After Hours is my favorite Scorsese movie. It may not be some big epic but it's still one of the most riveting movies I've ever seen.

Lebowski definitely plays a lot like a comedic Cutter's Way. It's hard to think of many films with such a dark and biting political edge as the latter, though; I think only The Parallax View rivals it for sheer bleakness. That aside, it fits in well with all the "stoner/slacker noir" films like The Long Goodbye,…

Heard is completely astonishing in Cutter's Way, which is one of those films that everyone needs to see — one of the best "70s movies," even though it's from 1981.

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As a Jewish recovering opiate addict (I don't like the word "junkie") who weighs ~135 pounds, that line made me do a double take…

There were a lot of great things about this episode, but that flash-forward just didn't work for me at all. Felt airlifted in from some different show. Plus 1) Fran taking to Hannah after all that happened seems unlikely and 2) It's odd to show only that snippet and nothing of the other characters. This was a good…

I'm probably about to re-watch this season cause it just was put on Netflix, but does anybody else feel like it's just a slight step down from the perfection of Season 1? Don't get me wrong, this is still probably the best drama on the air right now, but I feel like the extra amount of episodes created some padding.…

OH SHIT! *waddles like a duck*

Yeah. I wouldn't mind re-watching it, but I thought it was pretty decent, but kind of a mess. Not nearly as gripping or interesting as Prince of the City, and also has some acting and music issues that that film didn't. It's still pretty absorbing, and much better than Night Falls on Manhattan, though.

Great film. My pick for Lumet's best, though, is the criminally underrated Prince of the City, from the previous year. Seriously, everyone needs to see that movie. Like, right now. It's kind of like Serpico, but more morally ambiguous and much, much better. But don't just listen to me: Kurosawa called it one of the…

Yeah, so that was a perfect episode. I'm still laughing.

I'm not that into the Tenacious D movie or even their albums, but man I couldn't count all the times I've watched the entirety of their short-lived HBO show. So, so funny. I once spent half a summer every night just getting stoned, watching that and eating cookies. Good times.

Thank you. The internet needs more of your kind. As far as Ali, though, I would never deny it's quite flawed — it falls into bland biopic territory too often, Smith seldom fully convinces, and it sprawls more than Heat and The Insider combined but without those films's sharp narrative command. But my God are there…

Even more than Mann's other films, this one really benefits from repeat viewings. I've seen it maybe six or seven times now and each time I like it even more, to the point where I now find it a masterpiece and among his very best. The digital is perfect, too, with such a wonderful fluidity and immediacy; it's less…

I'm a huge Mann fan but this movie gets less impressive each time I re-watch. Don't get me wrong, it's very good and is fucking amazing compared to most Hollywood thrillers, but I never bought Cruise's character — it's both a good performance and a terribly absurd one, but above all it seems to me unusually cartoonish…

Taking of Pelham isn't a personal favorite of mine or anything, but it's just a really great little thriller; the kind of movie that when it gets made these days is total garbage, but in the 70s there was a certain restraint and intelligence to the aesthetic of even the more populist movies — so stuff like Pelham ages…

It's a big, often embarrassing mess, but I've always sort of had a thing for "The Hero's Return." Maybe it's just the melody.

Yeah, it's a shame that film is so overlooked. It's one of the best/most honest portrayals of addiction in film I've seen, and has probably James Caan's best performance, along with Thief. One of the best of those gritty 1970s New Hollywood character studies, of which there are many.

Maybe this is a stretch, but when Christopher says (almost sarcastically) about the age of the stolen wine, "86! Ohh baby, show me the money!", couldn't this be read as a subtle dig at the show being expanded yet again to a final total of 86 episodes? It was around production of "Live Free or Die," just a few episodes…

Maybe this is a stretch, but when Christopher says (almost sarcastically) about the age of the stolen wine, "86! Ohh baby, show me the money!", couldn't this be read as a subtle dig at the show being expanded yet again to a final total of 86 episodes? It was around production of "Live Free or Die," just a few episodes…