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Atticus is right: It's time to move to 2019!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iL1K_l8Jyo I was eager to see “High Flying Bird,” Steven Soderbergh’s sports drama released Friday on Netflix. Bursting with strong ideas about the legacy of slavery and late-stage capitalism--it concerns the chess moves made by an agent during an NBA lockout--and a magnetic lead performance by Andre Holland, the movie is always compelling. Still, there’s something artificial and forced about the project, a trait that also plagued “Unsane,” Soderbergh’s previous movie shot entirely on iPhones. What are you watching?

Glad to see some love for "Stan & Ollie" here. In the ‘90s, AMC would show L&H shorts every Saturday morning, and I became obsessed to the point where I actually read a book about them front-to-back, which doesn’t sound too weird except that it wasn’t a biography but a cross-referenced encyclopedia. Whether silent or sound, I’ve seen every extant L&H movie, and most of ‘em I’ve seen multiple times. “Stan & Ollie" shares my deep affection for the duo and their comedic precision--it’s a big smile of a movie--but to my eyes it doesn't quite match their craft, wit, and invention. M

My daughter was watching an old episode of "Friends" and in the background I noticed a Wilco sticker in the record shop window. (Season 4, Episode 15. That was about a year before "Summerteeth.")

Heard "Via Chicago" in a Potbelly Sandwich Shop yesterday.

Thanks, jw harding. I came here to post the same jambase link. Nice to see our very own bbop get some credit!

I'm trying to be civil, but frankly I'm flabbergasted that anyone would put anything before A.M. The mind boggles.

You are clearly a person with impeccable taste and could no doubt correctly rank the Wilco albums, too. I tip my cap in your general direction.

I only vaguely know who you are, but based on that list, I'd say you were a highy messed up freak. Your feelings on this are objectively wrong at this point. Now that I've had ample time to really let Schmilco settle into its proper place on the timeline, I feel more confident in my current rankings: AM BT ST YHF AGIB SBS WTA TWL SW WS

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Sorry to hear this. Wow. Please continue to express your pain here, if it helps. I'm thinking about you and your wife.

Thanks for the tip! Even though I own a digital copy on my computer (that was how it was originally sold), just last week I considered buying it again via Vudu so I'd also have a streaming version. That was $10, so I'm glad I waited for the Amazon deal.

You're going to love "The Handmaid's Tale." I binged the entire series in late June and am ready for more. I also deeply enjoyed "Fallout"--that's a rare series that seems only to improve with each new installment--but even more breathtaking was "Sorry to Bother You." That's my favorite movie of the year so far!

My county in southeast WI went 67% for Trump. Huh. Usually the Republican can count on at least 70%. (I definitely live in a bubble... to my endless frustration.) My precinct, though was only 60% Trump, so there's that.

Same here. To my eyes, American Animals is one of the summer's most entertaining movies and yet fairly limited in what it wants to say. (Even when factoring in the interesting fiction/nonfiction hybrid, it's rather conventional in its ideas.) For me First Reformed is a much more thoughtful and incisive work of art, especially in its searching questions about individual spirituality, religious hypocrisy, and the intersection of churches and politics. It joins Silence and Calvary as one of the great recent movies about what it means to be a person of faith.

Four terrific films. Red is the trilogy's crowning achievement, but White is underrated, its comic touches unfairly overlooked.

Today I saw the new film American Animals, and noticed a Wilco poster on a dorm room wall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4lzoQKIF8E Not exactly "hearing" Wilco while out and about, but it still fits the spirit of the thread. I saw this trailer at our local arthouse, playing in front of a screening of "RBG." My wife and I yelped a little when we saw the cameo at the 2:09 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2YeuWYVnKs At the 1:38 mark, Scott declares Wilco's "Poor Places" his favorite song of all-time.

I've loved, loved this show from the first episode. This season has been especially ambitious.

This news is really wrecking me. Like bbop, I'm a big Frightened Rabbit fan; unlike bbop, I never had the chance to see the band live. It's hard to believe there won't be any more Hutchison songs.

Around Oscar time there seemed to be a growing, perhaps inevitable backlash to that movie. But much of the criticism seemed rooted in the knee-jerk presumption that it's intended as a work of realism rather than a fable. If the film has flaws--and I think it does--they have little to do with how it abandons reality. What struck me about “Three Billboards" is how it's less about a mother’s local activism and more about the overlapping ripple effects of two distinct acts of violence. While the lead character delivers on the caustic, funny vibe of the trailer, it's interesting to note that dire

Gobsmacked. And I thought I knew you... I'd probably vote for "Capitol City." I like the ambition, but it doesn't work for me.

Same here. Today, though, I'm going to pick "Poor Places," if only because I heard it this afternoon and loved it as much as the first time.