Merzbow is hipster music dude

I'd like to add the first solo album by Jeff Runnings from For Against, Primitives and Smalls, due 6 May. If you like post-punk sounds and ambience merged with clever, thoughtful, catchy lyrics rather then with kitschy 80s retro (*cough*Kristin Kontrol*cough*), it's worth a buy.

i wouldn't disagree that you can point to a decline after maybe Crimes and Misdemeanors (Alice, September, Shadows and Fog), but even those sub-par Allen films are 1) ambitious in some interesting way; 2) still interspersed with great films (Manhattan Murder Mystery; the under appreciated Another Woman). But after…

Absolutely; I'm not sure MMM works with Farrow instead of Keaton. The great thing about Keaton/Allen in that is that they seem so comfortable and, well, like an old married couple. I can't see Farrow having any fun with that part, which Keaton clearly does. (It's one of Allen's best performances too. I wish he'd work…

For me Husbands and Wives is the dividing line. I think his run from Annie Hall to that is close to the greatest body of work in American cinema, but I'd say Manhattan Murder Mystery is his last great film. I actually think Celebrity is one of his better films of the 90s; at least it's the one where he finally got the…

I've never heard the Keaton story mentioned above (although my sense is that Keaton isn't necessarily the friendliest guy to work with, so I wonder if that's all on Woody). The closest I can recall is Meryl Streep, who IIRC hated working on Manhattan, in part because she wasn't fond of Woody's usual practice of only…

Since that Battleship movie tanked, I wouldn't think so…

“it’s a miracle when someone gives you a chance at finding your voice again”

I think the elegant solution to all of this is to stop making superhero movies

∆AIMON will never be dad rock!

DId he post under his own name? I need to go back in time and check out those boards.

That is a major part of the appeal. It helps that in a lot of the mailbags they tell a lot of stories about seeing movies together, which really–I hate this word but it applies here–makes their work seem more authentic.

My WHM Top 5:

Their awe at the size of Sinbads potato chip bag in Houseguest makes the episode.

I think they hit a dry spell early last year, but they haven't had a dud episode yet this year. They do let the impression bits go on much longer than they need to (and much longer than they used to); otherwise they've been in pretty good form lately.

Of course trying to make Merchant of Venice any less antis emetic is completely and utterly missing the point of the play.

The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death was this past weekend; loads of Shakespeare celebrations and books are here or arriving this year, and this is what gets covered?

Rich was about to win until "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert did a run-in and messed everything up.

I never knew DeRogatis was involved (but I'm not surprised). Thanks, that fact was fun!

I'm guessing that Dennis Miller pulled this from his resume a long time ago.