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the lies of minnelli
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So it's actually good?

I can't believe they showed A Bigger Splash on a plane. I assume it was heavily censored because one of the big motifs is that everyone is naked at one point or another. I also thought it was very bad because it meanders a lot and then in the final twenty minutes or so tries to make an Antonioni-esque point about

Not until later, around the time when they mentioned the properties of the alien language and had the flashforwards involving the dad, but the tone and the words used made me immediately think this isn't what it says it is. With all the Tarkovsky, I assumed the aliens were going to act either like The Zone or the

For such a simple movie, the effects all round looked really cheap. Jeremy Renner's head when he falls over is superimposed onto the stuntman's body in a way that reminded me of Han Solo walking around Jabba the Hutt in the remastered Star Wars.

Those scenes are fantastic - the whole film is - but they only work because they get woven into Susan's real life. Assuming what we see is the book being played out in real time, it's simple and stupid and makes Edward seem like a bad copycat more than anything else.

UK release isn't until February 2017.

I was really glad that the superhero movie boom kicked off because I wanted films that represent me, the super genius born into wealth.

I think this is severely underrating the movie. As far as I can tell, Nocturnal Animals is the only identifiably American movie that's been worth seeing this year and the more I think on it, the more I think it's a masterpiece that should put every major working director (and, in many ways, producer) to shame. Tom

I always liked Immortal Technique but now I'd like to consider myself a fan.

Uniqlo exists for a reason, and it will save you a lot of money.

How much does boxing gross when money isn't being laundered through Vegas?

It's a little too spartan, even for a Walter Hill movie, but it's still enjoyable.

I don't remember the humour of Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Terminator 2 etc. existing entirely to make sure things didn't get too tense.

For harry Potter readers, someone who does magic is more relatable than someone who thinks.

Even films that aren't superhero movies now have the exact same cadence as Marvel's output. That trailer seemed to exist to let us know that the excitement and drama of a big disaster movie would be regularly undercut by gags.

Yeah, if he's so very funny, why is he cancelling a show tonight?

It's on YouTube as BroScienceLife.

And you're definitely not bitter about that.

Verhoeven predicted the alt-right twenty years before they started shitposting.

I must have seen it at least ten times and it was only on the most recent that I noticed that after he can only kill Dick Jones because The Old Man fires him, meaning that even though the film has a big heroic finale, the fourth Prime Directive is still completely intact.