Was there a more indelible moment on TV this year than what Elizabeth saw as their train began to pull away from the platform?

honestly Jackson’s movies were better before he went all-in on the fake lighting filters and CGI. Viggo Mortenson has also said this.

I absolutely love how this is dramatized in the film Love & Mercy, where Paul Dano as Brian Wilson leaps into a swimming pool while yelling, “I’m going to make the greatest album in the WORLD!”

As someone who loves novels, I find that I generally prefer serialized television to movies. Both are long-form works of storytelling that can capably portray the passage of time, which is something that films rarely do. (Perhaps this is why my favorite living filmmaker is Richard Linklater). Movies are necessarily…

why, he’s practically the Sixth Doctor!

fun fact: this album was produced by the Silver Seas, a terrifically underrated retro-pop band whose music has been featured on Breaking Bad.

it’s still amazing to me that the *lowest-rated* Toy Story film has a 99 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Three movies, one negative review. 

it would be like trying to tack on a fourth movie to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

it reminds me of that line in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (which Bruce was reading when he wrote that album): “No pleasure but meanness.”

I had the chance to see Sufjan live in Kansas City and he played “Fourth of July” as the final song in the set, because of course he did.

He whispered, “Shall we die a little more?” as he was being led away, which, admittedly, was probably the only memorable line in the entire movie.

I’m just offended that the reviewer didn’t include Goblet of Fire, one of the best films in the series.

on the other hand, reactions from the autism community have been *hugely* favorable.

thank heavens for the Lord of the Rings movies. we tend to forget how different the film world was in the years before 2001.

the whole episode had a very “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” vibe about it, as if someone on the writing staff has been binging that show.

I remember Slate predicting, ahead of the movie’s release, that Sherlock Holmes would be the big movie of the holiday season and that Avatar was going to “suck” because “cats with human boobs suck,” adding: “In Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio kissed Kate Winslet; in Avatar, Sam Worthington smooches a cat lady.”

bizarre how, nearly ten years on, Iron Man seems to have been the most influential movie from that era and Avatar is completely forgotten.

I sometimes wonder if The Dark Knight isn’t so much a great movie as a movie with a great performance. I love it, personally, but I also think Memento and The Prestige are Nolan’s best films.

The Fellowship of the Ring and Vertigo!

remembering him getting angry that they didn’t do a better job of protecting the world’s literature is still painful.