All of those "classic" shows were syndicated or ABC series that the Disney Channel just reran endlessly. The only original programming they had in the '80s and '90s was stuff like Kids Incorporated, Jett Jackson, and that version of The Mickey Mouse Club with Christina Aguilera and Ryan Gosling. You can say what you…

At the Oscars, yeah, but he won a bunch of other stuff. Penn got some nominations, but it doesn't look like anyone was enough of a sucker to actually give him a prize. Dakota Fanning got more awards out of that than Penn did.

Triomphe Napoléon!

He's also spent years (and probably some amount of his own money) trying to turn his trainer and stuntman into a movie star, to the point of giving him a second starring vehicle (Man of Tai Chi) after everyone realized the first one (Kung Fu Man, which is totally different, really) wouldn't cut it. The second one…

dome???

Wait a second, you can watch TV shows on TV?

Sober…and ready to destroy the competitions.

Malkovich and Willis are both in their 50s.

The newsroom scenes are great and I love that totally bizarre "SPEED ZOO" scene. Its willingness to step away from the death row plot for odd little moments like that made it a lot more memorable than a Grisham adaptation, or whatever it might've been like if they'd done it as a more straight-ahead thriller.

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He actually quit Ghibli after Princess Mononoke and said he was done with animation. They rehired him about a year later when he decided to make Spirited Away. Then he said that would be his last feature film until Howl's Moving Castle lost its original director and Miyazaki stepped in to take his place.

I just remembered the "I" is actually the right side of an "N," so that is in fact the only plausible explanation. The only plausible explanation.

Upon close inspection, the "I" in "DO IT FOR HER" actually overlaps one of Homer's pictures of Maggie. This is clearly a deviously subtle joke by the animators, indicating that the plaque is actually written with magnetic letters that Homer is too dumb to just take down.

An Amazon review of this version (which as far as I can tell was the last DVD release) says it's 2.35:1, as it should be. Where'd you hear it was pan-and-scan?

927 was the year Æthelstan kicked the Vikings out of York and proclaimed himself "King of the English" (Rex Anglorum), reflecting the idea of a unified English state under his own rule. 1066 was just the year the Normans took the English throne.

Two open questions:

The Chinese triplets (the ones who got almost no screentime before climbing in a robot and dying) were played by ethnically Chinese Vietnamese-Americans who clearly don't know Mandarin. There's some Mandarin radio chatter when they're in the robot—very basic stuff along the lines of "get ready!"—but I don't think you…

but surely modern computing technology allows Nick Offerman to play all roles on all shows

@avclub-df80f70f60b1c678f8c91696f4a54f5f:disqus The rule of thumb is that 50% of the take goes to exhibitors, not the studio. That's an oversimplification—the actual split differs depending on the film (studios can negotiate more favorable deals on highly-anticipated blockbusters), local distribution arrangements, and…

I'm not sure what's funnier, that a movie set almost entirely in Hong Kong kills off the Chinese pilots after about thirty seconds of screentime, or that the closest thing it has to another prominent Chinese role is the peasant girl in the shelter who apparently teleported in from the 1970s.