No movies before 1995 is clearly dumber, but that's only because you're blocking yourself off from 70+ years of movie history, and gaining only 15 in return. A more interesting cutoff would be, say, 1965, which cuts the history of sound movies approximately in half. Granting the point that all arbitrary cutoffs are…

@Bill Reed: In Bruges is hilarious, but it's a lot darker and richer than the trailers made it seem. I saw it immediately after it got an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay (which resulted in a collective "huh?" from a lot of people I knew), so I was in exactly the right frame of mind. (If there's a more quotable…

Casablanca is the closest thing I've ever had to a dealbreaker. I have fairly eclectic tastes in movies, and I was never going to break up with someone who didn't like Blue Velvet or Last Tango in Paris, but if you don't like Casablanca, I don't think there's any way that we can be friends.

I love In Bruges, but the trailer did go out of its way to make it look like a stupid comedy, so if someone went into it with the wrong expectations—created, I repeat, by the film's own marketing—I could see how they might feel cheated. Moviegoers just don't like being surprised, even on the upside.

@unicyclistperiscopes: Good call on "Down With Love." That might be the only romantic comedy that I enjoy even more than my wife does. (It's also the single greatest thing that I was ever turned onto via the AV Club, thanks to Rabin's Year of Flops.)

As a Marx Brothers thread on the AV Club grows longer, the probability of someone making that particular joke approaches 1. I'm just glad it was me.

Alec Baldwin IS The Mayoring Man.

This comment is not intended as an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, the Predator franchise. It is for The Information's purposes only.

Mahershalalhashbaz Ali
Fun fact: his birth name was Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore. No wonder he changed it!

Fuck, I knew I should have googled that first.

Also
WHERE'S RUFUS J. FIREFLY?

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

@La Pipe: I own the first Golden Collection on DVD, which has many of the classics, but withheld some of the best (What's Opera, Doc?, most egregiously) for future releases. But nearly all of the cartoons can be viewed online, legally or otherwise.

And yet it's insanity with elegance, purpose, and a punchline, which is something that not all of its imitators understand.

My list
1. Duck Amuck
2. What's Opera, Doc?
3. Rabbit of Seville
4. Ali Baba Bunny
5. Robin Hood Daffy

My Blueberry Nights wasn't a great movie, but it was a step in the right direction for Wong: instead of laboring for years over some elusive masterwork, he needs to be making a movie every eighteen months. Even if most of them end up being disposable, we're likely to get a few new masterpieces out of the deal.

You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better.

Paul Bartel also plays the drug dealer who uses New York's Finest Taxi Service in The Usual Suspects.

They should just tape a bunch of cats together.

@tragically ludicrous: the Pet Shop Boys cover of "Viva La Vida" is pretty great. And it's even better in concert, where Neil Tennant sings it while wearing a crown for some reason.