I stand corrected on the timeline (because I'm not about to rewatch the thing; even without the quick murder of her kitten, it was a terribly disappointing movie) but not on thinking her decision to do so was too soon.

I don't recall exactly but think it could have been any animal. And stray dogs can be rehabilitated.

Emotion is not really the point in any Anderson film, but his willingness to introduce animals simply for the sake of abusing them (the cat in GBH, the dog in LAwSZ) or adolescent learning (MK) or other character's "development" (Royal bribing the firemen into giving the kids a dog, with the kids not missing their…

She kills the kitten after the first, relatively minor manifestations of the curse (nightmares and nose bleeds). The quickness with which she accepts the need to kill her pet took me out of the film.

I think the point was that society had become concerned only with day to day to maintenance and not with exploring the universe or finding meaningful answers to complex problems. Admittedly, the screenplay was perhaps the least graceful thing that the Nolan brothers have ever concocted….

So your argument is that because you like Breathless, it must have been influenced by Truffaut? Not a terribly strong argument, especially when one considers that 400 Blows and subsequent Truffaut films are a bit stodgy, but Shoot the Piano Player — which was made slightly after Breathless, and which Truffaut has said…

I don't remember where I read this, but some critic opined that Pitt sounded like he had learned his lines phonetically in that film.

The Scooby Doo movies were shot in Australia, too.

I'm sorry, what about The Frighteners was "genuinely dangerous"? I remember liking it twenty years ago but not feeling like my life was in jeopardy. If I watch it now, is my mortal soul going to be in peril?

To me this is kind of sad… Six has taken an interesting idea and completely fucked it beyond value. The first one is a generic mad-scientist movie but could have been an interesting horror film about body modification; the second one has hints of themes about mental illness and mass media. This one could have…

At some point in the past (early 00s, I think?), Letterman tried to discontinue the Top Ten list because he thought it had gotten stale. Fans disagreed, and the bit was preserved, but Letterman struggled to hide his disinterest. So let's say late 1990s for when he began to stop caring.

The season is still young, but this might be the most disappointing movie of the summer. Its action sequences (which look to have more CGI than Dowd suggests) are mostly top notch, but the rest of the film drags badly. The warrior women are conceptually a good addition, but either spend much of the time pouting in the…

For what it's worth, Denzel Washington's first feature film was a comedy — Carbon Copy (1981), in which he played George Segal's son

There are some legitimately funny moments in It's Pat.

Fellini at his actors count from one to ten in whatever language they spoke; the dialogue in some cases hadn't even been written yet.

Eh, I kinda like City of Women because it is so befuddled — the work of a chauvinist who just can't get why people think he's a chauvinist. Casanova is pretty tedious, though.

Somehow I knew when I read the headline that this would be a D'Angelo review….

"For someone who says he’s not a journalist, Jon Stewart has been
practicing a hell of a lot of journalism for the past 16 years—assuming
we accept that the mission of journalism is to inform on important
issues, be critical of those in power, and challenge the status quo."

We'll be unpopular together. Every EVH solo has sounded insincere to me — technically amazing but devoid of any emotional beyond his own self-regard. It's why Roth was the perfect frontman for the band: he was as self-absorbed but leavened Eddie's noodling with nudge-nudge canoodling.

My anchor-themed jacket brings all the ladies. If you want to diss someone's sartorial choices, go ask Meadows why every outfit he owns is maroon and powder blue.