Dr. No may be in some ways the proto-action movie, in part from the quick-cut editing style by Peter Hunt. I don’t know of another early ‘60s movie that moves by as fast. Check out especially the choppy early scene where the Three Blind Mice break into the British spy station. Also the first car chase is nicely…

For better or worse, Norman got the English court system to agree ultimately with his contention that he was the creator of the melody’s main part (a handful of notes, really).  It’s indisputable though that the theme song is really made by the surf-guitar thrum and other production elements that Barry brought in.

This version of the scene was in fact one of multiple variations they filmed, all of different degrees of cold-bloodedness, and in the end they went with the most extreme out of any of them.

Thunderball was where the wheels started to fall off. An uninteresting villain (meaning Largo), a repeat return to the Caribbean, over-reliance on the underwater footage, and Connery starting to telegraph his lack of interest.

And before that, Alec Guiness in Kind Hearts and Coronets.

You made me laugh with “a Jessica Jones/Mandalorian type show”.  Yeah, one of those kind of shows!

I’d like to register a complaint about your complaining about people complaining about your complaints.

I certainly hope you do. That would be being a good nephew/niece/grandchild.

I think Zack is being a little tough especially for an A- review. A Star Trek show can’t survive on nostalgia alone. I loved TNG but there are very good reasons why this show can’t and shouldn’t be trying to “bring the old band back together”. I dispute that it “promised to be a visit with old friends, and maybe some…

That’s also how I feel about all of the Batman movies except Batman Returns.

There was a TV show too?

I grabbed a copy of the episode and scoured the credits, hoping to validate your claim, but I’m afraid that I don’t see it.

(Of course, “Frozen” was preceded by “Tangled”, “Brave” and probably others, but I will Let It Go there.)

The one-word answer: “Frozen”.

Zeppelin by way of the Inkspots, Ella Fitzgerald and Longfellow, but yeah. That and the little “Life’s rich pageant” remark – one of Saul’s/Jimmy’s funniest qualities is his brilliant genius for deflecting criticism with the most banal of aphorisms, and I don’t know if Odenkirk ad libs any of those, but he makes it sou…

DiCaprio was Oscar-nominated for Gilbert Grape, so that put him at least on the pop culture radar.

Not quite; she was in a handful of released movies before that, beginning with Tales From The Darkside: The Movie.

Yes, and also because he didn’t want to have to pay Brian and the other actual Beach Boys when he can pay a bunch of cheap for-hire musicians and keep more of the profit margin.

Just a reminder that, in 2018, Trebek did actually offer some thoughts on his preferred successor, floating the names of L.A. Kings announcer Alex Faust and CNN legal analyst Laura Coates (not that they would or should necessarily use his personal pick).

Luigi’s Mansions 3: Loving two things about this game. One is the creative way that it employs the front-only perspective. Luigi can see in all three dimensions but the player’s POV cannot, forcing one to use other visual cues like mirrors and the like to find certain hidden areas. The other thing is how viscerally…