Robin and Marian. Richard Lester movie. 1976. Very good. Heck of a final shot.

It's fun, and frequently pretty funny. Emmerich's a complete conspiracy nut, and considering he's made movies involving such Coast To Coast AM favorites as ancient aliens (Stargate), Area 51 UFO cover-ups (Independence Day), government experiments on soldiers in Vietnam (Universal Soldier), and the Mayan calendar (2012…

I like Charles Burnett's Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, but wish Burnett had gotten the chance to make a straight-up Nat Turner movie.

She isn't a freed slave, and [MINOR SPOILERS FOLLOW] the "nicest guy in the movie" is a non-character who has zero lines until he shows up at the farm, gets shot, and uses his dying breaths to… warn of the approaching Union army. ("It's over. It's all over. You take shelter. They comin'." I believe that's the extent…

Currently playing at the AMC Atlantic Times Square 14 in Monterey Park and the AMC Puente Hills 20 in City of Industry.

"…is African-American" refers to "partner," i.e. to the character and not Kaluuya himself.

In all seriousness, I think it was the realization that the whole movie was going to look like that.

I believe it's actually in 1.66, which is the intended aspect ratio. (A really unusual aspect ratio, too, largely exclusive to France.) I'm at TIFF, though, and can't check.

Only 5 of Shyamalan's 11 features have twist endings. The last one was 11 years ago.

There's a Spoiler Space that will be going up for this movie later today.

Shit, my dad isn't old enough to remember 1968.

Duo from opposite sides of the law, both with their own personal code, facing a gang who've just gotten hold of military-grade weapons, but with the siege inverted into a chase. Yep, still checks out.

Bylines are basically the only thing 99% of readers know about you, so it's fairly common practice for critics, journalists, etc. to use two initials so readers don't confuse them for someone else. (See: NYT's Tony Scott, whose byline is A.O. Scott, etc., etc.)

I would have done one for this, but a family-medical-emergency-type thing meant this entered the editing process behind schedule.

To the movie's credit, it addresses both of these questions. Jason was kidnapped from a NICU at the age of 3 months, and the implication is that Morton and Shannon's characters worked at the hospital and were specifically scoping out candidates.

Any good library will have plenty of Rohmer.

Basically, anything except the period pieces (The Marquise of O, Perceval, Triple Agent, The Lady and the Duke, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon) or his atypical first feature, The Sign Of Leo.

Alike thematically, but different enough in terms of attitude / style that a lot of people who didn't like Philip seem to really dig this one.

It seems weird that so many people read that movie's humor and retro drive-in sci-fi plotting as unintentional.

I genuinely like it.