Yeah, I have Amazon, Fandor, Hulu and Netflix all via Roku (used to run through my ps4 but got tired of being routed through Sony, which dropped my stream all the time). The former two are how I watch most movies, and the latter two I use for TV (don't have cable). I still get blu-rays from Netflix but rarely watch…

Amazon has essentially replaced the video store for me - renting on Amazon far outweighs every other way I watch stuff, and I say this as someone who goes to the theater at least one a week.

Perhaps with the bitterness of old age.

Yeah although I think Kozelek is actually kind of a jerk, whereas Tillman seems to just like messing with people. I think both are great songwriters, separate from their provocations.

I'm just now hearing this was some kind of controversy, which is ridiculous. It's a jokey snapshot, time capsule kind of line that's both a pretty succinct way to talk about current cultural obsessions, and also a deliberately lazy rhyme that's all the more charming for it.

It's weird because I always thought the idea was that the albums were divided in terms of songwriting as 80/20 Newman/Bejar, even if they play on each other's songs. I love the Bejar tracks but they've always been a smaller percentage of the band than Newman's, so the whole approach of this review strikes me as odd.

This is my favorite line from Rickles, and even better that he says it to Norm. I quote it constantly.

Rickles is really good in it, a shame he didn't do more dramatic work.

Agreed, that's likely the case. When I saw the theatrical release with some friends who'd also seen the Sundance cut, we jokingly got up as if to leave once we saw the interview scene. There was something powerful in the lack of explanation, but I think you are right that whichever version someone sees first sticks…

Totally not true. I saw the cut before that interview scene was added, and it was actually much more effective without the explanation. It's still clear that someone/something has made him stand in the corner, and then Heather gets hit by something. It's terrifying because the tense build up to that moment is so…

Same, and I totally related to the movie on that level.

It should be taught in film school as a perfect example of the use of off-screen space/sound.

PA1 peaks with the moment of her standing at the bed for hours on end just staring. Nothing else in that movie or any of its sequels matches that moment.

That interview scene was not in the cut shown at Sundance and I was disappointed when they added that to the theatrical release. It was way creepier not having that set up.

Wrong!

Danny Pudi as Brainy Smurf is actually pretty inspired casting.

This sounds like it hits that Sundance bullseye!

One of many gods.

Agreed, great Ben Mendelsohn performance.

It would be cool if every time someone started playing this on Netflix, Altman's California Split started playing instead.