I don't know, the atomic bomb weaves in pretty seamlessly with the whole "the evil that men do" thread, so I have no problem with that. It also helps that there's just enough new, random, unexplained shit thrown in (whatever that… thing is that vomits up Bob, whoever that lady in the castle is, or why there's a purple…

While I don't think this was nearly as crazy as Inland Empire (there's actually a kind of, sort of thread that you can interpret this with, whereas IE is almost pure abstraction), I agree on everything else. He took my least favorite aspect of most TV shows (the "origin story") and made it one of the most glorious…

It is amazing how much I give him the benefit of a doubt based solely on AHS: Asylum. People v. OJ was good too, but he's more of a producer on that than a creative.

I don't like being negative, but this news brings it out of me: this book is godawful. It's Hemingway diving straight into self parody; the masculinity is laughable and over the top, the relationship is male fantasy wish fulfillment out the ass. This is one of those books that literally made me angry while reading it.

DiCaprio should have won Best Actor for The Wolf of Wall Street, which I predict will be the role he's most tied to/remembered for in 20 years. He's perfect in that movie. I also love it, though, so maybe I'm biased.

I always think about William Friedkin when it comes to these things; he describes a lot of crazy shit in his book he used to do during shoots, particularly in the '70s. From what I remember: driving an actual car at high speeds through New York roads covered with pedestrians for that car POV shot in THE FRENCH…

As a native of Mississippi, this album means a lot to me. No one today can do what Newman does; he swings wildly from making me laugh my ass off ("Naked Man") to making me cry ("Marie") to making me wince in the right ways ("Rednecks"). A look at the South that's clear-eyed, honest, and artistic without being in the…

There is only one answer to this question for me: Julie Taylor on Friday Night Lights.

Mark Frost is writing a book called "The Secret Lives of Twin Peaks" that, supposedly, will catch up everyone on what's happened in Twin Peaks in the twenty-five years between seasons. It's coming out in fall 2016, I think, nothing specific yet though.

Ah man, I was really hoping Nicholas Cage would be the villain. Stoic Reeves vs. Insane Cage would be a dream.

Cure is so good too. I don't know, I guess it's his method of pacing and editing that really gets under my skin. I need to watch more of his stuff. Any suggestions from around here?

Felt the same way about Pulse, which is one of the very few horror films that really disturbs me to my core and has stayed with me. "Existential dread" is the best way of putting it. Just the fact that Kurosawa does so little to explain anything that's going on makes random associations (the red tape around certain…

I completely get what you're saying, and agree to an extent. Inland Empire is straight-up horrifying. But every time I watch Mulholland Drive now, I don't really feel dread; I just feel really, really, really fucking sad.

Agreed on all points. The Bay is a movie full of truly disturbing, lasting scenes, but if you think about its plot for more than one minute, it makes, like, no sense at all.

Oh, Jesus Christ, why'd you bring that up?? Laura Dern's project, morphed face will haunt my dreams for the next week.

I remember another list (I think Indiewire?) that included that and Mulholland Drive. I think they're both amazing, but they're not really straight-up "horror" (the beginning of Under the Skin is amazingly creepy, but nothing about the second half is scary to me at all, just disturbing). It definitely straddles that…

Tied for that would be Compliance: Pat Healy, Ann Dowd, Bill Camp.

Anybody read The Friedkin Connection? It's a great book, and he's super candid about how arrogant and casually dangerous he was with his casts and crews. Favorite story: it took a month to shoot the bridge scene in Sorcerer, and it was completely real, and everyone almost died like three times.

Just off the top of my head: