Johnny Guitar: Mercedes McCambridge sounds like Rocky the Squirrel and looks like a tiny Judy Garland but all she wants to do is eyefuck you and burn down your house. Or rather, your strange western roleplay bar which has no customers, only lonely employees whose real purpose is to be submissive while pretending to…

I watched some of Season 5 recently and while what you say is true, I feel it more or less stuck to Community’s quality in general, where about every third episode fires on all cylinders and is on point and the other two maybe aim high but fail in execution. The main problem for me is a lot of the emotional beats in…

The Departed: There’s not much depth to the writing of the Jack Nicholson character or the Vera Farmiga character. I say this having only watched my favorite parts this time, but one being based on Whitey Bulger and the other on the more honestly pulpy love interest-therapist character from Infernal Affairs, they are…

Last American Virgin is probably the most critically well-received “80's sex comedy,” if the genre doesn’t include Fast Times at Ridgmont High.

High Life was also a big disappointment for me, with high expectations from Trouble Every Day by the same director. I feel like the framing sequences at the front and end were a lived-in, character-based drama, while the middle was a robotic sequence of dour events played by robotic cyphers (with only Binoche getting…

It’s the height of the film, staging-wise. When they get hit by a car upon entering town and it fades out, our core group splits up and the movie never has the same momentum after.

The King of Marvin Gardens: Liked it. Pretty much a collection of good scenes along a loose “scrappy young bullshitter is doomed” template, with Jack Nicholson playing against Five Easy Pieces type as a inward quiet guy who wears glasses, thus dooming the film to semi-obscurity. Ellen Burstyn, 40 here in 1972 plays a…

Dead Calm: While it was nice, it didn’t live up to 30 years of accidental HBO-induced hype as the boat thriller movie. There were some fairly typical thriller things (that it might be influential in making typical), and not nearly enough delving into the psychology of the three lead characters. What most registered…

I watched some of a few episodes and I agree. Parts were well done but others were unintentionally tasteless. Inglourious Basterds was not tasteless to me, it had irony and intricacy but this sometimes was just very misguided. For example, the History of the World Part I live human chess match was memorably, cringily…

Support the Girls: Lived up to the hype but want to watch the third act again to see if Bujalski’s underplaying of Regina Hall’s storyline really works. Her acting here is exhibit #4,371 why you shouldn’t blame actors for the material they have to sell (my previous impression of her only her silly turn in the Scary…

Malibu Express: The only Andy Sidaris film I’ve ever finished. Enjoyed its quasi-porn aw-shucks demeanor and wall-to-wall cornpone Southern U.S. narration, its otherworldly horniness constantly being interrupted by the hero having to pull over and drag race the Buffington family, a trio of stereotypical hicks who are…

Good to see IV back! It is fun to see to you both try to describe this movie

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event – in the living act, the undoubted deed – there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. Sometimes I think there’s naught beyond. But ’tis enough.

I would like to direct the inevitable Night Trap adaptation. I promise it will be tasteful, include Tipper Gore and Different Strokes references, and be better than the original game by being shorter and more interactive.

Not talking about the inclusion of magical beings, just the writing.

It was pitched and succeeded as “The Sopranos in Middle-earth.” By its end it seemed more like a regular fantasy story with simplistic good and evil, plot holes and contrivances galore, and less thoughtful writing.

I would like to see their version of Star Wars. I love Game of Thrones (despite it turning into more regular fantasy) and there’s a lot of material for them to draw on. As many suggested Knights of the Old Republic would seem to be a good match.

That’s pretty awesome

Looking up that column he rated it on a scale of ninja influentiality, and it scores high for its many scenes of Chuck thinking solemnly: “Ninja...?”

Silent Rage: Chuck Norris fights Michael Myers, the movie. With copied POV tracking shots from Halloween and a convincing performance from the killer wearing what looks like a DEVO outfit, who gets a Frankenstein backstory via the local mad scientist research facility, which exists despite being in the same small…

Jugband Blues by Pink Floyd: Never really listened to the Syd Barrett songs, but found and really loved this song and video. Barrett is great and it’s funny to see Rogers Waters enthusiastically play the tuba: