There was perhaps a lot of misguided support for what turned out to be Vanity Fair awkwardly mashed with TNR. Many assumed/hoped John John to be an inspiring success of some sort. But even if he had lived, I’m not sure George would have lasted any longer.

Forget the Seinfeld finale, what about the Puerto Rico parade episode that preceded it? Proved the show really should have ended the previous season to earn its perfect-run status.

Need to listen to Entertainment! again. But after I finish enjoying every last dub and spliff-fueled jape on Sandinista!

Most middle aged dads like me considered the bands you all cite as middle of the road dreck when they were originally popular. We'd rather listen to the Clash.

Lance in full facepaint would be a better president.

No joke. I’ve seen Rosemary’s Baby many times since my teens. For some reason it took me awhile to really recognize Guy’s complete lack of morality. I just considered him hapless, over his head in life. I also wondered why it took so little time to recruit him into the coven’s scheme and chalked it up to Roman’s…

No worries. I’m like that with Philip Kaufman and Sam Mendes. I find the majority of the films they directed smug-yet-simple minded. But many regard them as top-shelf auteurs. Such is life and art.

I think the quirk-for-quirk’s-sake criticism is spot-on. Napoleon Dynamite was the kind of movie you would expect to be popular in an era when Wes Anderson was becoming a big deal with Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums. That said, I found the lead character’s dorkiness refreshing. He wasn’t a secret genius or a…

That may have been his last interview before he was killed. If I remember, even at that point he was still pissed about a bad review of the "From Me To You" single from 1963. But he was also quick to praise Paul for truly great songs like "Here, There and Everywhere" and "For No One."

I’m 54 and have loved the Beatles since childhood and ... jeez, you’re right.

Thanks for the thoughtful recommendations.

You need to see Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein in the Hammer films, where he’s far more villainous. In “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed” alone he turns the home of a newly married couple into a human abbatoir.

A long, mostly comprehensive list. But you forgot how Bill Murray’s witty snark curdles into thuggish menace in Mad Dog and Glory. Also, I know Adam Driver has a lot of fans but he comes off as a self-absorbed asshole even when not playing Kylo Ren. Maybe I haven’t seen him in enough films that better showcase his…

“...and fucking Spock in it.” So, you really like Star Trek?

McCulloch vs. Cope would also be cool. The rivalries within Liverpool’s New Psychedelia movement of the early ‘80s must be explored.

Don't worry about that. The Nikki and Paulo eps serve as a natural speed bump.

If only Frank DeVol, aka Happy Kine, was still around to lead the Mirthmakers.

Danny Lloyd in The Shining. Jack Nicholson himself said he considered Lloyd a real costar, not a kid, during filming. 

I don’t remember much about Sleepy Hollow, except feeling it was a missed opportunity. But I thought Burton, Depp and Bonham-Carter more than made up for it with Sweeney Todd. Dante Ferretti’s grim, gothic, smoke-belching set design is jaw-droppingly superb.

Checks out.