I think it’s neck-and-neck with the cut from O’Toole snuffing out a match to a desert sunrise in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.

And of course it was rated G!

2001: A Space Odyssey will always have a special meaning for me because after watching this film for the first time I began to understand that there was a difference between movies on the one hand, and cinema on the other. A bit of background:

Put it together with Jerome Agel’s The Making of Kubrick’s 2001, and then it’s definitive. (Agel’s book reprints every review 2001 got, for one thing. It also reprints Kubrick’s Playboy interview in full, for a second, and the interviews with scientists that were considered as a prologue at one point.) No slam on…

I saw “2001" during its original release when I was three. (Either this film or the re-release of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was the first movie I saw in a theater.) Considering how abstract and cerebral it is, it’s surprising it held my attention during its entire length but my parents always told me I was…

I can’t recommend this book enough to fans of 2001, Kubrick, cinematic lore and the filmmaking process. Definitive:

The first time I watched 2001 at home I spent most of it struggling not to fall asleep, the second time I appreciated it more but still remained at a distance. Then last year I went to see it in IMAX and was already in tears for the second half of the prologue and the entire first Blue Danube sequence, it was one of…

I have seen this on Laserdisc, dvd and then blu ray several times. Each time I felt the slow parts drag but was still enjoying the film despite the pace. THEN I saw it in 70mm IMAX and wow. Not a single slow part. Pace was perfect. This film is designed to be seen on the biggest screen possible. It absorbs you in and…

At this point Netflix and the creatives making shows for Netflix really should just accept working following the BBC model.

If you read LeGuin’s afterwords, it’s clear that she HATED Harry Potter, seeing it as an infantilization of everything she’d been trying to do, yet was the one that became more popular. And after going through the original Earthsea trilogy, I can definitely see where that’s coming from.

Going for the “concerned parents” angle was smart. You can sell those idiots any idea and they will yell about it with a fiery passion: such as antivaxxer shit.

It took more time to read that article than the show will last on TV.

Always the first to call out the clueless audacity of some “idiot dude in a feminist t-shirt” Joss Whedon is the guy on your Facebook feed who, when not enthusiastically promoting burlesque shows or wherever he just ate brunch, constantly likes and comments on female friends’ selfies and posts articles about the…

OR we could just say they both studios dominated their eras and determine that the world is too different to form any sweeping generalizations about which “did better.”

If we’re going to adjust for more competition in 2019, then we should also adjust for the increasingly globalised population of 8 billion who go to see all those mainstream blockbusters.

I’m thinking it’s more a painfully-longer version of the “Love, Actually” genre of cloyingly awful “All-Star Holiday Movie”.

I’d be friends with a counting cat too.

Does my cat count?  If so, then one.

I’ve never had more than 4 or 5 people I consider friends.

However, I can easily maintain an “enemies list” with hundreds of people on it.

Maybe I’m a misanthrope.

I would guess that grammarians would have much fewer than 150 friends.