Mad Love is excellent for its black humor, and of course Lorre’s performance. I particularly love the gallows conversation between the reporter and the prisoner about Hoover Dam. The prisoner is about to be killed, but he wants to know about Hoover Dam.

I disagree with everyone. Lena Headey’s Cersei is still one of my favorite things about the show. She’s wonderfully acted and often, even at this late date, interestingly written (at least at the end of S6 as mentioned above). Her mistreatment by Robert and Tywin and patriarchal Westeros comes across very well (see…

When life is bad, as it inevitably becomes, art cannot be too dark. I understand and also have watched a lot of silly trash as elixir lately. But the Coens are not like Michael Haneke or anything: there’s always that humor, sometimes too cartoonish (I disliked the comic relief grandmother for example who’s in a scene…

“I am emerge from secret prison to tell you my imprisonment was just. Please fall in line or suffer my fate.”

I’d say the eyes have it. He has that same look of not quite seeing you, and hopefully the mouth moving upward to show some teeth as it ignores whatever polite phrases emitted by interviewers who never call him out.

I think that’s where I found Dennehy the creepiest as a kid, back when he was omnipresent in film. He smiles and then reveals he’s an alien somewhere in there. As I recall it’s a heartwarming movie, the aliens are metaphorical angels, right? But Dennehy smiling made it touch-and-go.

To me my favorite part was when there was a short closeup of an old pelican. I thought the pelican had a lot of character.

I also thought this. He seems to be in less high-profile releases, and Charles Durning, an actor who is also portly and had white hair, has passed away. I think I confused the two.

He is too nice to Knight of Cups. I was genuinely excited to see him, but true to late-Malick form, he yells while dramatic music and profound Bale voiceover musings play over him. Whatever he was improvising was better.

The likes of this has not been seen since the Kris Kristofferson Random Roles.

I do remember him saying filming The Dark Knight Rises was like “working at Starbucks.” Seriously

And Gordon means “large fort.” So her literal name is Hangover Largefort, which is a pretty cool name.

Are their reversals of The Room? Films made by English-speakers who tried to ape the cinema of other cultures/languages and made a postmodernist jumble? And would they be funny to English speakers?

I remember loving the cynicism of Menace II Society’s ending—basically the guy with promise and humanity is killed, and his sociopath friend lives to fight another day. At the time, Boys in the Hood was too didactic while Menace II Society was refreshingly unsentimental (haven’t seen either since the 90's).

Killer Workout: The 80's fitness center serial killer movie that’s not Death Spa, I found this consistently entertaining watching it while falling asleep over a period of days. In what world does an exercise place stay open after more than 5 people are killed on its premises in less than 24 hours? But no, the word…

When I think of Stipe and bodily oversharing, I think of a movie called Anthem where two filmmakers go around the country and ask people what they think America is. They interview Stipe in a hotel room. He explains he just had his appendix removed (I think). And he either lowers his pants or lifts his shirt to show…

IIRC in the movie his act is out of fashion and they’re just strangers, theatergoers whose genuine reaction to it is superseded by concerns about his health.

One of Charlie Chaplin’s last films, Limelight, has a much more cynical take on growing old as an artist. The audience, fearful that if they don’t clap they might affect the fragile health of Chaplin’s character, give him a standing ovation on cue. If I recall correctly I think he also knows they are clapping just to…

The real monster video game Anderson and Jovovich should adapt next is Dino Crisis. It is their destiny.

I think you mean Itzhak Perlman and Magilla Gorilla in P.T. Anderson’s adaptation of Monster Party for the NES.