I think I located the problem. Your sarcasm detector is on the fritz. Have you tried unplugging it and plugging back in?

it seemed odd to limit the list to cinema adaptations when many of the best TV versions were movie-length.

Obviously this is limited to movie adaptations, but I think the fact I’d rank most of David Suchet’s Poirot above all the films on this list I’ve seen is partially down to the fact that Christie’s works generally work best on the small screen. You can lavish up the production design, but fundamentally whodunnits are…

In case anyone’s not keeping track of the “2020s decade of things that should go without saying but here we are having to say them anyway”:

Is anyone else weirdly excited about The Holdovers?

STOP GETTING BOND WRONG!

“Your Lucas Run Out”

When I read the headline I thought “oh! This’ll bring out that one dude who’s mad at Elizabeth Banks!”

Ideally you’d leave both of them out as neither are sketch shows.

*Brass Eye* not being on the list was the one thing we didn’t want to happen.

There’s also the fact that everyone knows they’ll be on Disney + within months - and if you’ve already paid for that, why pay for movie tickets

That was my thought exactly - feels like these stories are getting smaller and smaller. Incredibles 2 (and the original) had fantastic action sequences, the Toy Story movies are all full of chaotic movement, even the Cars movies (well, the first one anyway) had a ton to look at and was visually clever. Throw in that…

Since you broke the “Jewish New Yorker” seal... I do often see a bit of proto-Seinfeld/Larry David in Billy Crystal’s performance. Moreso the younger Harry, where he’s talking about never taking girlfriends to the airport or reading the end of a book first.

The greatest that’s ever been done is Nell’s scream in the car from The Haunting of Hill House. Not only is it absolutely terrifying in the moment, but it actually serves a purpose beyond that momentary scare, being fully rooted in the characters and leading to big understandings between them.

“Then find another, cheaper assassin to kill the first one so we don’t have to pay as much.”

OK, kept going, and gotta say War of the Worlds is WAY too fucking high on the list. It looks great, sure, and the opening invasion is truly thrilling, but 2 hours of Dakota Fanning screeching and an eye-rolling happy ending left me with an indifferent shrug. I usually don’t rail against the rankings in lists like…

“It’s just a jump to the left

Yeah the actress is new but she need to work on her craft and the unbelievable way that she’s suddenly decided that she wanted to be gay like you said 5 minutes made no sense, and then she’s calling her boyfriend and surprised that he’s not responding to her, you literally just invited this woman over that you wanted…

As a player of D&D since the days of THAC0, my friends and I would start each campaign speaking in thee and thou but halfway through we’d stop. Who’s to say that the inhabitants of the D&D world don’t speak in the modern vernacular. From that clip of ‘I make plans.’ I got a bit his of early Kirk bravado.

Casting Miles Teller as De Niro would really make me root against De Niro.