That one is Whisper of the Heart, also a very great "realistic" one! Written by Miyazaki but directed by a one-time Ghibli director who unfortunately died soon afterward. It's responsible for everyone in Japan knowing that John Denver song.

I think that's true of every movie made in Japan, how could it not be, but it is especially true of these more realistic ones.

Really an exceptional coming of age movie, and more. Choosing between the best Takahata movies - for my money Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, and Princess Kaguya - is an impossible task, but this one reminded me the most of my time in rural Japan.

The case is overstated, but it's nice to remember a good show.

Speaking of renewed TV shows being mildly offensive: X Files. I guess it's a trend.

I feel this way, too. I hope it wins Best Picture, actually.

Search party of 3. You can eat when you find the Dufresnes.

I thought Miller would turn out to be a CSM henchman, yes. Instead that was… Reyes? Somehow?

I'm hoping against hope that Einstein (*shudder*) and Miller (*ugh*) aren't supposed to be the stars of a new series, because screw that.

Bad scenes, though. CSM isn't supposed to be so overtly, leeringly diabolical. It's like Mulder's dream version of CSM more than our old, sad, enigmatic CSM.

Kawaii Centipede: Full Sequence

That wacky dream sequence is something you don't see in a lot of movies these days, unfortunately.

If she's an immortal, as I think seems likely, I figure he was one of her previous charges. Which would make his romantic feelings rather awkward…

I unship people. Most shows are better when they're not concerned about who's sleeping with who. That's rarely the premise, and it just tends to detract from and overwhelm the premise. I'd rather Mulder and Scully just be colleagues.

French Kiss is a great rom-com, playing it straight but getting an uncommon amount of laughs from two strong performances.

The money will go missing / be abandoned / be lost. I love that element of Coen movies, it always reminds me of Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Man Who Would Be King (both by John Huston.)

That part is not in Hail, Caesar.

I think on balance it's a pro-religion movie. It has a little bit of fun with religious authority figures, who know their doctrines but take faith less seriously than Mannix, but not with the religions themselves.

I'm more of a Don Williams' Good Ole Boys, myself.

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