When Pauline Kael said Last Tango in Paris "is a movie people will be arguing about, I think, for as long as there are movies," I don't think she meant this.

Has AV Club ever done a piece on great films you can't bring yourself to watch again?

And yet millennials have never questioned Frank Perdue.

Hands down, the most realistic dream sequence ever in a movie. "I had the nuttiest dream last night. I was being yelled at by nuns, then I was naked on a boat with JFK, then Hutch, you kind of turned into JFK then I was floating on a mattress."

The rare time I was ever really scared while watching a movie was when I saw Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. Hey, I was only about five years old! I only barely understand the concept of movies at that age, let alone horror movies. Plus, Bette Davis looked exactly like my grandmother which freaked me out.

I'm not familiar with Laura Lippman so I'll check her out. Thanks for the recommendation!

I absolutely agree but I'm giving O'Connell a pass because it seems less like a gimmick or hook in her books. I was a copywriter and got so tired of having to make sure I added something about "flawed hero", "unreliable narrator", "dark past", or "family secrets."

I'm glad to see Carol O'Connell here. The Judas Child is her best stand-alone book but I love her Kathy Mallory novels, especially Winter House. And Mallory isn't the usual "flawed protagonist balancing her rocky personal life with solving a crime." Kathy Mallory is a severely damaged sociopath. Even as a child.…

Now if NBC would only suspend Lauer for his servile interviews with Trump over the past year.

It's already been said, but it's worth saying again: see Kanal.

Now I'm in the mood to watch SCTV's Sandwich on the Orient Express.

So, Thandie Newton is actually a guest, right?

Maybe Miley Cyrus should be wearing a fake-nose-and-glasses disguise like Virgil Starkwell's parents did in Take the Money and Run.

I really, really like that knowing that.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) is more satisfying than Bedtime Story (1964). Brando doesn't really seem comfortable with farce—except in The Island of Dr. Moreau which, come to think of it, I'd rather watch again over the 1977 version.

I wasn't really baited since I was already familiar with Harold Pinter's one-act, The Dumb Waiter, about two hit men (Tom Conti and John Travolta) in a basement awaiting word on their assignment, with said lift portentously rambling up and down occasionally.

Is this like Marge Simpson's disappointments closet?

Oh you're right, you're right. Sorry, Mamie.

If I'm thankful for just one thing in this episode, it's that Mamie Gummer got through all of her scenes without a gnawed-on lollipop sticking out of her mouth. She's such a character!

Not particularly goofy-memorable but I'll never forget:
Archer Maggott. Travis Bickle. Atticus Finch. Evelyn Mulwray. Willy Wonka.
Binx Bolling. Bathsheba Everdene. Lolita.