I don't know, I'm getting kind of immune to Dowd's reviews.

Also, I have a weird affection for Demolition Man, or as I call it, Joel Silver's City of Quartz.  Also a typically great Elliot Goldenthal score (I remember the CD as having a track called "Obligatory Car Chase.")

Seconded.  The best HDTGMs are the ones that take the title LITERALLY—Birdemic with the actress who played Natalie (edit: Whitney Moore), and Punisher:  War Zone with the High Priestess of Awesome, Lexi Alexander, and Patton Oswalt at his most Oswaltian.

Still don't like Garden State, still like Juno and Sideways (which I don't consider a feel-good movie).

Not sure if the dislike of Sideways is because they think it's not a quality movie or because idiots now dump spit buckets over themselves and take pictures of it.

Public Enemy.  Joy Division is up there too.

The original Hitcher is like The Driver, genre stripped to the most basic elements.  And a great Mark Isham score, still his best.

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If Franco did not exist, it would be necessary for Sean O'Neal to invent him.  (That may well be exactly what happened.)

Nah, I'm an asshole.  There are depositions about that.  I just have been where you are, a little bit.

Not to go all Good Will Hunting here, but the thing about unemployment is:  it's not your fault.  There are times when the job requirement is being carbon-based and breathing.  (Breathing is sometimes optional.)  And there are times when people with decades of experience and awesomehood get shot down, and we're in one…

@avclub-605302b7b2612ace0b5716f3285b7ba0:disqus since you mentioned Kurosawa, go watch Yojimbo right the fuck now.  Then check out the Primer article here on Kurosawa.  You'll thank us.

Claudia Christian getting out of a car, fondling herself all sexylike, and then pulling out a grenade launcher is an iconic 80s image.  It's like "shoot!  the glass!" in Die Hard—one of those moments when the writers said "fuck subtext, let's just make it text."

You will not be disappointed, and you are old enough to enjoy the late80s LA setting of this.  Because if you were an alien who wanted to consume and destroy, that's where you'd go.  It's the greatest Bret Easton Ellis story he never wrote.

"And then—and here's the really horrible part—Lee Daniels made a sequel without changing the title."

If you go through the Everyman's Library Essays of Orwell, or the older four-volume Collected Essays, Letters, and Journalism (vol. 3 and 4), they have his "As I Please" essays, a weekly column he wrote for Tribune from 1943-1947.  Those are fantastic, because you can see him applying his intelligence to any damn…

Rrrrrright.  The poison for Kuzco, the poison to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison.

George Orwell (start with the collection Inside the Whale, with three big essays:  "Inside the Whale" (on Henry Miller and British fiction), "Charles Dickens," and "Boys' Weeklies," then go to almost any of his shorter essays.  
Joan Didion (start with The White Album and then move forward or backward in her work).

First, we are praying for you here.  Good luck, and remember that the future can't be predicted.  Think of something beautiful you saw in the past and remember there will be beautiful things in the future, and you want to stick around for them.

The Machete trailer owns everything that comes after it, including Machete.  (But I'd say Planet Terror, but barely.)