How soon we forget Lobot. This is why Disney needs to get on that Lobot spin-off film pronto.

I remember 12 year-old me reading The Phantom Menace novelization like a month before the movie came out and thinking "This really isn't very good," but that sure didn't keep me from seeing it on opening day.

No one wrote about Jia Zhangke’s Still Life (2006 Venice Winner), so here goes, in a manner somewhat relevant to the film above.

That's great news! Hopefully Sony doesn't sit on it or charge some ludicrous licensing fee, but they seem pretty good about lending stuff out. Criterion coverage would be a great boon to the film's reputation, but I feel like it's more Milestone's style. And they would get it out in less than five years.

I imagine you (and even your father-in-law) have no say in this, but can't someone push them to like maybe actually release a DVD? I've only seen it on VHS, and it's lack of availability is a big part of its lack of proper recognition.

James Bond Jr? Are there bad guys with steamrollers?

…we’re recommending some of the best winners of the fest’s highest honor, the Golden Lion.

No, no, it's A Seperate Peace.

The film's original title was actually Squirrel to the Nuts, and it went back and forth about five times during the production and marketing cycle.

At Long Last Love (at least the re-edited version released on Blu-ray last year), Nickelodeon, and They All Laughed are all great.

See, it's funny because fundamentalist Christianity will actually get that reference.

I'm up for a live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast if it's in black and white, in French, filled with smoke and mirrors, and made in 1946.

Also, it may just be because I picked up Have One On Me after the other albums and was already a convert, but I feel her voice is less abrasive on that album. It's a good entry point.

Right next door to Arby's!

I'd say it's solid mid-tier—above Jim Bean and about equivalent with Maker's Mark (though less popular). I like it because the blend is less sweet (maybe less corn-based?) than Maker's Mark and it goes easier on my stomach than most bourbons.

You're getting your Harold Lloyd civil war re-enactments mixed up in our Buster Keaton civil war re-enactments!

I'm glad people are coming back around to Burton's Batman these days, but it's Batman Returns that's the absolute masterpiece. Pfeiffer is fantastic, and the whole thing is so well-tuned to the grotesque/tragic/insane gothic atmosphere embodied in Devito's Penguin.

Though if you've only seen Annie Hall, you might give Bananas or Sleeper a shot. They're what people are really referring to when they talk about "the early, funny ones." They're more Marx Brothers throw neurotic Allen in an incongruous situation and let him wisecrack, which is more like his standup, which has largely…

Allen can pull off pre-1960 working class life or post-1970 upper class life, but I think he was only middle class for maybe a brief period in 1961 and has no memory of what that means.

Actually, the book is just as darkly comedic as the film. It's more verbal wit, being a book and all, and there's nothing quite as broadly (for this film) comedic as Mason's slapstick battle with a cot. Just a lot acerbic self-loathing/self-delusion from Humbert.