I have only seen Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, but I was impressed how its Dirty Harry message is far more nuance than anything allowed in American film. There's a nasty tendency in American action movies to celebrate the hero to the point where any disagreement with him must be shown wrong. Every character in 300…

I consider Confidential underrated after it got blown out of the water during awards season because of Titanic. LA Confidential has three amazing actors (along with a top-of-the-line supporting cast) give incredible performances about men who are trying to be good, who fail because of their weaknesses, how they still…

I consider it the best short movie ever made.

REFEREE: Nothing in the rulebook says a dog can't play basketball… but I'm still not going to allow this. It's youth rec league basketball for crying out loud! It's about kids having fun and getting playing time. I'm not going to allow a flippin' dog embarrass them. Why would you suggest that? You're adult! They're…

"(It also introduced some continuity weirdness that the series would have fun solving in the years ahead.)"

I'm sorry, but Captain America: Civil War was TOTALLY a bloated mess. I mean, yikes.

It might not have made a full season, but the trial episode has to be consider one of the best half-hours of television ever created.

Not surprising, after the abysmally low ratings for GirlPresident last year.

I liked Safety Not Guaranteed (which to my knowledge, remains the best movie based off a meme), and hoped returning to a smaller project would refocus Trevorrow after the complete story collapse that happened in Jurassic World.

Sad that means WW can't have the explicit "Blue-Is-The-Warmest-Color" lesbian themes that uhh… us serious fans would find… uhh… enlightening.

Of course, when I was young, watching Battle Royale WAS a transgressive act. You could only see it on a fifth-rate bootleg DVD where you could tell the exact moment the translator lost interest.

The problem is, if this was a TRUE story it would be fascinating and would be a great drama. As fiction, my immediate reaction was "yeah, that would be a thing." The show really can't be just be about that. And while the show was more than that, most people will only hear about the concept and never bother to see if…

I'm from a small town where you could see any movie on opening night. One of my first (maybe first?) midnight movie showings was Grindhouse. The theater was PACKED. I would never have guessed there was such a midnight movie-type crowd in the city. So Planet Terror plays and everyone really gets into it, we then go…

It was a great SNL episode.

As the target audience for the Cubs stuff (a Cubs fan who otherwise doesn't watch SNL), I want to offer my two cents that I really like their sketches. It was obviously fan servicy and I would not expect the general public to enjoy it, but the material was the kind of stuff I would want to see with Chicago players on…

Being assigned the horror genre "ghetto" makes people take The Thing less seriously than they might otherwise have. Though as D'Angelo points out, it's really hard to distinguish between thriller and horror, I'm personally a big thriller fan and not much of a horror guy. And to me, The Thing is the best movie ever…

Look, I up and up actively DISLIKE Saturday Night Live, but l laughed out loud at
the David S. Pumpkins sketch. Tom Hanks is a flipping miracle worker and he deserves all the awards.

This movie scares me in a way most horror movies could never come close: this is something that could happen to me, if I allow myself to become a doormat or hide my feelings all the time.

I pick L.A. Confidential as my top "Oscar Robbery" (it lost to Titanic). Unlike the usual suspects, Citizen Kane and Brokeback Mountain, Confidential's reputation was hurt for not winning. I don't think a lot of people consider it a classic and a younger generation has never picked up on it.

PRODUCER #1: How do we make Sutherland look like a Serious Politician Guy and not Jack Bauer, the guy who is about the personally beat the shit out of some terrorists?
PRODUCER #2: Make him wear a pair of nerd glasses.
PRODUCER #1:… You're a genius!