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The Narrator Returns
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That's courtesy of Larry Blake, who's been with Soderbergh since literally the very beginning (they went to school together, and Blake worked on Soderbergh's Yes concert film).

That opening made me cackle with how brilliantly Soderberghian it was. Welcome back, The Knick, you were missed.

Margot is also one of my favorites, and I highly recommend giving it a shot, even if YouTube compression isn't the best way to experience Harris Savides' visuals.

Charles Bramesco and (apparently) Scott Tobias love Crimson Peak. And to think I was worried there for a second!

INT. AV CLUB HQ


SHAKER sits at his laptop, taking a break and sipping a smoothie. All of a sudden, from the left comes EMMANUEL "CHIVO" LUBEZKI, rolling his chair on over to SHAKER.


CHIVO: Say, this site's got a nice search engine.


SHAKER: Yeah, it does.


CHIVO: How about you make it so that anything you type in brings

Whaddya know, I tested this out, and the number of results for Queen of Earth was only within a margin of 20 results from the results for "of".

Hey, I thought that was some ingenious casting by Alex Ross Perry.

Honestly, it would have as good a chance of coming to fruition if it was a Clickhole link.

Nah. I have it in a needle, ready to inject straight into the eyeball.

Let's just say that you shouldn't expect Lynch's other work to be as narratively clear as Blue Velvet.

Not apartheid, but the Holocaust.

You're about as likely to hear me talk about TV that isn't Soderbergh-related as you are to spot Sasquatch, so that's a no for me.

The best I can say is that it was a moderate improvement over last week's. Other than that, yeah, you're right on the money.

Ha, we had the exact same viewing patterns when it comes to AHS. I'm not sure I'm willing to watch Hotel, though, because my fear of getting burned by it is still pretty strong, a year and a half after Coven broke me.

"Dinner's gonna be cold tonight, asshole!"

Inside Man: A solid heist movie on its own, but what really propels this is Spike Lee's doodling in the margins. The middle section, where everybody's just kinda hanging out and slowly moving things forward, is the best part, but it's all great stuff. Denzel (who threatens to burn a hole through the screen with how

…Well, that's really none of my business.

It's actually going to be another adaptation of The Plague Dogs.