Indeed, if the Sheriff had just asked a few more questions, things would have been wrapped up without Sam and Lila having to be put in jeopardy

Right, if I've understood you, that's why I put that point at the end and positioned it as something that's helpful for students *today*. By contemporary standards, the Psychologist ruling out that Norman was a 'transvestite' is clumsy but without it (or without having their attention drawn to it), lazy contemporary…

But the scene in question is crucial. To start with at least three key things are said in the scene and nowhere else in the movie:

Too bad he didn't get to work on Roland Emmerich's next movie: Stonewall Down.

There's brief frontal male nudity in ARWAV but not by DDL (his Cecil of course won't go skinny-dipping).

It's pretty good alright. The title track 'Xanadu' and 'Suddenly' are also excellent (think how many current pop acts would kill for their quality). In other words, this article's thesis - that Great songs can still mean Bad Musical - is right on the mark even though its Exhibit A isn't the best.

Yes QT does play cassettes. Reportedly John Legend wanted to submit a song for the Django soundtrack (one that was ultimately accepted) and had to get it recorded onto a cassette for QT to hear it since QT doesn't do mp3s or flacs etc. at all and doesn't like cds so is typically very tardy about listening to anything…

Yes, it's a little 'Travis does Britney redux'. But 'Baby One More Time…' was a great song so whatever got people over the hump, and so I suppose with Swift's best songs here.

Adams' Bad Blood cover sounds almost exactly like the Verve/Richard Ashcroft. Nowt wrong with that.

Agreed. More generally, 'The Shade' just doesn't sound finished to me either writing- or production-wise.

'Fresh Tendrils' is the awesomest.

James Earle Jones was on the B-52 in Strangelove.

Yep, watching Chloe, Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter felt like a very long time ago.

If the Infinity stones in the Infinity gauntlet give unlimited power then I think we can be assured that the Age of Thanos will last no longer than the Age of Ultron, possibly no longer than the Age of Nazis-who-open-the-Ark-of-the-Covenant.

Hmm, if you like Emperor of The North (Pole) how can you not like at least Ulzana's Raid, Longest Yard, Dirty Dozen, and maybe Kiss Me Deadly? They're all brilliant and all the same kind of film. Personally I find Aldrich one of the most solid directors out there.

Preferring the Substance version of 'Temptation' over the original 7" and 12" mixes is deranged. Even The Perks of Being A Wallflower film got this right by going with the original 7". (Note for the too young to have been there: the Temptation 7" played at 33 rpm and had a great embossed sleeve. The 12" sleeve was…

Leigh's death in Psycho is ultra-shocking too… but her Marion Crane is a mature, confident woman. This makes her death more shocking in a way (Hitchcock likes killing off near-authority figures, see Balsam's Arbogast later in Psycho or both in-charge women-of-the-world Brenda and Babs in Frenzy) but less strictly…

Incredible museum - it's got *most* of the greatest Duchamp pieces, one of the best Bosch collections in the world, and on and on. And the exhibition spaces are *very* eccentric. Somehow it all adds up to the most potent art experience possible.

In a similar vein, my first trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art….: in the same field of view I had one of Van Gogh's best sunflowers and Manet's Large Bathers. Felt self start to dissolve….Turned a corner or two then Anselm Kiefer's Nigredo took the top of my head clear off. Amazing. Go if you ever have the chance!

Aw, the headline and promo picture for this piece got me all excited that maybe the Strangelove pie-fight scene had finally leaked out of the vaults in the British Film Institute and onto the internet.