I made the mistake of dragging my parents to see that film when it was in cinemas.

I've been meaning to see this film for a while (even if it has all but left cinemas here), but I'm not surprised by the more muted response it may get Stateside. I think Loach is a talented filmmakers (The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Cathy Come Home are masterpieces in my eyes), but the messages of his social…

He is and he's terrific.

I don't think 'one catastrophe after another' is an inherently bad mode of storytelling or development. However, it's nice to see other story, particularly melancholic or wistful ones, that don't rely heavily on it. It's simple variety.

I actually really enjoyed Precious.

Naomie Harris is phenomenal in the film. It's a small performance, but she packs so much into her scenes. I really hope she wins Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars.

Also saw this at the London Film Festival. It expertly straddles the art-trash line, and it's so gorgeous, pulpy, self-aware, and ridiculous, it's deliriously entertaining.

There is a great atmosphere of tension that constantly seems on the verge of violence, but after you watch the whole film and contemplate, it's like a drawn out sensation of 'butterflies in the stomach,' particularly in the later scenes with Kevin and Chiron.

The undercurrent of hope is what stood out to me.

During the Q&A session here, they all seemed so amazed and so honored by the film. They had every right to be. The final shot alone is one of the prettiest I've seen in many a moon.

It's a hauntingly gorgeous film. I hope you love it as much as I did.

I saw this at the London Film Festival (better yet: Barry Jenkins, Treveante Rhodes, Naomie Harris, André Holland, and Tarell Alvin McCraney were all in attendance), and it is a truly gorgeous, powerful piece of filmmaking.

One of the new TV series I was so excited to watch this year, and the pilot didn't disappoint. Excellent stuff all around! I hope Rae is remembered come Emmy season next year.

There were some moments were I thought it could have been, and I'm admittedly being generous, something along the lines of Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal (my choice for one of the best novels of the previous decade). It had enough of the ingredients there.

Oh, sure. It's not aiming to be Leaving Las Vegas or The Lost Weekend terms of realism, but I did like how the novel captured the little details of alcoholism quite well (the emails, the straining to keep up with appearances in awkward social situations) for what was, like you said, a convenient way of keeping the…

Oh God, fuck that film. The book is such wonderful trash but that film should have swept the Razzies. It was so awful and so DULL.

Because when you think about it, the beautiful, very talented (Ramirez, Theron, etc) are often underestimated because of their appearance. It's depressing if nothing else.

They could have at least spent a bit more on the makeup department and made her look more haggard.

I get that most films will pretty things up a little bit, but why not cast an older actress (40s or so) but still have the character be in her 30s? At least that would go a bit further than getting a knockout like Blunt to play a far too pretty alcoholic.

Because you'll NEVER be as good as her dead son!