Pet peeve: I absolutely hate the recurring trope in crime fiction (primarily in movies) of hunting as a precursor to inhumanity, some sort of mark of Cain of murderousness.  If handled without care, it's an insult to both the tradition and, for some, the necessity of hunting, as well as to the intelligence of anyone…

I missed that one - it's sadly unavailable at the moment, but I'm bookmarking it anyway. Thanks nevertheless!

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Well said, @Beelzebot:disqus . 

My favorite: that that government elite has Picasso's Guernica on the wall of his dining room.  No character calls attention to it, but the simple fact that one of the most important pieces of art of the twentieth century is this fuck's conversation piece tells you all you need to know about how the world has gone to…

I maintain that the AVC's pan of this movie is their lowest moment.  The review was built on the criticism that CoM is too busy showing off, thereby pulling the viewer out; that just doesn't hold water, as absolutely everything is in service of the characters and the narrative.  Not only is it a masterpiece of…

This one would show up on my PBS affiliate (WHYY) a few times a year growing up, often late at night but sometimes in primetime.  (Damn, that was a good station!  Art films, cult movies, foreign film, local experimental, great docs, The Prisoner & classic BBC, etc.)  I'd catch it every chance I could, and it'd never…

Playing this game is a bit like driving while baked:

Coke is best used as an adjunct for all-night drinking: it's like having a second liver.

Meryl Streep in Adaptation getting stoned for the first time.  The timing of the little temporal leaps, the low background buzz, Streep's perfect stony spaceout…pitch-perfect, I think.

…So this isn't about Dom DaVinci retiring from Toronto PD to become a supernatural investigator?

…Okay, now I totally want a countertop pepper-grinder Dalek with slots for a little whisk and an olive extractor.

You're starting to sound like an owl, @avclub-9acf7344ec50993b012999f76196c4c6:disqus .

Welcome to the wonderful world of @avclub-298673367c6de609ae5970ce1e699c50:disqus : he watches all the sci-fi shows, then comes here to show us how he's too smart to enjoy any of them.

One of my genuine childhood heroes.  Goddamn.  

I also read that book at way-too-young an age, but it totally blew my little mind, and just might have warped my sense of humor forever.  There was some variation of "fuck you" in every story, and that made a big impression amidst the hand-holding or moralizing nature of most kid lit.  It should be standard issue for…

I half expected Walter Bishop to explain (and gleefuly dissect) the purpose of human fungus farms.

I, for one, will (and have!) point interested people to the NCC list for continuing their cinematic education for the rest of my life.

Zulawski's Possession

Last Night has some gentle comedy in it. Actually, the whole movie is rather a gentle comedy. (About the end of all life.)