I caught it after the hype and loved it. Having said that I didn't come to it as a fan of typical horror films but rather as someone who seeks out offbeat genre pieces and is a fan of the kind of horror/dark fantasy novels and short stories with a constant creepy, unsettling undercurrent. Not much of that kind of…

Milk of Sorrow
Very happy that this on the list. I was lucky enough to catch it at a festival. Fantastic cinematography - they manage to make hands picking up necklace beads look breath taking - and a dark and strange story told with a light hand.

Really?! maybe it was just me but when reading this I got the feeling that she was a very agitated/animated interviewee. There was a very definite sense of, "What's she going to say next and is she going to storm out?"

Wikipedia tells me it is (although pretty rare) and that it's caused by a lack of growth hormone.

Final Fantasy
Has it always been that badly written?

Is it
…worth giving this a try if I disliked Volver? I wasn't fond of the melodramatic tone and the way it seemed to skip past horrific childhood abuse (despite interpreting both as the result of making a homage to telenovelas).

Is it
…worth giving this a try if I disliked Volver? I wasn't fond of the melodramatic tone and the way it seemed to skip past horrific childhood abuse (despite interpreting both as the result of making a homage to telenovelas).

I think what it does accomplish here is a more languid mood during the talk which makes the intrusion of the action that much more jarring (which admittedly makes it hard to justify the lack of cuts post ambushers). Obviously Mike doesn't agree but I think that cuts, even when inserted by a good editor, do make it…

Thee trouble I have with this argument is that it relies on the proposition someone watching a movie is always aware a camera is involved. When I'm totally engrossed in a movie I'm not thinking of it as something someone shot but rather a story playing out in front of me (with the obvious exception of things like…

Eh "speechifying".

Battlestar's essential episodes
Final Cut and Unfinished Business? Really? The former is a capable attempt at getting inside minor characters and military life but is badly hamstrung by being so unsubtle about it all and totally undercut by the an incredibly over-sincere and cheesy coda.

The review says, succinctly, could have been an exploitative, overcooked melodrama but is saved by good performances and better-than-average writing/pacing. Sounds like a B to me.

Ah, sorry I didn't quite get your comment. That's a fair point, it does require a bit of a stretch.

@Rabin
Also I don't know if you're serious re: vanishing (surely not?) but my guess would be no given that they were part of her body that died in Maelstrom and not her resurrected "spirit body".

@Leto II

Eh Kacey that is.

They were paid off as a plot device to convince the viewer that SPOILER Nikki was Starbuck and Leoban's daughter. As an artifact in the show they were simply never used because the cylons weren't able to find a way to make it work. What more do you need?

Try fewer exclamation marks.

The nominees are often pretty good and have nothing to do with Nazis. Best foreign film oscar winner on the other hand…

Homage
Those flashing tunnels before he wakes up as the avatar - homage to 2001?