"Age, death, and loss loom over this production with searing, sweet honesty."
Together with that, I was moved by how much Cooper's blankness echoed the symptoms of Alzheimer's dementia. The shuffling walk, echolalia, even the wives taking care of him, it all seemed like a very deliberate reference.

I still remember the first DVD I watched: Dead Ringers, on my spankin'-new blue and white Macintosh G3. I called my folks after, because they wanted to know if DVD was really as good as people were saying. I said, "It's like going from cassettes to CD." Though a moment. "Hunh. I guess it's *exactly* like going…

Part of what makes this such a great punk movie is that it embraces its hero's repulsiveness. Otto isn't just a misogynist jerk, he's a poseur– he starts out as a punk, and we're hardly a reel into the movie before he's wearing a suit and acting as a car thief for capitalism. All the other punks, from Archie to the…

"I see now that my whole life has pointed to this moment." Taxi Driver reference, perhaps?

No, he was a member in good standing during the first investigation (which exonerated him) and had been expelled before the second investigation (which convicted him).

Years ago, I discovered the Cambodia Rocks compilation, and it blew my mind. It's at once one of the most joyful records I own, because the music is incredible, and one of the most depressing, because I know most of the people playing on it died horribly.

Certainly plenty of movies have exaggerated or just misrepresented Soviet life. But to translate it into American, this review is like reading a review of Fruitvale Station that chuckles "It risibly portrays America as a country where white police officers kill black men without consequence." And then having the…

The Soviet police were bad at investigation. The Soviet police also had a taste for covering up rapes committed by useful people, a habit passed down from Beria himself, who was quite the fan of the occasional rape. American police also cover up sexual assaults by their own, so I don't know why you find it so…

Chikatilo had been oddly protected for years before the Zakotnova murder. He had been reported for peeping in girls' dorms, inappropriately touching students, locking himself in with a couple of students, and a number of other creepy incidents, but it never seemed to turn into police attention. Whether they were…

I think you may be confusing your peer group with the population of the city. Even in a relatively prosperous city, Party membership was not that widespread, and was quite valuable. Alexei Kravchenko, the guy who took the fall for Chiktailo's first killing, certainly didn't have it, and that (along with some very…

I mean, sorry to sound so harsh– I know you're from Russia– but you're mistaken on a number of factual points here, some very important. To say that everyone was in the Communist party is like having a discussion of the subprime market and hearing someone say "Everyone in America owns a house."

I am! My point is that the reviewer seems really gung-ho about rebuking this movie's "red-baiting", and seems to be pretty ignorant about the if-anything-downplayed awfulness of the era.

Most of his killings were in the 1980's, but his first killing was in 1978, and that was the one he was investigated for. He wasn't investigated for the later killings in part because they took place far from his home (he travelled a great deal for work) and there was almost no communication between the police of…

Minor or maybe not so minor correction…

Love, love this movie. Though the Kilgore Trout scenes are kinda dead, there's so much greatness that I don't mind. Among other things, it has some of the funniest hair I've ever seen—-Willis' toupee is an amazing bit of self-mocking comedy. Also Nick Nolte's amazing monologue, in which he's hilarious without ever…

I really liked DIARY! I dug how he treated the cameras like characters, with their entrances and exits made visually clear. And hell, even if there was nothing else good in the movie, the swimming pool would be worth the price of admission. Plus the pun in the last line makes the whole movie worth it.

I really liked DIARY! I dug how he treated the cameras like characters, with their entrances and exits made visually clear. And hell, even if there was nothing else good in the movie, the swimming pool would be worth the price of admission. Plus the pun in the last line makes the whole movie worth it.

I really liked DIARY! I dug how he treated the cameras like characters, with their entrances and exits made visually clear. And hell, even if there was nothing else good in the movie, the swimming pool would be worth the price of admission. Plus the pun in the last line makes the whole movie worth it.

Chafed Elbows is quite possibly the funniest movie I've ever seen.  For quite a while after viewing, my every Facebook update was a quote from it.  
"I'm listed in the Yellow Pages under 'Truth'."
"My mother told me that kissing boys would only lead to trouble and skepticism."

Chafed Elbows is quite possibly the funniest movie I've ever seen.  For quite a while after viewing, my every Facebook update was a quote from it.  
"I'm listed in the Yellow Pages under 'Truth'."
"My mother told me that kissing boys would only lead to trouble and skepticism."