Keith's review is spot on, but I'd still give the movie a higher grade—B or B+ territory—on the strength of the first two acts. But yeah, the (semi-spoiler, maybe) way they use the standard indie trope of folks coming together to form a makeshift family really didn't seem all that plausible.

Keith's review is spot on, but I'd still give the movie a higher grade—B or B+ territory—on the strength of the first two acts. But yeah, the (semi-spoiler, maybe) way they use the standard indie trope of folks coming together to form a makeshift family really didn't seem all that plausible.

Saw L'Argent before it expired from Hulu. And goddamn if it didn't wreck me.

I took Mindy Kaling's advice and saw The Staircase, which I charged through b/c it's riveting as shit.

"Ghosts Of Mars seems intended primarily as a showcase for Pam Grier, who had somehow never worked with Carpenter before . . ."

Electra Glide in Blue. Just brutal.

You Gerried the Rendez-Vous
No love for Gerry?

Seventh Continent
Anyone else think of Haneke's 7th Continent when the kid flushed a dollar?

So is Being John Malkovich…
to be understood as having *successfully* de-glamorized John Cusack?

'I'll take punctuality.'
For me it's Bill Murray in Rushmore, when Max offers him the choice of awards.

Touche, McNutt, touche.

Stop using the word 'discursively.'
It makes you sound like an asshole.

Oh, and speaking of conspiracy movies that resolve themselves…
with a gut punch of an epiphany, there's also Cache.

Whoa, no Night Moves?
I suppose it resolves itself kind of similarly to The Conversation, but it's still a magnificent gut punch at the end when (spoiler, kind of) Hackman realizes how thoroughly ignorant he's been of what's been going on.

Yeah, that shits plays over the end credits of Heathers as well.

WHAT THE FUCK
A+s are not allowed. There are RULES.

I meant to say, "Finn's a lot more like Noah than Jackie, but he's also Italian, albeit NOT from a mob family."

@pugfuggly: I think you're absolutely right about Meadow rebounding and looking for someone more familiar, especially after Noah, who's so totally unlike anyone from her family, dumped her. With Jackie, she's definitely getting closer to home.

Blue Ribbon
The show didn't actually say so, but did anyone else get the impression that West Dillon's blue ribbon for academics wasn't due so much to Principal Taylor's stewardship, as to the fact that all of the poorest students got moved to East Dillon? Mightn't that have something to do with rising test scores?

Agreed.