I thought “Diabolique” was the film considered the best Hitchcock he didn’t make. Or at least Hitchcock himself had really wanted to make it.

No offense taken when someone at a pop culture site opinions on pop culture that aren’t identical to mine! Fox is hardly a favorite movie of mine, but as a non-fan of Anderson I think he’s better suited to stop-motion than live-action, and I just didn’t think Dogs was as good.

Seinfeld doesn’t model anything “ideal”. It’s about a bunch of selfish characters whose motto is “No hugging, no learning”. The show ends with them in court with characters from previous seasons detailing what awful people they’ve been, resulting in them being convicted. Here’s an argument that it prefigured the…

Straw Dogs is a home invasion movie, but it’s directed by an American (adapted from a novel by a Scotsman).

Conjuring just is a haunted house movie (the family can’t afford to move). Insidious is the one where the surprise is that the haunting isn’t of the house.

Why does this post have an embedded Film Club video on Midnight Special? Because it’s better aping of Spielberg than anything Abrams has done?

Easily: hire someone whose career is already dead.

I hadn’t seen that. Are you referring to this?

There’s no kidney shortage in Iran... because donors get compensated. I’m grateful Alvin Roth has come up with mechanisms to help people swap donor kidneys, but everyone dying because they can’t get a kidney strikes me as a policy failure.

I had been under the impression we’d been transplanting organs from pigs to humans for years. The gap between the species was supposed to be a help in preventing the body from rejecting it.

The time I visited Disney World as a kid there was a sandwhich someone had vomited up on the monorail in. I was already an anti-Disney WB partisan before that though.

Mr. Fox is my favorite of his films (I don’t consider myself a fan). I don’t have a normative complaint about his depiction of Japan, but I don’t think it helped the film artistically that he felt he needed that American exchange student for the material off the island.

In terms of recent winners of the Trophee Chopard who also sing, I’d still give the edge to Jessie Buckley. Oddly enough, I don’t see any of ATJ’s films on this page for the Cannes film festival where she won that:

Here’s the uptempo version:

It’s called “Downtown” because the Englishman who wrote it while visiting Manhattan didn’t realize he was in “Midtown”. Much to Jerry & George’s later confusion:

The song really should be uptempo, which is presumably why they also have her do that version as well. But that wouldn’t indicate in the trailer that Wright wasn’t making another comedy.

Well it certainly wouldn’t be Bob Black working on the soundtrack, given his opposition to work.

I thought it was only 2 times because Matt Damon’s character wasn’t present.

The second Conjuring movie takes place in England but it’s still an American production (directed by an Australian born in Malaysia)

The distinctive thing about Insidious is that it WASN’T the house that was haunted, but instead the kid, so that changing houses didn’t help.