Guess I shouldn’t really be surprised but wow, to be the kind of person who watches Lawrence of Motherfucking Arabia and decides to get mad at it for not being woke enough for their 2018 standards. And not even for any actually coherent reason.

It has to be extremely hard even for an experienced critic to not get sucked into all the hype that’s in the air at a festival such as this. And when you’re watching three or four or even five films a day on top of it, most of that shit isn’t sinking in like it would outside of a festival. One consequence of this is…

Glenn Fleshler. Yup.

I need to get to this, not just for Binoche but for Leconte whose “hot streak” mentioned in the article deserves to be better known. Monsieur Hire and The Hairdresser’s Husband are two of my favorite movies, and The Girl on the Bridge is quite something too. 

Possession remains the only Zulawski I’ve seen but it’s jaw-dropping. Adjani deserved a Medal of Bravery for her performance.

Glad someone noticed!

I recall a few years after Killer Joe he talked about possibly making a ‘70s-esque gritty hitman thriller starring Walton Goggins. To say it’s disappointing that years have passed and now he’s put out this instead would be a hell of an understatement.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Among recent ones, Bug, Rabbit Hole, Fences.

Interesting - You Were Never Really Here already left theaters around me, but I caught it twice while it was playing and at no point thought about any part of it as fantasy. (Well, except the very brief obvious part in the end.) I mean, I never really gravitate towards that line of interpretation unless a movie…

Yes and start right from the pilot. The first season and the first 9 episodes of the second season are fantastic television, then the show hits a major rough patch but gets back on track by the second season finale which is incredible. If you make it there safe and sound and wanting more, don’t miss out on Fire Walk…

BOB at the very least existed in some physical form(s). I suppose you could reduce Judy to one as well - especially if she is the “Experiment” that killed the couple in New York, and/or possesses Sarah - but based on what we saw and heard she strikes me as something closer to darkness itself, an ultimate evil that can…

Not counting Wally Brando, who is truly in a league of his own, I’d say Janey-E, the Mitchums, Constance (who really hasn’t been in it nearly enough, I have to say), and the MC.

I’m still reeling from how perfectly MacLachlan snapped back into embodying classic Cooper. If I weren’t already convinced that he deserves all the awards and a major late-career renaissance for his work on this, I’d be now.

Isn’t creamed corn supposed to have that horrific smell, or was that specifically DoppelCoop’s vomit? If it’s the former you’d think Bobby would have noticed.

Janey-E was getting horny in the car again. With an even better reason this time.

I'll be spending more time over at The Solute, where I've been for a couple of years but not as much recently as I would've liked. It's largely made up of former Dissolve commenters, some of whom were also prominent on AVC both before and after the original film writers left. It's pretty insular and can seem a bit…

I'll be spending more time over at The Solute, where I've been for a couple of years but not as much recently as I would've liked. It's largely made up of former Dissolve commenters, some of whom were also prominent on AVC both before and after the original film writers left. It's pretty insular and can seem a bit…

Isn't that the question of the day…

Isn't that the question of the day…

Isn't that the question of the day…