ALEX ROSS PERRY, filmmaker: significant auteur or just a smarter ex-video clerk than Tarantino?

I can get behind a defense of Avengers as a work of art that deserves the BP Oscar, but being "intrigued" by Disney acquiring Fox? this guy is a fucking idiot

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

If you don't support Disney's total monopolistic domination, it's bullying.

the way of all Kim's Video employees

When people dismissively bemoan “the state of things” culturally and use Marvel/Disney dominance as their primary target, all I can see is a square, flat-topped father drinking a beer in a barca lounger while the game is on, telling his son to quit playing guitar/painting/writing/reading comic books/daydreaming and get a real job.

Oh my god, we don't live in a binary of SPORTS vs. NERDS!

he's from Bryn Mawr so

An eloquent defense of those quirky, subversive, creative, outside-the-mainstream Marvel films that so many squares want to ban

it's more like the SPORTS guys took the NERDS' stuff and made a bajillion dollars out of it

This guy is not making a good case for my checking out one of his movies. Nor is titling one of them Her Smell.

the title is the only good thing about it

Her smell is the first one of his I have no desire to see. Maybe because the story seems so familiar and I don’t buy e Moss in this role

Didn't Juliette Lewis basically make this same movie 10 years ago?

that indiewire piece reads like a poorly executed satire of film popism

Tarantino is awful but having read this I have to take issue with the thread title

Heard a number of variations of this argument IRL this past weekend from otherwise-reasonable people and they honestly made me sad.

It’s hard for me to empathize with the person who feels lost in a world where the biggest show in the history of television stars dragons

a dominant group obsessed with its own imagined victimhood? how weird

avengers: ressentiment

I watched Her Smell on Kanopy and -- while I agree it was probably not a film that needed to be made -- I cried! I think it paints a portrait of a person who people can easily write off as a monster as a real person. I'm sure it could have been BETTER but that doesn't usually determine whether or not I liked a movie. I found it scary and emotionally resonant (when she's singing to her kid? cmon that's touching) and my only real complaint is that I couldn't hear the dialogue very well because everyone is hissing at each other through the first hour and there's tons of noise from the noisy club (as there often is). I also thought Virginia Madsen was really good as the mom. Dan Stevens was uninspiring as the former husband and Eric Stoltz is as creepy as he always is.

I have yet to determine why it's called Her Smell but I kind of like the title. The band name leaves something to be desired but I like the idea of a movie about Her Smell.

Listen Up, Philip is unwatchable except for Elisabeth Moss.