He’s shockingly great in Starting Over, a romantic comedy from 1979 written by James L. Brooks and directed a Alan J. Pakula of 70s conspiracy thriller fame (also sans mustache).

Maybe he’ll go to the Medium Place and reenact Cannonball Run 2 for Mindy St. Claire. 

Politics sure can get uh... Coyote Ugly. I like be kept in the... Looper when it comes to current affairs. Oh she was also in The Prestige no joke just that I really enjoyed that movie and was pleasantly surprised by the David Bowie cameo.

Nothing on Chronicles of Amber?

I appreciate it when celebrities actually put themselves on the front line for things like this, instead of just suggesting it through interviews.

I’m disappointed that no one serious seems to want to give Elric of Melnibone a go.

60 Year old John McClane will be fighting against terrorists who have locked down an office building. In the end it turns out they were just the security staff at the convalescent home he lives in.

Is there any franchise where the filmmakers understand less about what makes it work so well? Turning McClane into an invincible superhero is like turning James Bond into a janitor. 

I’m gonna break internet protocols here and say that this sounds fun and I’m looking forward to it.

Tommy Smothers once said “If you don’t believe the straight man, you don’t believe the comic.” Newhart managed to let his comic be imaginary, which made the listener’s imagination part of the act. It’s always been brilliant.

The problem was that right as he finished talking about how he first crossed paths with Gilliam, the publicist popped on and said, “Time for one more question.” So I had to ask about Quixote. But on a related note, have you ever read Jack Matthews’ The Battle of ‘Brazil’? I was lucky enough to pick up a used copy in a…

Pryce was (predictably) great in Game of Thrones, and I was kind of fascinated by how the mere fact of being played by Jonathan Pryce made the High Sparrow more sympathetic.

The coverage here of Amram’s food pun addiction keeps reminding me of Harris Wittels’ idea for a Jamaican/Irish/Spanish small plate breakfast restaurant called Tapas the Mornin’ to Jah that provoked a startled “Oh” from St. Vincent on Comedy Bang! Bang!

Always take things up a notch in the sequel. I propose Bigger Trouble in Regular China.

And here I was expecting Peter Capaldi to follow him for some reason.

“I was sitting in my office, trying to look busy, when the post referencing an oral history of ‘Gimme Pizza’ was published on AV Club.”

So you have just always been smug and unpleasant is what you’re saying, yeah?

I try and stick to what’s actually on the Wikipedia page. Doing outside research kind of defeats the point of the feature.

They can't all be classics like the remake of assault on precinct 13.

“Say what you will about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler.”