Your mileage may vary, but that was my reaction: so much less electric than the best moments of the book, because it's been smoothed out into more of a longing-and-suggestion style romance than the obsession-and-disorientation that the book's Therese rolls with. Also, I know there was no way to fit it into Haynes'…

Wow, I was just thinking of He Who Gets Slapped the other day, which is weird: it's not exactly a movie (well, I was thinking of the play) that people bring up very often.

Echoing your first two:

Saw it this weekend. Fucking loved it.

I don't think I've ever seen a full episode front-to-back, but "The Pre-Taped Call-In Show" is my favorite comedy sketch of all times and peoples and you should watch it right now.

Yeah, as thoroughly uncool as it sounds, that was my first thought reading the article's headline: it endures because it's one of the few 90s rock songs that are great for karaoke - every time I put it on, people get up and sing along, because you can't not (and unlike some other earworms, you don't feel embarrassed…

Yeah, this was exactly my experience: I enjoyed all three, but New Vegas was the only one I never wanted to end, because I completely absorbed in that world.

Like Larry Kramer's Faggots? I'm not an unreserved supporter of his, but I also don't think it's a good thing that so few people followed his lead in basing his critique on satire - satire can be, ought to be, unsparing. I don't think Lysistrata is cheeky at all, given the context in which it was written and performed.

The original Lysistrata is set during a war that they'd been living through, on and off, for twenty years - they were exhausted, they'd suffered one of their worst defeats recently, and Aristophanes made a sex comedy out of it. If the ancient Greeks could handle that kind of direct satirical edge, I'm sure we can…

I don't disagree, but this show has always been The Walking Cliché, and this episode at least allowed two solid actors to breathe into them a bit - plus some larger worldbuilding that the show rarely does (I know Kirkman hates pre-apocalypse backstory, but that's one of the reasons all but one or two of the characters…

I guess it's okay to post spoilers now, so: having two women in restrictive period clothing chasing each other around the house with knives is pretty much my definition of a fun time. I was laughing so hard, and loving it.

For this show, this was a great episode (but my favorite of the entire series is still "Clear," so I'm coming in with a certain bias.) That being said, for such a long episode, they could have done a bit more to ground the characters and their relationships. The psychology here is all Pop Culture Psych 101, which is…

Yeah, and I'm a big fan of the subtle ways the book effectively teaches us how to read it, sometimes with surprising consequences. It's such a great experience.

I loved it, and it's my favorite of his books.

Well, those elements the OP mentions go back to Rousseau, but I also think he's unfair to Danielewski: if he wanted to avoid stylistic choices (which he emphatically doesn't, given his own work) he'd stop writing, and he knows that well enough. The problem of language distancing us from reality - and the various ways…

You're going to get a lot of different opinions about this (obviously) but from someone who didn't care for Lynch when he was younger and started converting a few years ago: my entry point turned out to be Eraserhead. I don't know if it was just an issue of timing, but every single thing about it worked for me - I've…

Thanks! I'll check it out next.

Yeah, this movie is pure eye-candy, start to finish. So happy to see a proper Criterion release with the "missing" segment.

They are pretty good stories! (and much better than Hearn's American fiction, which is … very purple.)

I was terrified it was going to be Carol, mistaken for one of the Wolves. I'd have stopped watching the show.