Escape from New York takes place in the far-distant year of 1997.

I read that most of the people who died were in bathrooms where they had fled to avoid the gunfire. If you're too scared that you're going to get shot to leave the place that's being overcome by smoke, there's not much any building design can do.

I wouldn't worry about Texas much. If Gov. Abbot is stupid enough to call a special session to force through a bathroom bill because Lt. Gov. Patrick is bizarrely obsessed with the issue, then Texas's economy should have a nice hole blown into it.

Oh yeah, I didn't know there was a twist at the end of The Usual Suspects, so I was blown away by the end back in 1995.

I thought The Matrix looked lame when it first opened, and resisted seeing it. Finally, about a month or so into its run, I finally gave in and loved it.

I was 6. Given my less-than-rational reaction to the melting Nazis when I had seen Raiders of the Lost Ark earlier that year, my parents wisely decided to not let me see it. I still never have, and frankly, have no real desire to.

Eh…even great movies are full of contrived coincidences like that.

So the recipe for Making America Great Again is to become an international pariah.

I had to go back and re-read that paragraph because I was thinking the same thing. I really couldn't understand how proudly progressive Austin had managed to elect a right-wing crank as mayor.

Christie already did one where one person killed 9 other people. But that was set on an isolated island, not a train.

Well, Johnny Depp won't be a suspect, since that person is the victim.

This is actually the first film he's directed that he also stars in since Love's Labor's Lost in 2000. He did play a supporting role in that Jack Ryan movie he did a few years back, but he seems to have been content to concentrate on either acting or directing for the last few years.

My problem is that I had read pretty much her entire oeuvre by the 8th grade (well, not the romance novels she wrote under a pen name. Still haven't gotten around to those, and suspect I never will). For what it's worth, I was genuinely shocked at the ending back then.

I'm pretty sure he borrowed that mustache from Kurt Russell in The Hateful Eight (and I still think it should have gotten a Supporting Actor nomination—not Russel, his 'stache).

Yeah…Branagh looks absolutely nothing like Herclue Poirot.

Molina, I suspect, was a terrific Poirot. I'm a bit horrified to learn that that version took place in the present day, however.

I greatly enjoyed the BBC version, and I'm thrilled they mostly retained the book's dark ending. However, the way that Wargrave committed suicide sort of ruined his attempt to make it a perfect, unsolvable crime. Since it's been a year-plus since I saw it, I don't remember the exact details of the very end, but the…

When I went to see The Queen, someone in the audience's cell phone went off. Annoying, but not uncommon. The person did the right thing by leaving the auditorium to have her conversation. Only, she just went into the hall between the seats and the door to the actual hallway/lobby. That means that everyone in the…

Way back when, I saw The Crying Game with my parents. We didn't know what the twist was going in, or how graphically we'd find out.

I remember seeing the 1999 Life (Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence in prison) at a show that started at 10:30 on a Tuesday night. Sitting in the audience with me was a couple that had brought along their pre-teen kids. Now, for an R-rated movie, it's not that R-rated—a lot of language, but there is no sex or…