As noted in the other thread: It makes me sad that no one remembers Last Embrace except me. It's the first Demme picture I saw in the theater (1979).

Until his death Charles Napier had a part in every Jonathan Demme movie, as far as I know.

But the first two Springsteen albums WERE cool.

Sung by li'l Ron Howard, don't forget, in the movie.

To 1999. There's an on-screen title saying so. (The production design people got the used cars of the era right - something not always seen even in pricey theatrical features.)

Yes, I know about that story too, from the late 1970s; reprinted as "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon." Poignantly includes such elements as a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers poster signed by Gilbert Shelton.

When I first read about Passengers I immediately recognized that the ship makes no sense. There is absolutely no reason that a sleeper ship would have anything onboard other than sleeping people and the machinery to manage them.

Too bad it's not likely to be "Goin' Up the Country" by Canned Heat.

Depends on how far back you go. Nash gets eternal credit in my book as one of the writers of the Hollies' "Carrie-Anne."

"…skimps over both the science and the relationships…": You can "skimp on" or "skim over" but not, as far as I know, "skimp over." In any case, I'll have a chance to see the movie Saturday evening in Washington DC, just after the March for Science, and I hope it's not so disappointing as this review makes it seem -…

Will you go to lunch!

There was a Pontiac Phoenix, for several years ending in the early 1980s. This being the internet, some retired Pontiac sales manager can probably tell us whether they were instructed to call them Phoenices in the aggregate. (Not nearly such a problem as how to pluralize the Pontiac Grand Prix, I suppose…)

I can imagine the ability to convincingly create (from existing footage) whole performances that were never given, such that, for example, anyone viewing Alien could decide on a whim which of the seven actors gets which part - this would be a suitable movie for such an exercise because in the original script, so I've…

What? In Muldaur's second-season role as Ann Mulhall, she only has a few minutes as "herself" and no time to really make any sort of impression; we mostly see her as inhabited by Thalassa, the surviving energy-spouse of the energy-dude Sargon. And Dr. Miranda Jones, her third-season role, is arrogant and prideful.…

Perhaps, but a series set just after the most recent events shown on UPN might well run into the same problems. Even during the original series, certain storylines became clichés, to the point that (for example) in the third season you had "Lord" Garth, the former fleet captain (the glorious Steve Ihnat), blithely…

But Muldaur was never given anything to establish her "folksiness," whereas Kelley got to drawl and sip a mint julep outdoors (under the influence of spores, but so what?) in "This Side of Paradise" and, in other episodes, was able to refer to himself as just an "old country doctor." Plus, the warmer side of McCoy's…

All this complication for a 10- or 13-episode series?

I never blamed Muldaur for Pulaski; throughout her career (she seems to have retired after LA Law), she was excellent when the writing was half-decent.

Actually the Director's Cut (supervised by director Robert Wise some 20 years later) is only 4 minutes longer and is by most accounts better paced, with some of the original 1979 scenes shortened. Some of these changes would have been made in 1979 if there had been time to do so, but Paramount was unable or unwilling…

Omigod, I forgot I'd seen that one in the theater. Forced eccentricity will seem triple-forced to audiences. LL Cool J as Michael Gambon's son? Sure. Nothing had any emotional impact, not even the revelation that Joan Cusack (spoiler for 25-year-old movie) was a robot. And that awful music put me off Hans Zimmer for…