My favorite Soderbergh-ism is when he puts the names of the other people who made the movie with him at the end of the movie because sometimes I don't know all of their names and it's helpful.

Is that so?

I think there are plenty of directors who could handle visuals and nuanced source material enough to deliver a much better version of Watchmen as a feature than we got. Kathryn Bigelow, David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Matt Reeves, Park Chan Wook, Rian Johnson are all much more thematically nimble and visually up to the…

For me it's the stretch of Nude/Weird Fishes/All I Need that makes it my favorite album of all time. Devastatingly melancholy but gorgeous at the same time. That the rest of the album is also great is just icing on the cake for me.

Netflix is churning out beautifully shot, third-world, child soldier flicks faster than HBO's controversial, 20th century, old white guy movies!

It's the only logical explanation!

Won't believe you unless you make a video about it and narrate with your best Ezra Klein impression.

"This Christmas, Will Smith stars as Okonkwo, a man forced to kill his adopted son, played by Jaden Smith, but chooses not to and is on the run from his oppressive village when he meets two kindly missionaries, played by Eddie Redmayne and Edward Norton, who are not racist at all and save Okonkwo in the end through…

Yuuuup. I caught him in Atlanta and it was easily one of the five best shows I've ever seen. Album's #1 for me as well.

I thought the Laurie reveal was an interesting way to show how everyone except Nora was able to find peace after the anniversary and return to their lives, and I think the Jill phone call backs that up.
It was also a pretty great way, IMO, to illustrate Nora's dissonance of wanting to disappear yet retain certain…

As relentlessly gory as the battle in Hacksaw Ridge was, I think it was the sound mixing that made it work. It's the only good thing about that movie. The beginning of the film shows grisly battle images with more nuanced sound and it isn't effective at all. If the sound is right and the movie is paced well, I think…

"Easily" is one of the most perfect, charming, pop songs that I've heard in the past few years. Love it, and everything else on that album too.

That first album is, understandably, inconsistent, but you can feel the potential oozing from it. Definitely looking forward to this next one.

I agree, though Amarillo is a top 10 (or maybe 5) Gorillaz track for me. Gorgeous.

You should go back to their first two LP's, Passover and Directions to See a Ghost, which make a really nice trio with Phosphene Dream. "You on the Run" from Directions peak Black Angels IMO.
I really don't like this new single or their last album at all though. They've gotten really cheesy. Still hoping for good…

I would argue that his style requires that he stick to period films. His memory-evoking preference for capturing essence over details works when you're being transported to a different era. Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, and Tree of Life all work because Malick is capturing the past like a…

The Past is really good too. Maybe the most flawed of the three but the climax is still phenomenally intense and heartbreaking.

Go for The Color Wheel first. All three are great, but save Queen of Earth's tonal departure for last.

The first half is straight-up a 1940's Jimmy Stewart movie about a goofball driven by his convictions. Then it suddenly becomes one of the most brutal war movies I've ever seen.
It's like a way dumbed-down take on the Full Metal Jacket switch.