Very true, but I would also separate enjoying watching things that you know are bad and watching them because they are bad from thinking something you have been told is bad or know is bad is good (and possibly hiding that you think it is good). Or even from thinking it is good for different reasons while acknowledging…

I have not made it inside Barclays yet but it strikes me as the absolutely worst place to see music. I mean, if you are T-Swift you could afford to paint every seat in the arena for one night only and at least try to exorcise the soulless corporate energy from the place, but for anything else it seems doomed (and NIN…

I was chatting with another dude who said that the director’s cut on the blu-ray is worth checking out...and I might because it felt like Twixt was close in atmosphere to something interesting but...as you note...in every meaningful actual measure it fell very short

I was, and I know this is silly, crestfallen to hear that Diane Kruger is playing the lead in this instead of Sarah Gadon. Kruger is fine, but Gadon and Cronenberg have worked together several times and when he started making films again I had hoped they would go back to it. I didn’t really love Cosmopolis, and I…

so is she! (rimshot)

I have heard that (a) he doesn’t need the money, (b) he both is and isn’t in on the joke. He has been doing this for a very long time now. He knows that he is being laughed at but he is needy enough to go get laughed at, that would make me uncomfortable. At the same time, he believes that this is getting out his work…

what “arena” in brooklyn, do you mean Barclays? I don’t really think of Brooklyn Steel as an arena and it’s one of the larger places I’ve been in the borough (I’ve seen a lot of stuff there and it seems to fit any size of band, best show might have been Panda Bear with Geologist opening, just one dude and a dark…

he said: they were burnt out, no banter at all, just rote performance

I am glad they let more directors at least put their cuts somewhere but...it’s still amazing to me in this day and age that more directors don’t have final cut. Albeit the ones who do, Scorsese and Tarantino, are self-indulgent and need to cut 30 minutes of fat out of their own screenplays and air out of their scenes…

I personally felt really terrible after The Room...I mean...the guy is unwell...I guess I am glad I saw it, not just for the cultural references (particularly Frank in Always Sunny) and for the rooftop “football” and finding out that backdrop was actually a greenscreen, things like that, but the actual experience of…

+1 internets...how did they not include this?

Richard Dreyfuss has always been an incredible narcissist and he sees himself as having become completely obsolete. Pair that with his incredible mental breakdown when he saw “The Shark Is Broken” and you get this classic old man explosion of bigotry. It really is something that happens to most men when they get that…

if you have a firestick, modding it to download the app called “Cinema” is very easy, instructions online, just know that it often is slow and annoying :D

It had Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton and was mostly shot in one room, and then the stories were shot with non-recognizable actors in far-off places that apparently did not have the same protocols.  i usually like what Criterion offers, but if you have torrents etc, all those movies are available

Dirty Nursery Rhymes: A Knives Out Mystery

for a little while mine was Cattlestar Lactica

The AV Club putting up derpy pictures of male actors is much more amusing to me than the NY Times always putting up pictures of female athletes when they are in the middle of something and have a weird look on their faces.

I would definitely try to find it used first, but Criterion charges like $36 all the time and it should really be in the Criterion Collection. Somebody should do a film series called “I’m going to tell you a story” with The Fall, The Princess Bride, Baron Munchausen, The Usual Suspects, and maybe even that pretty bad…

That certainly does not sound like Fred Trump, from what I have heard.  I just hope that this story actually tries to portray Trump instead of a kind of generic corruption of the willing, The Advocate Devil’s Apprentice.  I believe people said about “W” that it just got his relationship with his father wrong overall. …

I didn’t when it came out, it seemed like, as I said, torture porn, just with better production values...like in the line of that movie where the daughter on 24 was abducted. Maybe I’ll give it part of another chance at some point.