I just tend to appreciate it when directors shake things up a little bit. Baumbach shifted tone and approach pretty beautifully with The Squid and the Whale, and especially Margot at the Wedding. I was a little sad to see that, with Frances Ha, he was back to aping Stillman. Not that Frances Ha is a bad movie, but it…

I both enjoy and resent this movie—I enjoy it because it's does the whole "insufferable but pitiable social group" thing really well, and resent it because I feel like Whit Stillman AND Noah Baumbach have been trying to remake this movie with almost everything they direct, to pretty varied degrees of success and…

Such a beautiful character film. One of my favorites.

Margot at the Wedding is actually my second favorite Baumbach movie behind The Squid and the Whale… Do people not like it?

This is how I feel. I used Windows exclusively until about three years ago when I bought a MacBook Pro for work (I'm a photographer who does video editing on the side). I really disliked it at first, but that's just because I wasn't used to it. They're great computers with some questionable interface "features" that…

I was legitimately under the impression that he had died at least 15 years ago. Whoops.

What I'd like more than anything is a weekly variety show a la The Paul F. Tompkins show that he does at Largo, but I doubt it'll ever happen :/

He apparently hates it (as we all do)

Didn't some network just order a sitcom with PFT attached as the Dad? Or was that just a pilot?

In my mind, if you're going to divide the work of Wes Anderson into two periods:

It really is a beautiful, emotional film, and I have no idea why it's consistently mentioned as being the weakest in Anderson's oeuvre.

Is there supposed to be something gross about referring to New York "the city"?

Do people who bring this up even realize that HBO "billing" Lena Dunham as "the voice of our generation" was actually just a joke from the show wherein the character she plays is clearly doing a poor job of being self-aggrandizing?

Or at least a voice. Of a generation.

Sheesh. That's really inconsiderate.

Oh, hah. The link just looked like you'd underlined "Wow" on my phone.

What exactly are you guys referring to?

I'll admit I haven't seen it since it was released in theaters, but if memory serves, I disliked it for the following reasons: jokes that weren't actually funny; characters that were described as losers but spoke so eloquently and comprehensively that they seemed like perfect, writerly sitcom tropes; the presence of…

I've only seen Juno and Young Adult, and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Young Adult, considering I hated Juno. Isn't Young Adult the same director as Juno as well? Jason Reitman?

Why would I believe anything you say! You're a figment of a collective social imagination!