I am very late to the game here, but it seems that Deliverance should at least get a mention as a noteworthy 1972 action movie.

The Mummy Returns was a piece of shit that’s only really worth mentioning for one reason: It marked the big-screen debut of transcendent pro-wrestling star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who would make his own impact on action movies soon enough.

I was going to mention Langer's, which I find better than Katz's as well.

I would also have tried going back to the restaurant to see if they had her number (many restaurants do keep the phone numbers of their reservations so they can confirm/call them if something comes up). But that would have been a different show, I suppose.

A few months ago he compared being a conservative in Hollywood to living in 1930s era Germany, which raised a bunch of AV club hackles.

Well, it did have solid ratings. It was on the whole bland and formulaic, but the show itself wasn't particularly offensive.

Yes. It was actually ABC's second best performing comedy overall (after "Modern Family," which averaged 8.7 million in a more favorable time slot).

The thing is, we know Chuck's condition is psychosomatic. We saw that last season when they turned on electricity to his hospital bed and he didn't notice. We've also seen his aversion to batteries this season (he's had an aversion to touching them, and even had Ernesto take the AA batteries out of their packaging,…

That's largely the same kind of work he was doing in Season 1! But yeah, some kind of community service/pro bono work will likely be part of the disciplinary action taken against him.

As I understand it, Jimmy was facing (and continues to face) a suspension for the breaking & entering and assault, and the length of the suspension will likely be mitigated by taking into account this being a family spat. However, destroying evidence and falsifying the legal documents and thereby interfering with the…

I watched CTHD again a year or two ago, and thought that it held up quite well. It certainly didn't feel like an antiquated film.

It's an old(ish) joke. It goes back at least as far as 1993's "Shadowlands" in which Anthony Hopikins' CS Lewis corrected his order of 'two gin-and-tonics' to 'two gins-and-tonic' when ordering room service. I would not be surprised if it went back farther, but that's the earliest example I can recall off the top of…

This is all true and fair enough. My point (which I admit I didn't fully make, largely due to the late hour on my end) in bringing up auteurship wasn't to say that it is good in and of itself. That said, I found the new Star Wars movie to be very bland, as if (as I believe it was) it was designed with the primary…

Eh… he had a pretty fully sketched out episodes 7-9 from what I understand. Whereas the new ones are basically retreads of the first three, except without the warmth or acknowledgement of humanity the first three had (i.e. we go from billions of people dying while several planets are destroyed, to a Han-Leia meet-cute…

There is a 'headline/blowjob' pun to be made here, but damned if I can figure it out.

Ditto. Stardust is a surprisingly decent flick. Relatively understated for a 21st century fairy tale movie, and wonderfully self-contained, with a clear beginning, middle, and end. So unlike the episodic fantasy movies generally we get today.

Disney would help push him in front of the train, unfortunately.

Regardless of her deplorable politics, reducing Riefenstahl to "the Captain Obvious of cinema" is ridiculously wrong-headed.

Great beer, but mediocre pizza.

Great point with Zorro. It was every bit as much of a throwback as Ronin was, though a throwback to an even earlier era.