This makes me feel vindicated about hating Argo.
This makes me feel vindicated about hating Argo.
If I could never hear Ain’t No Sunshine at the hour mark of every romantic comedy that’d be great.
The first thing I thought of was when the corner boys run into Herc and Carver at the movies. Great stuff. I think a similar scene is in Clockers, but I think I prefer the one on The Wire because the police are more uncomfortable with the meeting.
Didn’t know the star of HTTM2 was in T.
I feel like lately, on this site, the comments section has had a lot of acrimonious spats where two people are just sniping at each other from two opposing viewpoints. But one of the reasons I started reading AVClub ~10 years ago is that people generally had the same viewpoints as me, and were decent in the comments.
> Of course, creating a character like Jack only to—spoiler alert—kill off the dude is a certain kind of cruelty.
That’s news about Gary Oldman.
Also I always used to wish that they had abandoned any attempt to explain the prospector character and just made it a weird reality. The whole “insane character actor” thing really lets the air out of it.
I used to watch the Best Of Will Ferrell DVDs drinking with my friends in our college dorm room. This was easily the weirdest, funniest sketch. I was always under the impression it was a dress rehearsal sketch that got cut before air, so I’m happy to hear that it didn’t. It seems like the type of sketch a…
I feel like all of Apple’s announcements have a lot of star power, but not a lot of writer / story power. And I furthermore feel like people don’t subscribe to something like Netflix / Hulu / Amazon for the star power, they do it for the inventory of shows.
MI2 has best use of doves though.
I had to look it up to be sure: Deakins has _still_ never won an Oscar. He fully deserves this one; I think this is his best work, up to and including the night robbery scene in Jesse James. I still think about that fire -> ashes -> rain cut in Blade Runner once a week.
Growing up I found it really hard to detect “directing” in movies, despite critics calling it out so confidently. I used to just think I wasn’t sensitive or smart enough to pick it up, but now I realize it’s just that there’s no good rubric for directing.
The dragon sword is so stupid. You almost certainly have to look up how to get it, and if you do, the first 1/4 of the game is really easy. I guess in our connected age it’s a clever way of introducing an “easy mode,” but I’m guessing most people who’ve gotten to that part of the game have no idea it exists.
My preferred way to play DS was to play as little armor as possible (I think <25% equip load) so you roll as fast as possible, and to master dodging. To me, that was the most consistent way to play the game at a “low” skill level.
“I heard there was drama and...”
I’m surprised Nathan For You didn’t make this list, as it stands at my #1. (I’m guessing it was a timing issue.) That Finding Frances episode is something else.
I’m inclined to believe the reviewer. My read of the trailer was that the movie seems to string together obvious observations that audiences can make on their own by watching the original. If this movie also lacks a lot of the biographical detail from the book, then what’s the point? You’re probably better served…
I heard he likes it where the men are pink-cheeked.
> What makes Syndrome the villain?