Absurdist? I don’t know. Maybe the word has a deeper, more ‘out of the blue weirdness’ connotation around these parts - i.e. Europe -, but the way it’s commonly used regarding American entertainment seems, to put it lightly, misplaced.

It can be two things.

Or, if you wanna get funky: The Artist Formerly Known As Leonard Cohen.

And where the hell is ‘Taint - The Movie’ - not to mention the subsequent Asylum ripoffs ‘T’Wasnt’, ‘T’Werent’, and, of course, ‘Under Your Balls Quarterly’?

I’d say ‘Lullaby’ is his best novel, but pretty much unfilmable indeed. Honestly, I can’t judge his recent output, as I’ve stopped reading his stuff after ‘Haunted’ - which is basically a collection of short stories like the Decameron or Canterbury Tales, but more boring and far more gruesome - but I really liked his…

That’s not a sentence, it’s two questions. I’m in awe of your magnificent imagination.

The only reason for that being the case is that the DC TV/animation/movie franchise was a joke during the sixties up to the eighties - an often outrageously funny one, but still - so knocking this movie for critiquing a particularly grimy era in our history for the cynical happy-go-lucky escapism that we were…

A dumber thing to assume is that ‘Joker’ couldn’t have been released at any other time, while constantly repeating it’s heavily inspired by movies from the seventies and early eighties.

Weren’t the Gods and heroes of Greek mythology equally tragic and, quite often, disturbed? Where exactly do you think these comic writers got their inspiration from? It’s just a different medium, but the message is the same.

You’re saying that this kind of depiction of madness and despair wouldn’t have been possible - or popular - at any other time. You need a history lesson.

It doesn’t happen that often anymore, but for once I think the current Rotten Tomatoes score (63%) seems pretty accurate: not awful, but definitely a big step down from the previous movie.

Yeah, Detroit would be Charleroi, I guess.

Here’s an interesting video about the band and their history, before and after their only hit song.

Hooray. Belgium got mentioned! I’m Belgian!

It’s a joke about Dane Cook stealing Dan Quayle’s jokes. Or some other balding misogynist, I’m not sure.

It’s called ‘je ne sais quoi’, and a K-Hole is something not really applicable to the situation depicted in the series - I think you meant a blackout.

Agreed regarding In The Miso Soup - a great little thriller, and perfect for an adaptation. Still, I’m curious about Piercing - it seems to do something interesting with the source material, which really doesn’t happen that often.

Well, I’m an old guy who’s never been on the Twitter thingy, but I did some more research, and as it turns out I’ll have to apologize for defending Linehan. It’s all the more grating, since I’ve been a fan of his ever since Father Ted, all through Black Books, and, in a lesser way, up to The IT Crowd, but those are som…

Well, I wouldn’t call Graham Linehan a TERF. The infamous IT Crowd episode was indeed insulting to trans people, and it did go too far on a premisse that was both unfunny and insensitive, but I think that was mostly based on Linehan’s lack of familiarity with the issue, and he kinda, sorta admitted as much. Here’s an…

I saw them live in the mid-nineties, and got absolutely blown away. As a European, I had no idea they were Canadian, but that happens a lot actually.