Maybe. Afropop is important to me, and the way it gets mushed together and dissolute for Western music means that people don't actually know where to go if they want to listen to the music these bands draw from. I love Vampire Weekend but Kanda Bongo Man didn't get a huge uptick in sales after Contra. Everybody bought…

Yeah, I really dug both Stake Land and We Are What We Are. That long shot in the former is particularly wonderful; the latter is just completely balls-out.

Take that any day over childhood-trauma-to-eulogy biopics.

I kind of don't understand something about this. Nobody in the media "liked" Trump (in the early going, though now people are rallying around him as the candidate [ugh]), and we had a presidential candidate saying bizarre, revolting shit and not getting laughed out of the room. From a position of "What do we want our…

this is the only necessary review for this movie:

Yeah, Proxy was a find. D'Angelo's great and I appreciate his unique combination of stinginess and generosity.

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That was my theory for a while too, but there are a lot of directors like that who don't get quite the same thing. Kubrick and Bresson end up with narcotized performances (I mean, they're effective but not quite human), Fincher gets something else from them—humanity without mistakes.

I would give anything to know how Fincher directs actors. Nobody moves in other films like they move in his. Fluid, precise, never any hesitation, but not quite robotic. Even in these long shots, their whole bodies are like that.

Peter Bogdanovich . . . what an excruciatingly precise detail.

Brie is in a lot of great stuff. "Bojack" and "Sleeping with Other People" are fantastic, and "Five Year Engagement" was… interesting/above par. Her filmography is just very inconsistent.

So… do you believe that women can be objectified, and that there are ethical issues involved in that?

I also wonder if people were resistant to his political cynicism for a long time, and now that thinking the world is garbage is a more acceptable position, his status is being reexamined.

So, uh… I think Snake Eyes is really good…

The Untouchables had excellent themes.

What's sort of interesting to me about that though is that evil, at least as these chimps practice it, requires something stronger and more logical and emotional than base animality. Like higher cognition to be evil.

This episode was directed by the show's cinematographer, and I think it shows with some of the more elaborate setups: the lighting on Sam and Diane, which is the sort of surrealism the show doesn't usually do, and the close-up on the miniature slaughterhouse that dollies out into a master shot. Pretty good stuff.

Man, Neighboring Sounds is just about the most inexplicably under-discussed movie I stump for. I'm not sure why it was well-received and then just sort of vanished. One of the lesser injustices in film history, sure, but it's a great movie. Anyway, glad to hear it wasn't a fluke, keeping my eyes peeled.

Ehhhhhhhhhh, I don't think any of the film staff would have given this above a C, Jesse *might* have been generous with a C+. Katie just seems to get handed VOD dross that's not even bad enough for a knives-out pan.

Jesus and that third one is so carelessly confusing: Shotguns rested on the shoulder always go trigger-up. This looks so off. What a weird detail to bungle.