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Happy to see Wes Anderson with a directing nod. Hopefully this is the year he gets the Oscar nod as well, instead of continuing to acknowledge him solely with writing and animated film entries. He's certainly not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but his movies have to be pretty technically difficult to storyboard

Dianne, what the fuck are you on about?

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Upvoted purely for your user name and image.

Have you ever read the Ken Kesey book "Sometimes a Great Notion"? There's a drowning in that where a guy is trapped beneath a log and his family member (I'm being deliberately vague here to avoid complete spoilers) attempts to keep him alive with that same transfer-of-breath strategy. It's absolutely devastating in

Downey's definitely cool, but in that nerdy, defensively quipping smartass way. McQueen was just an unapologetic stud, which I think is more of a Brad Pitt kinda thing.

I would imagine someone coming out of Inherent Vice just for all the various quality of people involved, but it's also a comedic movie and the Academy hates to laugh.

Blood Meridian isn't a children's book?

Beck's "Sea Change" and Of Montreal's "Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer?" are also very intense break-up albums on opposite ends of the musical spectrum pretty much. Of Montreal's is deceptive, the hooks are so bouncy and catchy that it takes a few listens for the lyrics to register and, my goodness, they are

Yeah I get that, it grows on you, but I think that's all Pavlovian. I have come to enjoy the "Justified" theme, whereas in the beginning I couldn't stand it and I'm pretty sure on its own it's a terrible song.

Those are pretty phenomenal. This should clearly be repurposed for a new intro titles sequence, since these are great and the one they have is preposterously stupid.

Bennett Miller is at least staying on the right side of that line for now, whereas Jason Reitman was lost forever some time ago.

The PB&J…it's just sitting on the table…all wrapped in plastic.

I thought it was the theatrical spin-off of New Girl where "True American" goes horribly wrong.

I only count 12…or is #9 actually three and #11 is two and the numbers weren't updated? Is this some kind of in-joke about how a list about 15 turned into a list about 12? It's probably because I'm stupid.

Are you from a similar area in Louisiana? If so, I can understand your wanting a more thoroughly detailed examination of the region's makeup, economy included. Even then, though, a show can be about whatever its creative and production teams want it to be about. Personally, I'm pretty thrilled that Terminator 2 did

While their contributions over the decades are many and several of which are stellar, it is a bit frustrating that De Niro and Pacino are the go-to names for comparisons of (typically American) acting talent in the last 40 years. I mean, as contemporaries you figure they had Beatty, Hoffman, Hackman, Newman, Redford,

In the Michel Gondry interview from earlier this week he concedes, having worked with Kaufman quite a bit, that Cage's take in "Adaptation." was pretty close.

Is that Joe & Mac?

"I don't want to drink it, Ray, I don't want to drink it!"