Given the quality of the rest of the episode, Inside SoCal was like getting a bouquet of flowers from someone in the middle of repeatedly kicking you in the balls.

Inside SoCal was the only sketch (with the caveat that I missed the sketches immediately before and after the monologue) that really made me laugh much at all.

My deepest sympathies to you and your family.

Whenever you need to ID a prominent cinematographer, you know who to call.

Badlands: It's taken me 'bout four or five years to fully come around on this movie, and this is the viewing that's done it. I may prefer Malick in full "narrative schmarrative" mode, but despite the more seemingly conventional plotting, this film is full of the surreal beauty of his later films (in particular, it…

Because I'm obliged to bring this up, The Ruins was shot by Darius Khondji, the DoP of Seven, The Immigrant, Delicatessen, Midnight in Paris, and Amour.

Here's a tweet about it:

Harmon, Nick Offerman, Thomas Lennon, Nick Kroll, Joe Manganiello, Joe Lo Truglio, and Fabio all apparently appear in a party scene in Knight of Cups.

I haven't heard anything besides Cinemax ordering a S3 premiere script. Soderbergh has said that if they get picked up, they'll start shooting in 2017 (and based on recent statements, he may very well still be directing it).

If he was directing, yeah. But as is, it's at half-staff.

He's just producing, so it shouldn't matter either way.

Silly SBT, Leo is the one who eats the hearts.

This was as good a ceremony as could be expected. A deserving film won Best Picture, Chivo went to the show, Mad Max cleaned house, and I don't have to defend a filmmaker whose work I half-like, at most.

I don't mean to be rude, but I genuinely think it's just you.

The best part of the night is clearly going to be Brie Larson cry-laughing at the Wild Wild West burn.

The Oscars were *not* broadcast in the Freedom Tower.

I dunno if I can take seeing a Spielberg movie where there aren't perfect beams of light coming through all windows.

Damnit, I should've gotten on the "actually, Woody Allen is good" train while there was no comment on the subject.

I'm fond of last year, when Jessica Chastain erupting with a joyful "Chivo!!!!" when Lubezki won Best Cinematography. It was so sweet that it almost made me forget that last year's ceremony was almost a complete shitshow.

I think they're referring to the fact that they work at a library that supplies teenagers instead of books.