It happens every now and then. I remember being really weirded out when the theme from "28 Days Later" started popping up in random movie trailers.

February looks like a kick-ass month. I haven't seen "House of the Devil," but the other three are all magnificent. Especially "Synecdoche." The fact that Ebert named it his best of the decade restored my faith in his critical powers.

Holy crap, Trurl, you must have posted your comment while I was still composing mine. Didn't mean to basically echo what you said. In any case, though, Kubrick and Kurosawa are both giants whose heights Coppola appears to be incapable of reaching. I'd give the edge to Kurosawa, but then I'd give him the edge over…

Kubrick lived for a long time, but he only directed, what, seven movies? With many years between each one? It's hard to compare him and Coppola because Kubrick doesn't have the same volume of output.

"No no, you have to breathe heavier if you're going to do a Darth Vader impression, you have to breathe harder. Imagine that you just ran eight feet."

"Dracula" is flawed, but I think its flaws are smaller than some people make out. A lot of the problem was that people's expectations didn't match up with the final product. And yes, it is GORGEOUS. The early scenes with Mina Harker, which are basically Pre-Raphaelite paintings brought to life, are breathtaking.

John Saxon's superpower in EtD was to somehow slow down his opponents' reflexes so that he could beat them despite telegraphing his ridiculous jump-kicks seemingly minutes in advance.

Hey, cut the jibba-jabba. Buy some cookies! COOKIES COOKIES COOKIIIIIIIES!

I'll stand up for "Dracula." On a whim, I watched it on Netflix Instant Watch recently, and the casting in that movie is actually well thought-out. Yes, even Keanu Reeves is right for his role - I saw Coppola's aim as portraying the male adversaries of Dracula as weak and/or venal, and Keanu Reeves is the ultimate in…

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What surprised me was how cheap the CGI looked in those clips. I can accept that the plot, acting, and general concept are all pretty stupid—it's an action blockbuster, not everything has to be capital-A Art, okay, whatever. But for a multimillion-dollar project to have rubbery special effects that make it glaringly…

Kinda interesting how the band leader totally stole the spotlight with his impersonation of Kevin Eubanks, though. That was the funniest part of the whole bit. Kimmel's impersonation seemed to consist mostly of "hey aren't lisps funny?!"

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Great, now I want to never think about or have sex ever again.

Yeah, I didn't know anything about this film prior to reading the review, and now I actually kind of want to see it, mainly for the setting. Maybe I'm the only one, but I've always wondered what happens AFTER all the humans die in the zombie/vampire apocalypse. What happens to the undead once they don't have any…

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I imagine that once she started offering up nuggets of wisdom such as "Like, 'Whoa' " in her first response, the interviewer rightly decided to focus on Cera. If he's not more interesting, he's at least more articulate.

Much as it pains me to say it, I hope the memory of the "Watchmen" movie is forever erased from history. It was good only in one sense: proving conclusively that Zack Snyder is nothing but a very skilled mimic, imitating the surface details of his source materials while demonstrating a complete lack of understanding…

"Duplicity" seems to have come out of nowhere. I'd pretty much forgotten that it existed till I saw it here. Also strange that it made the list considering its lackluster review. Any AVC writers want to give an explanation for the sudden reversal?

I wouldn't call it a best-of-the-year effort, but I enjoyed "Fantastic Mr. Fox" far more than I thought I would, and would even call it Wes Anderson's best movie, post-"Tenenbaums." It is more Anderson than Dahl, but whatever—I don't hold that against it. Definitely worth a rental or a viewing at a cheap theater.