I've seen stuff on Youtube of Jessie Mueller (Carrie from the recent Carousel live from lincoln center thing) playing the role. She does it very well.

I just watched the first episode. It was better than Angry Boys at that point, and I enjoyed the little details. For example, Ja'mie has South African parents yet she has an Aussie accent, which is extremely accurate to Australia (and New Zealand).

I'm pretty sure The Simpsons have already been doing that for a few years. I definitely have seen themed groups of episodes (one or two DVD's usually) in the video store. I remember one involving Halloween specials…

I kind of wonder if Lilley has too many yes-men about these days. I was very disappointed by Angry Boys, to the point that I haven't even watched the Ja'mie one yet, and it really felt as if it could have used an outside eye telling him what wasn't working.

My favourite Carpenter movie (so far) is The Thing, where he had access to real money, so I'm not sure if having more money would make him abandon his classical style.

I don't think binging is the way to watch Ozu at all. I intend to work through his (rather large) filmography at a leisurely pace over the next few years. I have a similar plan for Mike Leigh.

Good to know. I'll probably end up seeing it with my niece and nephew over Christmas (also because I don't think it comes out here for another week or two).

Was it the ending of The World's End? Because I certainly had problems with that. Up until then I was pretty sold, though.

I've seen the song the snowman sings in Frozen, and I wasn't particularly enthralled by it (I kind of like Lopez the composer, as a lyricist I'm less sold on him or his wife). Are the other songs better?

It was such a great moment. You feel it coming, and it sets the tone for the movie perfectly.

This week I watched Good Morning, Assault on Precinct 13, The Amazing Spider-Man, Career Girls and The Paper Chase. I also re-watched Spider-Man 2.

I'm not the biggest Sinatra fan, but his collaboration with Nelson Riddle is probably one of the best between a singer and arranger. Riddle's style was distinctive (if inappropriate for many of the films he was asked to compose/arrange for) and, particularly with Sinatra, complimented the intent of the songs very well.

All filmmakers should marry architects so that they have impeccably designed and cinematic houses.

I think the X-movies are remnants of the early-2000's way of thinking about comic book movies, where people were kind of playing with the mythology willy-nilly because they figured that fans would be happy just to see the characters on the screen.

I really liked working with my DP. He had his own ideas, but they were mostly good ones and it was good to talk over the lighting with him.

Having the writer on set must have been challenging. I tried to stay as far away from the people making a scene from my script as possible, because I knew I would be annoying otherwise.

To be fair, some of them sound very little like the original. For example, See my Vest doesn't sound much like Be Our Guest.

I did a similar short film thing in my film production class, directing someone else's script (another group did mine). It ended up being really frustrating, because the script was very surreal and the editor disagreed with me on how it should cut together (she was very into the French New Wave). It ended out alright…

This week I watched The Wrong Man, The Major and the Minor, Barbarella and The Wolverine.

As someone who watched both Thors this week, and preferred the second one, it was the direction that separated them (the character stuff is played pretty much the same in both movies to me, though it does feel kind of shoe-horned into the second). Taylor directs clean, coherent action, while Branagh has an addiction…