There was a music snob on my school bus I used to have to tolerate for about 80 minutes a day and The Flaming Lips were his favourite band entirely because of shit like that, and reading about it in this article, I feel vindicated in writing them off entirely because of that one guy.

The reason people call Jaws the first blockbuster is because nobody wants to credit The Towering Inferno with anything. It's awful from start to finish. The only highlight is, after that pointlessly sadistic scene of all those extras getting cooked in the elevator, Fred Astaire trying to save one of them by putting…

But Cruise is seen coming out of her building at the very start so they're connected long before the end, and it plays into Mann's Time is Luck ethos which is integral to everything he's made.

What twist?

Andrew Dice Clay's finest moment.

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Same reason why they call him a Nazi and a Russian collaborator: anything to avoid the fact he's a wholly American creation.

If only they dressed in meme t-shirts and baggy jeans like all the STEM weirdos.

They had a bunch of porn girls as models. I remember it being a big deal that Faye Reagan was their main bikini models for a while.

Nobody here reads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

You can get the equivalent fit by going to a t-shirt rack in any other shop, jumbling up the sizes, closing your eyes and then picking one up at random. I appreciated the softness of their tees but the human element made their sizing a joke.

I'm sure I remember their former CEO saying he envisioned the brand as being for 'affluent homosexuals' and wasn't pleased with how it ended up being the uniform for guys who want to be corporate stooges.

It's odd because even though this has been coming for a while, it's still the biggest brand that's totally fallen out of favour that I can think of lately. Stuff like Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein were before my time but I remember American Apparel being a huge deal when I was at university - everybody had their…

He already has an American film, called American Heist, and it's complete garbage.

That'll show 'em.

I thought that the league had lost their interest in the Seahawks since The Butler Did It but that clear facemask TD reminded me of the bad old Legion of Boom days.

My favourite thing about Live By Night so far is the large poster for it outside my local cinema which is at least 2/3 Ben Affleck sitting in a fancy chair, holding a gun, and then underneath in little letters is From The Director of The Town and Argo as if we aren't looking at a massive photo of the guy.

"Critics say" … "John Kerry referred to" … "US Department of State responded" etc.

I'd save Johnnie To for 2012 so we could get an article on Drug War.

I was reading about Mission Impossible 2 (for some reason) and saw something that said that since A Better Tomorrow II, John Woo's method is to shoot the movie like it will be three to four hours and then start cutting things down until it's a standard length. The first thing I thought about was Tequila's accuracy…