"Mandalay! Help me! I've become aflame again!". I don't know if it's the delivery, the ripping/riffing on Uncle Walt, or just the words, but that's still one of my fave Venture Bros. quotes ever.

Early April, 2007, soulsides did a primer on "retro-soul". Since then, I've had Fields "Honey Dove" on pretty much all my playlists. Nearing 5 years since I've first heard it, and I still can't get enough of that track.

If you can find a decent copy of it, "My Sex Life…or How I Got into an Argument", is, maybe (mileage may vary) his best film.

Flameo, hotman! Flameo.

Superb username, vsp! After watching the first episode, I sorta concur on the "slowness", and I'm reserving judgement on Oldman vs Guiness, but damn, when he's interviewing Ricky at the tail end of the episode, and he adjusts his glasses just a tick? Total whoa moment. It's like Guiness morphed from kindly Obi Wan…

That's a damn good question; I never really liked Rome all that much, it was fine for what it was, but it felt, paradoxically, like it was Roman History 101 for dummies and forced too much historical accuracy into the overarching mythos.  Check for Caesar getting killed, check for Cleopatra and Mark Anthony.  It had…

Her triangle offense is pretty offensive as well.

@avclub-997c221538094d134659141cf61d51e3:disqus , either above or below me (depending on Disgust), thanks!  I love me so Oldman, and, yeah, 324minutes is ample time to show, but Guiness is indeed Guiness, and your last comment has made me even giddier for the weekend to arrive!

Speaking of BBC mini-series, my copy of the Alec Guiness starring "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" just arrived today. Zounds, do the blurbs plastered all over the cover have me salivating. Me and the special lady friend have been Le Carre crazy since the film (which we both adored) last year, and we just watched the…

The jiggling is so hypnotIc…they're like lava lamps.

Mucho gracias, 8-bit & Don.

New to Stanhope (based on the Louis C.K. episode), have only seen/heard the one special streaming on Netflix (which was pretty darn great), was wondering if any fans could give me a bit of a primer of his prime material?

Whoa, what? Really? Wow. That would've been something. Maybe in Dream's library there's also a section for films that were never made. I know I'd bug Lucien to just take me to the Kubrick or Welles section!

@Sunspear below me - while I see your very salient point I regarding that section of "Cloud Atlas", and I'll give in and admit "IV" is a "minor" Pynchon book, I don't think PTA would be "watering it down". More like sprinkling it up, filmically. And there are some passages that just soar. Maybe PTA will go the…

Don't discount Twyker; he's the only person amongst the stars and directors that I have some faith in.

Speaking of Nabin and My Year of Flops, kinda shocked to not see "Perfume" in this list, as it was the impetus for MYoF, the film that "ended" the series (# 100, right?) and a film that he completely and rightfully turned a critical about face for when properly reviewing it.

I love me some Cronenberg, and sometimes, sometimes, "Naked Lunch" is my favorite film of his.

Speaking of unadaptable and PTA, I've read that he's working on a screenplay of Pynchon's "Inherent Vice". While that book is probably the easist Pychon novel to crossover to film ("Vineland" being a tad too long and "The Crying of Lot 49" being too qweird) I'm salivating over that pairing. Though I guess one may be…

And yet they never (meaning Zack and/or TPTB) never reviewed "From the Ladle to the Grave".

Add to that, he may be recovering the bits from his noggin that we're removed as well.