Friedkin also doesn't like to call The Exorcist a horror movie, though, so it could be that the guy's just being pretentious. Some people are like that. I was at a Daniel Keyes reading, and he got pissed off when I asked him a question about Flowers for Algernon as a work of science fiction, because he thought it…

Friedkin also doesn't like to call The Exorcist a horror movie, though, so it could be that the guy's just being pretentious. Some people are like that. I was at a Daniel Keyes reading, and he got pissed off when I asked him a question about Flowers for Algernon as a work of science fiction, because he thought it…

I watched some of the DVD features, and Friedkin showed how each of the onscreen murders had a different possible suspect playing the murderer. It strikes me that this is sort of a perverse way to make the central mystery literally without a resolution, although it's easy to chalk this up as another example of…

I watched some of the DVD features, and Friedkin showed how each of the onscreen murders had a different possible suspect playing the murderer. It strikes me that this is sort of a perverse way to make the central mystery literally without a resolution, although it's easy to chalk this up as another example of…

Has anyone here seen Cruising? I was going through a Friedkin period a while back and found it (it's on Netflix now, I think), and I'm really not sure what I think. On one hand, it seems to be hell-bent on displaying the NYC gay community as the site of endless murders and assorted depravity, but there's also a very…

Has anyone here seen Cruising? I was going through a Friedkin period a while back and found it (it's on Netflix now, I think), and I'm really not sure what I think. On one hand, it seems to be hell-bent on displaying the NYC gay community as the site of endless murders and assorted depravity, but there's also a very…

AVC: Gina Gershon enters Killer Joe bottomless and framed
from the waist down, which is not something you could be quite so
specific about in a play. That was his idea, and his insistence?

AVC: Gina Gershon enters Killer Joe bottomless and framed
from the waist down, which is not something you could be quite so
specific about in a play. That was his idea, and his insistence?

I did not know that REC 3 was a thing before reading this. Color me tickled.

I did not know that REC 3 was a thing before reading this. Color me tickled.

Yes. The I -> III -> IV progression is in a lot of pop songs from the last ten years, but I don't know about earlier. ("III" being like an E root position instead of an e chord in C-major.) If anyone around here knows of earlier variant, I'm interested.

Yes. The I -> III -> IV progression is in a lot of pop songs from the last ten years, but I don't know about earlier. ("III" being like an E root position instead of an e chord in C-major.) If anyone around here knows of earlier variant, I'm interested.

Golly, this "flagged for review" business is annoying. If something has 6 LIKES, I want to know what it says, darn it!

Golly, this "flagged for review" business is annoying. If something has 6 LIKES, I want to know what it says, darn it!

@avclub-b434acbef3e760a6dcf784c619b16fd6:disqus—Are you my dad? Cuz we always had these conversations about how it was OK for the Israelites in Judges to cut down the Canaanites w/o a 2nd thought when God said it was OK, whereas I thought it was a horrible thing to do, w/ or w/o the divine mandate.

Genius loves company. We'll split the Nobel.

Genius loves company. We'll split the Nobel.

Richard Ayoade is what white people think they'd be like, if they were black.

Richard Ayoade is what white people think they'd be like, if they were black.

13 Conversations About One Thing may be overly schematic, but I enjoyed it.