"The company has released a new commercial today, awkwardly titled “As Real As It Gets,” that presents eating its diarrhea-inducing gruel as the ultimate act of hip rebellion for the anti-establishment artist on the move. The ad shows a number of cool, multi-cultural youths joining a growing march of smiling…

I've done a few trips in Germany, and I love speaking English with Germans who are fluent to try an pin down the (sometimes very slight) accents. One guy I talked with in Leipzig - young; his English was flawless - spoke it with a Cockney accent; a girl who had married an American spoke English with a fairly neutral…

"Who's the real seven billion ton robot monster here? Not I. Not… I."

I was visiting friends in Spain, Portugal, and Germany earlier this year, and I couldn't help noticing, in Spain, how fucking nicely everyone dressed (lots of suits, blazers,all clean, clean, clean), how nice everyone's shoes were, how well-fitted everything was. I felt like an overgrown child, wearing my flannel…

Just popping in to remind everyone 'Female Trouble' is one of cinema's greatest comedies.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Billy Madison and The Waterboy are pretty funny - I hate how much mileage Sandler gets, in The Waterboy, out of that stupid voice and his obsession with water. I find Happy Gilmore kind of tired, now. I think it suffered like Anchorman suffered - endlessly quoted, etc, etc. Most of his 90s movies are relatively…

Stay here. Stay here as long as you can. For the love of God, cherish it. You have to cherish it.

I've been perusing your fortified wine list and I've selected the '71 Hobo's Delight, the '57 Chateau Parté and the '66 Thunder Chevitz. - And mix them all together in a big jug.

C'est comme ca!

Jacob's Ladder is intense as fuck. That part near the beginning when Tim Robbins' character is on the subway train and the woman looks at him is so unnerving.

Excellent resolution. That's what being an artist is, right? You're following your vision, doing your thing - modest, focused, obsessively focused - then moving on to the next project. I write and play music, and I've released a record, and an experimental book. I don't have the compulsion to actively promote either.…

I've not seen so much Cronenberg! (only 'The Fly', 'A History of Violence', and, I think, 'Scanners') I feel like I owe it to myself, being Canadian. Thanks for the recommendations.

This one felt for sure like a middle. The inside of the monster was, typically, incredible. Reminded me, as I'm sure it reminded others, of the dragon episode in the original run. Can't wait for next week.

Watched Eraserhead. It was good. Not great. My first Lynch film. I'm interested in further recommendations. What are David Lynch's essential films?

Oh, man. I love this idea. I did something sort of similar a while ago; I listened to a bunch of late 90s-early 00s rock - stuff like Hookbastank, Lit, Smashmouth, etc. Some of them turned out to justify themselves - Lit definitely has enough good songs to justify their being a band - others were physically difficult…

I must be hanging with the wrong crowd. I've heard from a shocking number of people that they 'couldn't tell'. I don't know what to say to that. Enjoy it! Ben Mendelsohn makes (like Adam Driver, villains both, did in The Force Awakens) it worthwhile.

Agreed. The CGI HAD to be fucking great in Warcraft. I was surprised they didn't cast the guy who played Tarkin in Revenge of the Sith.

Upvoted hard. I feel like I'm in the minority which found Tarkin painfully distracting. The only film which has actually managed to legitimately fool me a few times is - sue me - Warcraft.

Agreed. His shtick got pretty tired after a couple seasons, when the show kind of lost itself. I couldn't help thinking of second-hand Jack Black and Jim Carrey every time Devine was on screen the last few seasons.