That's what I kept thinking through this article - how could it not get out of hand? What counts as getting out of hand when you're talking about an album as devastating as In An Aeroplane Over the Sea? It's amazing to me to read that its immediate reception was comparatively moderate.

This doesn't bother me. What does bother me is when an actor does a pretend sip/bite of food and doesn't even pretend to swallow (sometimes if it's food they'll chew but then the food magically disappears in their mouth). Sheesh!

Curse you for reminding me that it's not called Now You Don't!!!

Long comment ahead, because I finished watching all the Star Wars films this week! Before starting this I'd only seen the original (years ago) and TFA, so my SW fanatic friend decided to show me all of them. She thought about doing a mixed up order but decided to do a straightforward 1234567 instead, which I think was…

I took it to mean the same thing as it would mean if you replaced slash fiction with dream - as in, thankfully it's not, because that means we get the del Toro/Shannon team-up for real, not just in slash fiction.

You're welcome! :)

Boomers are 1946-1964. Gen X is approximately early 60s to early 80s. Millennials are early 80s to around 2000. (Of course, all of this is somewhat nebulous in practice and an early Millennial might find they have more culture in common with Gen Xers … but you know.)

This movie is probably terrible but I'm annoyed that I can't see it. It doesn't even have the foreboding mystique of The Day the Clown Cried. Can't someone pull a heist to steal it??

I just checked my notes (from 2011) and there are some comments about it being unpleasant and repulsive (vague), but more interesting to me is that I was bored and irritated with the political aspects of the film, specifically a scene with characters reciting manifestos at the camera. I have to wonder if this would…

This is true for me; I felt guilty and ghoulish yesterday trying to google why Michelle McNamara died, but the thought of dying in my sleep with no warning makes me so anxious to find out why it happened, even though it probably isn't preventable.

Murphy spoofed Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? fairly faithfully in an episode of Popular, the high school show he did before Glee, and clearly had a lot of fun with it. This must be a dream come true for him.

My favourite is Vivre sa vie or Pierrot le fou. My least favourite is Weekend, I guess, though I can't remember a lot about it. It's more enjoyable than Wind from the East, which is the least fun Godard I've seen, but some of the more abrasively political Godards like that I feel I can't really judge in the same way…

I love this movie. My family went to Paris in 2008. We went to the Louvre, and we decided that the best way to go through it - because I was keen to see the Venus de Milo deep in the gallery, and because we didn't have a lot of time, and because my sister and dad get bored with art galleries very quickly - was to run.…

I don't hate it as much as you do (I found it kind of blandly enjoyable) but, as you hinted, it really didn't feel like silent cinema to me at all - partially because of the homages to later films, but it also just felt too conventional. That's a vague descriptor (and a slight generalization of silent cinema) but it's…

Mark Hamill recently said that he was happy for people to read Luke as gay if they wanted to! It's not explicit representation so I'm not saying it should count for GLAAD but it was very nice:

Well, he's talking about quality. The Blackmagic cameras are good but the results certainly don't look better than film, especially not if it's going to be projected in a theatre.

Moonrise Kingdom was shot on Super 16 too! Both of the cameras they used are still being made and sold by Aaton Digital (slightly misleading name, I guess).

For sure - I'm just saying it's very different from making jokes about your own disease.

I think that's probable - my main reason for not loving it is that I found it exhausting, and seeing it blown up even bigger and louder might make it even more so. But maybe the greater sense of wonder induced by the theatrical experience might override it, yknow?

I think it could be funny for the reasons you've mentioned - but what a fine line to walk, especially when the story is about an actual president (with living family). The best idea for them is to pick a screenwriter with actual experience in the area (note: I don't know if the current screenwriter has or not).