Gunn's presence on the Dawn of the Dead remake, even if I didn't care for it, proves that Snyder really needs a good creative voice to help clamp down on his pretentiousness and sophomoric tendencies as a filmmaker. The fact that Snyder always keeps an army of sycophant collaborators around for his projects proves…

Netflix is truly brave for taking shitty movies out of theaters and giving them distribution on their site. How else will Marlon Wayans earn an income?!

Great as always, Tom, although I slightly disagree that Bond films were B-movies that never deviated from the formula, ala Goldfinger. You need to look for them but they're sprinkled throughout its history, usually a self-conscious course correction from the filmmakers. From Russia with Love and The Living Daylights…

Oh, the look of that poor soul who took her seat. She has the expression that betrays the thought, 'Oh Fuck, why did it have to be Ann Fucking Coulter's seat…'

I disagree, I rewatched the first three movies before Jason Bourne came out and for the most part Greengrass's camera work is remarkably coherent, especially compared to its competitors, like Quantum of Solace, where the coverage is obviously great but the framing and the edit sucks so hard.

I saw Arrival yesterday and felt the same. But, I also look forward to to revisiting the film soon to revise my opinion, which I'm sure I will.

It was near the top of my list because it was not only a great genre flick, but an original property, which is an anomaly from Hollywood anymore. Also, any Shane Black is good Shane Black.

I couldn't get into Jackie, Natalie Portman's performance leaned to heavily into imitation for me. The film worked best as a portrait of Jackie Kennedy's immediate grief from the assassination.

Yeah, her performance definitely leaned to heavily on imitation for me. Whenever a bio-pic movie wants to absolutely recreate a person's anatomy, it's always a study in how good the costume design is.

It's funny when I saw John Hamburg's name attached, I thought, "Boy,
isn't Hamburg the most lowest common denominator hack filmmaker around,"
and wouldn't you know it that was pretty much the headline…

Wouldn't be surprised if The Daily Mail confused Frank for Sly….

Hey, Dwayne "The Rock' Johnson is still a thing! *Sigh*

I'd rather watch The Office's first Christmas Party episode and be done with it.

I knew I'd find a fellow traveler in the comments!

So many great moments from that episode. Glass's delivery is superb throughout it. In addition to that moment, I love the scene toward the end where Barney asks him if he's okay to drive home, and Harris says something to the effect of, "Hey man, sharp as a tack!"

They're easy to spot, aren't they? Hugh Laurie's accent was a primer. Overannunciating every word, flattening dialects, as to eliminate any semblance of regional accent… I could go on.

Don't worry, Matt Lucas is already doing that.

It was the shortest development hell in history. They really did right by firing Happy Madison as the production company.

I never gave much consideration to Scatman Crothers or Richard Kiel before his episodes, but his biographies on them are excellent.

South Park once depicted Tyler Perry, in full Madea garb, as being buried alive in a concrete box. Sometimes I wish that happened in real life.