What we were privileged to witness was not an interrogation, but an act of salesmanship—as silver-tongued and thieving as ever moved used cars, Florida swampland, or Bibles. But what he was selling is a long prison term, to a client who had no genuine use for the product.

Some of the greatest television ever made featured Andre Braugher in the Box with someone. Not that you would know it from this review, but it sounds like this needs to be added to that list.

*cough*

Doctor Doom disagrees, then realized he is stuck in Fox hell

In the first draft of Godfather Part II the opening assassination attempt was successful, and the rest of the movie was a farce in which Hagen and Pentangeli went to increasingly ridiculous extremes to convince the Corleone Family’s enemies that Michael was still alive. Unfortunately Paramount refused to green-light…

Oh, he was so good as Paul. Quiet, but not meek. Great chemistry. And Jane Lynch was also great as Julia’s sister. I knew her from the Guest movies and Glee, but she showed some good depth as Julia’s impossibly tall sister.

Stanley Tucci was so good in that role. I could definitely have used more of him.

“Even the sky looks Caucasian.”

100% agree with you on the last point. I found Julie insufferable and would have preferred the film to be all Julia Child.

Agree. Yet he’s never mentioned as an all time great director. Think it’s because he didn’t write all of these and much of their appeal comes down to their scripts, and he did such varied work so was never a Scorcese or Allen who focussed on specific themes.

Yeah, I seriously can’t blame you on the 1st point. (I hope you like paragraphs, or don’t mind them, because you got me spewing. See below.)

No, you’re thinking of The Ring, or maybe Solaris.

Of the four Hepburn/Grant movies, Bringing Up Baby is my favorite mostly because the pace never lets up. I *love* that there are no normal people in it. It’s just nonstop madness from beginning to end, and there’s never been anything else quite like it. Nothing has ever felt this crazy AND this sophisticated at the…

I would respectfully submit emo-parker from Spiderman 3 as the most Raimi moment of the series. No other director would have made the suit change Peter from a wholesome everyman into a smarmy greasy douchebag and the entire scene in the jazz club was classic tongue-in-cheek Raimi. Why the entire internet would rather…

I don’t think ratings will ever leave us. There are people who will always trust data more than the man on the street.

Prince of Egypt is a godamn masterpiece.

The Prince of Egypt is pretty darn good about it. With hands down the greatest “explaining to someone that you just talked to God” scene ever.

Colin Firth was ‘hot’ the moment he stepped out of a lake in Pride and Prejudice. That’s when his profile rose to leading man status (well at least to us Brits).

I’ve always found it funny when people dismiss the genre as being too “unrealistic.”

Great write-up, with one exception: How in the world do you talk about this movie without mentioning Danny Elfman’s score? With the obvious exception of Superman, this might be the most iconic superhero film score ever.