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I'd like to say that the list is "long and distinguished", but really it's just long. If you had a pulse, he'd pick a fight.

Oh, stop over-dramatizing. It was more than two months ago -- ancient history, by internet standards -- and only one poster agreed with him. Everyone else pretty much ignored you, because they were too busy picking on the other guy. /img/vbsmilies/htf/smiley_wink.gif...

That's certainly a valid impression, although I do think that the unifying principle is there. The key word is "intimacy", but as I tried to articulate in the final sentence, it's not so much a film "about" intimacy as about someone -- someone outside the film -- questioning what intimacy is and...

Thanks, Russ. I don't like star ratings. I can never figure out how to make meaningful comparisons between films that have nothing in common with each other. I prefer discussion, or nothing.

You must not have read it all the way through. I get a lot of that. When I reviewed Revolutionary Road, I drew an extended comparison between the film and the series Mad Men. Someone replied (I'm paraphrasing): "Nice review. You might also like Mad Men." I appreciated the compliment, but I...

See, when you cast a porn star in your movie about call girls, and have a tag line like that, you set up certain expectations. While I wasn't expecting bukkaki, I was thinking this might be one of those films that attempts to be sexy and brainy. It's neither. Instead, it's about the financial...

Everyone who's posted here on the subject of spammer detection is right, because all that stuff is part of the mix. But that's about all I can say. Sorry. (Not really, but it's the kind of thing you're supposed to say. /img/vbsmilies/htf/biggrin.gif ) And yes, Steve's right: I did enjoy...

Jack got very busy with work, but he still drops in from time to time. Another spammer just got zapped. No one on the forum ever saw him. I love the smell of burning spammer in the morning.

This is the kinder, gentler HTF. We're all giving people more rope. Some of them hang themselves much more effectively than any of us ever could. /img/vbsmilies/htf/biggrin.gif Not only is Cees still "here" (on HTF), but he was also recently here in New York City (or New Amsterdam, or...

Steve, you know how you asked me about spammers? Telltale sign: signup immediately followed by a series of junk posts. Trouble is, at this stage of the game, you can't distinguish between a potential spammer and the next Steve Christou. So we wait . . .

Got it. What's the difference between Russ's taste and what I review? (This should be interesting, considering the weird mix of stuff that ends up on my plate.)

Nah, it take a LOT more than that to get my teeth grinding. Spam is the same problem everywhere. It's the internet. It was just a matter of learning how to deal with it using different tools, and the Huddler guys have been great to work with, at least on this issue, which is the one I've had the...

If I told you, I'd have to kill you. /img/vbsmilies/htf/laugh.gif Seriously, though, no one discloses their anti-spam measures. No reason to give the bastards clues on how to circumvent them.

Thank you. I am everywhere. Actually, these days I'm mostly nowhere. Between spam control, which is my appointed task, and disc reviews, which I started doing for fun, I don't post much anymore. (Yeah, I know, it's an improvement.)

Nope, no connection. They're just two of the (many) films on Jesse Eisenberg's resume. (A "Michael Cerra [sic] impression"? Hardly. See The Squid and the Whale or The Education of Charlie Banks.)