Nymphomaniac Part 1 is a very good first half of a movie. I can't judge it as a complete experience because it isn't one. Still, what I saw was very good.

This show's treatment of death is so mature and elegiac. It's really extraordinary.

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RIP Bev. Or not! I certainly hope not. And they left it ambiguous for a reason. But I think she's gonna be on a dinner plate next week. Too bad. She was one of the show's strongest aspects, especially since the other major female presence (Alana) is kind of a weakly-written character.

Planning on seeing Volume 1 in theaters and Volume 2 on VOD, so that I can see them back-to-back and still see the uncut Volume 1.

I mean, that's life as a slave. Of course there's no respite from the horror in this movie. There never was.

I really don't know what scene you're referring to, but Pitt's character was an outspoken opponent of slavery, and he wasn't shy about how despicable he found the institution. And he's a drifter, so no one knew him that well. If you're a plantation owner, there's reason to be suspicious when that guy is privately chatting up one of your slaves.

I just finished watching Tarnation. I would absolutely love a Documentality episode on it. Not sure what the theme would be, since I've never seen a film like it, but I'm very curious what Eddie and the others have to say about it.

I liked the part with the loop.

That link misunderstands the way that time travel works in Potter. It has nothing to do with time paradoxes, the system is designed such that paradoxes will never factor in. Ever. Everything you do in the past has already happened. You can't change it, because whatever changes you try to make will ultimately serve the events of the original timeline. So paradoxes can't happen.

But that's not how the Time Turner works! You can't change things with the Time Turner, you can only go back and do what you were always going to do. Voldemort is alive and Harry's parents are dead, so any attempt with the Time Turner to go back and change that will fail, because the timeline does not change.

Oh my god yes. Yes yes yes.

Kubrick did dabble in a bunch of genres, so that's probably more accurate, yeah.

Speaking of, you guys have covered almost all of his most popular films. Only big one left is A Clockwork Orange. And maybe Spartacus, but there's not a whole lot of Kubrick in that film.

I love the look of disappointment from the dude on the right.

"You're gonna take a picture of this, huh? Gonna have a good laugh about the elephant butt? I thought better of you."

I did a post about magic beans on my blog recently after Rian Johnson started complaining about the theory on Twitter. It's not about there being "too much sci-fi" as it is about making your story as strong as possible in its structure. In my opinion, anyway. I think the guys explain it differently.