Finally sat down and watched Satyajit Ray's first movie in the Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali, after checking the newly released Criterion DVDs out from the library.

Someday I'm going to watch Hoop Dreams and It's a Wonderful Life back to back, and it will the saddest day ever.

Freeman should be nominated for the MVP of secretly being the best thing in any project.

Probably not.

Does Witherspoon fashion a shiv using only a toothbrush, plastic clingwrap and a lighter in this movie?

I can't blame People. This is a man that jokes he doesn't buy green bananas because he doesn't know if he'll be around to enjoy them.

Re: Sony's copyright-influenced Spidey reboot: I remember how irritated I was that Donald Glover was passed over for the lead role.

Out of Sight is my favorite Soderbergh movie and I stand by that statement without any hesitation; it's the only movie in which his almost rigid formalism reaches sublimity.

I am the Under-Secretary of the Nolan is Overrated club, and seriously, how Batman got back to Gotham is not a plot hole.

I saw The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and it was beautiful and depressing, so pretty much on spot-on Takahata.

I never got the appeal much either, but when I (rather unexpectedly) got to meet Joss Whedon at WonderCon many, many years ago, it felt weird to go up there without something to sign. So a friend bought me a Issue #1 of Astonishing X-Men.

Spirited Away is my favorite Ghibli movie, and up there on my list of favorite movies of all time. One of those movies in which I wouldn't change a single frame.

The weird South American ending of Handful is weird; I prefer the London ending.

Have you read A Handful of Dust? It's my favorite. And arguably his bitchiest.

Waugh is excellent at his bitchiest.

Read more of The Bachelors by Henry de Montherlant, a French novel (translated) about two aristocrats who slip to their doom because of their pathological shyness. Grim.

I've loved this movie since I was little; it played on PBS randomly one night, and it gave me and my sis the utter creeps for yeaaaars.

Nope, not pervy at all — in fact, it's probably the tamest of his works. It's literally a domestic drama about three sisters — of the Makioka family — and the small and large incidents that make up the narrative of their lives.

Agreed - I love Makioka Sisters - it's not unlike a sprawling domestic novel written by a Victorian novelist, only with a sly, almost absurdist undertone. This will always stay with me: on the very last page of the novel, one of the sisters has finally gotten married (finding her a husband was one of the major plot…

Barbara Hall was the creator/showrunner for Joan of Arcadia & Tea Leoni is just great, so I'm curious to check this show out too.