That's a beautiful film, though. Same with Zelig.

Re kids seeing kids' films: I distinctly remember seeing e.g. "Death Wish" and "Serpico" at the drive-in when I was pretty young (my research indicates I was about 8 when I saw the former). And to this day - though I'm now one of those parents who offers only kids' movies to my kids - I'm totally unsure what to make…

>As we've seen with Prison Break

The best, most powerful episode this season, for me—and I don't mean just the conclusion. I know nothing of the production and budgeting history of the show; but this episode seemed more expensive: shot better, with a more mobile camera and dramatically-blocked shots; demonstrably more extras present than ever…

How about that lunch-time Chinese joint in Cronenberg's eXistenz haha - "Ask for the 'special'"

Memorable lines? How'd you ever forget "Even now I could cut through the five of you like cutting a cake!"—one of the best lines in the series yet, if you ask me.

A winsome theme by Alexandre Desplat will sell the shot…

"Bicycling With Moliere" = movie for old people. Every chucklehead who fancies him/herself to be in the vanguard when decrying rampant "CGI" in movies—hurry, all of you, and see this tired shit.

Did anyone else who watched this season think (like me) of David Peace's great "Red Riding" quartet of novels? (The adaptation for British TV was an adumbration; and they changed the ending!) Both True Detective and the Red Riding books depict a world in which any individual arrest or murder of a murderer vacates one…

Nah, bullshit - I don't know what would be particularly "ordinary" about this episode. And "flat visuals"? You mean shot-blocking, a picturesque quality? Even if the whole season were shot like, say, Owen Roizman shot True Confessions years ago, it would be just as disturbing and mysterious…

But here's the very funny and unique thing about cinema (I'll use the c-word) as an art-form: the likes of DW Griffith and his filthy potboiler aren't to be found among the first canonically "great" works in other media. Film history, capturing and compelled to analyze work over such a relatively tiny moment of…

I'm only sad that Birth of a Nation hasn't dissolved into grey sludge and vanished from this earth…

Wish I could've been a fly on the wall, to witness Ossie Davis being sold on the role in Bubba Ho-Tep! (But, then again, he & Ruby Dee were once swingers—he was probably down for whatever!)

"…weird little ballads of longing sneak up on listeners…"- That's *exactly* how I felt, on picking "Mountain Battles" back up, after not having listened to it in what seemed like years—because it wasn't the "Last Splash" I loved SO much for so many years before. And the signal trait of Kim Deal's great (to me) singles…

Criminally underrated movie - I almost can't believe that someone else has dug it up!

Greatest veiled attack EVAR: Lamb of God's "One Gun" (so veiled that I'm only 98% sure it says what I think it says)

In light of Todd's ringtone in "Felina," I'd say you're either on the Breaking Bad crew or else are psychic!

Great, great casting on this show, going way back: Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo Fring was on the face of it insane—but Esposito played the fuck out of that role, and was the most terrifying bad-guy on the show, even more so than e.g. Steven Bauer as Don Eladio Vuente (Tuco was too damned fried/crazy). Mark Margolis…

"Whatchu talkin bout…'Willis'?!"

>I just can't get into a movie while watching it with 50 giggling assholes.
When we saw The Conjuring, the loudest people in the theater were literally sitting RIGHT fucking next to us!