No no, MULTIPLE MANIACS 4-ev-ah. (This one is good, though.)

A terrific movie! I disagree about nobody but Kotto giving their all, though. Nichelle Nichols certainly brings it, as does the great Dick Miller, sporting his trademark pink blazer and talking a mile a minute.

None of that qualifies him to be a cinematographer.

There are Snyder cultists? Who would bother? That’s like being, I don’t know, a Peter Hyams cultist or something. Anyway, thanks for the tip.

I’ve never seen this program. Will I want to watch this special? Headline hints no, but I want to see what you folks say.

I’ve never understood the urge some directors have to shoot their own movies. From Steven Soderbergh to Peter Hyams to Tarantino (once) and now Snyder - hey fellows, directing is time-consuming enough without adding the very detail-oriented job of cinematographer! I’ve done both jobs, albeit on much smaller and less…

It’s no Observe and Report.

You know, sometimes there are excuses for criminal behaviour.

As a Jungian, surely you believe that erotomania implies consent.

I believe that recipe is on page 46 of the beloved alien cookbook “To Serve Man.”

Fundamentally you don’t disagree. Mandy is a truly delightful comedy!

Well he sure doesn’t seem it! I think Grodin hit 30, plateaued for about thirty more years, and then began incrementally to age in a more realistic way. I’ll bet he looked pretty old at the end, though - bone marrow cancer will do that.

Whoever wins, we lose.

I worry that sequelizing Attack the Block will lead to Critters syndrome. Remember the first Critters? Decent little movie. Then they started making sequels, and not even hiring giant movie stars like Leonardo Di Caprio could prevent them from being terrible and dragging down the reputation of the original. Next thing…

Is that Nukie?

That statue’s terrific. I have a fear of being grasped and eaten by a giant squid, but one look at that thing sort of cured me of it, or at least ameliorated my terror just a little bit.

Hmm. No, I don’t know that Birdy stinks, thank you very much Mr. Sherman. I actually quite like it, and I’ve even read the Wharton book and everything. I don’t think everything works perfectly in it, but the mash-up of 80s hyperstylization and genuine emotional engagement seems like some kind of an achievement to me,…

Border, shmorder. I’m worried this farmer may have released Rawhead Rex.

It can certainly be cool if no one sees you do it, it just won’t be registered as such. I’m very often super cool when no one is looking. Yes, there’s a temptation to put coolness into the “A tree falls in the forest” category, but I think the universe can witness your coolness and kind of give you one of those…

Why did De Niro parenthetically add the year when asking about Birdy (1984)? And to this story one should add that, assuming the film being offered was Angel Heart (1987), De Niro took it. So he couldn’t have hated Birdy™ all that much.