Hilariously, I once saw (I think somewhere on the A.V. Club) Ledger’s Joker described as “Keaton’s Beetlejuice in a serious crime film.” Which. Yeah, I see that.

As much as as Ledger really sells the menace and adds an interesting nihilism to the character, the most effective film Joker scene for me is that creepy commercial Nicholson’s does. It hits camp, threat, and deeply disturbed at the same time.

Is it that unlikely that Burton turned to the spirit of the Shadow-knockoff era as well as Miller’s take? The whole look of the film is steeped in art deco and noir.

I’m glad to see other people who remember and like Dead Again!

As everyone has mentioned, the real answer is Henry V. Recently, I have to admit I was (embarrassingly) quite charmed by the live action Disney Cinderella, which benefited from that swooping eye for production value which I.V. mentions drags down this movie. I think he’s a director who can be really on-point with the…

Man, the reviews for The Snowman have been making my month.

*cough* Book of Henry *cough*

I work at B&N, and I was wondering why we were getting rid of movie tie in paperbacks of this before the movie even came out.

How the heck can you resist listening to all of the opening in the first season of The Wire, with the Blind Boys of Alabama? For that matter, how do you resist going and listening to the full version too after every time you watch?

I was an extremely lucky child because my mom 1- could sew and liked sewing 2- loves elaborate Halloween costumes. So when I fully hit my fantasy book obsession, there was a stretch of years when I was:

There’s a chapter/episode of Mushishi with someone in a time loop who is released, but chooses to go back to it and the happiness there after something tragic happens.

Yeah, calling a Songbook album “covers” is pretty bizarre. Sure, you may know a Gershwin song is a Gershwin song, but you’ll associate it with half a dozen performers because it was created for that kind of popular use and re-use.

The Coen brothers.

Yeah, I love Goldfinger because it sets up a very stupid plan (rob Fort Knox) but is actually a very clever plan (make all my gold reserves worth considerably more). Just because it involves various Bond set piece components like the bomb and planes doesn’t mean his plan doesn’t make sense, and it’s probably the…

That is an excellent choice.

There’s a key difference there, and it’s that while Fight Club is meant as a dig, Catcher is a tragedy.

“plays more like an adaptation of a Trivial Pursuit question than like a romance”

If you’re playing by this movie’s rules, you should find a pen you’re not using and hurl it.

I definitely think that’s a factor, but there’s also a lot of sexism behind rom-coms becoming a separate “for-chicks” genre, and still being thought of that way, in spite of the fact that a good rom-com is a great general audiences movie and not just a “we’ll shunt the women into this theater.” My screwball-comedy…

He did just do Silence, and my understanding is that in spite of it’s marketing The Grey was more of a super depressing character study/survival piece than a wolf-fighting movie.