"It's a highly technical performance involving precise choreography, sweeping movement, and emotional interplay between the performers. Let's cover the whole thing in close-ups and audience reaction shots!" — Every TV director ever

Yeah, I would disagree with the article that Silence of the Lambs was his breakout film. Melvin and Howard had a lot of buzz that year, and some Oscar noms. Hell, even Swing Shift gained some notoriety both for its huge promotional campaign and its financial failure. (It was still brilliantly directed, though…I'd…

"Some clown tried to kill me!"

I love that nickname! I guess my mom would've been the "Chevrolet" or something…

Exactly. This is why there is no need to listen to the SiriusXM 80's on 8 Countdown when they are covering any year from 1980-1982. New Wave was out there, but it (and the music it inspired) didn't really start to get mainstream airplay until late 1982. Until then, it was Air Supply and Eddie Rabitt. Really, every…

I really liked the Insidious movies, mainly because they are such straightforward "old-school chiller"-type films. It's just a bonus that there's no religious hokum or any association with those real-life charlatans, the Warrens.

My wife's next-oldest sibling is around 18 years older. She long assumed that she was adopted, and last year the family finally confirmed it.

Let us never forget "From the marketing visionary who brought you Teletubbies…" http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Infuriating, right? Yet somehow audiences managed to get the concept when delivered in a thick Austrian accent by the Terminator: "My CPU is a neural-net processor…a learning computer."

Regarding Smith being alone in the subway fight: At least they had already established that Smith had an unnatural (for a program) obsession with this "case" — recall Smith removing his earpiece during his solo interrogation of Morpheus. When the agents finally came in to tell Smith about the lobby shootout, they…

McDonald's has employees in every town and village from here to the Sudan, their new uniforms are grey-on-grey, they'll blend in, disappear. With any luck, they've got the Szechuan sauce already.

I mean I kinda get where they're going with this…I can spot a McDonald's worker walking to or from work from like three blocks away. I wouldn't be able to do that with these new uniforms. So…I guess this is meant to mitigate the (apparently high) level of embarrassment felt by McDonald's employees when they wear…

Oh man, that's hilarious…because if you're right, then it means that these films are as interchangeable as I thought they were!

Thanks for the elucidation, Shoot Em Up was the first thing that came to mind when I read this review.

On the film's 30th anniversary, I saw a screening of Young Frankenstein that featured a Q&A with Mel Brooks, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, the cinematographer, the editor (shame I can't remember the names at the moment), and those were just the people on stage. There were other crew in the audience — for…

"Heigl is well cast as an uptight, emotionally unstable nutjob"

YES, I said the exact same thing to my wife, I was honestly perplexed. I like that they actually followed through on their R rating for this one, but Katherine Heigl is no Elizabeth Banks. Oh, and I despise this genre, so…hard pass.

Unlike Jones' attorney, you've convinced me! Upvote forthcoming!

It was a great comment, but unfortunately for you I read the rest of your thread before committing to an upvote.

This is the one, right here. Jane Seymour was my first celebrity "crush" (it's not really the same when you're 10 years old, but still), and therefore perhaps the the first time that I paid attention to the actual person behind the role. In that respect she was a crucial part of what made me begin to understand that…