Yes, she gives two of my favorite performances of all time in her films with Allen (her ones in Broadway Danny Rose and Purple Rose of Cairo, specifically). That's what you mean, right?

And regardless of everything else, can we at least agree that going from Max Landis to Woody Allen is a firm step in the right direction?

And I wish ice cream was more like steak, but I can't see that really panning out.

I'm going to assume, once he saw the Sony HD camera being brought to set, he keeled over and froze in his position like that old lady who saw the mixed-race couple in Radio Days.

Black had a great story in a Screencrush interview about how somebody came up to him to praise that line, except they heard it as "This is for when you vote!".

I recently watched the original Lethal Weapon, and, coming to it having been exposed solely to jokey Shane Black, I was taken aback by how comparatively little comedy there is here. It's mostly just a straight action movie, which kinda threw me and made me like it less than the subsequent Black movies, although it's…

Dowd (kinda) liked Cafe Society! The prophecy has come true!

It's a trifle and a lightweight, and I say that with all due respect.

Oh boy, I can't wait for the usual gang of numbnuts to talk about how Kristen Stewart has no acting abilities, like people in 2010 complaining that George Clooney is a terrible actor because of The Peacekeeper and Batman and Robin.

Yes! Ever since I heard the synopsis of this, I've been making the Radio Days comparison, and since that may be my favorite Allen film (I go between it and The Purple Rose of Cairo), there's really no way for me to contain my excitement over this.

It is. And it's also his first movie without his manager and producer from literally the very beginning, Jack Rollins. Coincidence?!?!?!?!?!

As always, I feel the need to get here early to beat the wave of nonsense likely to follow. I really can't wait for this, which sounds like a combination of everything I've liked in past Allen films; romance, nostalgia, novelistic third-person narration, jokes about Hollywood phonies and gangsters, and visual splendor…

Also, Ocean's Eleven is really funny, but Twelve has the funniest scene Soderbergh has ever done with the coffeehouse meeting.

…No?

The Informant!, yes!!!!!!!!!!!

State and Main, yes!

I've seen both (Wimbledon, incidentally, was shot by regular Allen collaborator Darius Khondji). Wimbledon would've been greatly improved if Paul Bettany spent the third act plotting to murder Sam Neill.

If you think defending those movies is bad, wait 'til you meet the guy always willing to go to bat for Cassandra's Dream (hint: you already have).

…Is that what you do, when I'm forbidding?

Glad to see this feature wasn't another casualty of the site-wide belt-tightening (…for now), even more glad to see it include a defense of Scoop (although I like Vicky Cristina Barcelona a good deal more than Jesse does, and Match Point to a lesser extent). That movie is severely underrated, and I'm baffled by it…