Yes! I'm trying not to repeat any directors or actors for a good long while, but it sure is tempting when De Palma has both Lithgow and Franz waiting in the wings.

It was especially egregious that the actor in question basically played the EXACT same "surprise" bad guy role in another, and very popular, thriller released about eighteen months earlier. But yeah, the Cage character is pretty great. All in all, I have warm feelings toward the movie, as I do with a lot of De Palma's…

Yeah, all told, Allen worked with Spielberg, Zemeckis, De Palma, Verhoeven, and Soderbergh. Not a bad lineup. (I only use the past tense because it seems like she doesn't do a lot of movies these days.)

I meant to check YouTube for Home Movies — it seemed like the exact kind of thing that would be up there! Thanks for the heads-up. I ought to watch it sometime though I do like my De Palmas murder-y.

Snake Eyes and Mission to Mars both fall apart like crazy in the end but both also have sequences that make them well worth watching: the middle of Mars and the opening of Snake Eyes are both terrific.

Certainly. But just as often, those effects have some overlap.

Must have been a happy accident, then, that the baby disappearing into thin air at the edge of the spooky woods so freaked me out.

I think Safe is one where "horror" wouldn't apply but "terrifying" totally would, in terms of what the movie is trying to do.

I forgot about how suspense and scariness are WHOLLY unrelated.

I've noticed a lot of people saying that about these movies, and I'm a little confused about how many of these supposedly aren't horror movies or "supposed to be scary"? Because Sixth Sense isn't a non-stop fright-fest and has well-written characters, it's not supposed to be scary? I'm pretty sure it has at least half…

These CG versions actually look way more like the original Muppets Take Manhattan versions than the ugly-ass cartoon.

But does Oasis's influence in the U.K. dwarf Jay-Z's influence in the U.S.? Or Beyonce's today/worldwide? (I have no idea. And I love Be Here Now! It might be my favorite Oasis album? OK, I'm losing all credibility.)

I'll bite: Who in the history of pop music has mattered to a literal majority of people on the planet? And is your argument that there aren't any pop stars today who are truly beloved around the world (apparently inclusive of, you know, babies and the extremely elderly)? And if that's the case, as opposed to who from…

You think "most people" don't know "Single Ladies"? And that Beyonce fills stadiums with who, exactly? Based on your comment below about not hearing "Single Ladies," you may be speaking about yourself more than most people in general. It's so weird to me that white dudes in their thirties/forties/beyond expect pop…

Yep! I mean, obviously he doesn't compliment, say, his foreign policy. But he does find Three Nice Things. And post-Trump, it feels totally reasonable and not that hard to do.

Aw, thank you!

My world has been in turmoil since I discovered that Felicity Jones is actually 33, not like 26. (Not because I don't want her to be older, I just had made some assumptions about her age!)

I sure do!

Yr friendly neighborhood movie writer had a short story on The Toast once and it felt like a huge deal even though it was before The Toast was AS a huge deal as it became.

"Present in a scene" is such a good way of putting what Cruise is.