Speaking of authors, I can't believe nobody mentioned Joyce Carol Oates! I mean, she showed so much promise with "Garden of Earthly Delights", "them" and "Wonderland" that it's a real literary shit-shame she hasn't written anything in almost four decades.

Blame Canada!
Yeah, Canada used to be about class back when we were still making films and television shows based on actual quality, as opposed to the past ten years, where the official policy of nearly every investor and funding agency has been to try and create commercial products that will make money and be…

This and Todd Haynes' "Safe" were the first [no, it's not - ed.] films that came to my mind when I read the title for this inventory.

I agree with Leto II that this is a sign of where we're heading (or already at?), but I don't think it has to do with not being able to 'disconnect' for 90 minutes … it's more like people can't *connect* for that long! Surely typing on a phone's small keyboard to communicate to someone far away from you is the most…

Ten or twelve years ago, a friend (who could draw) and I made our own Family Circus comic. The first panel shows one of the boys (Billy?) asleep in bed, with a "crash" coming from beyond his door. The second panel shows Billy in the kitchen, asking his mom what the noise was. The third panel shows his mom saying "a…

Why stop there? Be even more hopeful! Hope that there will come a day when there won't be any trailers with painfully unfunny jokes because there won't be any movies with painfully unfunny jokes that there could be trailers for!

And this one…

Well, there's this…

Make it, make it, don't fake it!
No announcement of Harmony Korine's "Trash Humpers" having been released on DVD by Drag City a week or so ago?

The Real "Indie Cred Test"…
… has only one question.

Where's the Allan King box set review, man?
Hey man! When are you guys going to put up the promised review of the new Allan King Eclipse set? It could draw more attention to an important director and it would let the jokes about "Come On Children" being a Roman Polanski/Michael Jackson collaboration flow like free…

One of Allen's last all-round decent films?
Isn't Daniels' character in this essentially the successful version of the Alec-Baldwin-as-ghostly-companion (or whatever that was) in "Alice"?