Extraordinary movie. My parents owned a copy on VHS when I was younger, and I'm really glad they did. The whole thing is a beautiful treatise on criticism and art.

"What is this?" "It's the Beta band." "It's good." "I know."

Simon Pegg sounded happy on WTF to be doing some acting on here (only reason I'd watch it) and a little bitter about being used as comic relief in blockbusters.

It does have the awesome line "Who would win in a fight, Lemmy or God? Errrrr, trick question, dickhead, Lemmy is god!"

Never seen Reality Bites (but then I'm also 21), have no interest. I did go on a date with a film student who was making an editing exercise over her love of Reality Bites, which seems kind of inexplicable to me. I remember liking Singles a lot though.

Why the hate on Matt Dillon? The only person who won an award for Crash and actually deserved it.

My music taste sort of corresponds with my Doctor preference, apparently. To be fair, Tennant had a good share of dark moments, my favorites being Family of Blood (which made the Doctor look like a complete bastard for creating John Smith), and The Waters of Mars (The Doctor flies a little too close to the sun).

"Doctors Wife", "Good Man Goes To War", fuck there are some good ones.

Also should mention that Moffatt gets by for me because of his Doctor - Davies' and Moffatt have very different interpretations (Davies' Time War concept was a stroke of genius), and Tennant was iconic, but I like Smith and Moffatt's Doctor better. He's just weirder, deeply loveable and sweet but a little less human,…

Moffatt, but squeaking by. I like Davies' writing most of the time, but often he went for what could be as over the top and goofy as possible, rather than what made sense for the story - see also kung fu monks and the annoying scientist in Planet of the Dead. Not much more to write about both of their problems as head…

Thanks for the review, might see this - I live in San Francisco and know some young Mexican-Americans who are pretty angry about the cartels and the Mexican government's idiocy/US government's complacence. John Gibler's book To Die In Mexico is a great recent book (as is his other book more on Mexico in general,…

Sounds pretty cool - devoured most of NuWho in a year since being introduced to it by my sister. Might just watch this for Bradley alone, whose work in Broadchurch was incredibly good.

He "disowned" him for working for him, an entirely different reason and a fair one (disowning is pretty goofy vocab for what was more likely a distancing). To be an anarchist is to at least try to disassociate from people working for the president. From all I've read and seen, Chomsky is personally a decent guy.

Aw man I really hope that's the case.

Well there's a difference between understanding and sympathizing. In the book In Cold Blood, I don't sympathize with Perry Smith killing four people - it is a cold, heartless thing to do. However, the reader understands Perry, because he has led a traumatic, pitiful life and has become a person willing to do what he…

I think Ebert was dead on about Platoon (for example) in saying that it proved Trauffaut wrong about movies being inherently pro-war. It made being in the hot green jungle in Vietnam look totally miserable.

Weird guy/vaguely grifterish. Guralnick's biography has a great account of his and Elvis' symbiotic/adversarial relationship.

Yeah, agreed - there's a loonnnnng history in science fiction of the British turning to fascism, from Children of Men to V for Vendetta to at least one episode of Doctor Who. I'm not sure why this fear of UK fascism specifically is so ingrained (besides Margaret Thatcher), but then again fear of fascism in general is…

After covering the fire, we watched a fairly hokey 70s tv movie about the Triangle fire directed by the guy who made Willie Wonka. Not a terrible movie per se (a lot of themes of organized labor and immigration), but it whitewashed the fact that the bosses were largely responsible for the fire by trying to create a…

He ain't pretty no more.