Agreed. Norton is frothing at the mouth, trying to intimidate Gould, and Gould just holds this powerful expression that seems to say, "Jeez, look what happened to you, kid. I'm sorry for you." It's a look that reinforces the inevitability of Norton's prison time.

@avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus Aha, so someone else has played that one backwards, I see!

A crystal kind of night.

@avclub-9b60cf1b2106f886f17cba2b1a0359b9:disqus  I have always hated Perry's song "California Girls," or whatever it's called, but I heard some girls at a playground chanting it as they skipped rope and it actually sounded like a much better song. I think she is writing music for six-year-olds, and I think she's…

No, Zieg, we definitely do not like glitter.
We LOVE IT!!!! Have you got some?!?!

Oh, I do!

Paul Walker. Fine, make me go IMDB it. Jeez, I'm worked like a cabin boy around here.

I mentally cast Paul Weller (that's the guy's name, right? From Fast & Furious?) as Nick. Remember, even Nick admits that he's got one of those smug, handsome faces that makes people want to punch him.

I thought the book was… okay, but this is one of those movies that could be a big improvement on the text, like Fincher's last effort. Pike might be just a perfect piece of casting.

Someone's gotta play Go, the sister to Affleck's character.

@avclub-07563a3fe3bbe7e3ba84431ad9d055af:disqus [Reads the posts again to make sure]
Yes, it is!
[Laughs]

Are you denigrating the awesome cinematic contributions of the Ritz Brothers? Of Sonny Tufts? Of Wheeler & Woolsey? How dare you.

Am reading Fifth Business by Robertson Davies and loving it.
A description of a group of industrialists that the hero meets:
"How happy they might have been if they has recognized and gloried in their talent [for manipulating money], confronting the world as gifted egotists, comparable to painters, musicians, and…

Well, Gone Girl's a quick read. It's got that in its favor. Le Guin is a great writer, but I had trouble with A Wizard of Earthsea when I read it ages ago. I was too young, perhaps.

The Trial is my favorite novel; I re-read it every few years. I convinced some friends to read it a couple of years back, and none of them liked it at all. Glad to hear there's someone else out there who's enjoying it.

I've only seen three or so Tom Cruise movies, and two of them were Magnolia and Collateral, so I don't really get the hate for him either. But I'm guessing that if I saw Jack Reacher, I would understand.

I know, I saw some movie about a guy who flies and shoots heat beams out of his eyes—all of which is IMPOSSIBLE. What the hell, Hollywood!?!?

And the heroes stop the bad guys by throwing Twinkies at their feet.

Delicatessen
(but I might have imagined that movie)

I suppose everyone has an 80s foreign film that they hold as their personal standard of tediousness and pointlessness. For me it's Dark Eyes.