The trailer certainly suggests that Clooney was taking copious notes while filming O Brother, Intolerable Cruelty, and Burn After Reading. If the Coens had actually directed it, I'd be counting down the days. But I'm much less enthusiastic about Clooney's directing efforts than you seem to be (None of his movies…

I'd put both Parent Traps on the list, and both Freaky Fridays. I'd also throw in the 50s Shaggy Dog (but not the Tim Allen one).

Pfeiffier is constantly terrific, but I think she's underrated because she's always been insanely hot and she hasn't exactly been good at picking projects. Seriously, looking at her IMDB page, she wasn't in one good movie between One Fine Day and Hairspray/Stardust, with The Story of Us and I Am Sam being…

One of the paradoxes of the world is that Iceland is mostly green and Greenland is mostly ice.

I think the NYE movie is 200 Cigarettes
I'm going to say he was in 4 movies
A Good Day to Die Hard
The Petrified Forest?
Maximum Overdrive
Carrie
I can't remember. I'll kick myself in a bit.
Sahara

When I went to college in the mid-90s, a surviving single-screen that had been built 30 years earlier was still in operation. I can't remember how big the auditorium was, but it was definitely bigger than any one at either of the mutiplexes in town.

Avatar. I know everyone saw it in the theater, but watching it in 3D (a format I usually hate) was a magical experience. Seeing it on 2D on TV…well, there's a reason the highest-grossing film of all time was already largely forgotten just five years after it came out.

My bf excitedly woke me up this morning to show it to me. It was lovely, but I think I'd rather have gotten another half an hour of sleep instead.

Also, John Amos's character on Good Times.

It actually happened off-screen between Seasons 1 & 2 of Archie Bunker's Place. Stapleton was tired of playing the character, which is why the show started focusing on the bar, but she made a few appearances during Season 1. She decided to leave completely after that, so they killed her off between seasons. The…

So her character gets to join Valerie Harper's character on Valerie, Edith Bunker, and Elliot Gould's character on the short lived 80s sitcom Together We Stand as sitcom spouses killed off even though their actors were alive and well.

They are the best of the package, but are still a vastly inferior ripoff of Nestle Crunch.

I've never understood that argument. It's not like Jefferson Davis will blink out of history because some monument to him erected in 1936 as a direct response to the burgeoning civil rights movement gets taken down.

Earlier today, I was looking at a map of how congressional districts voted in November. It's pretty striking how, even in states won by Hillary, there were tiny patches of blue surrounded by giant seas of red.

I'll wait for Lyft, directed by James Wan, instead.

Meanwhile, in another example of that weird twin movie thing that pops up every so often and gives us two Steve Prefontane biopics or two movies about terrorists taking over the White House, Waze will open three months later to better reviews but smaller box office.

Beans are never acceptable in chili. Never. End of discussion.

Weirdly, I also have a gay Latino pro-Trump friend on my FB page, though he's always been a Republican, so no Bernie love from him. He was still happily posting pro-Trump stuff right up until Wednesday. Since then, he's posted a couple of generic conservative memes that had nothing to do with the president, a short…

Yeah, but "Starring One of the Leads From Hamilton!" is proving not to necessarily be something that draws in the crowd.

I had never heard that. That does explain why the two acts feel kind of disjointed from each other.