I really liked Frances Ha, but its low-key mumblecoreness makes its pleasures subtler than for some of these other films. I wasn't so big on The Master. To me, the fact that it was so open to interpretation just made it obtuse and impenetrable. I turned it off after the famous processing scene. I just couldn't get…

The Tree of Life, Moonrise Kingdom, Beasts of the Southern Wild (surprised that one made neither the Dissolve list nor this one, nor have I seen anyone mention it in the comments), Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The World's End, Upstream Color, and Snowpiercer.

I guess I'll watch something else, then. I hear Black Mirror is really good.

You didn't. I just didn't want to sound like I was overpraising it.

I think Felix carries the whole thing. One of my favorite moments in S2 was him telling Sarah that he can't stick around because Alison needs him. I love that guy.

Enchanted is fine. I used to find James Marsden bland, but maybe that's because I was seeing him in thankless rolls like Cyclops and whatshisname in Superman Returns. He's a better comedic than dramatic actor, methinks. Enchanted features a lot of talented people all having a good time and some relatively subversive…

I'm about 700 pages in and while I'm enjoying Brienne's scenes, I don't much care for the book as a whole. (I also like the Arya scenes fine, but the Dorne and Iron Islands chapters bore me.) Even watching Cersei get drunk and hate everyone for no reason gets repetitive, although hot damn do I want to watch Lena…

I wouldn't call Orphan Black the best show on TV, but I would call it the best show on TV that no one watches. I'm just hoping that the mythology in this one actually goes somewhere. It feels like it is, but I've been strung along too many times (looking at you, X-Files and Battlestar Galactica) to get my hopes up.…

Logically, there are all sorts of reasons why the Evil Thing in that movie shouldn't be all that hard to escape. But it's not a real thing, it's a metaphor. Still, it's fun to brainstorm.

Thanks.

Patton Oswalt said that nothing kills comedy faster than being happy, but it's good to see that that's not entirely true. I know Maria Bamford has had some well-documented struggles with mental illness, but there's no reason she shouldn't be able to enjoy life and be funny at the same time. Not every standup set has…

One of my coworkers suggested an April Fool's joke where you find somebody who is really attached to their coffee, then wait until they start drinking it and say, "April fools!" You don't actually do anything to their coffee; you just let them freak out wondering if you replaced it with decaf or spiked it with…

Central Park is really something. Especially Bethesda Fountain. I have a sentimental attachment to the place after going out there on a very shitty morning during my year in NYC to recite Prior's speech from the end of Angels in America. It helped. A little.

What a coincidence, I have Repulsion on the queue for the upcoming week. I saw Rosemary's Baby years ago and loved it. In keeping with my education on horror films, I really need to see The Babadook. Alas, that film is not available from any of the streaming services and I'm, like, 50th in line for a DVD from the…

I ordered my smartphone, which should arrive early next week. I agreed to one of those two-year contract thingies so that I don't have to pay for it (unless you count the monthly bill, which is about to go up). Of course, there's no guarantee that Taskrabbit will hire me, so maybe I'll just have to enjoy the phone for…

True, but it's not a household thing in America, which is why a movie will very likely never get made. You could do a made-for-TV thing like they did back in the 90s with Paul McGann or just a double-length episode that gets broadcast in theaters like they did with "Deep Breath". But a $100 million dollar Hollywood…

Which still makes it a cult show, all things considered. James Bond has international appeal. But 7 million people would not be enough to make a big budget Hollywood production profitable.

I know how you feel. It's become like Sherlock where it feels like the fanbase is running the show and the series itself has disappeared up its own ass with nothing new to say and nowhere to take its characters. I stopped watching series eight just past the midway point and won't start again until Moffat leaves. I…

No, if you like one, you have to dislike the other. And if you dislike one, you have to like the other. Haven't you been paying attention?

"These shoes! They fit perfectly!" Take me away, 8th Doctor. Take me hard.