Kathryn Harrold did good work on The Larry Sanders Show.

"Thousand(s) of young people shouting along to every word so loudly that you couldn’t hear the band.” Change the number to hundreds and this is an accurate description of a Mangum solo show I saw in St Louis in 2013.

He was actually well-deployed in Hurly-Burly - his performance meshed with the coked-up atmosphere and megawatt cast. There was also some incredible meta-schtick on the Sanders finale with Sean Penn telling Larry what a preening amateur Shandling had been on the HB set.

Giorgi will always be my #1 Commie https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Bad Lieutenant and Breaking The Waves are two very different films that immediately spring to mind as stories of religious belief and spiritual transcendence that take their subjects seriously. Both end with the implicit beatification of a multi-layered protagonist after putting him/her through a series of tests that…

This review needs some basic proofing - it's borderline unreadable. (e.g. "throws of devastation" "why can't I be loved to?")

Hey look, it's Donald Trump himself holding forth on Citizen Kane (for an Errol Morris, no less): https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Herzog don't hate no jungle - the rant in question closes with these words: "I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it. I love it very much. But I love it against my better judgment."

Nice little documentary about (among other things) how this song helped to inspire radical Islam https://www.youtube.com/wat…

My favorite holiday movie is The Proposition, hands down. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

The DVD commentary with the director and the real Chuck Lane is truly fascinating as Lane pretty much fact-checks the movie in real time. Also, Hayden Christensen's innate punchability - such a detriment in portraying Anakin Skywalker - is a positive boon here.

At the end of the commentary, Dr. Walsh tries to pin Chris's many mismatched pathologies on Mirkin and the other writers rather than the fictional character whereupon Mirkin ends the discussion abruptly. The confrontation is pretty clearly schtick but is still telling about the self-awareness of the show and at least…

There were two r's in Starr last time I checked.

As those two are such totally straight-shooting, reliable narrators, I have no choice but to stand humbly corrected.

It's subtle - and matter-of-fact anti-Christianity is rare in US movie comedies - but the crowd doesn't boo the Godspell number in the original movie - they boo the crucifix which appears at the end. Camp Firewood is a Jewish camp. Crosses aren't cool.

I thought it was '79 - that's when Skylab fell, anyway.

If memory serves, the pot brownie scene was scored to Daniel Johnston's "Rock 'n' Roll / EGA" - I seem to remember the notion of Johnston receiving royalties as the only upside to the entire film.

"of all people." https://www.youtube.com/wat…

More Odenkirk as Evans as God from 2003 https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I'm pretty sure there was a minor running gag on The Sopranos involving Paulie Walnuts listening to a book-on-tape of The Art of War in his car.