'Moby Dick' is a whaling yarn.

I actually did just look up the best director nominees and I found Sofia Coppola and Jane Campion (who should have won in 93)—who am I missing?

Yahtzee.

Here's a question I don't feel like researching—Has a woman ever directed a best picture win? I ask because 'The Hurt Locker's stock is rising.

Wasn't Adventure the one where you're chased around a castle by a duck?

Stringer Bell
I love that sequence where Stringer's running a meeting full of thugs according to Robert's Rules of order. Just brilliant.

How about projected out of a goddamn cell phone? Honestly, is that really a piece of technology anybody was asking for?

Of course all this "business" matters in some sense because of the effect it has on which movies are made in Hollywood and how they are marketed, just as the various awards matter, but for any individual in the audience, the only thing that should factor in determining a film's relative success is whether you enjoyed…

I don't want to recapitulate that whole argument about the dubious racial politics of 'Avatar', but I would like to agree with sarCCastro's comment and add that 'District 9' shows how you can use the same basic building blocks of racial allegory in an alien context, but with a great deal more complexity and…

Public Enemy was never any kind of Gangsta—they were what was called at the time Hardcore Hip Hop—along with guys like EPMD and BDP. As for the earliest Hip Hop that was explicitly linked to "gangsta" subject matter that would perhaps be the work of Schoolly D, whose "PSK: what does it mean?" came out in 1985 and…

But his last gig was members of War—If he was heading in THAT direction I wouldn't mind a little hiss.

Yeah—but wasn't it Ravi Shankar who schooled him in stringed instruments in that film? So joyously virtuosic.

Ellsworth Toohey—you keep telling yourself that…

We called them "Depress Ala Mode".

If eXistenZ didn't do something amazing, could we afford to do this?
Marketing a "natural male enhancement" supplement (whatever that is), under a name (eXtenZe) similar to that of a film by the grandmaster of so-called Body Horror does not seem like a good business plan to me.