I listened to "Ill Mind of Hopsin 7," hoping to hear some growth. It was a lot like part 5 but with his invective directed at God instead of his shiftless peers, so I guess that's something of the sort. "Fly" also sounds like a lecture. And if that wasn't audibly clear he chose to direct a video for it in which he is…

I just listened to Hospin for the first time after reading this comment. I watched a video for a song titled "Ill Mind of Hospin 5." Your description of him is really apt, for that track at least. And if that song is indicative of his entire oeuvre I'm going to pass. He's on some respectability politics ish and I just…

I'm not going to cosign this just yet but I'm feeling you. I haven't been floored by either of the eps we've seen so far this season but I think it's premature for me to write them off at this point. That said, something about this episode smacked of them resting on their laurels, which might be just the feeling I'm…

Wait. Was Melissa Leo the co-op director? I spent a lot of time wondering where I'd seen her before and it somehow never clicked. This is Rebecca De Mornay in Jessica Jones all over again.

If Action Bronson's "Yo" constitutes a catch phrase then every rapper who ever lived should be on this board. Missy has more than enough catchphrases/repeated lines to make the cut. I guess what I'm saying is that this isn't a very good job, internet.

Yeah, his mom dying and him trying to forge a relationship with a family he didn't know existed until recently are so not problematic. Get over it, Wally.

Carter was overheard saying that producers also need to figure out a way to pay Gillian Anderson half of what they'll pay David Duchovny without her or anyone else finding out.

Ten minutes into Sexy Beast I turned to my friends and asked if they understood a damn word anyone was saying, especially Ben Kingsley's character, which I'm sure is by design. Everyone agreed they couldn't so we restarted it with subtitles. I bet we would've walked away from a considerably less awesome movie had we…

I think about that every time they say his name on this show. To be honest, someone named "Non" sounds like they'd be a complete idiot.

Love the cheeseburger analogy. It's funny you brought up The Ring . I'd heard so much "it's so scary" hype around Ringu but it was relatively difficult to see it prior to the American remake. I ended up seeing The Ring first and thought it was effectively scary. I eventually got around to seeing the original but…

I can see myself someday really loving this movie enough to champion it. I appreciate a good sleeper. I just don't think I'd ever sell it to someone as "scary."

"Dreadful," as in full of increasing dread, is a good way to describe the feeling it invoked in me.

It took a second viewing of It Follows for it to really get under my skin.

I would love it if just once the movie was THAT scary. Or even came close to it. I should probably ride more rollercoasters.

Coffman does point out that some of the blowback on these films is more the fault of the way they're marketed rather than the film themselves. The first comment after the article is from someone who did freelance advertising for major studios back in the 80's and he purports that studios were big on misdirection. I…

I have to give Kill List another shot. I tried watching it before but turned it off 15 minutes in because I started to zone out, in part because I was having trouble understanding the accents and was determined to not turn on subtitles. I've heard really good things about it though. What little I saw was giving me Snow…

Getting you. Sigh.

I'll say this for The Witch, while it might not have been scary for me, it has lingered in my consciousness since seeing it yesterday and the more I ponder it the more I appreciate it.

I've been waiting for The Witch ever since reading Mike D'Angelo's mention of it on The Dissolve in one of his roundups from last year's Sundance. I stopped reading about the movie with that piece and purposely stayed away from the trailer once it finally emerged this year, the idea being that I would go into it…

Please understand that I am in no way advocating for you to give drugs a try. Even with my own positive experiences with drugs, I'm loath to recommend them to anyone who has a sense that they shouldn't do them. I'm just bouncing off your comment above about why folks would choose to try them despite knowing the…