Though Spielberg was apparently squeamish about being thought a McCarthy sympathizer and had Indy indignantly protesting such paranoia after being accused of being a Commie spy — Which is all fine and progressive, but in a world where there really are KGB spies shadowing you at the corner malt shop, and Speznaz…

Though it throws in some East German nuclear scientists — That, plus a desire to update the book from being an early-'90s period piece, might charitably be thought to have contributed to the change, but essentially it's what Haskell proposed here, more bizarrely.

Needing a thing other than housework is Marge's thing.

She speculates that The Last Crusade featured Nazi villains
because “in a more diverse and globally aware world, ruled by political
correctness and terrified of offending minorities (now majorities), it
was becoming harder and harder to find safely despicable ‘others’;
generally the Nazis were the only available…

I really don't know, though studio output back then was heavy enough, and multi-screen theaters not a thing yet, such that fairly small towns might still have two or more theaters. I know my town in suburban Philadelphia did, even though it would have been easy enough to take a trolley into the city if you'd wanted.

That could very well generate some kind of spacial wormhole, and swallow up the whole Internet!

Cross-cultural and market-maximizing homogenization are indeed big negatives. I frequently scoff at lamentations that the current market crushes "small films", because cheaper technology and alternate venues probably makes things easier for such projects. Scorsese, though, produces mainly in that limited genre of big…

First blockbusters of the modern age. There were occasional older films like Gone With The Wind that fit the description pretty well. Arguably GWTW fits it better, in that it was enormously budgeted and hyped in advance, in contrast with those '70s blockbusters, which all rather surprised their studios.

Well, except that it's just an ultimately empty nostalgic lamentation, rather than a promise to use the coercive force of government and law enforcement to achieve his goal…

It was the only way to hide my escape tunnel!

In the late 1940s? Presumably part of Operation: Paperclip.

Unless he really is dead, and this season is all some kind of "noir purgatory"…

Boy, that must have been a close call… Spidey could have ended up as "Guy in White Spandex"!

Dilute! Dilute! Okay?

They haven't been featuring "Red" in their commercials for a while. I like to think that's because she's busy running their Twitter account and delivering smackdowns like this. Maybe I'll write some fan fiction… I'll be in my… bunk…

That which does not kill me, makes me a great vacation time share…

We received various "kids music" from my parents and friends when my daughter was an infant, which she seemed to enjoy until she was about three or four. My favorite was various Disney songs from pre-'80s movies as performed by The Mike Curb Congregation (previously known to me only as the performers of "Burning…

It was on a need to know basis!

I'm mystified that nobody seems to have yet gotten the rights for a competing medieval show/restaurant under the Game of Thrones banner.

In these dark years of myriad "infusions" and flavored whiskeys, it can't have smelled much worse than a lot of what's being officially blended and marketed.