I haven't seen this, but it sounds similar to "Bad Santa". Or is it more like "Funny Games" without the smirking contempt for the audience? It sounds like the "comedy" element would make it very different than "Taxi Driver".

OOOOOOhh… I get it. See, I thought they were two different episodes. Like, "I saw this bad movie, and then later on I got off the plane and saw some kids of diverse races talking to one another." I missed the sequitor, so to speak. Well if that's it, then it is a silly thing to say. I have plenty of "middle of the…

1)Great choice of subject, great interview. Thanks!
2)When I got to the part where he calls someone a "dick", I nearly did a real-life spit take. Not the word I'd expect him to use.
3)I don't get the story he's trying to tell about the movie on the plane and the black and white kids. Did it make more sense when he told…

Nice try, Shalom, but I'm still going to get it from the library.

Ah, ZMF, you have been away too long. It is good to see your all-caps declarations again. These youngsters, though, lack respect.

Read Peter Guralnick's Last Train To Memphis and the second volume, Careless Love. In fact I think the second volume may be even better as a sensitive picture of a man falling apart. Awesome biography.
I'm so glad I came upon this review. I may make my first trip to a record store in six months.

USAGI!! and again I say USAGI He is the rabbit who would prefer not to have to kill you all - unless you really piss him off.

Well put. Owly does seem like what happens if you think "well, to make it for kids, I'll just make it as simple and sweet as possible". I can vouch for most of your choices. My daughter (8) adores Fashion Kitty, Babymouse and Amelia.And hhow can we not mention the whole range of Simpsons comics?

Damnit! Advertising your own book again using the discussion board! Has it made you a single sale yet? Begone, self-published troll!

I envy you.

Meta Maus is very good for what it is. Which is a lot of interviews with Spiegelman, a lot of extra background about his chilhood and family, a lot of old photos, both family and historical, reprints of some related comics by A.S., some "outtakes" and other sketch-pad material from Maus etc. If you are interested, it…

"Moon". I really liked that movie. Does "How To Survive in a Science Fictional Universe" count? And though it is more than a little tangential, I take every opportunity to suggest "Raising Stoney Marshall" by Daryl Gregory

Totally disagree about THX 1138. Way better than Westworld. And how could you not mention Sleeper? Or Clockwork Orange?

Thanks for the link. I'm mainly just happy that serious people are taking comics seriously enough to bother writing about them. About that review, she has some good points, but her analysis also only goes to the level of "smart undergrad who has read Said". I think you could also make a case that Habibi deconstructs…

Thanks for mentioning "Electric Eden". That would have slipped totally past my radar.

If Bill Murray had starred in "Lady Killers", it would have been a very good movie. He could have done great supporting work in "Barton Fink", too. I'm tempted to say he would have been a better star in "Hudsucker", too, but I suppose he would have been too goofy.

The grades seem to be trending unusually low this time. Just random distribution, or something else?

Oh, and the psychiatrist at the beginning of "Bottle Rocket"

The doctor in the novel "Room" by (going on memory here, may be wrong) Emma Donahue.

And it is on Netflix for streaming.