The scene where Matt joyously digests the news of Mary's pregnancy as the gift from God he's been waiting for, the doctor coolly regards him as a rapist who subjected his comatose wife to an inevitable miscarriage, and we the audience realise that he's just punched through to a whole new tier of excruciating…

Yeah his whole arc this episode was towards finally deciding that if he's going to endanger and humiliate himself, it's going to be on his terms and for higher purposes. To be honest the ending rescued the whole thing for me, as I found it really hard going to watch the universe take a shit on Matt yet again, but it…

It's not the same guy. They are the same shape and colour and both are bearded, but Goodheart was English, kempt hair-wise, and also obviously had access to Miracle and wasn't a weird hick.

Even on something as subjective as film, people's equal right to express opinions shouldn't be confused as making opinions equal. Otherwise you're undermining the value of well-formulated and argued opinions.

I'll never really get why Americans are sensitive about stuff like implied blowjobs and not about fairly graphic depictions of people getting shot in the face.

…so you're saying it's possible?

Let's put a stop to that rumour

If you want Paget Brewster + old timey Hollywood mannerisms then the Beyond Belief segments of the Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast are for you. She and Paul F. Tompkins play a married pair of alcoholic paranormal detectives. It's the Thin Man but even more drunk.

I straight up laughed at Scarlett Johansson's schtick and Tilda Swinton's plaintive RP delivery of "EDDEH". This is cruel that it is four months away.

CineFix is very good at sneaking out actual informed and intelligent takes on cinema through the obsessive listing / desperate attention-seeking format that dominates our post-Buzzfeed internet experience

I'd genuinely like to be wrong, but Hillcoat has been on a steady downward streak basically his whole career, and this looks like sub-End of Watch / Harsh Times macho cop shit with a more typical veteran / rookie officer setup

Minutemen. I am huge about punk and post-punk music and most all of their influences and contemporaries, but if I try to put on Double Nickels On The Dime - apparently one of the best 80s American rock albums, period - for the life of me I can't see what was so notable or so punk about whimsically self-amused jam…

A lot of popular romantic works aimed at women are exactly about alpha billionaires rescuing them from their misery, though. I didn't like Her either, for much the same reasons as you, but I'm not sure I'm particularly offended by a guy whose self-confidence is evidently shot to shit (or "loser" if you really think he…

Macbeth didn't murder anyone either, but surely after a matter of centuries you're permitted to use real life figures to explore a conceit rather than simply give a history lesson. If anything, to me, that's what makes Amadeus a lot more compelling than period pieces that try and make depersonalised historicism add up…

If anything rather than being an aspiring intellectual I find him really opposed to placing much value on anything apart from whether or not it is cool

I think he's pretty talented but I've seen arguments that Russell has simply given up on putting anything challenging or personal in his work and it's hard to refute. It's a shame, it feels to me like there's a whole generation of American directors who enjoy films as a form more than an expression of anything…

So you're not actually prepared to grant that it's great and you just can't get into it, after all? Mediocrity, I absolve you.

Firstly I have to admit I was thinking of a person earlier in the segment who was referenced more briefly, for which I apologise. I'd like to run over some things and you can tell me if there's anything you disagree with.

So firstly you're really angry at John Oliver for emotively using specific bad cases to outline how bad a general problem can get, and then also for not putting together arguments that are persuasive enough to the general population?

This does not make a lick of sense to me. The Coens have (rightfully) been critical darlings with a substantial cult following for a good two decades, and as for how they compare to Scorsese and PTA, they share far more than they differ on, whether that be how intelligent they are, how culturally informed they are,…