I'll put up this link since it's mentioned, but unlinked, in the main story. The hilarious, utterly whackjob SNL skit "The Mr. Belvedere Fan Club", featuring a very young Tom Hanks.

I don't get how puns work at all, even though I see them almost every day. They're strange like family, as big a mystery as kin.

Woah woah woah: frauds-for-hire and Lincoln murderers.

I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes with curiosity

Yeah, I saw that and it was so out there as a writer of this sort of movie I wasn't sure if it was IMDB mismatching another writer with the well-known crime novelist, or if it was a project on the shelf that started out as one thing and developed into another.

I was going to say "Crying" from Mulholland, but Pants Goblin beat me to it; and "In Dreams" from Blue Velvet, but Hear God Laugh beat me on that as well -  so instead I'll go with "Blue Velvet" from the movie of the same title. Dorothy Vallens sings a song of longing for a bygone time, and it may reflect her own…

I've wanted to see this for a while because I'm a longtime fan of WKW, and because I like movies that aren't "substantial", but closer to short stories, where small, seemingly insignificant moments culminate in something larger. I don't think it can be overstated how important it is for a director outside a culture to…

"In the future, California finds itself prey to a dangerous and unrelenting force: the deadly Viennese mafia. Only one man can go undercover, infiltrate, and break them: Hans Spiegelmann-Kreutzer…played by, take a wild fucking guess, morons."

Aw geez, it's been taken down already. These outsider artists can be so damn coy when the mainstream discovers their work.

Oh great, this crap again. I think we know the drill at this point: Jesus was some ordinary shmoe until he was bitten by a radioactive spider.

Good mention. But I think the most damning moment is here, and, of course, it's where Snake decides not to give him the real tape:

It's got bondage play, a Wayans, and a middle aged man, so I assume we're looking at This is Fifty Shades of Stupid.

I would slightly disagree and say that a lot of tabloid stuff is devoted to inspiring strong emotion, is specifically designed for strong emotion, while a lot of great art actually involves tempering those same strong emotions. For instance, a lot of tabloid TV and journalism involves a sensational narrative with a…

I think the problem is that any movie from the seventies that had an all-black cast and a low budget (and any movie with an all-black cast other than The Wiz was guaranteed a low budget) is labeled blaxploitation when a lot of them wouldn't fit the terms here - Cotton Comes To Harlem is considered "blaxploitation" but…

I think one reason why exploitation movies will exert a power, a power that's close to something in great art, and sometimes crosses over into great art, is that they possess a raw, merciless nihilism that few movies or books dare approach - that's not necessarily the same thing as bravery. I think of Texas Chainsaw…

buttercup already put in a mention for Pennies From Heaven. I'll throw in a few votes for it as well: "Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You" (the classroom number), "Let's Face The Music and Dance" (the heroes watch Fred and Ginger on-screen, then suddenly are Fred and Ginger), and the closing number, "The Glory of…

No, just the standard issue no-frills sarcasm.

I'm still trying to recover from my astonishment that neither Dark Knight Rises nor Prometheus got nominated for best screenplay.

I actually disagree; he sounds like a guy who just wants to get this movie made, something that's actually interesting and different. He stays with Lohan because he does think that she's got an insane level of raw talent, even while she's acting in a way that's incredibly undisciplined and indulgent. I don't think…

I'm looking forward to a future movie by either Albert Brooks or Whit Stillman, Angster Squad.