Just to be sure, it's pronounced 'mud-riggle', right?

"'Cake' falls flat, hard to swallow."

Yeah, I've always thought LMS was much more of a farce than a Braff-style dramedy, the difference being that the former doesn't take itself nearly as seriously. I'd also exempt Wes Anderson, who seems to like quirky, twee shit for its aesthetics rather than using it in place of actual character development. He's not…

Normally, I'd argue that it's possible that the studio tried to wedge in a conventional happy ending where it doesn't belong, but Apatow's so successful they probably let him do his own thing (to the extent that any director gets to, anyway).

Maybe they're popular with people who actually fund and make movies, but the vox populi seems to prefer the Reservoir Dogs and Sex, Lies, and Videotapes of the world: will any of these navel-gazers be so well remembered 20 years from now?

Aging man of letters mopes way through affair with perky co-ed half his age, God help us all. Like a Philip Roth ripoff without the entertaining misanthropy.

A whole world of them! Who knew a global economy could be entirely supported by dog groomers and freelance graphic designers?

It wouldn't be so annoying if these movies weren't fucking everywhere. Maybe he doesn't qualify as 'indie', but Judd Apatow and his partners-in-crime deserve a big heap of the blame. Every year there's some new comedy with Jason Segel or Paul Rudd about some sensitive-guy schlub whose eternally-patient wife and…

Yeah, phoniness is not the problem, as long as the director and writer are conscious of it and are using it to the story's advantage. The problem is the movies that think they have Something Important to say even as they create worlds that don't intersect with reality at all.

the humanoid good-guy faces are creepier than the delightful menagerie of woodland inhabitants.

Actually, they just think that shipping Kevin Spacey and Christian Bale is really hot.

There were actually 140 million CDs sold last year. As in physical CDs, not CDs/downloads. There were actually more physical albums sold than digital ones: http://www.rollingstone.com…

"Cameron Esposito picks her favorite Simpsons quotes."

Pick my favorite Simpsons quote? Aw, can't someone else do it?

2001? 13 years to poop out this piece of shit? 13 years where no one said "Wait, guys, this is really fucking dumb, let's just stop." Damn, Hollywood, stop being so fucked up.

I remain convinced that he's my real dad and one day he'll show up at my window on a chariot pulled by dalmatians and whisk me away to Rivendell.

Nah. He was the family weed dealer though.

The Spirit of Radio, mostly because my dad insisted I stop filching his copy. Yes, they start us young on depravity at the Lee household.

The Obama bits are genuinely depressing. "What if this really is the start of a new golden age?" Oh, Patton, if only you knew…

Did it rob you of your goddamn humanity?