That's not how these things work, and the movie opened there last year.

Except it comes out on April 24th.

Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure this originated from the editorial meeting where I was trying to pitch an FOC on the politics of Thomas the Tank Engine. May happen someday.

Totally different ending, mostly misses the point / tone of the source material. Leonid Gaidai's take (1971) is good, but the Soviet miniseries directed by Mark Zakharov (1977) is the definitive adaptation, not to mention a whole lot of fun.

Werwolf, not werewolf. Very different things.

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed, which is a five-part miniseries and a major Soviet cultural touchstone. Set in the Stalin era in the organized crime division of the Moscow police. Originally a novel.

Кормят. Платят. Не жалуюсь.

Russian pro-tip: If someone is trying to sell you a Communist cover-up story, don't buy it. Especially if they're Russian. Reality is banal. The Soviet police was generally bad at investigating sexual assaults and rapes.

Enemy At The Gates is like My Friend Ivan Lapshin compared to this.

Look, we can keep having this argument, but Kravchenko's conviction had everything to do with shoddy Soviet police work and nothing to do with Party conspiracies. And, frankly, to a Russian of any period post-Stalin, the idea that a person could get away with murder because they were a member of the Party is laughable.

It's an exaggeration. What I mean is that, after the 1950s, it was not that big of a deal, especially not in a mid-sized city with a lot of industries, and definitely not in Rostov.

Oh, I know it's based on it, but the depiction of Soviet criminology (even Stalin era) is bogus and transposing it into that period only has the effect of removing the crimes from any social context.

Dad's side of the family is from Rostov, grandpa's from Shakhty. Literally grew up with the killings as a thing.

No offense, but that's completely wrong. Chikatilo was active in the 1980s — a very different social environment and structure — and the subject of an extremely high-profile manhunt. The reason he got away for so long was because forensic evidence ruled him out as a suspect in the early years of the investigation.…

No, it's actually the third sequel to Behind Enemy Lines. (Y'know, the other movie Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman did together.)

Here's the thing: I don't think Garland understands what auteur means, and I don't think most people who use it do. It's one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot.

"…films commercially released in the U.S. between 2010 and 2014."

No, but Francis the Talking Mule fought the Japanese in the Pacific. (It's canon!)

… really unlikely, considering the direction Disney appears to be going with it? (And with Pete's Dragon, which probably precipitated this thing.)

Couldn't work it in, but I believe he might've also been the last living pre-World War II Grand Prix driver. (He raced in '37.)