FWIW, he's really good in "The Mend" — very interesting performance. I honestly had no idea what that movie was trying to do or trying to say, but he's good.

I'm weirdly annoyed by the fact that this dog's account also retweets its coverage on various media sites. If you're going to create an incredibly pointless yet procedurally complex Twitter gimmick account, you gotta commit to your concept, godammit!

For a non-raging alcoholic, I'm pretty willing to drink most anything. But I'm not sure I've ever made it through more than a third of a bloody Mary.

Like "Spinal Tap's" fine line between stupid and clever, there's also a fine, but very distinct, line between Eastwood's old unfussy, first-take immediacy, and his current mode of "why wait a whole hour for the baby to show up when we have a Cabbage Patch doll right here?"

I'm not such a miserable cynic that I don't find what Sully did genuinely amazing and miraculous and inspiring, but the idea of watching a movie — particularly a late-period Clint Eastwood-directed movie — about it sounds just indescribably boring.

So there IS more to the game after the model airplane mission? I tried playing through that game on two separate occasions, years apart, and both attempts ended with that goddamn airplane. I eventually figured it was like GTA's version of "Vegas bus" from the Penn and Teller game.

So many of my most impassioned, well-reasoned defenses of "Straight Outta Compton" can be immediately countered with, "yeah, but what about that second album?"

I lump Ren in with Inspectah Deck. Both were very technically accomplished rappers who just had the misfortune of being in groups with people who were a hundred times more interesting.

I had a buddy who wrote a very moderately successful book a few years ago, and he practically had to publicly beg people to stop leaving one-star reviews for his book on Amazon just because the delivery was late or their Kindle had malfunctioned while reading it. I think he calculated that those reviews alone took his…

Well…yeah. But so is Dre. Releasing three albums in a quarter century isn't any more normal for a rapper than it is for a shoegaze band or an R&B singer.

D'Angelo released three albums in the last 20 years. My Bloody Valentine put out three albums in 25 years. Not really a genre thing — some people just work slow.

That's quite an interview. And interesting in the sense that the worst parts of "Compton" are the parts that seem totally age-inappropriate coming from a 50-year-old billionaire with a family (i.e., that randomly awful skit at the end of "Loose Cannons").

Poor DJ Yella. To be charitable, you could at least have a line pointing to his lengthy porn filmography.

I was at the Dre-less N.W.A "reunion" that happened at Staples Center in June, and let's just say Ren did not look thrilled to be there. I can definitely understand his mixed feelings on being more or less written out of the film though — considering it's named after an album on which he wrote half the lyrics.

He's not credited anywhere. And none of Dre's rhymes on the record really sound like something he'd write.

It's weird enough to deal with the fact that there's a new Dr. Dre album out. Even weirder to deal with the fact that my favorite verses on it come from Xzibit and the Game.

So I know that I should react to this with exasperation, and see it as the culmination of years of increasingly obnoxious mashup culture that only values artists when they're creating cute sharable memes.

Totally. If your film wants to answer the question, "What did this famous person do when he wasn't doing the things he's famous for?" And the answer is "nothing very cinematic," then your film is going to suffer for that.

Oh yeah, that too. It wouldn't have lost much subtlety if they just cut it down to:

Agreed. I actually quite liked Andre's performance, and Imogen Poots was good too. But thanks to all the limitations, it ends up feeling like a Jimi Hendrix movie made by someone who isn't particularly interested in Hendrix the musician, the showman, or the cultural figure. If you made the exact same movie but renamed…