Hamburg speaking, interesting fact: The bar still exists, I went there only once, about two years ago (film hadn’t come out yet), no doubt a very unpleasant place still. I hear the clientele has gotten a little hipster-y after the movie, although I doubt it’s in any danger of gentrification.

I’d have a hard time saying Henry was as pointless as this seems to be. It was about loneliness, manipulation, powerlessness, with a charismatic lead (you seriously can’t take your eyes off Rooker) pulling a frustrated loser into his orbit. There’s a reason people still talk about it 25 years later.

It’s terrible when IG gets to review a terrible movie, but it’s so much fun to read about it.

War -- it’s FAAAAAAAAAAAAAN-tastic!

Movies releases back then were so different than today. Theaters often had only one screen, and it might take months for them to show something. And once something caught on, it could stay for a long time — I think Harold and Maude played in some theaters for years. Without home video, it was a viable way of showing…

Like Pitt and Tarantino, I was born in 63, and remember how revered Billy Jack was in my grade school. I never actually saw any of the movies when they were current and I’m pretty sure none of my classmates had, either, but you’d better believe we all pretended we had, and the playground brawls between kids pretending…

When I was 8, my dad had me watch the Thing (the Kurt Russel version). Halfway through he said he “heard something in the basement” and went downstairs to check it out. He then lets out an unholy shriek, and CUTS THE POWER TO THE HOUSE.  I went absolutely crazy with fear.  Half of me wants to pull the same pranks my…

That’s so funny, because my now-almost-4-year-old totally referred to that movie the same way! “The one where he breaks a window.” We saw the trailer in front of Lego Movie 2 and I sort of nudged her into interest (mostly because she liked that part in the trailer where, yep, he breaks the window). I think she liked…

I have to admit, I *haven’t* seen Do The Right Thing, so I don’t actually know the scene you’re referring to (although I get the general idea) :)

Wow, way to deny your daughter’s wish to see Do The Right Thing.

My son is going absolutely bananas wanting to see this movie for some reason.  I need him to not be five, so we can watch Mad Max Fury Road together.

Now imagine her in a diaper too!

If anything, treating your opponents as buffoons blinds you to the reality that they are just as intelligent, just as capable, and just as dangerous as you are.

Noah Baumbach’s “Kicking and Screaming” never gets any love. That was a good early flick of his.

“comedy can be a powerful weapon.” 

Eh, I don’t like personally like turning Nazis into jokes, especially not jokes made by people who didn’t live through it. The best representation of a Nazi, to me, is Eichmann (one of the principal organizers of the Holocaust) on trial in Israel. If he’s a clown, there’s nothing funny about him.

Here’s a collection of…

As much as I personally dislike a lot of what Johansson says and apparently believes, I don’t think she’s done anything that really warrants her career being tanked. She has, as far as I know, never sexually assaulted anyone, never given money or support to a hate group, never committed a violent crime, never bullied…

Same. I’ve been through the divorce-with-kids thing that dragged on for 10 dreary awful months. My ex has narcissistic personality disorder and there’s absolutely nothing about divorce that I want to relive except for the freedom it provided.

Every writer and director who wants to make a biopic should be forced to watch Walk Hard at least 5 times before they’re allowed to proceed.

My favorite Judy Garland story: