That was my first thought when I heard "Whitby" - PTA's Dracula! (I've visited Whitby, and it's an evocative little town, so I look forward to seeing it look beautiful in a PTA film.)

Actually my wife and I couldn't get through the last season of Community but we watched the first season of Other Space 1 and 1/2 times on Yahoo Screen. We loved Other Space, whereas Community, though still amusing, really needed to be put out to pasture.

I subscribe to the TCM Now Playing guide, and it's pretty funny that monthly columnist Martin Scorsese can't help criticizing TCM for grouping "I Vitelloni" under "I" instead of "V."

"You know who else was 'just following orders'? Adolf Hitler."

I leave it up to you as to whether you should be bothered by it - I would certainly love to have read this book as written by an African-American, even one with firsthand knowledge of the era he is writing about - but it is well researched and handled very sensitively. Nothing felt forced to me. I mainly valued it for…

My favorite novel this year was Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff.
Runner-up would be Death's End by Cixin Liu (though my intellect admired that book more than my heart).

Thanks. If it's a more recent X-Men reference than the Chris Claremont era, I'm unlikely to get it.

I imagine at one point a check was cut and someone said, "Here's a billion dollars. Please run ads for this film everywhere, all the time, starting six months before the film is even due to open." It was one of the early signs that 2016 was going to be trouble.

Nice to see The Love Witch get a mention. I caught it at a film festival and was blown away. It's such a fun, subversive, aesthetically gorgeous satire, with ideas that you rarely, if ever, see expressed in films.

I had never heard of this movie and now I really want to see it. I would second the recommendations for Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter (though I haven't seen them in ages).

Given the fact that most of my friends love the hell out of Deadpool, I was a little surprised that I disliked it so very much. Yes, there were a few moments where I laughed, and I liked seeing TJ Miller get a big role, but the writing is obviously junior high level humor ("This shit's gonna have some nuts in it," or…

Never the good one.

And now he's president-elect. You dodged a bullet.

Rumors say March 2017.

I like to think that she is playing the same character in "It Follows" and "The Guest," but in my theory I am not sure which is the sequel to which.

I know it's not technically what you mean by the third act, but the final shot of "It Follows" is one of my favorite things about it. So I do like the ending.

Yep, I think we're in agreement that ambiguity is a strength for Blade Runner.

A Maze of Death is great!

You go on a journey with Deckard believing he's human. If you get to the end of the journey and find out he's a machine, that journey is not invalid. To have him question his own humanity at the end is, to me, a natural ending.

Agree! I think that emotional resonance comes out more and more on repeat viewings. It definitely has a chilly mood and you have to get used to it.