I am so happy to see someone stick up for Life of Brian!

It's not so much a coincidence. It's an escalation that gives the movie a third act. Without that, nothing much happens after "Borden" rescues "Fallon".

In The Prestige, Jackman's character might as well bump into a UFO in the woods, and inside are Kang, Kodos, and Rod Serling: "Are you in need of an ironically cursed magical object? Because today's your lucky day! This will give you exactly what you want, in the most ironic way possible. Also, it contains potassium…

Turner and Hooch, and K-9.

People were nuts for that movie for multiple reasons, not just Ledger.

Orson Welles: died October 10, 1985. The end of "personal filmmaking".

Along with David Mamet, Avengers Annual 10 (Claremont), and The West Wing.

My wife had fond and nostalgic memories of watching On Golden Pond as a kid. We watched it not to long ago, it hasn't aged well.

Richard Attenborough himself admitted ET deserved to win Best Picture over Gandhi.

I do like Chariots of Fire a lot as well.

Better than Buck Rogers and original Galactica, for sure.

"Let's All Make A Bomb", Heaven 17 (1981)

I wonder how Phase 2 would have been?

my dad was solidly on the side of "They came out around the same time so it's just a coincidence."

Honestly, I meant Soderbergh/Clooney. Never seen the original.

Brian DePalma is the antichrist. He is the worst. Great technical achievement with an utter absence of soul, who clinically dissects the work of his betters and leaves it laying flayed on the slab of his masturbatory impulses.

Scotty is a sadistic villain in the sense that Judy was an innocent girl who unknowingly fell in love with a man who was obsessed with an ex-girlfriend, and who emotionally abuses her into dressing up like the ex, a woman she never knew.

His "horrendous treatment" of a murder conspirator?

Just looking at the list of Hitchcock's works on Wikipedia. There are still some movies from his American movies that I've never seen:
Paradine Case
Under Capricorn
Stage Fright
Wrong Man

Rear Window is endlessly watchable. Shadow of a Doubt is wonderful.