I love Oliver's show, but there are many times when it seems to be crossing the line into purely information/reporting with almost no comedy to it.

Yes, I don't really see why you need someone with gravitas and what particular qualifications are needed to launch a gospel choir going "Go Fuck Yourselves" to Fox News (not that this wasn't amazing). They are syndicating the show or at least segments of it worldwide (for the record I'm French living in the UK) so a…

I didn't know that site thanks.

I don't remember the exact line, but as Jessica finds out that she is one of four directors for the play and asks what's the point of her joining, the principal tells her something along the lines of: "Any show gets better with more creative voices" (I'm happy to be corrected on the exact wording), a generous…

This is a ridiculous article, you have nothing (new) to say about Trevor Noah, you don't seem to have watched his stand-up, his South African TV show, you're even ignoring the few segments he actually did on The Daily Show which were deeply rooted in politics and the real world, and in the case of his "spot the…

There was probably nothing about the potential replacement of Stewart then, but if I remember correctly from interviews, he stated that when HBO contacted him he talked to the powers that be at Comedy Central who told him to take the job as they could never come close to matching the offer (not to mention the personal…

Just some nitpicking, the earlier "modern" wuxia I can think of is Wong Fei Hung The Whip That Smacks The Candle from the forties, what movies are you thinking of that are earlier than that?

And there was even a line that sounded a lot like the showrunners/writers/what have you's reply to his comments.

It depends how much will be available, it's bound to be quite little at first as they'll have to strike new deals with the studios (the offer in the UK is quite poor for instance).
Spain will also be very used to illegal downloads, and if the legal framework isn't a strong deterrent, there's no reason to think a legal…

Here "American" is code for Jewish.

I'm guessing it got a few votes, after all they highlighted the almost as good and less seen Keep The Light On in a recent Watch This.

As in shops order a minimum amount? That wouldn't be that far from a Ponzi scheme (by the time the shops get money back for returned inventory they have bought the new titles).

Le Havre
Love is Strange
The Other Guys

I know it's a silly complaint, but given how few movies there are about ballet and the general image the artform has, it's a shame they went for lurid clichés with zero understanding of the world it's supposed to inhabit; and I'm fairly confident a movie that messed up to the same extent in a context people were…

Among the movies from the list that I've seen, the only one that really bothered me was Black Swan. As silly a reason as it is, as a ballet fan, I can't take it seriously, nothing about the basic foundations of the story makes any sense, and for all the talk about how Natalie Portman spent a year training as a…

I'm guessing a mix of very very low budget, a concept that means they get lots of free publicity instead of having to shell out for advertising and marketing gives them a low bar to clear (but then again it did take a while to get this one made).
More generally, I'd be curious to know how much Netflix pays to get one…

Meh slackers, King Crimson did a 24 discs set of concerts from the one tour.

Criterion's apparently currently working on a release of A Brighter Summer Day, so it's at least one more movie. But otherwise I agree that the absence of anything by Tsai or Hou in their catalogue is baffling.

That I actually remember from one of his interviews, it does indeed raise questions about how knowledgeable he was about silent film.

I don't recall specifically either the movie or the criticism, and I don't watch that many silent movies anyway to be able to tell. One thing I do remember and that would point towards ignorance and affectation on the director's part was his apparent belief that the Hays code was in place at the time.
All these…