They've done some really solid work together and separately. Mark is dependably jerkass on The League, he's a very good lead in Safety Not Guaranteed and The One I Love, and they co-wrote and directed the pretty weirdly under rated Jeff Who Lives At Home.

Huh. I've never heard of that, though I like the director's work as a screenwriter.

Thanks for the perspective on the Plein, which is a damn lovely square.

Whoops! Yes, van Houten, not von.

Full credit to Matt Gourley, who i've greatly enjoyed on James Bonding; I Was There Too is my favorite new podcast in many a moon. The Proops story of the limo driver and Harrison Ford is easily one of the best things you could think of, but even besides highlights like that I really enjoy the interesting stories of…

We don't talk about the remake.

I do need to see this since I'm a huge admirer of Verhoeven's Black Book, about the Dutch Resistance in WWII (which has two very nice performances in Carice Von Houten, known these days mostly as the weirdo black smoke birth witch on Game of Thrones, and Sebastian Kock from The Lives of Others).

Best time machine ever, by pure aesthetic standards? Yes. Yes, it is.

And it's one of those mid-'60s New York movies, halfway between the Noir '50s and the gritty crime '70s, where downtown New York looks. *great*. It's shiny and Technicolor and watching it, a Sunday in the park in NYC looks like the best time ever.

Besides the classics, I'll always recommend Sunday In New York, a ridiculously entertaining piece of '60s fluff with Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Robert Culp.

I guess I would have to know who he is outside of B99 to feel disappointed. Here, he just seems like a nice guy.

Easily. I wanted much more than the sting for that bit.

"C'mon, if you tell me your birthdate I can send you a gift!"

The Cubs? Maybe Notre Dame?

You mean Dylan McDermott?

Good call, since he's just about the only one who's not aggressively trying to be likeable.

I'm not saying it's great, but there's enough acid to Family Stone that I kind of like it. Also, it's fun to realize your rooting for Sarah Jessica Parker against a bunch of self-absorbed, hippy dippy huggers.

It's a hilarious interview to watch someone be so wrong and digging the hole deeper and deeper.

Chiming in to agree that The Lunchbox is indeed pretty damn good. It's exactly the pacing it needs to be and has a lot going on under its quiet exterior.

So well done, so fucking disturbing.