I like South Park and I love Bigger, Longer and Uncut but it’s a crime that they’ll get two (out of a total fourteen) movies out by the end of the year while the seemingly completed single Bob’s Burgers movie sits on a shelf.

I absolutely love South Park: Bigger, Larger and Uncut. I consider it one of the best films of 1999 (which is saying a lot) one of the greatest comedies of the last 25 years and one of the best musicals of the past... 50 years (this isn’t exact maths) 

I'll even your comment out by saying A Serious Man is my favourite of all the Coen Brothers films. I love it from top to bottom. 

“The star of Alvin and the Chipmunks 3: Chipwrecked..."

The title was officially announced months ago (and presumed since at least Vol. 2 was named) so this really seems to be reaching for the snark.

I can’t believe I’m reading a comment discussing the flaws in Hughes’s approach to reporting and thinking “This comment is a load of bizarre horseshit”.

Exactly - the film with the porgs and scenes like BB-8 driving an AT-ST was only aimed at serious adults and the films with mass genocide, psychological family dramas and regular amputations were only aimed at families? It couldn’t possibly be that one of the biggest film franchises in the history of entertainment is…

At least TLJ has its fans. There’s an equal amount who absolutely love it as there are who absolutely hate it (and often for the same reasons). The highest praise I’ve ever heard for RoS is “it’s not as bad as they say”.

Cool. 

Thanks but, having gone through a Connery phase a few years back, I know the film plenty. And the similarities - again - are about as much as Heat and The Dark Knight. Johnson’s been very open about doing a classic whodunnit that draws on the classics.

Well, we got five from TFA in 2015 to RoS in 2019. But given the apathy to Solo and the fan drubbing of RoS, a break to decide what the franchise could/should be seems fair.

I don't know if you get the point of this column. 

I’d say a lot of your examples (Captain Marvel, Ad Astra, Knives Out, PotA, Eternals - which no one has even seen yet) are either reaching (Captain Marvel /Robocop especially and the Loki / Doctor Who similarity lasted for about one episode before the show showed it wasn’t going down that route for its wider story) or…

“No problem with someone liking a film that I don’t.”

Fine. But this is the last time! 

If you want to be really current you could note that it’s already aired its second season AND been cancelled.

I rewatched Community last year and really enjoyed it so I may be more tolerant and a bigger fan of what you're discussing - however I can't dispute a single word you've said. 

He didn’t do too badly. The Mexican and The Man Who Wasn’t There (both at the peak of The Sopranos) are both pretty good, Enough Said is a lovely film, he's maybe the best part of Killing Them Softly, Where the Wild Things Are is an interesting experiment and In the Loop is a stone cold classic. 

“She impulsively yelled out his name, which the Brooklynite says is uncharacteristic, and “without thinking. Like, I never do that. I’m a consummate professional. I don’t even bother celebrities on the street ever.””

The studio was so desperate to have Sean Connery attached (they needed a name to help secure this massive gamble) that they were willing to give up 15% of the profits - which, according to reports, meant he turned down around $450m