Seeing as how Blumhouse’s movie budgets top out at $5 million, I’m guessing Blum  decided to get into TV after finding some change in the couch cushions.

I figure that’s why they got Jack White to play Elvis in Walk Hard.  They already had Black in the movie and just couldn’t resist.

Eh.  I’ve heard ruder.

CPR’s founder was a contemporary of CCR, back when everyone was worried about the CCCP, but they didn’t overlap. They’re more associated with the current era’s fear of our own government’s CCTV, though here in the CST a lot more outrage goes to CNN.  

I would never have guessed that Fast Car is fast enough for CPR.  Not much of a tempo on that one, ironically.

I was a big wuss when it came to horror as a kid and never read Pike or Stine.  Iggy’s comments make it sound like I missed nothing with Stine, was Pike any good?  ‘Cause those things sound batshit in the best way.

My pedantry sees, appreciates, and bows to yours.

Rashomon is a movie where several people remember a bandit attack very differently from each other.  So it’s funny that Marge and Homer remember his reaction to it differently from each other.

I like Panic Room, I think the claustrophobic tension played to his strengths, but Benjamin Button was just the wrong project. The only part that even benefitted from Fincher’s distinctive visual style was the brief WWII naval battle scene, where he masterfully cranked the tension amidst the fog and that medieval…

Better to steal it than leave it drawing flies.

I also appreciated the him getting the gun out of a truck by breaking a window, but then it was in a locked gun box that he couldn’t bash open.

I’m not buying the assessment of Sense8 as flawed. It was brilliant, and I miss it terribly

Another great one is the character Riley in Sense8. Her dad plinking out Baba O’Reilly on his uke shows where her name came from (provided you’re not one of the many people who, understandably, think the song is called Teenage Wasteland), which is simple enough. But it becomes a brilliant reference if you know that…

One of my all time favs goes, unsurprisingly, to The Simpsons:
“Come on Homer, you enjoy Japanese culture. You liked Rashomon.”
“That’s not the way I remember it.”

It’s not complicated—you can explain the joke in about five seconds to someone who hasn’t seen the movie—but if you have, it’s just instantly hilarious.

A step down from Blue Ruin = I’ll probably still watch it.

BTW, the reviews never seem to mention Saulnier’s debut feature, Murder Party, which I consider a brilliant black comedy. Any thoughts on this?  Is it generally disregarded in critic land?  Because I really can’t see why.  

The amount of space they take up at Liberty will be dwarfed by the space needed for the papers explaining, with logic so tortured that the pages bleed, why what he said and did does not conflict with Evangelicals’ stated beliefs. 

No you didn’t.

If I remember correctly, he got her fired from The Cosby Show after she did a nude scene in a movie, with much moral outrage spewed in public.

That sounds amazingly terrible.  I cannot wait to read the review.  

It can be stillborn.