America is already great.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a four star movie for me that would be five if there was less Leonard Cohen in it. For the first half of that movie, he's basically a Greek chorus with an acoustic guitar and it's really overbearing.

Definitely this. I watched a lot of movies last year (439 to be exact) but that came out of a resolution to spend less time doing nothing online and watch the movies I'm paying for with Netflix, Mubi and wherever else, but I know someone who set themselves a goal of watching 500 and their Twitter feed made it seem…

I was thinking this year of changing my book reading schedule and instead of trying to read about 40, I'd like to try reading round about 20 big books instead. My average page count according to Goodreads was 338 so I'm aiming for everything to be at least somewhere around 650 pages. So far I have Blood's A Rover by…

I totally agree and, whenever I'm feeling particularly masochistic, I'll bring that up in a Disney franchise thread but my post was specifically about books. When I'm on the train home, Harry Potter is the only series I see being regularly read, and it's always by the lanyard drones.

I liked it when it as in the British version of The Office because it fit the context but then it became a gag in its own right and always feels lazy. If they can't work out a punchline on Modern Family or Parks and Rec, they look at the camera, and it's the only time they make any real commitment to the mockumentary…

I hope that's a reference to Tony's repeated motif of bridges and crossing boundaries.

Not even five minutes ago I was talking about this, only in relation to The Matrix, particularly in regards to the concept of the red pill and blue pill. I'm really not fond of ideology first and the rest of the movie second criticism but Nazis genuinely don't watch the movies they reference.

That can be applied to almost every Tony Scott film.

Harry Potter might be better than Twilight, but it's still a series of children's books. That being accepted as fiction that adults take seriously is a bigger issue.

Yes, I do.

Best opening credits: Enter The Void
Best closing credits: Jersey Boys

After seeing her in Episode VII, this seemed inevitable, though definitely not this early in the new series. The brief nature of her scenes and the way they were spliced together post-crash Montgomery Clift style was really sad and suggested that she probably shouldn't have been there in the first place.

With Paul Walker it isn't even complete CGI. It's his brother with his face mapped on top. It's incredibly effective but I can't see a way of them doing that with Carrie Fisher.

He's the white Denzel Washington.

There was a lot of obvious ADR but the one that stood out the most was how Issey Ogata pretty clearly couldn't say 'concubine' even though it comes up a handful of times during one of his conversations with Andrew Garfield.

Saw this earlier pretty much entirely bounced off it. Stalker remains the one piece of art or media that has helped me understand the religious mindset, everything else has left me wondering why people go through all that trouble. The main highlight was a cameo by Yoshihiro Takayama, the former pro wrestler and MMA…

Does Jackie Chan's character have a pointlessly depressing subplot to contend within this? It seems like his thing these days. In the Rush Hour-esque Skiptrace, there's the guilt for letting his partner get killed by terrorists, which doesn't fit in with the rest of that movie at all and Police Story: Lockdown has the…

I clicked this article entirely to find out if you had made a typo in the title and his name was actually Bob Ice.

It's insanely boring.