there's no PAL speedup on the UK version, it's a crappy NTSC-to-PAL conversion and runs the same length as the original

except said resignation didn't happen for another year and the main issue that prompted it (the anti-poll tax movement) didn't even really begin until the film had already premiered

the Swedish Blu-ray is very good (region-free too), same distributor also did a DVD version

the AV Club review of 1Q84 was mostly bullshit, it's fine — or at least as fine as anything he's done in the past decade, unless we're pretending After Dark and that running book were masterpieces

I also remember when Franco called out the AV Club, many bitter tears of nerd rage were shed

it's a good movie but it's a good thing you've read Homage to Catalonia already, since I think the movie really needs some additional context (esp. the May Days sequence)

perhaps they've seen the new episode and reacted accordingly

"Plus, it’s the first film Ferrara, an incurable Gothamite, has shot in New York City in more than a decade."

"Secret Fiascocess"

never saw 'em live, but Zip Code Rapists had some good stuff on their albums:

whatever, when is Pollard gonna do another album of stage banter

more like It's a Bad, Bad TV Show

excuse me, that would mean missing out on the door-password scene

"gong" is also Korean for…"gong"

Boredoms were on Warner for awhile, also Columbia somehow ended up releasing a Foetus album called "Gash" on the main label

there's nothing new about it, the earliest known use of the word "acronym" was to describe "P.G.N."

if anything there isn't enough discussion of the racism (and sexism and classism and paternalism) in Disney product

there are approximately eight million Mandarin words/morphemes that can be romanized as "chen," some of which occur in given names — I have a friend whose given name is Chenchen (both "chen"s are different characters), and older romanizations did not consistently distinguish between aspirated and unaspirated initials,…

kill wimmin

not only that, but I ate an animal literally the same day this came out