The forgotten 1970s romantic comedy...

I really didn’t like the choice of making Tic basically a bystander in his own story and having George be given all his revelations and best scenes. The way the ritual resolved is especially bad. 

I made that comment and it really frustrates me. Barnes more or less blew his case on the level of ‘oh this can genuinely be ended before it reaches the jury.’ Mason could have moved for a mistrial and realistically gotten it when Barnes openly accepts and argues that she was not complicit in the act but merely…

Too many poignant memories tied-into this film. My late-fiancée loved Cast Away (2000). I can picture the pair of us having lunch prior to seeing this movie on a Sunday afternoon knowing we still had that evening to look forward to. My sweetheart got me a Wilson antenna-topper ornament for my vehicle’s antenna when…

What is Joe Pesci if not the exact midpoint between Robert De Niro and Jon Lovitz?

If you were from Canada instead of Missouri, you’d know that Graham Greene is one of our most beloved character actors. 

Yeah, a John Doe lawsuit. Though he probably has firmer legal ground to stand on than Nunes, since he’s arguing “I have evidence that someone is wrongfully accusing me of heinous crimes in a malicious attempt to ruin my reputation” and not “Someone said mean things about my political opinions.” It’s probably a legal…

He seemed decidedly not guilty before, and filing a lawsuit for something that clearly sounds like defamation doesn’t somehow make him seem guilty now.

I’ll give the filmmakers credit for at least casting someone who would be somewhat plausible as a flight instructor, attractive enough but not so attractive as to be absurd. Michael Bay would have cast a Maxim centrefold.

In his book he makes it quite clear that he didn’t deliberately tank ‘Gargoyles’, but goes into extensive detail about how he would have done it if he had.

Agreed about the first lady. She seemed so underdeveloped when compared to the nuanced characters in her orbit. At the very least, she could have hinted at a crack in her facade, had an evil twinkle in her eye, *anything*, when giving that radio speech.

I love the ending of Risky Business. Joel gets away with it. Most other teen-set movies end with a big confession, and hugging and learning. “’Princeton could use a guy like Joel’” is perfect, followed by his dad’s less profane rendering of “what the fuck”. Think about how many things you did that your parents still…

I was having a serious problem with the credibility of Levin making such a visible show of his protesting in front of his wife and children.

I think a lot of actors fall under the category of “good with the right director” and Wahlberg is right there, and there are probably some more outwardly respectable actors who don’t have as good a group as these: The Departed; Three Kings; Boogie Nights; I Heart Huckabees; The Fighter; The Other Guys (which is great,…

Typewriters- the vast number of mystery novels films TV episodes where the typewriter is a key piece of evidence - and you cant even explain this to people under 30, the idea that you could.look.at a document and identify which machine had produced it.

1. It would take an incredible amount of discipline to hold onto that persona for 30 years

It’s Anderson for sure. He’s only gotten better. I’m not a big fan of his early work but I love Grand Budapest and Isle of Dogs. Burton hasn’t made a good movie in at about 15 years.

It becomes easier to understand once you realize how much the press coverage of this literal non-event is an It’s Anyone’s Fault But Mine reaction on the part of the press. The article itself is like a throwback to Hurricane Katrina coverage: exact same pictures, telling a different story, that when put together…

In this particular case, he makes it sound a lot less like “you don’t need to pay attention” and more like “you don’t need to have remembered every detail and seen/read every side project”.

We first see that in Rocky Balboa, though.