“Finally, the team … got their green light by … making everything significantly broader. … The
characters weren’t presented as especially smart or talented. … That made them
highly relatable to tens of millions of Americans…” See, now you've got a great template for writing about 99% of everything from the UK adapted…

Well it worked for "Fistful of Dollars."

Sorry, but the greatness of "Executive Decision" merits more than just a tossaway line. It is not simply, as you put it, "Diehard on a Plane." It is, in fact, "Airport 1996", the covert and belated final entry into the 70's disaster series, disguised as an action movie.

Ditto. The whole thing seemed rather bland and formulaic. What's fun about a good action movie is that under the guise of shoot 'em up/blow it to pieces you can actually slip in some weird or interesting ideas. A lot of Schwarzenegger's movies in the '80s and early '90s (Predator, Total Recall, Terminator & T2 fall…

It's almost as bad as the "Star Wars Week" debacle.

They absolutely are. Which is what they're doing instead of watching Fallon.

The Democratic base in general has developed a sort of tunnel vision about the office of the Presidency. It's a key part of why they did so badly in midterms under Obama.

Which reminds me of the second most aggravating aspect of it - that there was actually more than one race in 2016, and that it was actually possible to vote for someone like Feinhold and NOT Hillary. But try and explain that to those dead-ender folks and they'd just cover their ears and shout, "Now you're on HER…

You know, Wisconsin should really should have been a cautionary tale for liberals who tend to take the attitude that if you get complacent and give the crazies a shot at running things, they'll turn out to be their own worst enemy and self-destruct. While they do tend to do a pretty good job of screwing everything up,…

"Liberals discover yet another silly, pointless activity to engage in instead of doing something that might actually bring their vision to fruition, while simultaneously giving the right something else to ridicule them for." There, fixed it for you.

He should send them to liberal voters in Wisconsin instead. This past election, Wisconsin voters were offered a choice between Johnson and Russ Feingold, the former senator and a "true progressive" if ever there was one. Liberals STILL couldn't be bothered to get off their lazy asses and vote in sufficient numbers to…

You need to at least see Chinatown. Even if Polanski's a scumbag, it's a tremendous disservice to all the other great talents that converged to make that film - Robert Towne's amazing script, the colossal acting talents of Nicholson, Dunaway, and Houston, the superb score and cinematography - to discount the film on…

Is anybody terribly surprised by this? Say what you will of the man, he's always been able to play the media like the proverbial "fine Stradivarius." It might be giving him too much credit to say he literally planned it this way, but I imagine that on at least an intuitive level, Trump understands that if he follows…

"It’s been 25 years since The Silence Of The Lambs won Best Picture—and depending on where you think Black Swan belongs, a horror movie hasn’t been nominated since 1999’s The Sixth Sense." I don't really think of either "Silence of the Lambs" or "The Sixth Sense" as horror movies. The former I would consider more of a…

"You should be thanking me every morning when you wake up, along with Jesus, for giving you another day!"

"It's like asking a bunch of 8-year-olds to vote on their favorite TV shows and thinking the only reason Masters of Sex didn't make the winners list is that you only showed the top five results."

A ten Best Picture nominee slate seems more appropriate to the "Golden Age" of Hollywood when a single studio would release more features in a year than all of the major studios combined do now. We're unlikely to see another 1939, when even "non-prestige" genre pictures would go on to be regarded as all-time classics.

That used to be one of the major draws - cheaper taxes and fees than LA or NYC. That, and the Chicago Loop can very easily double for Manhattan, but is probably better from a logistical standpoint as it generally has wider streets, less traffic, you don't need to go over a bridge or through a tunnel to get in or out…

Chicago was, very briefly, a center of film production during the silent era for non - "race" films as well. Ditto during the early days of T.V., when broadcast satellites and videotape didn't yet exist, making coast to coast broadcasting somewhat difficult and expensive.

Personally, I would much more enjoy reading a list of 15 or so albums where an artist's work became better simply by selling out and abandoning their hardcore fans. "F@ck the people who got us here. We're gonna sell out stadiums with this shit!"