I always forget that she was on The Electric Company. I grew up watching her and never realized it was the same woman from film musicals. I can only hope she goes the same route as Betty White and just keeps on going because, well, she’s Rita Moreno. 

It’s a stacked cast for sure, but my bet is on Redford (I’m just going with Vegas stakes here, it’s not personal...Butch Cassidy is one of my favorite films ever). I did just discover that Ben Kingsley is a year younger than my parents, so that’s encouraging.

I cannot agree more with this. Sneakers was in constant rotation for me back in the ‘90s, and really deserves more respect. I almost see it as a cousin to Running on Empty, but that may be a stretch.

This. I’ve been recommending the original director’s cut for probably 30 years now and there are two exact sides: “There’s no emotion, it’s boring, it’s pointless” “Exactly. That’s why you don’t get it.”

Exactly. She was only shown for maybe, what, 3-5 seconds of a very short trailer to begin with, and I instantly knew it was her and thought it was a perfect homage to the original with her.

Remaking WHMS would be a criminal offense. I have never really been the biggest fan of either Billy Crystal or Meg Ryan, but they are irreplaceable in the film. And you can’t deny the casting of Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby as the supporting cast/friends. I just spent like five minutes trying to come up with…

Dave Thomas was exactly the person he portrayed in the Wendy’s commercials of the late 80's-early 90's. I met him once when putting up signage on property he was selling outside of northern Columbus, OH. Not a facade, and truly salt of the earth.

There was one in Bexley, OH that took over the site of a former adult movie cinema. I still find it funny that folk in Bexley preferred the cinema over having a McDonalds in their back yard, because they tolerated the cinema. The McDonalds, OTOH, wasn’t allowed signage, a drive-thru, or anything that would make it…

Big Red NO.

You took a lot away from that, and all of it was taken in the wrong way.

“They’re Weird, Wild Wrestlers”

I’ve found the baroque composers to be the best. Corelli, Vivaldi, etc. Not a joke. I’ve been listening to Corelli’s 12 Concerti Grossi since I was probably 7-8 years old and it’s my thinking music. Highly recommend the St. Martins in the Field version. 

Faye Dunaway is beyond incredible in anything. Jack Nicholson is, well, Jack, because he is what he is. No one else could have played the Joker in ‘89s Batman like Jack did. 

I have a nephew who worked at Disneyworld for all of maybe a year. He LOVED it. I went once, with my father back in the early ‘90s, and it was horrible. What made it memorable is that we forgot the camera in the van and the only pictures we ever had from our one horrible visit to Disneyworld was me in front of the van…

At least he’s not doing films with Adam Sandler...

Chinatown is such a great, great film. It is infinitely re-watchable and just a classic of acting and storytelling. I highly recommend the book from last year, The Big Goodbye, essentially about the filming of Chinatown and Hollywood in the early/mid-’70s. It’s amazing.

I cannot agree with this more. Aya Cash is severely underrated and deserves so much more.

Not joking, I had to say that out loud before I got it.

I just rewatched Rises last week, and realized that I’d never actually seen the first 20-30 minutes. Like, ever. Never seen the initial introduction of Bane at the beginning. The film is definitely a cluster of nonsense. It suffers from the final Schumacher Batman film problem of too many characters and trying to do…

“You said ‘Fuck!!’”