I forgot the “throwing the baseball around” and “Making PB&Js” scenes in War Of The Worlds.

Indeed, hence the Edgar Wright reference in the article.

Will there also be a Bando Stone album to go with it?

I’ve said it before: Cruise’s best roles are the ones where Tom Cruise’s charms fail to help the character, and he has to fall back on other things. Trying and failing to avoid deployment in Edge of Tomorrow? Trapped in the chair while PSH counts down from 10 in Mission: Impossible 3? The gotcha interview in Magnolia?…

40 years of enjoying Spidey, and I never once heard that Electric Company theme? What have I done with my life?

The landlord’s adorable daughter gets done so dirty by that movie. She’s there for him at his lowest ebb with exactly what he needs to feel better, and then she’s never seen again.

If it lets Taraji P. Henson pee comfortably, I’ll allow it.

Golf Costner was pretty great, but when Rene Russo’s involved, it’s hard not to be.

NFL Costner was a bit shit, though.

Or Nicolas Cage not using his birth name of Coppola.

I got a Community notification for this?

Raimi wanted Sandman, the studio insisted on Venom.

“Actually, I’d like a picture with that young man over there.”

Is Lamar free on Tuesday nights?

I do, and I was thinking of him in “The Medusa Touch”, but I now recall he wasn’t charming in it. Just terrifying with the telekinesis. “I am the man with the power to create catastrophe”, indeed.

Now I have to replay it, and look for scenes of Johnson moving around like Samuel L Jackson in “Captain Marvel”.

Watching large muscle men getting slapped to the ground by other large muscle men in heavy prosthetics is tight!

Good luck to him. For all that the commentariat love to shit on him (and I’m not wholly innocent here) for not being a Downey-Jr-level attention- magnet, I’ve never seen a film with him in it and thought either “he shouldn’t have been cast in this” or “this is not a good film”. Even the non-Bourne Bourne movie was…

Fair point. But also, Pirates! How did I forget Jonathan Pryce in Pirates? And thence to Ian McShane? And via Kung Fu Panda, to Gary Oldman?

Here’s hoping it leads to a “British actor playing a charmingly sociopathic villain”-aissance. We have decades of them, with Rickman, Hopkins, Kingsley, Burton, Olivier, McDowell (Malcolm, not Roddy), and a plethora of others, but it feels like it’s tailed off a bit of late.