The battle scenes have a real sense of scale to them, but they haven’t aged well. That’s mostly because the war movies that came out in the decades since The Longest Day have changed our idea of how war looks. 1998’s Saving Private Ryan, a movie that’ll eventually show up in this column, depicts that same storming of…

While all of the CGI additions that you mention are indeed well done, and proof positive of Fincher’s meticulous attention to detail, the one that blew my mind was when I found out that he did NOT shoot Paul Stine’s murder at the corner of Washington & Cherry, but rather on an open intersection, with all of the…

No, the funniest moment was Bobby Cannavale's "You put the dime in him, you gotta let the whole song play."  But his "Baba Yaga" was a close second! 

“Lost"?  Doesn't that imply, "Once had"?

Doubly ironic for them that Captain Marvel is now less than $10 million from passing both Civil War & Iron Man 3 on the all time domestic charts. That will make it the second highest grossing “solo” MCU film, with only the three Avengers movies (so far) between it and Black Panther.   So their boycotts &…

This song does not get enough love. That video does not not get enough love. The entire All Hands on the Bad One album does not get enough love.

I don't feel so good. 

“Oh, yeah, sure, Freda, sure. She was the oldest living Lutheran, now she’s dead as a doornail. It’s the damn Shriners who won’t take down the Goddamn sign, the lazy sons of bitches. Every year, every damn year, I tell ‘em, ‘Take down the Goddamn Freda sign, you lazy sons of bitches!'"

Any lawyer who could keep GM from publicly executing Patrick George is indeed a lawyer of amazing prowess.  

See my comment above — I drive a company vehicle for work, and if I really need to go anywhere in the winter, I can use my wife’s car. Ford does offer a winter wheel package for the RS, but since I do not really need the car, I would rather avoid salt damage if I can. 

Cup 2s and cold weather do not work and play well together. Michelin recommends not driving on them below 40° due to reduced adhesion, and driving on them below 20° can crack the rubber. 

 Yeah, we have had Bill Murray in a zombie comedy before.   But Jim Jarmusch?  Sold! 

Well, my 2017 is long paid off, and I have no intentions of letting it go. Still only 6500 miles on the clock, too, since I drive a company vehicle for work.

How about after a fresh wash yesterday, now that it is warm enough for me to take the thing out?

 We were staying in the business district in Osaka, and nothing was geared to tourists. Very few people spoke any English, which was great practice for me, and even better practice for my wife to not talk for once. Great trip, except for the occasional language problem like above. 

 Well, congratulations on your successful trial by fire, and welcome to the party! 

Yeah, this was thirteen years ago already(!), and it feels like a different era. But in our case there was a post office just a block or two away from our hotel, so it was petty convenient once we figured it out.

No matter how hard that you try, you will always lack the key phrase that you really need. When I went to Japan in 2006, I had read that you did not need to bring much currency with as you could exchange for yen at ATMs. The first thing that I did when we got off the plane at Kansai was to hit up an ATM, and it…

Perkins starred in one single theatrical feature between Psycho II and Psycho III — Crimes of Passion. The style of his own Psycho III is much more akin to that film than it is to the previous film in the franchise -- garish colors, sweaty sexuality, broader acting, surrealistic touches, etc.  It is like Perkins was…

Psycho III is even more interesting when you consider who Perkins had been working with at the time. Richard Franklin, who directed Psycho II, was every bit a Hitchcock disciple, and that film is an effective homage to Hitch. But Perkins had been spending time under the tutelage of Ken Russell prior to making his own…