He did say he was willing to set it in the present day if that’s what was needed to get the approval of Eon Productions. He had previously hoped he’d be able to make the film without them because Columbia owned the rights to Casino Royale, but then Columbia traded them away in exchange for MGM’s rights to Spider-Man.

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I’d say Stop Making Sense is “indie,” but Mad Max is definitely not American.

Von Trier has never made an American movie (and in fact has never even set foot here due to his travel phobia). Allen’s most famous and influential films were made with Hollywood studios so I wouldn’t say he belongs here either.

Seems to be a mistake, the article is supposed to be about the best alien invasion movie of 1996 but there’s not even a mention of Gamera 2: Attack of Legion.

It was a regular network show on NBC (ditto Full House, except that was on ABC). It was a bit like a syndicated show in that local affiliates were flexible with its time slot (since they often had other things they’d rather air on late Saturday mornings), but it wasn’t syndicated on its first run.

Yeah, pretty much all of the “pre-Code Hollywood relics” and “old-timey Westerns” this article is trumpeting as some kind of gift to vintage film buffs are public domain movies that are available right now on Youtube, the Internet Archive, etc. and are almost certainly going to look like something dragged through a…

Sure, but Salvation and Genisys are continuations of earlier Terminator installments and not hard reboots in the sense of The Amazing Spider-Man or the ‘15 Fantastic Four (even if they eventually embraced the multiple-timeline possibilities of time travel in a way that made “continuity” a moot point), and The Bourne…

Disappointed by the absence of pre-1998 attempts on this list. The Pink Panther had a few before the Steve Martin iterations rolled around: Inspector Clouseau in ‘68 (which made the curious decision to recast Sellers with... Alan Arkin?), Curse of the Pink Panther fifteen years later (with Ted Wass as a Clouseau…

Their last movie, the remarkable Leviathan...

I recently saw Sunday in the Park with George without even the slightest idea of what the second act was about, so that was quite the experience.

We had this several times during the interregnum between Scalia’s death and Gorsuch’s appointment, including one case that would’ve done the same thing that Janus just did if Scalia had still been around to rule on it. It also happens occasionally when a justice is recused. In the case of a tie, the decision of the…

Yeah, this is something that’s been overlooked a lot in these discussions about quorum. Denying quorum doesn’t just depend on Schumer convincing all 49 members of the Democratic caucus (a caucus that includes Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp) to stay away from the Capitol; it depends on Schumer convincing all 49 members…

In the case of Koko, at least, rearranging her utterances into standard English word order would be a misrepresentation of her actual abilities, since even Patterson didn’t argue that Koko used syntactic structures and she seemed to have no regard for word order (e.g. using both “gorilla eat banana” and “banana eat…

Koko, the western lowland gorilla who changed humanity’s understanding of animal communication with her mastery of American Sign Language...

The Lost World for the Genesis was pretty good. The bulk of the game were overhead sections reminiscent of the Ocean adaptations of the original game, but with a faster pace and more stuff to do; for example you could actually hop into vehicles and drive them around. It also looked and controlled a lot better. Every…

I’ve always wanted to play the special edition of this game—apparently the designers were only given extremely limited details on the film and were forced to invent an entirely new ending with a dinosaur not actually in the film. After the movie came out they went back and reworked the game, adding a new ending with…

There’s been two remakes within the last decade (a South Korean version from 2010 and a mainland version from earlier this year), but no idea if they actually address this, and the universal consensus on both is that they fall well short of the original.

he’s got a new one, Manhunt, that debuted overseas last fall but has yet to open in the U.S.

Estevez: I guess we’re making somebody nervous. I’ll tell you this—it’s gonna take a lot more than a couple of car bombs to get us off this case.