I find this unsurprising. I admire "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" but it has always been clear (I think) that Thomson is lightweight. That can work for entries and capsules, but a book is just a completely different form. Oh, well.

Yeah, not defending Polanski as a person, and I'd give up every one of his movies in a heartbeat for justice. I feel weird that I think Repulsion is an amazing horror movie about the phenomenology of rape culture. At least, that's how I read it. I don't really know what Polanski wanted, or if he's as on Deneuve's…

Shaun of the Dead is terrifying and is terrifying because the comedy doesn't save the characters, and humanize them rather than provides ironic detachment. I go to bat for it as pure horror.

"Pineapple Express" is lowbrow? I watched it a few weeks ago after not having seen it since its release and thought it was pretty…not great, but much more interesting than lowbrow. It was like if Robert Altman made a 70s paranoid b-thriller.

The headline is great, but then: "There's a difference between being naked before an audience and showing them your dick." ahhhhh that's the good stuff

I think that's right because what's always puzzled me is how, like, goofy the cap to the scene is, without negating the scariness *at all*.

When I watched this for the first (and so far only) time, I had no idea why or how the "man behind winkie's" scene was so goddamn scary, but it terrified me. Knowing that it's the most famous part of the movie (except, uh, you know) validated a fear that I've never really understood. Time for a rewatch.

Dawes

Let me clarify: I've been waiting for reviews of this.

The Counselor, Prometheus, The Martian . . . Ridley Scott is really feeling the doom of mortality, it seems.

This is the one that David Bordwell made fun of for taking Cusak like 14 shots to walk across a room, right? I've been waiting for it

Hmmm, I think it was better than Wild Water Kingdom, but yeah, even though I didn't dig some of the songs, in particular "Games," I'd be lying if I said the hooks weren't stuck in my head for a month. Relevant that my favorite song on it is "Sometimes," which is also the funniest.

Right, wrong, wrong.

"Eat Pray Thug" is great, man, I don't get why the praise was so moderate.

FINALLY someone's looking out for the irony drenched snake people who think liking TayTay is anti revolutionary! Music was getting a little too sincere for THIS ONE!

Disagree, I think he and Silverman will be awesome in this. He killed in on Inside Amy Schumer and was a brighter spot in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Remains one of the only movies I've ever turned off partway through.

That fireworks scene forever, man. That reoriented my brain when I first saw it.

This comments section is turning into a bibliography for Lewis' Law, goddamnit.

That he *read*!