Great album, although I think 1965 did an ever better job of hitting the same highs more concisely. And anyone who digs AW should definitely check out Dulli's post-AW band, The Twilight Singers. Both BLACKBERRY BELLE and POWDER BURNS are stone classics in the BLACK LOVE vein. I can't think of any other bands who so…

Maintenance represents the studios. Specified that in the original comment but probably I wrote it clumsily. And you're totally right about it being a cinematic essay, I just feel like it's a really entertaining one. The scene where all the boogies get released on the controllers is Whedon-esque fun of a high order.

They did pick the Buckners, the zombie cannibal redneck clan similar to the antagonists in any number of horror movies over the past several years (Texas Chainsaw Anything, Wrong Turn, Hills Have Eyes, etc. are all minor variations on the theme.) Dipshit rednecks offing bougie kids plays well with the target…

While I can't personally speak to the film industry, I've done a fair bit of dabbling in genre publishing, and I can tell you that across-the-board, editors and agents will push back against any ambiguity whatsoever. They demand to know motivation and "the reasons why this is happening." And if you push back, they…

There's a reason that giant hand at the end is a human hand, and it has nothing to do with sci-fi.
Hint: It is related to Maintainance winning the betting-pool, and the complaint that "maintenance picks the same thing every year." "If they were creative, they wouldn't be in maintenance."
Extra-hint, as we seem to be…

I'm always puzzled that people can't suss out the story at the heart of this film. (SPOILERS AHEAD.) Most insecure people have at one time or another been in a romantic relationship where they felt they were maybe dating above their pay grade, involved with someone who seemed far more beautiful, sophisticated and…

1, Seriously, did anyone NOT know they were walking into an ambush? If nothing else (by which I mean everything else) didn't clue us in, the scriptwriter-covering-his-ass aside about how the department's tactical unit was busy elsewhere but our heroes would just go ahead and do this thing should've done it. And the…