Can't say nothin' new, so I'll just add to the chorus: I'm so happy this column is back. Looking forward to what you've got next, Nathan!

No disagreement that Irons and Newman should've won for DEAD RINGERS and THE HUSTLER/HUD/THE VERDICT instead, but their winning performances are hardly flat – Newman in particular does a lot to turn Fast Eddie into an older, more weary (but not necessarily wiser) man. And the inclusion of Lange and Andrews is just…

My brother found that this video syncs bizarrely well to "You Got the Touch" from the Transformers soundtrack. No, I don't know why he did that.

Like I said, mildly unsettled at how hard my mother laughed.

From when I was a kid: My parents had a policy of switching off every other time on who was going to take my siblings and I. When I saw "Pokemon: The First Movie" in theaters with my dad and my sister, my dad got home and told my mother, "OK, you get the next two turns."

"Well guess fucking what? I don't fucking care. You know fucking why? Because I don't live in the fucking world, I live in fucking New York City, so you can go fuck yourself."
-Reason why Michael Keaton is the greatest

I really dig the scenes where Nick Adams and Akira Takarada first meet the aliens, where Ishiro Honda starts playing with limited perspective via some odd angles and corridors that light up only gradually as the astronauts move through them. It shows how, even on a limited budget and working for hire, Honda still had…

No kidding. Sinise is killing it in that movie, which makes the movie's use of his character all the more irritating to me.

I, too, am pro-Gladiator. Yeah, it Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Traffic have a lot more going on and show their directors at their peak. And yes, it's something we've seen a million times before, but it works, damn it.

Crash would probably be my pick as well, for the reasons everyone said, though there's plenty of turds to choose from: Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves, and A Beautiful Mind all come to mind.

My favorite movie of its year. So good at showing people who love each other but can't help but hurt each other, and the whole cast is just phenomenal. Wish Demme still made narrative films regularly, he's just ridiculously underrated.

Yeah, but I'm speaking specifically as a director, how would you describe his feel/aesthetic?

How would you guys characterize Levinson as a director? I was initially familiar with him mostly through The Natural/Good Morning Vietnam and more or less dismissed him as a journeyman in the mode of Ron Howard. After I caught up with Diner and Tin Men I felt that I had misjudged him- there's definitely personality in…

There's an article on Vulture today pointing this out, and I can see this as a reason to actually be taken aback by the performance. But yeah, most of the kickback I've seen has to do with sex.

Who said blame Thicke for Cyrus' behavior? I'm saying that the stuff I saw most people up in arms about involved both of them, in a performance I'd be willing to bet they agreed on, but the criticism was almost entirely for Cyrus. I will reiterate that my reaction to the actual performance amounted to "who cares".

My initial reaction when I saw the video was "who gives a shit?", but I was actively annoyed by the overwhelming disgust thrown at Cyrus vs. Thicke…y'know, the other dude involved in the part that people directed their moral outrage towards. Double standard here is so blatant it's not even funny.