I thought they worked very well together in Adventureland (Stewart's best performance as an adult).

I've missed Sleepy Hollow.

One of my law school torts classes actually discussed Bart with the "flesh-eating bacteria" cereal at the end in the context of to what degree people can renounce the opportunity to sue when they knowingly use an unsafe product.

The similarities between those two works are massively overstated, and mainly cosmetic. The debt that The Lion King owes to Hamlet is far greater.

I like how much of the movie's story focus has seemingly been determined by a desire to avoid getting sued (no royals, apart from what amount to one-line cameos from her kids, Dodi Fayed as a non-speaking role, etc.).

Her role in the episode is small compared to in Bart the Lover or Grade School Confidential, but Mrs. Krabappel's defining moment for me was in Bart Gets An F.

That can be about Elizabeth marrying Prince Phillip. I see the possibility for Father of the Bride-style shenanigans.

They should have had Chris Pratt and co. play the Navy SEALs in Captain Phillips. We can have a whole series of films where these guys pop up in supporting roles to kill people at the climax.

The sequel will focus on Dev Patel and Maggie Smith as they expand the Marigold into a chain and ruthlessly drive the competition out of business.

Game of Thrones produced its own porn parody, the scene with Littlefinger and the two whores in season 1. At least, I've rationalized that that was supposed to be a parody.

"What It Feels Like To Read the Game of Thrones Books" on YouTube earns that distinction for me:

The filmmakers were in an unfortunate place there, because you just can't do on film what you can on the page. And while an R-rated version would have been a literal adaptation, I think it would have been bizarre (as well as commercially nonsensical) to adapt a hugely popular YA series into a movie that its target…

The first movie's use of the shaky cam was specifically for that purpose, to make all the child-killing as palatable to the MPAA as possible in order to keep the rating PG-13.

I bought Elton John's new album, The Diving Board, and started listening to it over the weekend. It's really good, with a nice range of narrative songs. "Oscar Wilde Gets Out" is the standout so far, very good lyrics by Taupin (Sir Elton has started to slur his diction a bit, which is noticeable with one or two…

Yeah, the tears bit was a terrific image. Apparently it doesn't actually work that way, but who cares? It's a great movie moment.

"I should put you away/
Where you can't kill or maim us/
But this is L.A./
And you're rich and faamouss!"

The general opinion amongst the guys in my class was that the ratio of Olivia Hussey's boobs to Leonard Whiting's ass was way too skewed in favour of the latter.

We watched both versions in different classes, as I recall. Or it may have been the same class. I'm not sure. We also saw the Polanski Macbeth and the Zeffirelli Hamlet (the teacher thought the Branagh version was too long to show in class).

Kubrick is one of those directors whose work I admire more than I really enjoy. Of the ones I've seen, Barry Lyndon is the film of his that I've enjoyed the most, apart from Spartacus, but Spartacus is really him doing a job for his friend Kirk Douglas, and not really representative of his larger body of work.

Zodiac: Feels almost like Fincher writing an apology for Se7en's part in shaping the modern serial killer/police drama, by getting back to a very naturalistic procedural style. Doing a movie about a killer who was never caught is a risky dramatic choice, and it feels different, but as the heat dies down and Jake…