The inspection sequence was totally a True Detective hommage. The only things missing for me was Charlie checking his pulse and at some point yelling "90 seconds, Motherfucker!!!"

I rediscovered the song this year, just in time to use it as the soundtrack to a video I made for my first trip to Europe with my now-fiancée. I had originally intended to use "Fragments of Time" by Daft Punk, but I couldn't shake "The Obvious Child" out of my system (as if I even wanted to). It just fit the images…

Excellent suggestion. Anything that parodies musical theatre and does it well is worthy in my books. Thanks. As for The Edge of Reason, it's fatal flaw (do you see the theme brewing?) is its criminal underuse of Bridget's parents. In the first film, they were probably one of the best elements. In the sequel, they were…

The film is sort of like Top 40 radio: a whole bunch of elements thrown together in quick succession, but ultimately meaningless. As for Richard Curtis, the only other film of his with which I am closely familiar is Bridget Jones's Diary, which I loved. I thought the sequel, however, was incredibly weak.

This film features one of the most egregious missteps I have ever witnessed in cinema, and it occurs at the very beginning: when Hugh Grant's opening narration makes reference to phone calls from the airplanes about to slam in to the World Trade Center. It's supposed to be a point about love triumphing over hate, but…

I know that some dialogue in some scenes was definitely the result of improv, but I can't say I know of a sharper comedy script. The dialogue is ridiculously crisp. "I was a better man with you as woman than I ever was with a woman as a man." Priceless.

Although it certainly is something to think about what Hal Ashby may have done with the film, hiring Sydney Pollack to direct the picture gave us one of the funniest, most sharply written and acted (possibly THE funniest, most sharply written and acted) scene in comedy history: the scene in which Michael Dorsey…

I have a good feeling that this will be a wonderful companion to Steven Hyden's "Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation?" feature.

I have a good feeling that this will be a wonderful companion to Steven Hyden's "Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation?" feature.

I abolutely love this series. Certainly no sugestions are needed, but I would love to see an article about Billy Joel's 52nd Street. Lots to discuss about that one (both positive and negative), the same going for Billy Joel's career as a whole.

I'm very surprised that none of the writers in the article here picked either Se7en or Zodiac from David Fincher.