FF
I somehow failed to hear the greatness in Interpol three years ago.

Kudos!
Best incorporation of a letter grade since they were introduced.

Seconded
The Neurotic Monkey's question: Chuck, what the heck is the explanation behind Lost?

Gwenno
Rocket, given her mention of Cardiff, I think that's a reasonable conclusion. And given Welsh, its proper pronunciation might strike English speakers as completely puzzling.

Also.
Ain't she, in her own words, "No good," and hasn't she "cheated [her]self," removing a certain amount of righteousness from any anger over his infidelity?

Winehouse
Maybe she's just trying to ensure future inspiration for soulful tunes.

In limited defense of Sharon.
She's taking cursing back to a grand old place. It didn't used to be you just shouted swear words at people (though she does use them): you wished terrible harm on them and their families. Way to bring a little creativity, Mrs. O.

Up the matinee!
No shame, Jeepers.

Emote-a-porn
Would you put Igby Goes Down and Tadpole in this genre? They share the sensitive, hyper-literate leads, at least. Maybe also The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; though the protagonist is younger, as in Igby, it's Kieran Culkin (who seemed at the time to have some promise; where'd he go?).

Howard
Her presence clinched my reluctance to see this, despite having found Dogville amazingly powerful, and this is the first time I've really regretted that decision. I'll have to bump it up the ol' queue.

So…
…I'm the only one who thought Vince was far hotter in The Cell?

Best Rivers moment I've seen lately?
I was tied down and forced to watch Nip/Tuck, and she appeared in it as herself long enough to invest in a health spa on the basis of a skin cream based (she knew not) on semen. Fan. Tastic. Really, aren't we all bettered by the thought of Joan Rivers smearing semen on her own face?

To jump off of a much earlier comment…
What the hell would a Jim Jarmusch superhero movie even look like? I'm fascinated by the idea of a truly ambiguous character (I think we'd be left wondering if they even really had powers) wandering around blue-collar neighborhoods drinking and trying to avoid the cops.

Advantage Colbert
I definitely think that, unlike the guitar battle, he can win this one fairly. Penn's only demonstrated metaphor so far is tortured and off-putting. Where the hell did he come up with that?

Sorry, Zack…
…was responding to MBI, not you (I'd had the article open for a while, so didn't have the benefit of your clarification). My essential point is that I like the fact that he snuffed it.

Yes, they killed Captain Amazing
That's one of my favorite things about the movie: they don't just bumble around, they fuck up big-time. It takes the piss out of the lovable-gang-of-losers genre as well as the superhero genre.

But!
I do feel three is enough. I hate it when franchises just keep churning out installments because they can. Cashing in killed Rocky, stained Batman's good name, is in the process of badly tarnishing the achievements of the two X-Men flicks… If Raimi et al. pull out, hopefully nothing will follow.

Whence all the Spider-Man hate?
I loved the first two and I'm looking forward to the third. Venom gives me chills, and the aerial Peter-Harry fight sequence they released looks stunning. Maguire's a little one-note, but they've been smartly edited to let the visual humor look like he had something to do with it, and…

SCS
I thought that was Tarantino.

Nice. I want me some Innocence Mission now.
How genteel are raindrops, though? Seems to me it depends on the kind of rain. Light mist is decidedly more polite and aristocratic than, say, a driving monsoon.