For that matter, Handel’s Messiah was written as an Easter piece. It does cover the Nativity, but it’s mostly about the Crucifixion and how that’s supposed to be a great gift to the world.

Then I guess Miracle on 34th Street isn’t a “Christmas Movie” as it came out on June 11, 1947.

I’ve never actually heard the song in real life — my sole reason for knowing the song exists is Patton Oswalt’s sketch about it.

Yes. 2006. The cover was shiny foil so it reflected you. Another weird one was 1982 when the winner was “The Computer”.

But the Scarface people are thinking of (1983, Pacino) is *already* a remake of the 1932 film starring Paul Muni. A remake of a remake reminds me of how we would copy cassettes from friends and other friends would copy our copy. It didn’t take very many steps before the copies sounded like crap.

No, looking it up, it really was Giuliani. But they certainly have done abstract groups of people. 2003 was “The American Soldier” and 2014 was “Ebola Fighters” (remember when epidemics were things that just happened far away?)

Katy Perry better watch out or she’ll take a baton to her knee!

Well, guess what, Jackie? You’re gonna get your wish! You get to live with 10 entire boys on a farm in Colorado and get to know them extra, super well.

I’m in my 50s and I only vaguely know about those movies (and mostly from the discontinued Great Movie Ride at Disney). There’s no way the twenty-somethings who write on this site know about them.

Where exactly was Jack City which presumably New Jack City was named after?

She was also married to Carl Bernstein (of Woodward-Bernstein Watergate reporting fame). Not particularly relevant except again not the sort of person you’d expect a famous rom-com writer to marry.

How about The Freshman (1990) not (1925). With Mathew Broderick and Marlon Brando (basically doing a parody of his Godfather role)?

Bitorrent and YTS movies, but that’s nor quite kosher. The fact is (unlike music which largely got rid of DRM) nobody is really ready to sell you an unburdened mp4 file.

But the author writing about them isn’t. Nor is the reading audience (for the most part). I can give King some leeway because it was when he was coked up 24/7, but it is a deeply weird passage and I’m surprised he hasn’t removed it in later printings the way Roald Dahl (not exactly a progressive guy) took out the part…

What I thought interesting about My Neighbor Totoro is that the father, who is even a science professor, is perfectly on board with with his daughters seeing a totoro, while in an American movie he’d be the villain, claiming that his daughters were lying or deluded.

And the fact that it puts the FBI in a good light for once wouldn’t even save it in the hypothetical uncle’s eyes because among his group the FBI isn’t the defenders of law and order as it used to be among the right but rather a sinister instrument of the Deep State.

It’s worth recognizing that Time’s “Person of the Year” doesn’t mean “great person”, just “person with the most influence in the past year”. This “honor” has gone to Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and the Ayatollah Khomeni, for example. When she declares herself Goddess-Empress of the World and rules us with an iron fist,…

You monster! I’ll bet you’ll even watch it on your phone just to spite Martin!

It’s even still showing at my local Regal, but down to one showing per day (which is what they generally do when the movie will leave after a week or two).

Aww look, he thinks he’s people!