If you consider anything revealed in the first three minutes a spoiler, then everything written about anything ever is a spoiler. I'll just slap a big SPOILER ALERT sticker on the whole world for you, shall I?

Didn't want to get too far into it given the concern with spoilers, but (SPOILER) the fact that Jesse's son lives thousands of miles away is a major source of conflict in MIDNIGHT. Jesse, more than his son, is still paying for his decision.

SPOILER ALERT: Midnight.

According to the film, he was so named (can't recall by whom) the week after his daughter's OD. It might not have lasted long.

If at least one panicky Op-Ed is not written about the movie's non-judgemental treatment of teenage drinking, I will buy the nearest underage person a six-pack.

Actually, I kinda pulled the Les Paul ref out of my ass, and was relieved when writing up the interview to find I had not made an enormous error.

Actually, I kinda pulled the Les Paul ref out of my ass, and was relieved when writing up the interview to find I had not made an enormous error.

This felt like a calm-before-the-storm to me, woolgathering before they launch into the final stretch. The writers are definitely being more aggressive about unexplained callbacks to early episodes, since they obviously feel they're not making any new fans at this point. Particularly loved the flashback to the very…

This felt like a calm-before-the-storm to me, woolgathering before they launch into the final stretch. The writers are definitely being more aggressive about unexplained callbacks to early episodes, since they obviously feel they're not making any new fans at this point. Particularly loved the flashback to the very…

I can't remember the movie, but Matt Zoller Seitz once referred to Terence Blanchard's "pardon-me-while-I-play-this-trumpet-in-your-ear score. It pretty much goes for all of them.

I can't remember the movie, but Matt Zoller Seitz once referred to Terence Blanchard's "pardon-me-while-I-play-this-trumpet-in-your-ear score. It pretty much goes for all of them.

I didn't, actually, but thanks.

I didn't, actually, but thanks.

It bears repeating, always, that "the auteur theory" was Andrew Sarris' corruption of the Cahiers du cinéma critics' "auteur policy" (la politique des auteurs), which is to say it was only ever meant to be a strategy for examining movies, not a theory as to how they are always made. Not every director is an auteur,…

It bears repeating, always, that "the auteur theory" was Andrew Sarris' corruption of the Cahiers du cinéma critics' "auteur policy" (la politique des auteurs), which is to say it was only ever meant to be a strategy for examining movies, not a theory as to how they are always made. Not every director is an auteur,…

It was obviously clear when I said something he didn't agree with, but I never felt he was actually angry. He just likes a good fight.

It was obviously clear when I said something he didn't agree with, but I never felt he was actually angry. He just likes a good fight.

I think I read somewhere that he's writing one.

I think I read somewhere that he's writing one.

Rather than carry for the expense of manufacturing and shipping 35mm prints (which probably weight 50 lbs in cans), they'd force theaters to spend $100,000 per screen upgrading their projection capability so the studio can essentially distribute movies for free.