I'm going to allow this.

I've been in car accidents that were better than Exodus: Gods & Kings.

Don't call it a comeback, he's following it with a Prometheus sequel.

I adore The Big Short. It's the closest thing we'll ever get to Soderbergh's version of Moneyball.

Anomalisa: It's hilarious, it utterly destroyed me emotionally, it has a trio of brilliant voice performances, it's the only usage of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" that made me want to break down in tears, it's gorgeous, it's brilliantly mundane, it's a peculiar ad for the Cincinnati Zoo (it's zoo-sized!), it's the…

1996, three years before The Matrix.

So much of this right now.

Oh, you're in for a good time. If you haven't gotten to it already, don't sleep on Schizopolis.

I'm here. And I agree on pretty much all counts.

Yeah, Dennis was great at playing the 80s comedy asshole while still keeping his psychopathy in full view.

Yeah, I think Hardy put more thought into the character and the film than Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu did.

I don't see it, mostly because I actually liked The Revenant.

I rewatched World of Tomorrow, and watched Babe: Pig in the City, The Young Girls of Rochefort, and The Long Goodbye.

Very very tempted to go over there and tell them "No, he's not playing, he's retired, you dipshit".

I watched this before I saw Carol, and was stunned by how much I liked it then, given its lower-rung status in Haynes' filmography. It manages to be incredibly fun just as a surface-level collection of filmmaking techniques and tricks (and one with big enough balls to quote openly from the consensus greatest movie of…

I'm alternating between two books this month; Mark Harris's Pictures at a Revolution and Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. They're both great, and the latter is quickly establishing itself as my future favorite Pynchon (it's weirdly accessible for something written entirely in 18th century dialect, and it manages to be…

Before you completely give up on Baumbach, I'd recommend you check out Kicking and Screaming (no, not the Will Ferrell soccer movie), which is very different from all of the ones you've seen of his and very, very funny.

Have you seen Rejected? It's Hertzfeldt's best-known work, and it's a lot more straightforwardly funny than any of the ones you watched, with a liberal dosage of pure existential horror.

World of Tomorrow (rewatch): I loved this the first time I watched it, but it really clicked with me on this second viewing. I think that Don Hertzfeldt is the heir to, of all people, Thomas Pynchon, in how fluidly he veers from hilarious absurdity to tragedy without so much as a warning. I laughed, I cried, I wiggled.

Poor Oscar Isaac, always getting left out…