But how can you sequelize a movie that has the very concept of finality built into its title?

Revolutionary Road
Fresh in my mind as I just finished reading it this weekend (it's great) and then watched the (Cliff Notes) adaptation last night. It seems like the filmmakers went out of their to avoid using voiceover on it, which was a dumb move I think because, by removing their only way of giving us the best…

A Yay for Alexander Payne from me too. I thought the voiceover in About Schmidt was really good also - everything repressed by the main character coming out in his letters to a small child, darkly humourous at first but then terribly sad but not entirely hopeless by the end.

Be careful what you wish for: Guns Germs and Steel has been turned into a documentary; I saw it on More4 a few months ago, and very disappointing it was too - full of oversimplifications and pretty lame historical re-enactments and - if I may be glib here for a moment - Prof Diamond's voice was kind of annoying.
But…

That tattoo
doesn't really look like Farley to me. It really really looks like that other character actor guy who's in loads of things, that fireman program that I always flick past, whatsitsface. Hold on. The IMDB informs me his name is Jack McGee, the program is called 'Rescue Me' and his CV includes parts on…

Possibly I'm slightly misremembering but one of the ones where Elmer is hunting Daffy and Bugs and they point out how he's using an elephant gun, he shouldn't be hunting them, he should be hunting elephants with that thing. He turns around to find a huge elephant towering over him that says: "You do and I'll give you…

The Grandad's thickly-accented "Somebody tell a joke!" as a way to break a long, awkward silence has proven useful to me in breaking long, awkward silences not once. Doesn't stop me tryin' every time though.

I find it ironic that he (presumably) first made these comments to Richard Linklater. Like, yeah, Dazed and Confused woulda been sooo much better with a nice orchestral score - or maybe just silence during those talkier scenes of teenagers trying to get laid or score some beer - instead of all those 70s songs taking…

Wow - over 1200 comments
That'll teach me to go away for Easter.
Has anyone registered 'Weltanschlong' or variation thereof as a username yet? They should.
The Dark Crystal, natch.
George Miller's bit of the Twilight Zone movie, John Lithgow on the plane. My bedroom curtains didn't sit flush against the wall, so for…

I don't know. Maybe it was Utah.

Eight hundred leaf-tables and no chairs? You can't sell leaf-tables and no chairs. Chairs, you got a dinette set. No chairs, you got dick.

'Fraid I have to disagree with you on Miller's Crossing there. First time I watched it - as a teen trying desperately to enjoy 'arthouse' - I was sooo bored I couldn't believe it. I don't really want to repeat that experience. Quite a few years later I watched it again, and thought it was alright. By the third…

Brad Bird, Professional Genius
John Ford - or I could be thinking of someone else - was supposedly once asked what kind of movies he liked, and said he liked ones where he could tell 'who the goddamn guy who directed them' was. Obviously I loved the Iron Giant when I first saw it but the bigger thrill was when I first…

Michael Caine
I remember some interview last year where Maurice mentioned 'Tell No One' was his favourite film. Ever. It's a fun and pretty slick thriller right enough but, eh, your favourite film ever? Come on, Micklewhite!

Little Miss Shite
He was an all-too-brief bright spot at a nightmare screening of *that* film (I knew it was going to be bad about 20 minutes in when the woman beside me started to actually Slap Her Thighs so amused was she by it all. The van! They couldn't stop the van, you see!)
Always been bothered by the fact that…

A Simple Thank You
This might be my favourite AV Club feature (alongside CTOTD of course) and it's good to see it back. I can't let myself read this episode until after I've watched the film - which I suspect I won't actually enjoy until the Extended-Time-To-Breath cut on BluRay - but I'm looking forward to it all.

Japanese Story
Toni Collette and this Japanese dude gradually fall in love in the Outback and then…something happens. Not the greatest movie ever but quite watchable and definitely more of a 'turns-on-a-dimer' than Goodfellas.