I am kind of partial to a 1970s chestnut with Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn called "Same Time, Next Year". Moderns may have trouble with the 70s vibe that infidelity is cool if the spouses don't find out, but it is a sweet picture.

For greatest anti-romantic movie of all time I nominate The Third Man. Great ending.

All great picks.

Why would her parents think she's dead? They probably think she ran off to LA to turn tricks, this is the early 1980s after all.

If you don't like Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, or Elephant Man, why would you convince yourself that you are a David Lynch fan? Twin Peaks is not real David Lynch, it's a network TV show, i.e. David Lynch lite. Spelman is a David Lynch fan in the sense that someone whose favorite restaurant is PF Changs, but…

The best use of Sound of Music is showing it to Austrians and then laughing when you see how bewildered or even angry they get.

Watch the version they showed in Germany and Austria in the 1960s. It just ends before the Nazis show up. No explanation. No wonder the movie wasn't very popular there, it didn't have much of a story.

Speaking as someone old enough to remember, Grease is not a "beloved masterpiece", it is just a popular piece of 1970s camp. And it was just a product of the 1950's nostalgia that was already strong in the '70s, not a progenitor.

"Blue Velvet" came out way back in 1986. I was in college at the time and PBR became an ironic hipster drink within seconds of that movie coming out. Granted, Ehrmentraut probably didn't run with that crowd.

For the most part, the Ancient Egyptians probably looked a lot like modern Egyptians. The streams of invaders over the centuries - Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks - may have been generally lighter skinned than the local population, but didn't show up in large enough numbers to make that much of a difference.

There are actually hundreds of actors in Hollywood who are at least of partial Arab descent. You could cast Tony Shalhoub, Catherine Keener, Salma Hayek, John Leguizamo, Wendie Malick, Shannon Elizabeth, Wentworth Miller and Vince Vaughn, for a start.

Arabs are not a race. They are defined by the language they speak, like Hispanics. It is not unheard of to meet blue eyed fair skinned "Arabs", especially in the Levant. A white person playing a Moroccan Arab would be questionable, a white person playing a Syrian or even an Iraqi is no weirder than Tony Shalhoub…

What is the big deal about Rudolph Valentino (or any fairly tan European) playing an Arab? "Arabs" come in all shapes and sizes. I have met Saudis with red hair, fair skin and blue eyes. Southern Italians are also genetically fairly closely related to Lebanese and Syrians, so it was really not much of a stretch to…

I was alive back then, and I don't recall Apollo 13 being a big deal at all at the time. Just a short lived news story. Americans were hardly glued to their televisions, not in my family anyway. The Hanks movie made Apollo 13 a big deal retroactively. Kent State was a big deal.

"Grand Budapest forgoes human relationships in favor of nostalgia and pining for an idea of pre-war Europe,"

It is a great movie.

I assume you are about 16 years old and/or have had a very poor education. I have voted Democrat in every election since 1980. I even voted for Jesse Jackson. I have actually studied Alqonquin and Nahuatl. I am sure I have forgotten far more about Native American culture and history than you will ever learn, or…

I honestly feel sorry for you, you probably sincerely believe you are fighting a good fight. Sorry, you are just spreading more linguistic ignorance. That is all you are doing, making the world even more intolerant, and ignorant of history. Is that a good thing? I should celebrate your actions in making the world…

Tenacious D rocks acoustically.

One of the refreshing things about Gone Girl is that despite its Fatal Attraction veneer, it refuses to cast Amy as a villain—or worse, another “crazy bitch.” If she’s driven to unspeakable acts in her quest for marital revenge, it’s because Nick drove her to the edge.