I don't feel Scream is particularly smug. It maybe seemed moreso at the time before the internet made meta the norm view of all life, but it's actually fairly direct and innocent if you try watching it today. And remember, not to defend the glut of tame, model-filled slasher movies in the wake of Scream (most were…

The Scream series gets progressively a little worse with each one. The first movie felt enormously hip and self-aware at the time, but this is now the least remarkable aspect of it. There's a surprising innocence and optimism to it if you watch it today.

Having listened to it twice (probably not enough to really know), I agree that it's both those things. But it also feels like Garbage is artistically revitalized somehow.

Adele is a two-dimensional artist (musically, she's just Celine Dion for people who would never admit to liking Celine Dion.) She has a limited view of the world that's consistent through all her songs.

I also find the normalizing of girls using "suck my dick" as an insult pretty questionable. Guys stopped saying it because it's a jokey form of sexual harassment. Adele should know better.

He doesn't have to offer an iron-clad Bored People On The Internet-approved apology if he doesn't think he did something wrong. As a culture, we suffer from apology-entitlement, most of it involving more famous people who didn't do shit to us and don't even know we exist.

I do think the title track on Bleed Like Me is one of their most powerful songs ever, but to me it's just so far above the songs surrounding it.

We are free to disagree, but from my perspective Bleed Like Me sounds broken and defensive. It feels aimed to placate the alt rock fans who felt let down by the pop explorations of Beautifulgarbage, and good artworks rarely emerge under such circumstances. It's capital HARD ROCK that doesn't rock hard.

Nothing Beyonce does is original. She's obviously talented, but her worshippers have a very limited grasp of other pop culture.

In 2002, Universal wanted to rerelease Scarface with a new rap soundtrack, and De Palma managed to veto it, saying he'd fought too hard to make the movie as he wanted it without having to deal with this revisionism now. The new soundtrack album, however, was released.

There's interesting stuff going on in that movie, but you have to watch it with subtitles on if you want to keep the characters and plot threads straight.

I think Snake Eyes is a lot of fun, too. It's more lightweight than Femme Fatale, but is shot with a lot of bravura and goes by quickly.

It really undersold and caused the band to go back to the drawing board to figure out their direction. I think there's probably a bit of a split between the alt-rock audience of the first album and those who prefer the poppier sound of the second. So when Beautifulgarbage moved even further in the pop direction (it's…

I tend to prefer the pop side of Garbage to the straight rock side, I guess. The title track was great on that album, but the rest forfeits their lush strengths for boilerplate garage rock.

The first three Garbage albums really nailed a unique electro-pop-goth-rock sound (yes, I'm including the criminally underrated BeautifulGarbage, which would be better understood in today's music climate), but they lost me on Bleed Like Me. I was open to something different; it just wasn't interesting. And then Not…

I think it's actually his most interesting film. [Hides under the internet.]

I think it's the best of Waters' early films. It's a lot funnier than Pink Flamingos, mildly less screamy than Desperate Living, and just the right concoction of disgusting.

Interesting. I saw Cecil B DeMented at a festival screening and it seemed extraordinary to me at the time. It was the first movie to attack both the mainstream and the indie movie worlds with equal measure. (It played on a double-bill with But I'm a Cheerleader, which, by contrast, was completely self-congratulatory…

No, The Conjuring is one of the most visually beautiful big studio horror movies in years. What you say is true about Sinister and stuff.

It's only strange if it's all they read.