Often.  In the car.  On video calls.  In public especially.  She has a milestone birthday next year and there is no way we’re not recreating the video on her lawn.

Also this is absolutely what friends are for, one of my friends and I have been springing bad impromptu renditions of Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” on another friend for going on 25 years now.

Having 10 BP nominees probably helped, but the sandbag is only a handful were really major releases. I like to think I’m up on things and had only recently heard of CODA due to its awards success. I know its production alone is an amazing story but is it actually any good?

You’re obviously forgetting castaway Sergeant “Fatso” Judson.

I’d think the crew would want the extra hours

I’m mildly outraged but banning a book in 2022 seems so retro 90s it’s almost quaint. 

Time for some obligatory Norm

One of my favorite movies of all time (as many others feel, I know). And yes, the payoff is that incredible scene at the end. The subtext powers everything in that scene—I love the halted way she delivers “I am...so glad to hear you say that.” And then—”Each in its own way—Rome. By all mean, Rome.” She’s incandescent. …

Interesting that Olivia considered her role in Princes O’Rourke one of her truly satisfying ones while working at Warner Bros. That movie preceded her famous lawsuit against Warner which she won, but Jack Warner got her blacklisted as a result. It was Wyler who helped resurrect Olivia’s career when he directed her in…

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a William Wyler movie I haven’t loved. The Best Years of Our Lives is still imo one of the best movies about what it’s like to come home from the war. The fact that Wyler cast a real disabled vet in a lead role was so gutsy. And the scene where Homer’s father has to remove his prosthetics…

Love Breakfast at Tiffany, despite its obvious racism flaw.

I’m really baffled that in discussions of the greatest directors ever, no one ever seems to bring up William Wyler. Wuthering Heights, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Roman Holiday, The Big Country, oh, and a little movie called Ben Hur. What more do you need?

I find it somewhat interesting that this same story was done just 10 years earlier in Princess O’Rourke with Olivia de Havilland, right down to the princess and love interest meeting because she was drugged to sleep.

There never was nor will be another Audrey Hepburn, for a first starring role she feels like a pro.  If she wasn't let onto what would happen with the Mouth of Truth, then damn did she roll with it gracefully.  I must say that Eddie Albert is quite enjoyable as Pecks friend, he adds a nice touch of comedy to the…

“Those young punks and their movies about hotels and newspapers are why kids are distracted from stories that really matter, namely obscure incidents in French history!”

I hope he didn’t compound his misery by watching it too.

The Thing Called Love (which I think is River Phoenix’s last performance) and The Cat’s Meow are not great movies, per se, but they’re both a lot of fun and well-worth watching. His Tom Petty doc from ‘07 is excellent.

I only just found out that he directed “Mask,” which I recall being pretty solid, if nowhere near as good as his early stuff. 

He certainly wasn’t saying that J. K. Rowling is an anti-Semite or that the Harry Potter movies should be expunged from our collective memory. But he did talk about “how some tropes are so embedded in society that they’re basically invisible even in a considered process like moviemaking,” so it’s not like he was just…

Orson Welles just gets younger and younger.