There is now a Spoiler Space: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Yep, and the first point in Severus' plan is to repair the aqueducts. (Though they're visible in the background, characters are only ever shown getting water from wells.)

Actually, the characters have full, long Roman names, and are often addressed by them. The Celt is only called that because he refuses to tell anyone his name for much of the movie.

I e-mailed Dowd about adding a Spoiler Space, because this is actually something I wanted to address, since I think the movie's last few scenes are really interesting, but [*spoilers follow*] the short answer to those two questions is that everyone dies, including the heroes. [*spoilers end*]

Actually, David Axelrod is his name in the original, not in this version. It's been changed to David Elliott, probably for the reason you cited.

About half of all movie reviews everywhere are from screeners. (Rarely DVDs, though — secure streams are the norm.)

Eckhart and Bell actually do have the same agent. I checked.

It did. I cut the reference because it fit awkwardly, but Mann also interviewed Folsom inmates for Straight Time, and apparently some of that unused draft went into Thief.

Good catch; I always get those two subtitles mixed up. E-mailed editor to make the correction.

Thebes isn't exactly famous for its massive pine forests.

It's called Lost in Translation.

Joke's on you — I'm quoted on the box for Paul W.S. Anderson's The Three Musketeers!

List is tallied from ballots. Pretty sure that, with the exception of Sam Adams, every one of us liked Gravity quite a bit (I had it at 12); it's just that we liked some other movies more. Democracy.

Tales from the Golden Age is an omnibus project; Mungiu was one of five directors. Beyond the Hills was his feature since 4 Weeks….

It was on my ballot. Not sure why I ended up not writing about it.

She's not manic.

The movie opens with Stallone escaping from that set-up in a way that's not really believable, but is interesting in that his method relies almost entirely on understanding the prison's internal structure and the routines and personalities of the guards.

You'll notice that Matt makes no mention of Dumont in the piece, though.

No, the most famous stuff is all there. Fellowes just invents dialogue whenever he needs to "streamline" things, i.e. make the characters more one-dimensional. (Tybalt, Lord Capulet, and Count Paris are just straightforward villains, for instance.)

Elaine May only appeared in two movies before A New Leaf. She was known as a comedian, not as an actor.