I wanted to like the first book, but the structure really threw me: each section is devoted to a different POV character, and there isn't a lot of overlap in the storylines, so it was hard to get invested in any particular thread when I knew it wouldn't be revisited again in any depth. Although this is exactly the…

Not as hilarious as Wally Pfister.

Maybe it's just the period setting, but I always picture McGee as Jon Hamm, with various Mad Men cast members in supporting roles, and it's great.

I think The A.V. Club would prefer if we left Prince out of it.

Down With Love is also an unappreciated gem—really funny, stylish, and visually imaginative. Reed may not have always gotten the projects he deserves, but he's a talented guy.

He’d written a different part for me, and then he had to cast someone else to secure the financing, so he said, “Well, just pick a part that you want to play.”

As long as we're placing orders for supporting actors from Gilligan's X-Files days, I'll take some Robert Wisden, aka Pusher, please.

I love the Goldsmith score, but James Horner's music for Wrath of Khan will always be closest to my heart—it's the pure distillation of adventure and excitement, and it just makes me want to sign up for Starfleet. (For what it's worth, I also thought Giacchino's work on the first movie was pretty great.)

In the commentary track, the writers say that they included that line as a defensive measure in case any viewers pointed out inconsistencies. They seem a little surprised by the fact that the episode does make sense, as long as you grant it a little slack (e.g., Bart and Milhouse are apparently running from Fat Tony…

I'd much rather see him do a full-length version of Anything Goes in the original Mandarin.

I caught it when it played in Chicago a couple of years ago, and it was one of the most memorable cinematic experiences of my life. Nine hours, three intermissions, going late into the night. If you're undecided about leaping into the whole thing, I'd recommend starting with first few hours of the second half, which…

The moment when Sheen breaks the mirror in his hotel room in the opening scene was an accident, too—he really cut up his hand.

I'm not letting him near anything else with "Wrath" in the title.

I'm only going to watch this if Wes Anderson directs.

The greatest trick the space raccoon ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

Lonsdale is one of the great "Oh, it's that guy" actors of all time. He's also the cop in The Day of the Jackal, the abbot in The Name of the Rose, and the mysterious intelligence patron in Munich.

I second the love for the score, which is one of my favorite movie soundtracks—I played it endlessly in high school. And Badalamenti's work on the original series is pretty clearly the best television score of all time.

If you watch Lithgow carefully, you can see his eyes literally bug out of their sockets with terror when he sees the gremlin for the first time:

He's not alone—Ms. Information and I seem to rewatch it every month or so. It may not be the movie we've watched the most from this century, but it's close.

Agreed—this is one of the most beautiful of all movies. I like to think of it as a Wong Kar-Wai film somehow transplanted to Britain during the war: it's got the same kind of effortless joy and wisdom spun around the slightest wisp of a plot. It's also really funny, touching, and ingenious.