I can’t say I was a huge fan of either. I am surprised though that the Crash-over-Brokeback Mountain wasn’t mentioned instead of this overlook...

I posted elsewhere that it’s actually Toy Story 3 that got its Oscar stolen.

Tom Hooper became an Oscar winner thanks to the King’s Speech, and he’s been given the opportunity to turn his terrible ideas into bad movies ever since.

Defending Mark Zuckerberg’s feelings is certainly a position you can take, I guess.

Well, we see five minutes of him being a snotty, self-involved, unnecessarily insecure, confrontational and condescending asshole to her while they’re supposed to be on a date before she delivers that line, so that’s at least partly where she gets to determine that he’s an asshole.

This is the real life version of that Friends episode where Phobie has the tapes of Old Yeller edited so the movie ends where the dogs alive. 

Yes. Of course you can bring up the many historical inaccuracies of the movie, but it deserved the Oscar (if for nothing else) for the great line where Zuck gets taken down by the woman saying: “Look you are probably going to be a very successful computer person. And you are going to go through life thinking girls…

this is right up there with Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas or The King’s Speech over The Social Network.

I’ve told this story on here before but fuck it, one more time.

I don’t have cable in my bedroom, just an antenna, and the other week I came across Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Talk about a hard-to-find movie!

The forgotten 1970s romantic comedy...

Just one year later in 1975 Jame Earl Jones would star opposite Estelle Parsons in the ground-breaking TV movie ‘The UFO Incident’. Ground breaking in that it portrayed a mixed race marriage in 1961, in a story that wasn’t about discrimination or injustice or intolerance. It was about a normal loving couple, well…

Wow, I have never heard anything about this movie before, and it sounds excellent. Once the Criterion release comes out hopefully it will end up streaming on HBOMax or Kanopy. Great write up!

People know he’s the voice of Darth Vader, for sure, but if they’re really movie fans I bet more people think of “The Great White Hope” or “Field of Dreams” when they see him.

I can’t remember any black romantic comedies after Claudine until Coming to America (1988) although that is more of a screwball comedy than a romcom. Boomerang (1990) is probably the first full fledged romantic comedy and both films are centered around the male lead, Eddie Murphy. It’s odd that for such a female…

This looks great, and I’m glad it’s highlighted and I look forward to when it hits the Criterion Channel. It’s crazy how you can have financial success and acclaim and still get lost in the shuffle. Well, maybe not crazy and actually predictable.

Man, I used to hate The Social Worker visits growing up as a kid in NYC in the 70s too. My mom has a degree in Electromechnical Engineering but because she was a woman and Black no one would hire her. So we wound up on public assistance. My mom did odd jobs as as well because welfare didn’t provide shit. The social…

There’s nothing quite like low-budget filmmaking from the 70s or early 80s, and it’s really exciting when Criterion helps one of these forgotten movies available, rather than releasing some Godard movie for the zillionth time.

I’ve caught bits and pieces of this over the years and was always curious about it. Both Jones and Carroll are so underrated and really were among the more interesting actors of the seventies. It’s particularly sad Jones will be best remembered for Darth Vader when he was so much better than that.

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