Doubly interesting how they handled this, since, apart from Michonne, the only Oceanside-related characters we spend any time with in the comics are men - Siddiq and Pete.

I dunno: "Paul for President: Promise, Progress, Peanut" is pretty great, too.

Seconded. His slow burn from "Look how sad she is" to "Who the fuck does she think she is" is my favorite scene Broderick has ever done. It's perfect. The whole movie is perfect, but that scene is perfectest.

My first movie-star crush. If only I wasn't about 50 years too young for him, and male.

The Idiot. No one has ever been better equipped for Dostoevsky, not even the Russians. His Rogozhin is the perfect blend of pent-up rage and childish insecurity, and he even nails that quasi-homoerotic attraction thing with the Myshkin character (although in his prime, Mifune could have sexual chemistry with a…

Yeah, I'd watch a full 15-min video on his accent choices, since they're almost never right, but they often sometimes work on their own weird terms.

Laugh out loud at "the often undistinguished Aaron Taylor-Johnson." Can this just be his standard epithet, like "esteemed character actress Margo Martindale"?

I'm partial to this one for historical, not aesthetic reasons. The man in the picture, Pinkhus Karlinsky, was born in 1825 and the photo looks perfectly contemporary.

Found this movie every bit as great as everyone said - though I think it gained a lot the first time through from having read nothing about it, and having no idea where anything was going. Given where the film starts, I was genuinely surprised at the deep well of tenderness and sadness that's slowly revealed in…

Hey now, Duncan Sheik at least has Spring Awakening in his dossier. You could find a less accomplished one-hit wonder for your joke, kind sir.

Assuming, perhaps, that viewers need a specific face on which to project their outrage, the movie casts Marton Csokas as the cold-hearted sheriff, delivering a supervillain monologue about the importance of segregation.

I don't know if I laughed so hard at a movie in years as I did at the chimpanzee home reveal. Like, I had to pause the movie.

I love Carax and I was just listening to Sparks' "The Final Derriere" this morning. This post is going to make me cry with joy.

My favorite of all the Vic Berger videos. In fact, when I was scrolling the story and saw his name mentioned, I went and watched it again before making it down to the comments. Heh.

I wish I could easily convey the joy that this brings, but Seagal's Russian is so awesomely bad in his films, he pronounces a particular curse word (блядь) as "ticket" (билет*), and it's practically a meme.

For what it's worth, McKinnon's character strikes me as less over-the-top than some of my own experiences, but I get what you're saying, particularly in the presentation.

It is ridiculous, but it's also the point (I think) where the comics start taking a real turn toward "what if there are other functional communities out there?" instead of constantly pinning the protags in isolated, dysfunctional ones. A massive change for the better, I think.

Agreed. I thought that was a weird and somewhat forced direction for comics-Michonne, while this feels… right? One awesome bullshitter identifying another, basically.

Yeah, I was expecting the worst this week given the show's track record and the ridiculousness of the story line, and instead we got one of the most purely enjoyable episodes they've ever done, and a massive upgrade from comics-Ezekiel (who, like you said, is "fun" in the comics but didn't seem like an easy transition…

Believe it, folks: this is every bit as good as you're hearing. The only problem with the hype machine, to echo something David Edelstein has said, is that the movie is so delicate - the Big Scene in the last act is almost entirely about the silences and eye movements between the sparse lines of dialogue - that…