I actually wanted to watch this, but it wasn't available via Hulu Plus. Am I part of the problem?

But the not-so-secret subtext of "I wear a beard because it makes me look older" is usually "I like looking more mature and think the beard looks good on me."

I think the actual problem here would be that they have previously been campaigning as an Original Screenplay, but now the Academy says they should be in Adapted, so Whiplash's votes could get split and they end up with no noms at all.

Topsy-Turvy got nominated under original screenplay in 1999, and it contains a lot of footage of actors performing Gilbert and Sullivan songs. I think these kinds of things are considered quotations, and as long as the structure and situations surrounding it are original, than it's okay.

Non, non, c'est «L'Hui: un voyage érotique de Ninghsia à Cannes». Le sous-titre de L'Ouïghour est «baise-toi, nous ne sommes pas chinois».

Oh I know what the word means, I was just pointing out its misuse here. D'angelo could argue that the film's subject matter is indeed risible (that Nazis trying each other and killing their own witnesses stuff sounds pretty ridiculous), but when connected with "vile" in the title, it's obvious he meant shock-provoking.

Hey "risible", that means getting a rise out of people right?

There are plenty of benign sneezes in comedy, if that counts. Although there it has its own associated trope: the Mark of the Nebbish. See that one scene in Annie Hall, or Eddie Bracken's battles with hay fever in Hail the Conquering Hero.

Just because you're doing something different with a genre doesn't mean you're not engaging with it.

Uh… 3-strip Technicolor had been around for 15 years or so before Under Capricorn. Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind were made with it, and Cardiff filmed The Red Shoes with it. It wasn't new.

But with some effort you could pop their scalps off and reveal the terrifying voids therein.

Fuller's other Korean war movie, Fixed Bayonets, is just as good if less "HEY FUCK YOU RACISTS."

Except Merritt's "pop-culture best friend" answer was awesome. Holiday is a great, underseen film and Ned is really fantastic minor character.

I think there might be some confusion on I.V.'s part. I don't think this is any way a new release, just a reprinting (possibly in slightly different packaging, i.e. an improved version of whatever 2-disc bluary case they used in 2010) to refill stock. It was probably included with other Criterion titles on a…

I got the SNES version of Last Action Hero for Christmas when I was 9 (Ah, for the halcyon days when every present was a gamble between Yoshi's Island and Shaq-Fu, ere I knew to ask for specific games). I could never get past the first level. Dudes come at you with bats and knives and you've just got really weak kicks…

I think that depends on whether you think Death is a solution for all those crazy gangsters and desperate losers in Noir films.

But where you don't go with Grahame is The Bad and the Beautiful, Oscar or no Oscar. That accent and that character are just so incredibly infuriating.

I think Hemingway works much better in his short stories than his novels. His sparse prose works much better when he's dancing around some central mystery or psychology by focusing on surfaces, which isn't easy to sustain for a full novel.

Whereas I've never been an expansionist player and I usually keep to 4-6 cities, so I like that Civ V gives me more incentives (and somewhat deters the AI from taking over the whole map).

"I fooled you! I fooled you! I got pig iron, I got pig iron."