Well, yeah - Red is the protagonist of Shawshank. Andy is the Magical White Guy who comes into his life and offers him a chance of redemption.

I misread the headline as “Knife-wielding fish man.”

I mean, say what you want about Tolkien, but you have a ring, you have a volcano... at some point the story is going to end.

If you want to talk about forgotten, you know what movie came out a few months before that and made even more money? Crocodile Dundee.

Say what you want about Troy, but the duel between Hector and Achilles - the centerpiece of the film - was utterly perfect. One of the greatest fight scenes of all time, IMHO.

Man, between this and Lance Reddick, it’s been a bad year for tall, imposing, surprisingly charismatic character actors.

[Raises hand]

It may simply be the fact that most leading non-American and non-Japanese animation studios specialize in kids’ animation. I mean, you wouldn’t ask Aardman to make an “adult-themed” short, would you?

Stupid sexy Gandalf.

Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos.

I’d rather it were their workers getting the money.

I’ve been rewatching This Fucking Show yet again, and I had to laugh at the line about the puppy. I mean, well... 

Can anyone explain to me how the entire galaxy suddenly lost the ability to use contractions?

I met Brandon at a book signing in Tel Aviv in 2019. My wife was going through the most difficult stage of chemo treatments for her breast cancer, and he saw her, brought her to the front of the line, spoke with her for quite a long time, and wrote her a lovely dedication. It was a very difficult time of our lives,…

“Adhering to formula” only applies to the first couple of seasons of PoI. After that, not so much.

Much Ado is when I really started to appreciate Thompson as an actress. I realized I was watching Denzel Washington, Kenneth Branagh and Brian Blessed at the same time... and she just walked away with the scene. All terrific actors, but she was on a different level.

Counterpoint: The Insider was boring as fuck.

I am once again struck by how much “Falling Slowly” sounds like a lost Aerosmith song.

The hell with the serial killer stuff - I wanted to see the invention of the Ferris Wheel!

Ridley Scott has made as many bad movies as he’s made good movies, and he’s made a LOT of good movies.