Jared Leto certainly used it as an excuse to send dead animals to his cast mates while filming Sucide Squad.

There’s a story where he was on set with Olivier, and had stayed up for days because his character was supposed to have stayed up for days, and was talking about it to Olivier, and Olivier’s response was “My dear boy, have you tried just acting?”

I’m not so sure I would call it “successful”; the woman who aggressively initiated sex with him commented on just how bad it was afterwards and her doubts about getting married to another man evaporated.

I realise that half the comments here are going to be about peas, but can we please just take a moment to acknowledge that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece and perhaps the greatest noir ever made?

Designing Woman, with Lauren Bacall is one of my favorites: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050306/

Ultimately that’s what wrecks so many rom-coms. Characters either act in completely inexplicable ways or the central conflict is dependent entirely upon a misunderstanding that could be rectified in ten seconds if anyone involved just talked about it. The handful that work aren’t dependent upon such devices. When…

I love the Rock Hudson and Doris Day flicks. I think one of the things that makes them work (other than the dozens of veiled references to Rock Hudson being gay) is that Doris Day’s character was actually usually pretty well developed and independent, with her own motivations and goals.

The movie was based on an utterly repellent book by a British author. I mention the nationality because Brit “chick-lit” authors revel in infidelity and narcissists posing as the love-lorn. There is not a single likeable person in the book. But it works because you get the fullness of each person and some background…

Ironically for a genre supposedly aimed primarily at women, a large number of rom-coms, including the subject of next instalment in this feature, 1987's Overboard, are remarkably misogynist. It’s kind of akin to The Daily Mail ‘Women’s Section’, castigating women for not having the perfect bikini body or being a bad…

I was thinking today about one of my favorite cheesy Sixties films, Sex and the Single Girl, which led me to wonder whether you will be covering some of the Fifties and Sixties rom-coms. I know the Rock Hudson/Doris Day ones are the most obvious, but there are a lot of other fun ones you could cover. I hope you give…

I would ask that you leave James Marsden out of that list of bland actors, thank you very much. Like Pullman, he can play the bland pretty guy, but he’s fantastic when in the right part (he’s my favorite part of “Enchanted”)

Excuse me, James Marsden is a national treasure. Have you not seen Enchanted ??

This is well-argued but I just don’t think I can accept a 2011 movie about people cheating on each other being the best superhero film of 1994.

The only way she can redeem herself slightly from her role in enlarging the Trump gene pool significantly is if she goes straight from her divorce attorney’s office to Mueller’s, but I’m not holding my breath. I’m convinced this is all just an attempt to grab as many assets for herself and her demon spawn before…

She stayed with him because she’s a greedy fucking monster. Let’s not pretend that the women who married into this disgusting family are victims. They haven’t always only known what we all know - they’ve always known MORE.

Forget buying a small country, you could feed one.

Hmm. There’s not really any huge cliffhanger that’s left unresolved, and generally this show isn’t very plot-driven anyway. You kind of watch it and enjoy it and take in the visuals and feel of it, but rarely are there big crucial plot movements.

I stopped watching after season 2, and I won’t miss the show too much, but it was better than a lot of the mediocre stuff I’ve seen getting greenlit for streaming channels. At least it was decently written and Bernal is so stellar in it.

I’m beginning to think that the success of Game of Thrones is starting to having a negative effect on the television industry. It seems more and more channels are dumping more modest but original shows for super expensive genre series of varying quality. Some of these I like (like Westworld) and some are just OK (Alter…

I hear an executive working for Amazon was envious of Mozart In the Jungle’s success and sought to undermine the show using his connections. But in secret, he watched every episode of the show, twice, his defeat growing greater with each passing minute.