You know I liked the two of those movies I saw (haven't got around to La La Land) but it wouldn't have occurred to me to list them as the most visually striking films of the year - not that they were bad, they're just not names that come immediately to mind the way, say, Neon Demon did - that would be my top pick…

I, for one, would watch an outright black and white superhero film (with good chiaroscuro, of course.)

I think the well's definitely running dry, yeah, and the idea the show has more than ten seasons worth of story is only true in the sense it will tell the same story with new faces for years to come - it's unlike, say, Game of Thrones, which has always been moving towards more or less clearly defined endpoints (the…

Anyone who already uses it as their primary source of news fundamentally agrees with its premise. John Oliver cannot make new liberals; he can just encourage his liberal audience to do or support specific things.

Has anyone been converted by a comedy show? Do they have a meaningful place in a strategy? Outreach is important, it just doesn't seem to be the relevant platform.

I don't think Trump watches any political comedy except SNL - he hasn't seemed to respond to any of the trashing he's received on the Late Show or the Daily Show and so on.

This is essentially the argument of right wing critics of Islam, though, and is why Donald Trump could cast himself as a defender of LGBTQ people at least when it comes to the Muslim threat. There's a direct relationship between the sorts of arguments Bill Maher and Sam Harris make and a lot of Trump's younger,…

Which is not really how any comedy show has ever 'done' anything. They preach by definition to the converted, mobilizing the converted for a given cause is about the most they can do.

I'm familiar with what it means, and that is, obviously, not an argument in its defense.

Well I never watched Flight of the Conchords, so.

Well it has the Doctor, whose snooty preference for opera would fit in right well with Frasier, and… I'm not actually going anywhere with this.

That's where I keep all my stuff!

I mean, Dark World gave us Dark Eldar. One can live in hope.

Point of order, those aren't Space Orcs.

More than Flight of the Conchords: Hunt for the Wilderpeople and What We Do In The Shadows are two of the best films of this decade.

But in both the Man Who Wasn't There and Fargo season two there is a UFO, seen by a character about to die, but in the Man Who Wasn't There this is a film prominently featuring 1950s paranoia and the idea of UFOs perlocates the picture, that the only person to see one doesn't care and will be unable to tell anyone is…

I think Mob City was considerably less thought-provoking and more trite than the Walking Dead has been the past few years, so maybe, or maybe not.

In the case of Fargo, it was definitely missed, not subverted (the UFO is a classic case here) and obviously the show did not teach us anything about the movie.

I'm ambivalent about this show even in spite of its good press after being burned on Hawley's Fargo (a highly praised series I found mostly a mediocre repetition of Coen Brothers tropes with neither their skill or charm or, in some occasions, missing the point of what they referenced entirely) but a reality melting…

I mean he's no friend to immigrants or Chechens and is financially supporting far right parties in Europe but of course on the other hand Russia's intervention in Syria is about protecting their ally Bashar al-Assad.