What they should do before the movie is just fill the screen with a picture of Trump's face and people could shout at it and boo it for a couple of minutes to get into the mood for the movie.

I read the book, and it seemed to me a satire, pretty funny in a lot of places. Not that it wouldn't work as a thriller, but I wonder if it's been changed or just being marketed that way.

I thought Orson Welles was radio's Orson Welles.

Nitpick: The comic strip Flash Gordon was a polo player, not a football player. That said, I'm ready for Rob Pratt's Flash Gordon movie.

Somebody should get his hand cut off. I really missed that in Episode I.

I read somewhere (can't remember if it was a critic's speculation or Mamet in an interview) that he made TSP in part to prove that he, Mamet, didn't need profanity to write good dialogue.

AKA, Mrs. Mamet, so you know she's going to get some good lines.

BTW, this was "…the darker inspiration for his Spy Kids series. " Rodriguez said he got the idea when he saw the actors all dressed up in evening wear and thought they looked like a family of spies.