That's not at all a fair comparison, given that Ike's crimes are on a whole other level.

I've been a Journey fan for decades but did not truly feel like I understood Steve Perry until a few years ago. I happened to be listening to a mix that included songs from Infinity, the album made at the point that the band was transitioning vocalists from Gregg Rolie to Steve Perry. The A/B contrast from Rolie to…

God, you kids. The Atari 2600 game (Journey Escape) came out in 1982, and preceded the Journey arcade game by a year. The arcade game was also more based on the subsequent Frontiers album. The 2600 cartridge was crap, but I always loved the arcade game (it was a delightful Tron ripoff where the avatar heads were…

Frank: "Let's start with the chick! What gives, cueball? I'm lookin' at you, I'm thinkin', fourteen in the side pocket!"

Not that it's a romcom, but all Tormund fans need to head over to Netflix to check out actor Kristofer Hivju in Force Majeure. It's kind of like watching Tormund as a 21st century Norwegian ski bro, and his reactions to the movie's other events and characters provide some of its funniest moments.

I find that there's still a pretty big leap between Bass's NxNW credits and those of Panic Room/SNL'03. As innovative as Bass's work was there, it was just two-dimensional white type laid at the same angle as a single shot of a building, all only that one same shot. The later work has a new kind of physicality, the…

Agreed especially about Trading Places. A lovely montage during the opening titles establishes that the movie will take place in (and to some degree reflect the spirit of)… Philadelphia. And then you spend the entire rest of the movie having forgotten that fact.

Prowse's problem is that he, like Anthony Daniels, delivered his own lines when he first portrayed Vader, but unlike Daniels, had the hope or expectation that his own speech would be used. Daniels' delivery ended up being being a happy accident, while Prowse's thick Devonshire accent was all but unusable. (Even…

Upvoted for The Gold Experience, the best '90s Prince album.

As a White/Keys fan, I'd sadly put it a distant third behind "You Know My Name" (Casino Royale) and "Skyfall", in that order. But far better than "Writing's On The Wall" (Spectre) — UGGH.

The Fugitive. (Thanks to Massive Dude for the inadvertent reminder via U.S. Marshals. Dude, you were born about five years too late.)

I love Kate Jackson (especially since she comes from my hometown of Birmingham, Alabama). I see via Wikipedia and iMdB that her memoir has been postponed to December 2020. That's some anticipation build-up!

Fair enough, I was probably over-generous with my wording. I'll stick with just "sharp", which I am defining to mean the same thing as "had some style".

Wasn't it?

I loved The Guest, but what else is Stevens doing? The stuff filling his post-Downton resume just now seems to be mostly B-movies with leading ladies like Malin Ackerman and Aubrey Plaza. (And The Guest was essentially a sharp, clever B-movie itself.) The biggest profile project on his iMdB page is a live-action Bea…

The Simpsons is still entertaining? I'm glad someone's enjoying it.

I also love "A Dream of a Thousand Cats", but even aside its fit into the overall story, how on earth would you adapt it? Human voiceovers for the cat characters?

A TV series! Perfect, then Morpheus can assume human form and help the cops solve crimes every week.

Ah… back when Tom Hanks could play the loose, laid-back half of an Odd-Couple-type pairing.

If this kicks off a decade-long trend in bad franchise mashups, I'm holding you responsible.