Great film, one of my favourites. The performances are all brilliant, with just the right amount of fragility and strength, tenderness and harshness, and charisma and sadness. Beautifully shot and directed as well.

Not about needing to take a shit. Which I'm going to do now.

A perfect storm of utter shit, blasting the ships of good taste with shitty waves of shittyness.

I've always strongly disagreed with the backlash on this episode that some people have.

The Wolf of Wall Street is easily one of the best films of the last couple years. Brilliantly directed, acted, edited and made all-round. As I said at the time of it's release, those that think it's some glorified positive endorsement of Belfort don't understand film language or things like editing, considering…

I really wish shitty (and/or average) filmmakers would stop trying to adapt classic works of literature.

I'm a fan of the album. I think it's really good, especially - "The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box", "Sugar Boats", "Shit in your Cut", "Wicked Campaign", "The Tortoise and the Tourist", and the title track.

Aliens: Very good film, but I do prefer the first. I think the sequel is more simplistic on a script-level, and Paul Reiser's laughable big-bad-businessman villain was high-school level of depth (though I like Reiser, and think there's a naturalness to his acting and I think he should have been in more things…

Sad news. He was one of the major reasons the show was as good as it was in the early seasons. Still young as well :(

Oh yeeeeeeeeeeah!

The Death of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey (the whole movie actually)

I'm actually really pleased Bill Roe got a lifetime achievement award. His cinematography on The X-Files is one of the main reasons it's a huge step above other procedural shows. The show is beautifully shot with a lot of interesting techniques throughout.

Re-reading this article, it really jumped out to me how absolutely terrible it is. Like, this is really bad writing.

And I get all that. But again, I think the larger point is that there are other books out there that can do all that stuff, but are still better written, and still age-appropriate and could potentially foster a greater appreciation for classic literature, as well as poetry (Bloom is also big on encouraging…

Something tells me most folk around here wouldn't be the biggest Bloom fans, but screw 'em, Bloom's great. I don't agree with everything he's ever said, but his passion and love for literature is incredible and insurmountable, and he has helped me discover numerous amazing writers. Not to mention, anyone who loves…

There are difficulties inherent in watching the film, I don't think anyone has denied that, but it's up to each and every individual to decide if they want to engage with it. If they're worried with it's content they have a complete right not to engage with it and that's fine. I think acknowledging both it's racism…

None of which even remotely negates the fact that art can be morally abhorrent but still really well made and appreciated, which was my point.
And the morality (including some of the abhorrent morality) espoused throughout The Bible (Including in some of my favourite sections) has continued relevance and influence all…

I think there's far too many assumptions made, and some faulty logic at play in the article.

It's undoubtedly true that there's a difference when factoring in the time/location of the art in question, so in that regards I understand people's reactions or the 'it's current' type of argument…when it comes to those people, it's more just general disagreement. Like I said, I have little time for that frame of…

I don't think the end game is all that different though. Ultimately, Soderbergh left out certain atrocities to frame a particular narrative, which in a story about a real life human being fundamentally changes the aspects of his real life persona for the sake of the movie . And Eastwood took Kyle's word for it to…