If there are going to be remakes this is the way it should be. Only mediocre to middling movies with solid stories should have another go at it.

Interesting. I'm relieved. Thanks!

Great to hear!

Very anxious to see Phoenix given the tease about "one of the greatest endings is recent memory". The original 1965 version, Return from the Ashes, had a kind-of-twist ending. Just wondering if it's the same kind-of-twist (because I can't see it really working this time around). Oh, and Return from the Ashes had a…

I'm not saying I agree with John Simon on everything—not a lot really— but when he wrote about films he loved, he did it better than anyone. While he certainly comes across as snarly here, he didn't dismiss "entertainment" as a whole. I think he just didn't like a lot of noise.

I thought I didn't care if there was a Season 3 but now I do.

The trailer for this was seriously obnoxious.

Don't know about Redux but I did get a program in lieu of end credits at the Ziegfeld Theater in NYC. The nerd in me was very excited. Yeah, I felt special.

The Jon Ronson book is good enough that it might make you curious about his backlist which is even better. Also, highly recommend The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. My guilty pleasure read of the year though is Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome if only because there will never ever be another book about Pamela Tiffin…

As much as I liked the show I think this is a pretty fair grade. I went in to the finale hoping it'd be renewed and now I can't imagine another season with more GRs standing and smoking and staring. And I really can't hear that scratchy marker on a notepad ever again.

Lola Heatherton. Way to Go Woman.

Not he isn't the black Sidney Lumet or the black anybody any more than Sidney Lumet was the white John Singleton. But I'm still more likely to return to Bamboozled, The 25th Hour, and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus than I am to A Stranger Among Us, Garbo Talks, or Shutter Island or The Aviator and "white guilt" has nothing…

Crap. So what the hell happened to the La Guerta bench and all those asses that sat on it since the show went off the air? So many stories yet to tell.

1967 was a great year for shaking things up in American movies: In Cold Blood, Point Blank, Bonnie & Clyde, The Incident, The Dirty Dozen, Cool Hand Luke, The President's Analyst, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate. And a stellar year for Mad Magazine. Now I want to read In Cold…

I really tried to finish it but after about 45 minutes I gave up. It's just so much of nothing. Then this morning I came across this interview with Mann from the Washington Post: "I’m sure it’s going to be extremely polarizing. It’s not a movie for your grandmother. It’s a movie that’s willing to go places a…

I loved this movie. I will follow any article on It Follows. It scared me like nothing has in decades. What frightens is as subjective as what makes people laugh. You can't explain the joke. That'll never work. The Exorcist was a monster movie that never scared me. The Haunting (1963), on the other hand, still does.…

Best of all, it's on a double bill with Critic's Choice.