Perhaps Bowie's disapproval had far less to do with Haynes not "sanctifying" him (doubt he cared) and a lot more to do with Jonathan Rhys Meyers pouting all over the place and being a hack.

There was also a Ben Hall TV series staring the wonderfully underrated Jon Finch (See also: Polanski's fucking Macbeth)

AV Club becoming more and more of a gossip site every day. :(

AV Club becoming more and more of a gossip site every day. :(

They're introducing Ted Kord/Blue Beetle in the next series too.

Dammit O'Neal! He doesn't blast The Fifth Element at all but rather his OWN performance in it. That's what the "I can't bear it." is in response to.

Time to play devil's avocado here:
We can keep forgiving that unconscionably awful ending by palming it off as being 'Hawksian' when really it's just Hollywood bullshit and Hawks shooting his own proverbial horse. But to be honest I really think it's a shame that this is added to the Criterion collection and…

I'm looking forward to listening because I've really dug his previous stuff. Can't help but notice the unapologetic rip-off of The Kinks "Picture Book" in the title track though.

Yeah his filmography is perhaps too brief at this stage for them to warrant a Gateways column (not that I wasn't hoping for one myself a while ago).

Not a single mention of Ben Foster whose uncanny performance of a young Bill Burroughs was the stand out in my opinion. Tsk tsk…

Listen, you can put as much (warranted) shit on Coppola's film as you like, but there's no denying that Oldman's performance in that is one of the best ever committed to film.

My hearts beating like a fucked clock!

I've ended up going with this to begin. Gracias.

Can we get a Gateways for Duke Ellington? I just went to Google "duke ellington gateways to geekery" and realized I've in fact searched it multiple times in the last month and forgotten it doesn't exist.