Take Shelter is definitely worth a look, although the ending can be pretty polarizing.

On another Sam Simon note: does anyone know what became of the legal fiasco around Sam Simon's dog? I remember that he left his dog to a special trainer, and the trainer insisted that he needed to be paid something ridiculous like $10,000/week out of Simon's estate in order to properly care for the animal (which the…

What movies have you seen her in that you didn't like? My experience with her is that she is often in ambitious but flawed movies that I still end up thinking are good to great. In a rough order from great to good/okay: Take Shelter, The Martian, Zero Dark Thirty, A Most Violent Year, Interstellar, The Debt.

All right, we don't need the dryer.

While the Guilty Remnant of the book share the smoking/white clothes/no talking aspects, in the book they are explicitly a Christian end-times cult, which is a pretty substantial difference from the show (and the major GR stunts in the show are not in the book, if I recall correctly).

That's interesting. I never thought of that shot as drawing attention to an open-ended plot point that could be revisited in the sequel. I always saw it as highlighting how completely awry Nedry's plan went. But I'm intrigued if that was done intentionally to set-up a sequel.

Nick Searcy is definitive proof that talent trumps conservative ideology in terms of Hollywood hireability. He's fantastic and works regularly, but hoo boy, check out that Twitter page.

Well, I'm sure anyone who objects to this casting idea will only have the most noble reasons for doing so.

Did you stick around for the director Q&A? I liked the movie, but I found myself retroactively enjoying it less after hearing Zahler talk about it, presenting it as his exact vision that had no room for improvement.

I remember one of the most chilling parts of the book is when the government takes control of the media and forces them to report as if nothing unusual is happening (one of the characters notices that there is no video accompanying any of the run-of-the-mill news stories). That sort of deception isn't plausible in…

My 23-year-old friend worked on this video. He had never heard of DuckTales until he took the job. You're old, AV Club, you're old!