This eases the pain, though: http://www.avclub.com/toron…

Full dates are here: http://mubi.com/notebook/po…

Demerits: dying at 29.

L'Argent, like his previous film, The Devil, Probably, seems so weirdly "modern," where a lot of his films play like parables.

for what it's worth, I know that this is the case (tapes already circulating, therefor master had to have been dug up before Gately/Hal/John NR Wayne get there), but was trying to be non-spoilery and give a sense of the shell-game that is following the path of the tape through the book, hence qualifying the line about…

Beyond a hazily-defined sense of tradition, Canada's not at all part of the British Crown, guy.

Why? Straight people have anal sex. Constantly!

I would pose that question, inversely, as "What's wrong with wanting to be Taken, seriously?"

Director's Cut Blu-Ray maaaaan. I'll also guilty of immediately liking any movie/TV show/scenario where someone accuses someone else of being ineffectual because they own a desk.

For the record, I think the Nolan films (especially Begins) are fine, and extremely efficient entertainments in places. What nags is how they're seen as being statement films or something, about the war on terror, the 1%, whatever. When you actually hold the pop nihilism of Dark Knight under a microscope, it withers.…

Wrote about this a bit here: http://www.avclub.com/toron…

There are only two kinds of people in this up-tight world: people who know that there are only two kinds of people in this up-tight world, his victims and his women, and sometimes he can't tell them apart, and then everyone else.

Everyone should check out Soderbergh's commentary on the DVD release of John Boorman's Point Blank, where he freely admits to lifting everything from that film for The Limey. Which is not to discredit The Limey, which is great, but to recommend Point Blank to anyone who likes that elliptical, oneiric editing style…

Descendents w/Milo reunited to play NXNE in Toronto last year. It was fun!

You're of course absolutely right. This has been corrected.

Taken manages to outthink Besson at every turn. You must have a pretty good view of that from behind your desk.

Taken is a fantasia of reactionary French conservatism and historical political impotence, imagined through its sleek, deceptively well-mannered avatar of American foreign policy. Must be pretty easy writing off Taken from behind your desk. I need you to be focussed.

Killer Joe is an early contender for the American motion picture of 2011. Does for Kentucky Fried Chicken what Jaws did for swimming.

Start smoking weed.

"What's your pleasure sir?" should have been the GREMLINS tagline.