There are four rote crime thrillers exactly like this that go straight to VOD/Blu every week. If this one gets into more than 20 theaters, I'll be surprised. I don't think it's playing in Chicago this weekend.

69-year-old Diane Keaton is married to John Goodman. With 81-year-old Alan Arkin as her dad and 50-year-old Marisa Tomei as her sister? Wonder what the camera department's Vaseline budget was.

SECOND CHANCE. Brilliant. Fox definitely focus-grouped the shit out of that.

Nice to see Noel pointing out that ABC was doing great dramas in the 1990s…great dramas that almost nobody watched. Or at least interesting dramas (I might toss VENGEANCE UNLIMITED and Malcolm McDowell's FANTASY ISLAND in there too). Now I don't watch any ABC dramas.

Looking forward to "Look, we've talked about this wearing-a-wire crap before!" in Season 7.

Sorry. Tell your sister I'm sure she's very nice, but she's a horrible actress.

You're supposed to follow the facts toward a conclusion, not twist them to fit into a preconceived narrative.

Considering 95% of her talent is wrapped in a leather catsuit, she's lucky to be getting paid anything.

Do not care. I can think of few things least worth worrying about than how many more millions of dollars one millionaire got paid compared to another millionaire.

Despite the false scares and the cliched ending, I've been a soft touch for this one since it premiered in empty theaters. It zooms along nicely, the cast is really good, and the Miami locations are interestingly used by the director, who sadly died too young. William Smith is in it too. Pick up Katzenbach's novel if…

Clint is much too old for the role, but otherwise TRUE CRIME is a professionally crafted, well-performed melodrama. Nothing special, but not one quickly ignored either. Denis Leary and James Woods are hilariously profane in it, and if you love old character actors, it's a kick to see Bill Windom and Tony Zerbe pop up.

I know that, but studio heads don't.

Me too, but after MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. flopped, it'll never happen.

James Bond is exactly the same as he was in 1962. It's the Stan Lee method of giving the illusion of change without really changing. Bond is still a white British male cad who drinks a lot, romances women, travels to exotic locations, fights evil, has a sense of humor, has a boss named M, gets gadgets from Q, is based…

Yes.

First, that's not Bond's problem. If you want to make a movie about a lady spy or a gay spy, that's *your* problem. Why inflict it on James Bond? By using the "brand name" defense, you're already admitting that your idea isn't a very good one.

Eh. No controversy here. If Hollywood wants to make a movie about a lady spy or a gay spy, why doesn't it just make up its own?

He's also a fan of taking food, shelter and health care away from poor people.

I can assure you TV audiences were neither as stupid as you believe them to be then nor as smart as you believe them to be now. Audiences knew who Steven Bochco was (I suspect Bochco was the first "household name" showrunner with the possible exception of Gene Roddenberry; Serling, Rose, and Chayefsky were probably…

I don't think they would in 2015. I think they definitely did in the 1990s. Bochco too.