Firstly, NIXON is more than c"competent;" along with JFK it stands as Stone's equivalent to The Godfather and The Godfather Part II - - and forgettable? You're on another planet, sir. Hopkins' performance is for the ages, John Williams provides an under-the-skin-score, and Stone's vision of the USA and politics in…

The A.V. Club's seemingly knee-jerk negativity and personal dislike of a great filmmaker (along with the Coens, Stone defined and provided one winner after another of the 1990s), is somewhat baffling to me.

I've always thought that Last Year at Marienbad is the Last Year at Marienbad of bad movies.

No, that is not my argument. Believe me, I'll argue my point quite unequivocally, definitively. (Generally, I was just goofing on you, as I assume that's expected here to one degree or another - - except for the part about losing two Oscars). I laid out my basic opinion and why I believe in what I wrote. You,…

HUh. Really? Thought I was one a them genius morons. Oh, I also have 2 Academy Award nominations. So, I win.

STAR WARS (1977) was and is a genuinely great film (in the same way that Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove and The Godfather are great films and and as writer-director (and an uncredited editor), George Lucas was the most responsible for making it so damn good.

The Shield (which I did like very much) wouldn't exist with Homicide (same with many other contemporary series; it was a massive evolutionary step in not just the crime/police procedural genre but in the medium itself) , which I still rank in the Top 3 Best Television Dramas ever produced. (There was even an episode…

They're shooting it in Toronto, too. At one of the biggest studio sound stage facilities on Earth.