The best-written headlines are the kind of headline that feel like they wrote themselves.

JOE: "I'll be staying in a hut, and I don't even know if or when I'll be coming back."

In my dream world, there is a Criterion release of Joe vs the Volcano, and among the second disc of special features is this video of your students performing "Brain Cloud."

Beg to differ, actually...

Written and directed by well-established playwright John Patrick Shanley! Who wouldn't return to filmmaking until Doubt, the drama with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep and Viola Davis from 4 or so years ago.

Tom Hanks has eagerly (and probably partway-seriously; what's he got to lose?) said he would do a Bosom Buddies sequel-movie if they ever convinced Peter Scolari to do it.

I see a children's-book version of an Alien xenomorph.

FINALLY.

I'm not even close to a lawyer (full disclosure: I work in the film industry, but in Portland; not LA, and not in legal or production departments... so ironically I know plenty of people who have the answers but I'm too lazy to ask, maybe if one passes by I'll throw out the question) but I'm pretty sure there's a big…

Surely they had to "authorize" it in some way? Even if tacitly, like, not suing or speaking out against the movie? Movie industry being what it is, I doubt they'd greenlight a film if they thought Apple or the Jobs's estate was going to go to the mats lambasting it in the press... not that this looks anything remotely…

Ha. I noticed that, too. (But I work at Laika [the commercial half, not the feature-film half, but still] so I'm prone to seeing Coraline/Paranorman in everything, these days.)

But does the book feature a slumming Michael Caine, just in it for the paycheck?

Good call on Jaws. I've never read either Puzo or Benchley (but I did work in a book store so I have instant recall of a jillion author names... and yet I barely recall most of what I learned in high school!) and Godfather gets brought up more by people as "elevating a piece of pulp into a piece of art," but that…

Lots of examples of films surpassing their source material... Jurassic Park hits harder, I think, because the movie taps into the visceral thrill better, the emotional response of SEEING DINOSAURS HOLY SHIT!

One thing I liked a lot about this list was that it included several adaptations (Starship Troopers, Children of Men, Blade Runner as fairly obvious ones) that were excellent films and therefore should not have skewed any closer to the source material than they did.

Yeah, I was surprised not to see that one on there...

That does not speak well of Anne Rice's storytelling skills. But maybe multigenerational-rape-ghost-candles play better in the 18th or 20th century than in the 24th.

Yeah... it started to recover its legs that last season with the birth of the Federation and the turning point in the Vulcan belief system and other such arc-stories that (I felt; YMMV) were well-handled and genuinely interesting, but again, the goodwill it garnered was burned away by the finale.

Yeah, AND it absolutely squandered the goodwill that Enterprise was very late in the game in earning. The last season is surprisingly solid, interesting, well written and made, exciting stories that actually bring us into the TOS world piece by piece... it felt like reward for getting through the action-heavy…