Chazelle is playing the moon landing as a profoundly solitary experience for Armstrong

Actually, as I recall, it was Winona who originally gave him the screenplay — as a “make up” project after she had to drop out of Godfather III.

Winona would have to work really, really hard for me to notice a bad performance from her.

One of those times that medium and content seem perfectly matched.

Grodin’s so notorious for that sort of extended deadpan humor in his talk show appearances, it’s difficult to imagine people falling for it as “real” in the SNL context.

Isn’t that essentially the way Futurama’s Robot Santa works?

Peak coming across as merely sad, a pathological liar and failed actor who may not have actually committed the crime he became infamous for.

Not that early, when they barely had their own country under control, but by the time Napoleon came around it was a distinct possibility -- At least until the battle of Trafalgar.

+1 for the image of the Herzog family barbecue.

Always sounded more Vietnamese to me.

Indeed. It always gets tangled up in my mind with the rest here when I hear any of the titles, in spite (or because) of never actually having seen any of them.

GET TO THA CHOPPAH!

I definitely participated in class discussion of books I hadn’t read in college and pulled it off more convincingly than this review.

Kinja is both a problem, and a metaphor for broader problems.

And while eating peoples children and limbs is harsh, consuming insect protein is just BEYOND THE PALE, MAN!

Certainly makes you a person with good time management skills.

Yeah, I’ll grant the similar structure, but in terms of a “shared universe” I think the only things the two films have in common is the same attention to gritty realism.

That “Whip Inflation Now” campaign actually dates from the Ford administration. I recall sending away for the button when I was a kid (which still resides somewhere in my childhood ephemera). As shown in Ford’s address, the button was a respectable 2½” pin-backed number, as delivered, it was a little 1" piece with a…

Or leave them alone with your car battery.

It goes back even farther in TV history. I remember a particularly heavily-promoted episode of All in the Family that used the Rashomon format -- “Meathead” Mike and Archie’s accounts in exaggerated conflict, followed by Edith’s apparently more objective one.