Damn it, this was supposed to be in the reading thread by @icecreamplanet:disqus (obviously).

Read David Boring by Daniel Clowes this morning in its entirely (its about a 45 minute read). Wow. I absolutely loved it, and them more I think about it, the more I enjoy it. It was just so….odd. It was aloof and removed (like its protagonist) but there were many moments of real human empathy and emotion. This was my…

The Familiar Vol. 2 by Mark Z Daniwlewski. I loved the first one and this one is even better. Hard to believe he has 25 more volumes planned. I'm also in the middle of The Manticore, the second part of the Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. Good lord, it is absolutely amazing.

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Nick I couldn't agree with you more. There's a scene in Under the Skin that is so insanely tense and awful and traumatic that I had to shut my eyes and think happy thoughts.

Chris Pratt, hands down. All of the movies he stars in look like they're incredibly fun. The outtakes of Parks and Rec spotlight how amazing that show was to be a part of, and he seems incredibly down to earth and cool. Hmmmm, do I wanna be him, or Anna Farris so I can just hang out with him all day? Decisions,…

Guy Maddin, man. I'm a Canadian. I'm a film lover. I love silent cinema. I love Soviet cinema. But a Canadian director doing a pastiche on silent Soviet cinema just does not sit right with me. I don't feel too bad about it since I've given him a lot of my time, but I cannot do it. His movies leave me colder than a…

I'll second this question. I heard about The Witch months ago, saw a trailer 3 weeks ago, and its coming out next year. How does this work?

God is this ever validating to read! I've basically told everyone I know how wondrous, amazing, melancholy, and audacious S, NY is, but alas, no one gives a shit. "Its boring" "its weird" "what even happens?" Ugh. This is one of the few movies I wept at the end of. The theatre was completely empty except for me, which…

I enjoyed The Buried Giant quite a bit, although it took 50 or so pages to get into the rhythm of the storytelling and the language Ishiguro uses. Did you ever pick it back up after setting it aside? I'd say that if you go in expecting a more fantasy-heavy story, you're in for a disappointment (not that this was your…

If you enjoyed Episode 1, you'll probably continue enjoying it. I just finished ep. 4, and I am getting more invested in the characters and the story as it rolls along. Having little to no knowledge about Pablo Escobar and his life, I'm consistently entertained and intrigued by the plot machinations. Just when I…

Watched episode 4 of Narcos last night. Really enjoying it now that the story is gaining some momentum and has grown out of its Goodfellas phase. I'll hopefully finish it up soon and move onto Bojack Horseman Season 2. Or maybe Bloodline. Did anyone watch Bloodline? Anyone?

Yay House of Leaves! Have you read The Familiar yet? If so, I'd love to hear your thoughts…

Totally agreed. I've never really understood all the flack Kubrick gets for being sterilized, antiseptic, and emotionless when you've got George C. Scott huffing and puffing around the War Room, Tom Cruise going on an erotic tour of New York only to never get laid, Jack Nicholson channeling crazy like no one had or…

There seems to be a backlash to the movie that continues to this day, even! Not to sound like a snobby cinema asshole, but people who kiiiiiinda might know Kubrick from 2001 and "that Vietnam movie" and are familiar with EWS dismiss it entirely as the weakest of his movies. I read somewhere that Kubrick called it his…

I remember when Eyes Wide Shut came out there was much brouhaha surrounding the whole Cruise Kidman real-life marriage crap that it seemed to overshadow the fact that it was a goddamn Kubrick movie and the first one in 12 years. People who were sick of the gossipy stuff wrote the movie off as another vanity project. I…

For me it was seeing Natural Born Killers when I was 13 and suffering from the stomach flu. It was unlike any movie I had ever seen, and taught me that movies can be more than just linear, coherent stories; they can be fucked up sitcoms, animation, different film stock, crazy POV shots and everything in between. I had…

This trailer got to me something fierce. Spooky and atmospheric, and that goddamn goat. Also, holy shit its Finchy from The Office! His voice is so distinct I just pictured him in this movie saying "The Witch is so fat when she jumps in the air she gets stuck." Then that baby disappeared and…

Oh and also "it's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart" from O Brother Where Art Thou.

My go to is, without a doubt, "that's that, mattress man" from Punch Drunk Love.