A moo point indeed.

Crazy Joe Davola is a strong contender, though.

Yeah, some the HP movies definitely would have benefited from the Coen brothers writing the screenplay!

Interesting you mention Ghost World as a movie for adults. When I was 20, I would have called it a top 5 favorite movie. When I saw it a few years ago in my mid-30's, it really lost a lot of its appeal. While I still adore the art direction for portraying a beautifully soulless suburbia and the music is great, Steve…

Well, maybe, but I don’t think you get to be the lead in a billion-dollar movie without being a “movie star”. (The one exception I can think of is last year’s Aladdin, which due to (very correct) public pressure had a relatively unknown actor of Egyptian origin in the lead, but also had megastar Will Smith as well.)

Fair enough. The genre isn’t for everyone. I was certainly a Lord of the Rings skeptic when the first one came out and didn’t really care for the first two movies until I saw the 3rd which totally blew me away and retroactively made the first two so much better because of what they were leading up to.

Looking at the list for upcoming movies in this series, I will go to bat for a bunch of them as maybe being the “best” (or at least my personal favorite) of the year, particularly The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (also Best Picture winner) (2003). Others I would say are my favorites are Dark Knight (2008),…

You may be misremembering. Ebert’s print review gave it 4 stars and compared it favorably with “The Wizard of Oz”.

There are a lot of great visual flourishes in Azkaban that aren’t present in the later movies, like the tree shaking off snow. Cuaron’s movie is the only one of the series that really feels like a work of art. However, my favorite adaptation is 5, since it does a great job of trimming what is my least favorite of the…

Daniel Radcliffe hasn’t been the lead in a billion-dollar Disney remake.

Yes, I think there are adherents to the different styles. Using a food processor will result in a creamier interior, much more like a regular pancake. Using a grater will result in something much more like hash browns. I kind of like a middle ground. On the rare occasion I make them, I would grate one potatoe, but use…

It’s on Amazon Prime, at least it was last time I looked. Amazing cast: Peter Finch, Yaphet Kotto, Charles Bronson, James Woods (I know, but he’s really good), Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden and Robert Loggia (whom I always confuse with each other since they were both in this movie)

Maclunkey!

Kershner also directed one of the best made for TV movies of all time, “Raid on Entebbe”, as far as I know, the best dramatization of the Israeli hostage rescue in Uganda.

Jake Lloyd was not in Jerry Maguire, that was Jonathan Lipnicki.

Anybody want to switch seats?

Ugggh... Simpsons Tall Tales? (“there’s so much broken glass down here”???) really? I will say that season 12 had the last episode I consider to be really good: “Grift of the Magi” (“I never did trust that Dr. Stupid”).

I need to rewatch seasons 3-6 again. I think Homer Badman might be the hardest I’ve ever laughed at anything (“sweet can... sweet... NO, MR. SIMPSON, NO!!”), so I’m going to say that’s the GOAT but there are so many contenders.

It’s not Arlington, it’s the American Military Cemetary overlooking Omaha Beach.

That bit in Ferris Bueller is where I go from on the side of Ferris & Co. to rooting for Rooney to get their asses (hmm, maybe I could have worded that better).