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Maybe Jerry Lewis could accept it.
If he's healthy enough.

Why does Optimus look like a junk sculpture?
I'm not a Transformer's purist but I liked it when they kinda resembled cars. Ahh, nevermind.

Don't forget he's available for commentary on any Orson Welles documentaries.

Smurfer Rosa
was my favorite Pixies album

I'm OK with a little boredom in movies. I remember when movies used to build up slowly to a climax. Sometimes you gotta lower you're heart rate before the next thrill. Nowadays, things just start out with a bang and they just keep going at the same volume. That's boring to me.

Confederacy of Dunces
I know this book won a buncha awards. It felt like a clever independent movie with a quirky annoying main character. Not awful but hardly worth of the accolades it received.

Evolution vs. Creation
Has anyone touched on the Paul Bettany as Angel vs. Paul Bettany as Darwin angle? Is PB playing both sides on this one? Which movie presents the better argument?

Looking forward to the film adaptation of 'Preacher'
Hopefully, it won't be produced by Screen Gems

GET OFF MY CLASSROOM!!!
(grizzled voice)

I read Last Exit in college about 15 years ago and I remember liking the stream of conscious style. It's relentless harshness struck my fancy as I was probably exploring my darkside in those years. (I was also a fan of James Joyce and Velvet Undergound) I get the sense that it was a trend in indie filmmaking for

Drugstore Cowboy was the heroin movie for me
For me this movie was a director showing off his bag of tricks but ultimately empty. I've read Selby's Last Exit To Brooklyn so I know his style. This movie felt dishonest and never captured the sadness or desperation of heroin addiction. It's bludgeoning style is the

Sometimes, I prefer a good old fashioned Emily Blunt to a Wesley Pipes or Billy Bong Thornton.

I heard that Chris Hansen showed up with his cameras
Can't wait to watch this on 'To Catch A Predator". I can only imagining Chirs reading a transcript of Polanski's dirty talk.

It was a total Mind-f#*k when John Turturro shoots Spacey at the end of Fink.

Stump Humper
Too bad this won't have the sensitivity toward the disabled that a Farrelly brother's movie would. Honk! Honk!

Yeah, I heard it started off as a joke name(maybe someone else coined it) when they were touring together as separate bands and they just stuck with it. Anyway, I guess it's kinda like Eagles of Death Metal.

Let's call the whole thing off
Isn't Cinema verite really just a marketing tool for filmmakers to sell what has now become a style that can be appropriated by Hollywood for the sake of verisimilitude. Like Dogma 95 was once French New Wave to Blair Witch and now those last 2 Bourne Identity movies with their handheld

Almodovar's same old is better than Woody Allen's recent. Because of Pedro my heart is permanently stuck in Penelope Cruz's Stilleto.

How could I forget the Hell Emmanuelle Beart put me through? Now I wanna see this Clouzot version.

The premise reminds me of Michael Haneke's "Time of The Wolf".