But Top Gun 2 was like Star Wars!

Well after Tom Cruise remade a large part of A New Hope last year and called it Top Gun, it would be only fair.

“...explaining that Smith “does movies with his shirt off” while he does “a movie getting open heart surgery,”...”

I’ll be honest - I remembered it as a draw.

All Stallone’s boxing scenes are terrible - the films have merit (the first is a genuinely good movie deserving of its Oscar, and the fourth is just, well, it’s Rocky IV and is the 80s distilled into 90 minutes) but the boxing is laughable.  Raging Bull isn’t much better in that regard.

Say it Ain’t So, Teo.

More talented than a PG-rated dad like me?

You say “PG-rated dad jokes” like it’s a bad thing.

They’ll struggle to come up with anything as dramatic as Fleetwood Mac’s back story.

I’m looking forward to Dani Rojas’s continuing recovery from killing Earl.

With or without TB?

A firefighter in Perth, Australia once told me that most arsons involve firefighters who want a fire to fight.

One of the amusing elements of the Mincemeat movie from last year was that everybody in British Intelligence seemed to be writing a spy novel in their spare time.

Very helpful - this meant I could watch a half-decent SNL via YouTube clips while skipping the monologue.

I’m holding out for the My Uncle Oswald rewrite.

I think we have the beginnings of a DACU here.

Richard E. Grant is always up for “silly”. I’m sure he loved it.

The image is from Quadrophenia.  And it was far more than a “small part”.

It’s a fantasy, pastoral version of England. So, you know, New Zealand.