"Make 'Em Laugh" is the fucking worst

Not sure if "kinky" and "Judy Garland" should ever go together.

"a pre-fame Andy Milonakis"

Seems like reducing your ability to communicate to 140 characters at a shot is tailor-made for stupid people.

That whole ending sequence bears a very suspicious resemblance to a Harold Lloyd silent comedy film called "Girl Shy". Minus the cross barring the door, anyway.

Just imagine a movie without a superhero making that much today.

Ugh, really? So stupid. "Sgt. Pepper" doesn't need any outtakes.

Good old Steve Dallas

Pretty sure that Hemingway's contributions to the English-language literary corpus will still wind up more important than Rebecca Solnit's.

Lucille Ball was so sexy in this.

Was there no live accompaniment when the film ran in theaters in 1929 in the Soviet Union?

Not sure "Man with a Movie Camera" or any other pre-1930 film should count as an innovative use of silence when, you know, they're silent films.

I took that guy's tour. He asked for a tip at the end. It was his bus! He was driving!

It's not really one take, not even one fake take. There are a couple of distinct cuts in the movie, like one to Stewart's face when he realizes that something is very badly wrong in the apartment.

I thought the two halves of "Devil and the White City" clashed rather badly. One half has this guy, hey, he's wiring up the World's Fair for electricity, he's installing a Ferris wheel, awesome. The other half has a dude building a goddamn murder castle.

It was pretty tough to catch anyone in those days if you didn't catch them in the act, or with a weapon or some other sort of directly incriminating evidence. I read a book about the Lincoln assassination once that pointed out that if Lewis Powell had just hopped on a train he would have gotten away clean—they didn't…

There's a flawed but interesting and disturbing movie called "Gacy". Tells the story from the POV of an imaginary Gacy employee.

"Despite the protest by Rope audiences, the only real hint we have of this relationship in Compulsion and 2002’s Murder By Numbers (more on that below) is when the Loeb character calls out the Leopold character for ditching him “for a girl.""

Ava Gardner aged pretty damn well, until she had her stroke anyway…see her in "Earthquake" at age 52. See also Ingrid Bergman in "Cactus Flower" at 54.

Just imagine what actual writers could have done with this topic.