I gotta say, Lochte's good-lookingness is verging on received wisdom to me. I'll grant the swimmer's physique, but otherwise I just don't see it. Is it the vacuousness that promises a consequence-free (STD fears aside, natch) good time? What's going on here?

It works really well — something new every day, and the urgency of something else on its way out. A couple of weeks ago they ran through almost all of Kelly Reichart's films — a mix of movies you can see easily elsewhere (Meek's Cutoff) and older stuff that's harder to find (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy).

Yeah, I just don't see an eczema-ridden middle-aged man in sandals even attempting that chase. I guess I'm in the minority in thinking this was the weakest episode so far. I felt like Naz's character transformation was too pat, and if Duane Reed's name really is Duane Reed (as it seems to be, since he answered to…

Ah, I believe you're right. They do look alike.

Now with more Elizabeth Debicki!

Cool. Not Bubble Master Ivan Plasterer cool, but cool.

Really enjoying The Coathangers "Nosebleed Weekend". A leap forward in musicianship, and the higher production values don't get in the way of the fun or the attitude.

The real issue with this movie all these years later—to me, at least—is
the fairly icky relationship between Michael Schoeffling’s Al and Sonora suggestion that repeatedly terrifying and risking the life of an animal for people's amusement represented a heartwarming tale of human courage?

Dave Batista is famously difficult to pass through cheesecloth regardless of the role.

Nice to see Film Junk land a coveted Podmass shout last time around, but the description didn't really get at what makes it special. So I'll speak up for FJ being a paragon of the hallowed "old friends nerd out and give each other a hard time" basement pod vibe. They each have their lane — Jay the sarcastic…

At first I thought Gareth telegraphed it too much, but I was wholly unprepared for where it ended up going. Nice work by him!

Not just topped, but nearly ruined (at least for me). Having gone in not familiar with the source material, and so not bringing in any elevated expectations, I watched the movie in a state of dissonance about the music it managed to get the rights to, and mulling over whether or not it merited it.

Tell your old man to drag Schintzius and Olowokandi up and dow….uh……you're right, I could have been better at that.

I can't help but think Paige's stress level would benefit from a change in bedroom wall treatment.

Funny how the passage of time can affect a theme — watching "Alice in the Cities" for the first time a few months ago, I was fairly sure in the New York on-the-road scenes Wenders was criticizing the ubiquity of advertising in American culture. 40 years later those scenes are almost wistfully quaint — charmingly…

It's okay to have a Troma phase. It is absolutely imperative that you grow out of it.

Evidently there was one later study that showed a weak correlation among African boys, but once additional controls were established the effect vanished. This did not stop the researcher from the original fraudulent study from calling this later result a coverup, and from directing the anti-vaxxer movie from Tribeca…

Ludlum novels, ranked:

Wow, I hadn't thought about "The Day After" since probably a month after it aired. But yes, everybody I knew watched it, and I couldn't wait to talk about it the next day. We're better off in most ways without the old monoculture, but there's something to be said for a shared experience like that was. Or, in a just…

Athens has always had an anti-rockstar strain in its ethos. There's a lack of distance between the band on stage and the audience, borne of the fact that the audience usually includes a lot of people perfectly capable of getting on stage and putting on just as good a show, and have done so many times. That's not a…