Looks like that cokehead James Woods has done it again. What a bunch of coke.

A majority of white people voted for a hate-filled bigot and thus expressed support for hate-filled bigotry.

He's perfectly cast— he feels so much more like an actual teacher and normal person than anyone else in the universe of that show, like he just transferred in from some show that isn't a surreal madhouse. That show had a great eye for actors and how to use them.

This isn't punk, and I'm telling everyone.

This was one of my favorite things about The Nice Guys— it was a comedy with a really tight, well-polished script, which meant that it could do set-ups, running jokes, and punchlines in ways that most modern improv-heavy comedies can't dream of.

It's a similar deal for me, as someone whose hometown gets used as a shooting location for a lot of generic mid-size towns in movies. A Walk to Remember was actually shot and set there and is a bizarre, alien experience for me to watch, as the movie feels like some soundstage version of the actual place.

Thanks, IV, for blessing us with that phenomenal opening.

This is literally the plot of a Strangers With Candy episode, except it sounds like that show— the most absurdist live-action comedy to ever air on television —handled it more realistically.

Eels is just wet snakes.

It might just be that Iggy tends to respond more to that tone in deliberately pulpier, trashier material— I can definitely see why it would be harder to tolerate a critic's love of, say Paul WS Anderson movies. Iggy's tastes definitely run a little more towards those of a Tarantinoesque too-cool video store clerk.

I wouldn't say The Lone Ranger is good, but I'm happy that he got someone to bankroll a summer tentpole film that was also a half-remake of Jarmusch's Dead Man. That's such a weird and crazy place to take the material.

Yeah, I could tell from the trailers alone that this movie wasn't going to make sense and had way more cool ideas than places to put them. The fact that it's almost three hours long killed off any hope I had for coherence.

Iggy and Dowd both tend to respond very well tommovies that are ambitious and have a singular vision— one of the first Dowd reviews that made me take notice was his C+ for Only God Forgives, which was way above the curve for that movie. A big-budget Hollywood film that's still jammed with weird nightmare visions and…

As far as who I want to see run? Fuck it, throw all sanity to the wind and just run a Killer Mike / El-P ticket. We know they'd do great in the debates, since El-P talks real good cause he's smart and stuff.

All the smug self-righteousness of his pop, with none of the occasional, meager principles (and about half the white nationalist connections, to be fair).

Absolutely, 100%. It's a funny book full of grotesque slapstick and irony, and certainly one of Faulkner's most comic. The toil and trauma is there, but it's lived by a motley bunch of Southern Gothic grotesques dragging a corpse around and bickering constantly.

I think that once a famous movie star directing a vanity adaptation of one of the most famous and widely-read American authors can be called "hipster," it's time to retire the term.

Counterpoint: in the sections where you couldn't see what was happening, you didn't have to look at Suicide Squad.

Hey, it was the second-best movie of the year in which Andrew Garfield grapples with faith in the face of brutality while in the Japanese empire!

I'd say that's a pretty low standard, but I saw Suicide Squad.