It seems like the big key to the recent Christian hits has been micro-budgets. Risen made roughly the same box office as Fireproof but it cost 40 times as much to make.

Jim Gordon leans over a young Bruce Wayne just after his parents have been shot.

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It's Zoolander.

There's a LOT of Ava in that movie, and she only rarely covers up her CGI parts.

I think about Academy Award winners Three 6 Mafia every day.

I loved that they went with the quieter character work of Ex Machina over "what filled the screen with a lot of crazy stuff?"

I don't think Mad Men was ever a big hit. It ended up doing very well for a show on a cable network nobody knew/cared about, but it only averaged a couple million viewers. Mysteries of Laura gets more than three times that.*

I haven't seen it, but Hard Candy seems like it's not far off.

It's a shame The Soup ended just a couple months too soon and they won't be able to show that clip out of context.

I don't know about only one. Immortan Joe also seemed fairly cross with him.

IT TOOK TWELVE BEARS TO MAKE

Can a movie be overpraised if the only time it ever comes up is people talking about how much they disliked it?

You mean Carol. But I'll use that as an excuse to give a shout out to Ludwig Göransson's score for Creed, which successfully evokes a mega-iconic score while forging its own path.

I'd never seen it anywhere until a few years ago in an AV Club review. I have still never seen it outside the AV Club, but since then I've seen it used here basically every time Westerns come up.

Wait, what?

"Everything the light touches… But what about that shadowy place?"
"Simba, I was BORN in it! MOLDED by it!"

Renner plays a character completely unrelated to Bourne. Jason Bourne is only mentioned in dialogue or seen in photographs. EDIT: And now I see this has already been mentioned. Sorry.

When will the AV Club stop dodging the big questions, like will this oater's BO be boffo??

I can understand if not endorse that use, but "oater" is only ever used here in the headline. The article uses "Western" twice, but the uses are plenty separated.