The upcoming finale (which I've seen and thus SPOILER WARNING) has a slightly different take on the exchange which might change the way we're interpreting the "No/Good" scene.

The "No"/"Good" scene - I think the point was that Henry wasn't ready to have sex and that Freddie didn't really want to have sex with him but would have in that moment if Henry had asked him to because of pity.

He's also very good in When a Woman Ascends the Stairs and The Human Condition. He's just awesome.

My Black Mirror tastes diverge from Zack's quite a bit (I loved "Entire History of You", not nearly as keen on "Be Right Back") but I really, really enjoyed this episode. It felt like a little anthology story on its own and began my Christmas on a wonderfully sour note. But then again I think people tend to hype Black…

Can we get a link to Conversation once it's up?

The first Mortal Kombat movie is enjoyable if you're down with a specific type of ridiculous '80s action cheese. The second one is just an eldritch monstrosity though.

Almost everyone thinks the Grant Morrison run on New X-Men was great but I feel like one thing that's slightly underappreciated about it was how it conceptualized and revolutionized the idea of the X-Men, bringing it in line with modern day reflections of the civil rights movement and concepts of identity and…

The last superhero film I saw was The Avengers, though I am actually kind of interested in Guardians. It really isn't difficult to avoid but I can see the way superhero movies have taken over the movie news cycle getting tiresome to some people. I follow a bunch of critics on Twitter and Youtube who are much more…

The Orphanage, House of the Devil, May, The Woman, Kairo (Pulse), The Devil's Rejects, Audition, Ginger Snaps, Lords of Salem, Dog Soldiers and 28 Days Later are all good to great. It might be the most hit-and-miss genre ever (and recent years haven't been great to it) but there's been a fair few good horror films…

I watched it in South Asia and I can't remember if I saw the bastardized American cut or an uncut English dub. While I recognize the title of the American version from the marketing (just Cardcaptors instead of Card Captor Sakura), I also remember being very aware of Tomoya, Touya and Yukito's sexualities and the…

I had a similar thing happen to me but with Cardcaptor Sakura. I still think that's a pretty great show. Not that I discussed it with my DBZ card trading schoolfriends.

I had a similar thing happen to me but with Cardcaptor Sakura. I still think that's a pretty great show. Not that I discussed it with my DBZ card trading schoolfriends.

This makes Gremlins 2: The New Batch the Putney Swope of mainstream movies, doesn't it?

Hey Arnold! still manages to terrify (that goddamn hell train) and break my heart (pigeon man).

You know those authors who are liked by other authors? (As a Sci-fi nerd I'm thinking of M. John Harrison and Ted Chiang and the like) Yuasa's a bit like that for animation. If you're not interested in the form itself and the ways it can be manipulated, Yuasa isn't likely to do much for you. His other work does have a…

That's fair. Perhaps my problem isn't so much that it isn't "dreamlike" as it is that "Ocean's Eleven but in dreams" is a great concept that could be used to create amazing, fantastic images. Like The Fall, where the story is mostly an excuse to show astonishing spectacles. I think Inception could have used some of…

I agree. It's just that the imagery and ideas at play in Inception seem pedestrian. The movie has a big ol' playground and plays with only the most common toys. Am I using the movie's potential to beat up on it's reality? Yes. But I think it's not unreasonable to hope that a movie pushes itself. And I don't hate…

I have to admit that I respond to Paprika a lot more. I tend to like anything that's unusual or different more than most well-constructed movies. But I think you're right about the main reasoning behind why it was "dreams". It's just easier to explain. Which, yes. But the possibility space opened up by the word…

Which pretty much defeats the purpose of setting it in dreams though. My expectations would be really different if we were talking layers of the psyche. I'm a big fan of dream imagery and was really sad that not a lot of that was to be found in Inception. I'll admit it was a case of me using my own preconceived…

Another way to look at The Matrix that I'm stealing from Tim Brayton: it's the ultimate video game movie. New mechanic is introduced then used and the thing progresses in a straightforward level design with a boss fight near the end.