I’m a big fan of these kind of films. I’ve seen 15 out of the 18, would strongly recommend 14 of them (HUMAN CENTIPEDE is really pretty awful) own 9 on physical media and would consider two and maybe three some of the top 100 greatest films of all time. The ones I think are really conspicuously absent are the…

Studio 60 was so bad it actually put me off from checking out 30 Rock for a couple years. 

Couldn’t get through very much of it and a lot of that was due to Holly- black and on the autism spectrum she’s a Stephen King twofer as far as having magical powers. 

After seeing the episode-length Citizen Kane and Sunset Boulevard parodies on Tiny Toon Adventures, I remember thinking “These would be really good movies if they just told them straight”. 

When I’m talking about a lack of vulnerability by focusing on artistic standards I’m talking about your lack of vulnerability as a viewer/critic not the lack of vulnerability of the filmmaker. When you talk about The Conjuring “failing” to adhere to the narrative “standard” of properly connecting the protagonists to…

Somebody suggested THE LIMITS OF CONTROL. My money is on that one much more than WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. That was a film that didn’t completely work for me, but I still liked it for its arty pretentiousness and willingness to swing for the fences. I think it’s generally regarded as a misfire, I know that Roger…

Yes, the furniture builder is a lesser artist than the filmmaker. Film is more important than furniture. Or at least, it’s more than JUST furniture. Maybe “concrete” is a little extreme, but if there’s consensus there is an objective standard and if there is an objective standard then that’s safe because you never…

Well, I didn’t go to grad school for film but for social work and have spent most of my adult life watching film, reading about film, and even writing about film. I passionately disagree with this. What you learn in film school isn’t how to appreciate movies, but how to appraise them very much in the same way a…

Well, I didn’t go to grad school for film but for social work and have spent most of my adult life watching film, reading about film, and even writing about film. I passionately disagree with this. What you learn in film school isn’t how to appreciate movies, but how to appraise them very much in the same way a…