He looks like Glass Joe auditioning for the lead in a Vincent van Gogh biopic

Absolutely. That saying by Edison about 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration completely applies to storytelling, both on the page and the stage. The entire purpose of art(well, perhaps let’s not argue about that ;) ) is to distill down the human experience into shared experiences. It’s relatively easy to come up with…

As I said, the condemnation of Whedon and Johns doesn’t seem to depend on Fisher alone. Even Patty Jenkins and Chris Nolan have weighed in on how problematic they found the JL project, a rare rebuke from fellow filmmakers.

It’s important, in historical contest, to differentiate in the 1990s between Warner Bros. Feature Animation and Warner Bros. Television Animation.

Mask of the Phantasm was made by Warner Bros. Television Animation as a direct-to-video film. Partway through production, the studio liked it enough to upgrade it to a…

Hawke lives in my hometown of Antigonish, Nova Scotia in the summer, and yes I am going to be tacky and have this book in my bag since the towns small enough to bump into him often and ask him to sign it.

I mean, I get why she’s so upset. She lost the equivalent of ten 9/11s!

Pre-code Hollywood can be uncomfortably brutal but this one really got to me on a visceral level. The unrelentingly cold, cruel tone just permeates every frame of the movie like a disease. I find this film much creepier than any of Todd Browning & Lon Chaney’s sado-masochistic melodramas and far more disturbing than…

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I always think that with Hitchcock you want to know the solution, find out the answers, want to know what happens next, who is the guilty one. With Clouzot you sometimes don’t, because of what it will reveal, and I mean that as a compliment.

I’m torn about this. He’s dangerous, and his tweets instigate violence and push conspiracy theories, and well I just hate him SO MUCH!

Is money the only possible mechanism you can think of?

I live in an area where the only way you’ll ever see an actual, live gator is a zoo, aquarium, or idiot with a real bad idea for a pet.

Ah Milou, t’es un beau chien.

I love that the guys who staunchly say this couldn’t possibly be a case of the film being rated too harshly haven’t seen the film. Without seeing the film, you can’t say what rating it warranted or judge it in comparison to what rating similar films got. I haven’t seen and probably will never see it, so I wouldn’t…

My faves are ignorant dudes who admit ignorance yet expect everyone else to accept their feelings as facts. Then get all flouncy if anyone questions them:

Must have been serendipity then. It happens.

I’m sorry, but this is close to the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. But I genuinely hope they had fun.

I hear you. So kids make masks for their treks to the cemetery, and come up with something that looks like antique props from a creepy vaudeville show?

“(That being said I’ve profoundly disagreed with Mr Dowd on horror before, so maybe I ought to see it)“

Resist the urge.

Sometimes, not seeing it is bettah. 

I hated it. I found the story both disappointing and annoying. What it all came down to, basically, is that Louis is a putz who can’t bear to let his children be sad, so rather than sack up and be the dad, he avoids the responsibility of bearing bad news to his daughter, in turn causing an escalating series of events…