He’s meant to suck. Vertigo is about his personal obsessions screwing with his ability to see clearly, and the terrible consequences of that (driving Midge away being the *least* awful).

Agreed. By recent standards, this is a pretty good list, but it’s still written by people whose movie knowledge is based on googling. I mean, any list of actors who famously played Sherlock Holmes has to mention Basil Rathbone, widely regarded as the defining screen version of the character. But those films are old,…

Haven’t seen the movie of The Laughing Policeman. The novel is a masterpiece, but it’s built on quietly building tension during a painstaking investigation of a dead case, while the plot summary for the adaptation looks like they wanted to make an action film. Anyone seen it?

Also, *this is not a workplace*. The party is cobbled together from disaster survivors on a desperate mission to get parasites out of their heads. Nobody was watching fire safety videos on their first day.

There is a campsite interaction where if you turn down Lae’zel’s advances, she sleeps with another party member and is not remotely shy about telling you later.

1. I’m not sure how you’re measuring flak, but looking back at articles and reports about the story, Lena Dunham copped tons of flak.

Good principle, excluding Utah.

Yeah, it’s a well-shot video with high production values, but it’s thematically irrelevant to the song and has no real narrative drive of its own.

Yes, I’d forgotten about the first mistrial, but even so a hung jury is most definitely not the same as ‘initially cleared.’

I read that line as a deadpan counterfactual. But yes, it doesn’t really match the straight informational tone of the rest of the piece.

It released a sex tape?

There’s a simple valuation formula: (price paid * number of games sold) / (current availability * buyer IQ)

Pretty sure this was Hughes being sarcastic about the 2019 Oscars. Unfortunately, the factchecking at AVC is now so dismal that it’s hard to tell a snarky counterfactual from an appallingly ignorant error.

He blatantly lied about it *knowing his bodycam was recording.*

Christie adaptations have become comfort viewing for retirement homes...and not just for viewers, but for filmmakers.

Yeah, the story behind the trial doesn’t look good for Scientology. Several of the accusers had family pets mysteriously poisoned, and Masterson’s lawyers gave confidental discovery material to lawyers representing Scientology despite being expressly warned against it by the trial judge.

The statements were provided for the *sentencing* phase of the trial. He had already been found guilty.

Not *my* religion! Only all the other ones.

‘...Gus had hoped that the celebration would also offer Toula the opportunity to deliver the journal he kept after immigrating to the U.S. to his three boyhood best friends, so they would understand his lifelong journey.’

You’d think the character of Quartermain was pretty straightforward, but the film version of LoEG managed to wildly misunderstand every major character, so I’m not sure how much of the blame is Connery’s.