Tried . . .

1. Chinatown
2. Nashville
3. To Have and Have Not
4. Star Wars
5. The Last Picture Show

4A

Maine, where I grew up but no longer live, only switched a few years back and it still confuses me when I go home. I guess growing up and learning to drive with sequential exit numbers, that system just makes more sense to me.

Piano solo, "Philosophy," Ben Folds Five.

Yup, I thought it was great - Marvel movie as heist pic. Rudd's always fun to watch, Evangeline Lilly's best performance since early Lost days, mostly great cast.

Good one . . . Beck was the first real kicker for me, have actually hardly listened to him since discovering it about a decade ago.

But there's a long tradition of doing it - long enough that I'd say putting on modern-dress versions (or other "stylized" versions, a la Richard III in Nazi Germany) is an integral component of the Shakespeare world. YMMV of course, and any given production may flop, but overall I wouldn't say it's dumb at all.

I think there's two things to keep in mind. One, it's okay to criticize Wonder Woman - I don't think anybody's saying it isn't. The final fight scene drags, the cgi is too much, and the slo-mo starts to get annoying. Etc. But so many of the critics who write negatively about it do so in specifically gendered terms.…

He has "clarified" that, to be sure, but I'd say his "explanation" is pretty disingenuous (either that, or he's incredibly daft). Plays on words generally work because they somehow alter the meaning of the original word or expression. By changing "babe" to "superbabe" in a description of Gal Gadot, he damned well knew…

Ah, right, that's it.

Yeah, I get that. The younger books were major currency in my primary and middle schools, passed around from kid to kid every time a new one came out, and we even had class discussions about some of the "issues" - like bullying in Blubber (fantastic book), and the mean, but really sort of sad girl in Sheila the Great.…

That's it. And I seem to remember that his dad was always tinkering with "inventions," but never had the courage to try to take one to market until Tony's older brother (or maybe that brother's little baby) got really sick, which always stuck with me as a cool, vital little detail.

And if I remember, there's a scene when he gets her a tight sweater for Christmas or something, just because he knows he'll be able to watch her trying it on later.

Yup. As a lefty Yank who's been living in the British Isles for the last ten years, it's a huge bummer to see so many otherwise bright friends in the states buy her conspiracy theory crap - it only takes a second to scratch the surface of the way she's tried to rebrand herself and see the horrible, offensive idiot…

Ugh, that last thought is chilling, but likely true . . . like the way now think Bush and most of his admin were really liberals.

Jewison was Canadian, but had lived in the US for a long time before he started making Hollywood films with mostly American cast and crew (and, Heat was written by Stirling Silliphant and based on an American novel). Not saying all of that makes Jewison some how de facto yank, but he did generally make movies that…

In the Heat of the Night takes a crack at it (Jewison's Canadian, but everybody else involved in the film, including the original novelist, were yanks); likewise Ashby's The Landlord and, to a much lesser extent, The Last Detail.

I just tried it a few minutes ago and it worked great.

Made the Ponderosa look fake.