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BB s3e12: I like BB and I can not lie

Wow. Just, wow.
No Spoiled Bastard yet.
Spoiled Bastard. A little light on detail and analysis.
Here’s the HitFix guy’s reactions. I totally agree with this:
I still maintain that the foundation the show built to send Jesse on his mission of revenge is weak, but I think everywhere they’ve gone from that place has been sensational [...]

Open BBs3e7 thread

Mr Cranky Pants’ Spoiled Bastard
Since at least nm hasn’t seen last night’s ep yet, let’s ghettoize discussion of it to this thread.
Additional moving-picture discussion points:

Watched The Box via Netflix the other day. Whoo-doggy, what a stinker! Absolutely nothing good about it (and this from an avowed Kelly fanatic.)
Went to see The Ghost Writer yesterday at [...]

Green Light

Rossmoor? Holy shit. (Doesn’t Beane live in Rossmoor?)
Neyer has half a smart:
Billy Beane has a great deal invested in Eric Chavez. Not just the money. Beane once compared Chavez to Barry Bonds (in a good way). I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that Billy Beane loves Eric Chavez (in a baseball way). Beane’s [...]

F(il)m Friday

I’m really looking forward to seeing the new Polanski. LaSalle really liked it (and I enjoyed his review), as did Manohla Dargis.
Once again, I’m in exact accord with Drew McWeeny (aside from the fact that I haven’t actually seen the first film):
Man, I was taken aback when The LA Times ran a piece about the [...]

Ziss tschould give you a dim view of human potential

This is the single most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen (at least, in the category of “Things designed specifically to appeal to me”): Werner Herzog reads Curious George.