Siân Phillips was actually pissed off that her entire monologue ended up offscreen while the camera stayed on Brian Blessed's face. But it's precisely that unusual touch that elevated the scene!

I'd say Spacey's Doe is more like Brian Cox's Hannibal Lecktor.

Psycho
Dr. Strangelove
Rosemary's Baby
Planet of the Apes
MASH
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Godfather
The Exorcist
Jaws
Carrie
The Shining
The Howling
To Live and Die in L.A.

"With Depp though, the wonders of his 21 Jump Street years are tinged with melancholy, given what followed. He’s been electrifying in many movies; but he’s also worn out his welcome some over the past decade with his predilection for weird accents, costumes, and makeup in his performance…"

I think I realised I loved Roger Ebert when I first read his glowing 3½-star review of Class of 1984.

"Nobody understands me, you know that? I fucking bust my ass for you guys and what do I get? "You're spooky." Fuck you, man! Fuck you all! I mean, I got something to say. What do you think this is about? You think this is a fucking costume? This is a way of life!"

She did get a TV biopic starring Jami Gertz, if that counts…

I feel pretty guilty because last week I watched Haunted Honeymoon for the first time, and I thought it was terrible. Since then, Gene Wilder died, and now I find out what Gilda Radner was going through during the making of that film…?

Wasn't it called Elvis Meets Nixon or something? I seem to remember it was pretty amusing…

Sledge Hammer! lost the battle, but it won the war. Inasmuch as, David Rasche isn't an unrepentant rapist scumbag.

Célestine in Octave Mirbeau's Diary of a Chambermaid.

Criterion has been good to Costa-Gavras: Z and Missing have been released, and State of Siege and The Confession will be released in a few months.

I have Platoon - more specifically, the trailer for Platoon - to thank for introducing me to the awesomeness of "The Tracks Of My Tears."

What about the episode where the parents leave for a few days, and Kevin throws a party that goes out of control? When the parents come back to find the house is trashed, they blame Wayne for it, and Wayne takes the rap rather than turn Kevin in. That blew my mind when I first watched that episode.

When I watched the show during its original run, I was close to Kevin's age, and I found Jack Arnold to be kinda scary. Years later, when I watched re-runs, Jack Arnold was a revelation to me - he was the character I sympathised with the most, and Kevin, my previous point of identification, seemed like a whiny jerk.

Didn't he become a TV evangelist? Kevin mentioned something about how he learned how to profit from the misery of others…

I'm sure to Americans, the term "math" makes perfect sense, but…technically, wouldn't "math" make sense if it was short for "mathematic"? Since the original word is "mathematics," which is plural, doesn't "maths" make more sense as shorthand?

Poo-poo-pa-doop.

This is about as good a place as any to mention that one of the coolest things on the fan-made Pink Floyd mash-up album The Floydian Propulsion Project is the "PIIIIIIGS IIIIIIN SPAAAAAACE!!!!!!" intro at the start of "Pigs on the Wing."

True. Anyway, Mark Hamill is a goddamn national treasure. I'm ashamed of all the years I spent thinking he was less cool than Harrison Ford.