Strother Martin managed to be in True Grit, Butch & Sundance, and The Wild Bunch all in one year. He had a better 1969 than most actors have careers.

The AV Club: An inescapable time-suck that many of us regard with a mixture of rueful affection and outright shame.

I would’ve preferred it if they had passed judgment.

The London Has Fallen review is in my top 5 of all time. I’m talking Roger Ebert-eviscerates-North level.

It is a pretty great line (IV’s takedowns are always a joy to read) but for my money, the single best AV Club takedown line is from Dowd’s review of Replicas: “Shot in Puerto Rico, but set almost exclusively in a nondescript suburban home and underdressed laboratory, Replicas has all the production value of an…

“Democratic primary loser” energy

After that beautifully brutal London Has Fallen review, I was really hoping IV would review this one too. I was not disappointed. Even the mild compliments in this review are still cutting! Its also hilarious that this movie ignores plot points of previous movies AND basically admits the character of “wife” is so thin…

Ignatiy, know that the one redeeming characteristic of these movies is that we get to read your pans. If there were a Pulitzer Prize for harshest, yet funniest critique, you would win in perpetuity, especially if these films keep getting made. Tell me, does this one have any dialogue approaching the level of, “Go back…

that was inferior to White House Down in every respect

Or maybe that most people’s real lives don’t make particularly interesting dramatic fodder even when the person in question was uncontroversially interesting or involved in interesting events suggests we should stop telling their stories in these formats, since we lose something either way.

Virginia Woolf

Still, I thought the film improved a lot after they teamed up with two other women authors and robbed that politician.

It sounds like the family sees Grace as nothing but a pest, but she’s really a hard target adept at surviving the game -- this most dangerous of games.

I haven’t read the book but am a big fan of The Great Cate and like Linklater, though not as much as others do (I thought Boyhood a bit overrated). So the big problem with the movie is that it sands off the edges of the character and story, turning it into a genial family comedy? That’s the vibe from the trailer.

We were the sharks all along?

I found it aggressively boring for the entire first act, but it won me over. The pool sequence is a classic. 

Absolutely furious that I got beat to the obvious joke 

Honestly, OUAT feels like two movies stitched together. It’s excellent stitching but the two parts are rather distinct. Dalton’s arc and Cliff’s adventures with the Manson Family could easily support their own (shorter, tighter) movies.

I LOVE Killing Them Softly. It’s a lot of talk and grime and it’s grimly hilarious. 

Pitt was so, so good in Snatch. I don’t know where he learned it or how long it took him, but that ridiculous accent of his?  According to someone I know who lived in Ireland for years, that was authentic as hell. [And I liked it even before I heard that.]