I’m sure I’m in the minority in thinking that License To Kill is one of the best of the series, and a big reason for that is Robert Davi’s Franz Sanchez as the villain. He’s one of the more realistic bad guys in the franchise (such as that goes), as well as one of the most sadistic (“Did he promise you his heart? Give…

He also directed the ONLY halfway-decent Chuck Norris movie, “Code of Silence.”

I love the movie and always have, but I think the one weakness is the casting of Jeroen Krabbe as the revealed villain. It ought to be a shock, but in the words of Film Critic Bill Murray, “We Don’t Like Foreigners.” Imagine the role being played by a vaguely recognizable American character actor - like David…

And the other funny thing about it is that the entire lyric is never heard.  I always wanted to learn the song but it always gets cut off at a certain point.  Fortunately there’s a terrific soundtrack album and it’s fully sung a couple of times (Jack Sheldon!).  (And as far as small-scale JW scores go, I’m also very…

This creepy and inexorably building theme from Brian DePalma’s movie has always been one of my favorite “unsung” Williams pieces - was it really used in “Euphoria”?  (Also a shoutout to the very funny score to “The Long Goodbye.”)

The great jazz singer Tierney Sutton recorded an entire album of Sting covers, and she explained in a concert I attended that she was reluctant to do “Every Breath You Take” for the “creepy/stalking” vibe of it, and how would a female singer deal with it? And one night she was talking with her band, and they’re all of…

Fernando Rey’s character is not who Popeye is chasing in The French Connection; it’s his enforcer.

I actually thought of Butch Cassidy with “I can’t ride a bike!” “The fall’ll probably kill you!”  And then they play “Raindrops.”

Couldn’t you have mentioned somewhere in the article that Jackson and Washington were just on Broadway with a production of the play - which just might have had something to do with the new film of it?

I’m pretty sure that no actual human being has ever been named “Mason Kane.”

“Abby” might not have worked as a sketch, but what I love about Heidi’s work is that she consistently gives performances - not just “sketch performances,” but committed work, both physically and vocally. I think she’s the best actress in the cast right now.

Even if Max jumped, wouldn’t there have been an autopsy and detected poison? And then the same poison in Arthur?

How can you not mention Sam Peckinpah’s The Ballad Of Cable Hough? I think that’s one of the highlights of her career.

When Bacharach asked “why do birds suddenly appear?”

I remember nothing about the sequel except the sight gag with William Shatner on a screen, but I must have missed the next minute and a half because I was laughing so hard.

Ummm... Babylon was a comedy?  I don’t recall laughing.

I imagine it’s budgetary, but I can’t be sure.

The happiest I am about the nominees is the inclusion of Regina Hall in Honk for Jesus. I thought it was an extraordinary performance, but never thought she’d be considered for anything.  Hooray!

I personally love “Amy.” With a blistering Jean-Luc Ponty violin solo!

I had to look that up - yes, she’s been there for two seasons. I had no idea.