Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors is absolutely essential, it's the first film where he nailed the mix of uncomfortable comedy and equally uncomfortable but completely sincere soul-bearing, plus it's the best-looking film he's ever made (black and white 35mm, yay). The Power of Kangwon Province is great but feels…

unfortunately Oki's Movie isn't really getting "released" — it's just getting a one-week run at a theater in NYC, it doesn't actually have a distributor

that's how all part-IMAX movies work — The Dark Knight and Transformers 2 switched between 2.39:1 for the 35mm stuff and 1.44:1 for the IMAX bits, which was pretty distracting when you'd have a four-second establishing shot in screen-filling true IMAX, bracketed by heavily letterboxed 35mm blowup footage

yep, six episodes this season, just like the first one

I'm pretty sure a company does not go through the immense bureaucratic hassle of making their film an official Chinese co-production if they are not actually interested in having their film released in China, particularly since of the main benefits of doing it are that you aren't subject to the import quota and can…

Victor Salva was still an independent filmmaker when he raped that 12-year-old, that should count for something

Check It Out! s2e5

whatever the regulatory situation was in 2008, monsters and demons and so on aren't absolutely forbidden, what with recent/recent-ish mainland releases like Thor, Season of the Witch, Wrath of the Titans, Ghost Rider 2, Priest, Immortals, A Chinese Fairy Story, The Sorcerer and the White Snake, probably some others I…

The Dark Knight wasn't released in mainland China — Warner wanted to release it there but withdrew it from the approval process due to "cultural sensitivities," i.e. there was no way it would get past the censors, or at least not without cuts they were unwilling to make

actually this would be a decent argument that the villain isn't the Mandarin, since Chinese censors are touchy to say the least about Chinese bad guys in Hollywood movies — Pirates of the Caribbean 3 got brutally cut (even though the Chinese guy there was more ambiguous than outright villainous), and The Dark Knight…

big deal, I skip church every day

"What, you've never seen a bra before?"
"Not with the boob meat inside of it!"

the show had been unwatchable for several years and the post-Carrell episodes have continued that proud tradition

contra the Hollywood Reporter, others say that the 1997 version was uncensored when it came out in China, for example these comments here (reposted by a Party-run newspaper) and innumerable Chinese-language sources (1, 2, 3, etc.)

not to mention the made-up rationalization is really close to actual pretexts the censors have supposedly given:

it wasn't me, but I saw a screening of Battle of Algiers in 2004 and there's a scene with a French colonel giving a speech about the necessity of torture that prompted one wiseass to shout out "RUMSFELD!!!!!"

Check It Out! S2E4

I have not seen a finalized screen count for the expansion, but the Weinsteins have said they're shooting for around 100 screens (which seems about right for this type of film) and that is perfectly plausible with or without a rating — particularly since AMC had already agreed to show the unrated version, under an…

even the 90-day exception wasn't really a concession, the MPAA's guidelines say exceptions will be made based on "the number of theaters in which the original version of the motion picture has been exhibited" — in other words if your original version only plays on six screens in two cities (which is what happened…

not to mention that the budget numbers thrown around are almost always just the negative cost, i.e. no marketing or distribution included