Ahem. The greatest cast ever was in the Show of Shows (1929) with 100 of Warner’s finest stars. Winnie Lightner! Richard Barthelmess! Irene Bordoni! Ted Lewis! Nick Lucas!  These are the stars that kids clamor to read about in the latest magazines at the corner druggist.

Billy Wilder was a master. He had a special talent for finding just the right mix of comedy and tragedy. It’s amazing that he directed most of his films in his third language.

One neat addendum to this movie: George C. Scott was so crushed when he didn’t get an Oscar that he was driven to some deep soul-searching about why it mattered so much to him. He ultimately decided that it shouldn’t matter and he wanted nothing to do with the awards ever again, causing him to become the first person…

Listening to her in e.g. interviews, she definitely sounds Australian, but it’s pretty light.

Ukrainian freedom fighter!

Now that you mention it, Jackie does slip into a Russian accent every now and then. Soviet sleeper agent?

Even Donna did prison time. There was a whole Netflix documentary about it.

First Fez started MS13. Then Kelso crashed his car while drunk. Then Eric ate all those people. Now Hyde with the raping.

Blimey! All this time I thought she was English.

The ending isn’t even downbeat. That’s how old time heist movies pretty much all end. It wasn’t until the ‘70s, when the crooks started getting away with it and maybe not until the ‘80s.

Agreed. I rewatched it in the last few years and I still like the ending much more than the remake. Both versions have great chemistry in some of the leads, but I could tune out in the new one when they’re all standing around the fountain and feel like I missed nothing. Sinatra’s version is compelling until the…

I think the ending to the original “Ocean’s Eleven” is pretty much perfect, cynical and downbeat, like the hangover at the end of a long weekend spent desperately partying and losing way more money than you can afford. Pure Vegas. That’s how I remember it, although, to be honest, I haven’t seen it in several years.

The Rewatchables is a legitimately great podcast—Simmons brings on good guests to cover his blind spots. The late, great Binge Mode is also a worthwhile listen.

Pablo Schreiber is in it which immediately elevates anything to “watchable.”

That’s a deal-breaker. I want people to be able to look me in the eye so they can fully absorb my disdain for them.

We already do that for free!

The cause of death was reported to have been a fall from the top of the Statue of Liberty. 

I love that the transparent manoeuvring to end the night with a posthumous Oscar fell flat on its face because the producers failed to realize that Anthony Hopkins giving a very good performance in a Serious Film about a Serious Issue was a major contender. Every year a million articles come out about old white…

It was just nuts for them to plan an ending that could only work if they’d correctly guessed the winner.