Ooh, I didn't know that about Arnold and Transparent. I guess I have to watch Transparent now.

There's one close-up of JJL in the first part of Hateful Eight that, in a just world, would get her an Oscar delivered directly to the stagecoach.

She was in Rabbits.

I'm seeing it Monday (bizarrely enough, my fifteen-year-old sister wants to see it, despite her having no knowledge of Cate Blanchett or Rooney Mara, let alone Todd Haynes or Patricia Highsmith).

For the record, this covers the media I've watched all of his week, because it's my comment and I'll overindulge if I want to.

Derek Jarman's Blue, which is literally just the color blue, looks less blue than this movie does.

My gift will be trying thoroughly to convince the skeptical that yes, not only does Magic Mike XXL not suck, but it's also utterly brilliant and aesthetically amazing. Too many people are needlessly depriving themselves of some primo Soderberghian goodness.

I nominate myself for "Best Commenter Whose Commenting Presence Dwindled to Near-Zero For a While Only to Visit Slightly More Often After the Place He Was Visiting Instead Shut Down".

I'm going to write a screenplay where Linda Cardellini and Judy Greer kill all the Hollywood executives who've given them thankless wife parts. I'm thinking Bernardo Bertolucci would be the right guy to direct it.

If anything, this awful trailer is a vote of confidence on the film rather than a bad sign.

I understand that he's not one of the main stars of it, but Nicky Katt was in The Limey, and as much as I love Dazed and Confused, The Limey is better. I'll get back to you on the others.

Watch the '62 one (haven't seen the Jonathan Demme remake), and while you're at it, watch another John Frankenheimer classic, Seconds.

You telling me that Todd Haynes doesn't pay as much as Old Navy?

"Which one is the Slap?"

I'm not saying that it's a good thing that Philip Seymour Hoffman died, far from it… but if there's a tiny silver lining to that, it's that we were spared him wasting his time on Happyish.

Take it from an expert on the subject, December birthdays within a week of Christmas are the best(?).

I'd say that I wish I was in D.C./I wish there was a meetup like this somewhere closer to home, but being honest, I'd want to show my face to others here infinitely less than I'd like to meet others here.

Sadly, I have the urge to watch at least one episode of The Whispers because the pilot was directed by Mark Romanek, whose work I love enough to be horribly disappointed by how his career has gone in the last decade or so.

Thought this would be of interest to fans of The Knick: It appears that seasons 3 and 4 are happening, without Soderbergh (although Soderbergh will still work on it to some capacity), and [CHARACTER NAME REDACTED] is deader than dead

He's just been Restless to make the thing already. Pre-production is in its Last Days.