No. These are American directors now.

Me too. The trouble is, he makes AA Dowd look very gimcrack indeed.

The reason Ignatiy Vishnevetsky is not the AV Club film critic and the dense, pretentious and dated AA Dowd is, is inexplicable. It must be because the slow-thinking hams in the AV Club office can't write or pronounce his name properly. I suggest he changes it to 'Iggy Vish' immediately.

"one of Canada's best filmmakers"

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky writes a great deal better than AA Dowd.

"a smug bore"

Yes. They're the equivalent of your industrial fat-cramming parlors in the US.

"There is a sense here, for lack of a better word, of God.

But we can't get American Netflix in the UK. We'll have to watch it the good old-fashioned way. Streaming it for free from some hosting site in Kazakstan owned by a morbidly obese German Hutt.

Well,Parks & Rec has suffered a vertiginous plummet in its quality.

The miscarriage sequence was unusual for a child's cartoon.

I suppose so but even so his decision makes no sense even in the context of the understanding of Kent's character - and Kent is supposed to be icily intelligent.

God, Arcanum was a good game. This comic seems not to much.

What?

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.

Ummm, I personally don't think the movie does suck. I love it. I think it all *almost* works but, with just a bit of tweaking, it could all have worked better.

Yes, but it's usually a different song.

Is Samwell, the fat, weak and supposedly 'lovable', Martin's Mary-Sue surrogate? Because I fucking hate him. The moment his moonface creeps onscreen I fast-forward five minutes. I bet he's not going to have an unexpected knife in the guts, goddamit.

I suggested Beatty because he is such a cipher both as a man and as an actor - which is pretty much Gatsby.

Tits?