Oooh! WIll have to check that out. ("Pictures At A Revolution" has great stuff about the dysfunctionality at work behind "Doctor Doolittle.")

I get your point, but that's obviously ridiculous. (On the other hand, Yul Brynner as the King of Siam…)

There's a GIF going around of Oscar Isaac as Poe looking Finn up and down and biting his lip. Definitely could be interpreted as interest or attraction.

See my post above

Around 5% of the population is openly LGBT; but now throw in another 2% that's out to themselves but closeted, i.e. they have a secret life on the "down low." Now add another 1.5% batch that's admitted it to themselves but will never act on it out of fear, small town prejudices, family rejection, etc. Now add…

As long as Emma Stone pulls off playing Billie Jean King, I'm fine with it. She's a great actress, first and foremost.

Especially since "Heathers" not only kept the homophobic football player getting a gay funeral ("I Love My Dead Gay Son") but kicked it up to something even MORE gay-positive and shocking.

The minute I read that Guy Ritchie was basically tossing the entire basis for the Arthurianian legend, I knew I'd hate this movie. There's a difference between reworking established tropes ("Excalibur" in all its whackadoo glory) and completely throwing the basis for the character/myth out the window while still…

I think the scene where he puts all the cards on the table with the Russian spy in "The Spy Who Loved Me"—where she realizes he killed her boyfriend—showed he could've done an icier, tougher Bond if they'd given him more opportunities to do so.

Connery's best take was probably in "Never Say Never Again" after Barbara Carrera explodes due to that high-tech pen; 'Not PERFECTED yet?!?"

Yeah, "A View To a KIll" is pretty much my rock-bottom Bond. Still, that humdinger of an opening song, and Grace Jones…

Daughter—Sidney was her son-in-law. (Horne tongue-in-cheekly said that's how she got cast in "The Wiz," though they voted down her desire to play Eviline, the Witch of the West.)

Horne gets a little bit of a pass because of the amount of racism she experienced in her life—she herself admitted to "terrible coldness." From what I read in "Stormy Weather," it was more like an ice storm coming at you 1,000 miles an hour. (Then again, one of Horne's biggest "storms" involved trying to tape an…

Kids in Beverly Cleary books may occasionally be thoughtless or mean, but in Blume she's not afraid to show kids who are outright vicious and cruel (especially in "Blubber"). Both are realistic views of childhood, but Blume definitely has a darker perspective. (That climax of "Then Again Maybe I Won't" where the…

I think PREMIERE magazine had "Raging Bull" "Wings of Desire" "E.T." and "Raging Bull" as the top 4 in its list of the Greatest Movies of the 1980's. I respect "Raging" and appreciate "Wings" but I love "E.T." and "Blue Velvet." (Like Whitman, I contain multitudes.) Even Woody Allen, Oscar-nominated for "Hannah and…

Kelly was apparently so focused on directing the big crowd scenes and huge choreography in "Hello Dolly!" that he basically left Walter Matthau and Barbra Streisand more or less stranded, and gave them little to no direction as to their performances. They were both in a sense miscast, and hated each other; years…

"Fresh" has surmounted this by using the posse Eddie hangs with as much as possible, allowing all of their unique characteristics and quirks to take center stage with Eddie just being the cue ball who ricochets off of them. I also notice the younger boys (Ethan and Emory?) are getting more storylines too, and playing…

It would be helpful (if the AV club didn't do it already) to do the history of the "Blade Runner" soundtrack, because before the "official" release from Vangelis there was the New American Orchestra version—it's heresy to say this in some circles, but on it's own terms it's pretty stellar. (Long story short: bought…

Tangerine Dream's score for "Risky Business" is about as good as film music + film gets, dated or not.

Thank you, I thought I was crazy. Then again, I thought if they were dependent on airline perks, being routed through some crazy out-of-the-way destination just to knock down the price another few hundred dollars seemed very apropos for this family. (But Dylan still deserves a "bump night" in a hotel somewhere cool!)