And then when they eventually did have a poster with Willis's face on it, they only showed one half of it!

Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: MEGADOC.

I loved Rob Reiner as a director -- that initial run is undeniable -- but I grew up in a house where we watched ALL IN THE FAMILY reruns every night, and I think about this scene all the time. Reiner and Carroll O'Connor are doing Abbott & Costello-level work here. youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk?...

God help me, but yeah, same.

Really good new episode of The Rewatchables with Cameron Crowe talking about SHAMPOO, but how have I never heard that Warren Beatty dated Joni Mitchell? (Crowe has a pretty good story about it.)

Showed this to my older child. The response: “This works for art and music too. AI can’t produce anything great because it will never have imposter syndrome.”

When your personal health and the economy are definitely great.

The thing everyone forgets about the original theatrical release of Star Wars is that the Han/Greedo shootout lasted 28 minutes.

I found a copy of Elwy Yost's 1978 book Magic Moments from the Movies yesterday, and his introduction to the final chapter --on '70s films -- gave me a little bit of comfort. It always feels like the movies are dying, and it always feels like the golden age is behind us.

Never forget that another of Jason Robards' stories inspired PTA to write the "wasted on torpedo juice" sequence from THE MASTER.

Call me crazy but this sounds very, very bad.

I wrote about the new theatrical release of KILL BILL as one movie with an intermission. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kill...

I'm not really sure why they didn't go back to the original negative for the 70mm presentation of KILL BILL. There's so much smearing and ghosting in the image, it looks like they just upscaled a blu-ray. Absolutely baffling stuff. Has Tarantino been warped by watching too many old VHS tapes?

Late to the party on this, but I'm laughing at Bari Weiss resharing this goofball David Mamet story about Tom Stoppard turning down JAWS with all the journalistic rigour of someone's aunt posting on Facebook.

Can't find a decent link or image from it, but my favourite is still "Mr. T to Pity Fool"

When I first saw The Thin Red Line, I rejected it, hard. I'd loved Badlands and Days of Heaven, but something about it pushed me away. But I had exactly this same experience, and came back around to it years later. There's no other war movie like it. It feels like a miracle that it even exists.

Rewatched THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, which I still love, but somehow forgot about the incredible moment where Jeff Daniels is reading an Elmore Leonard paperback in the hospital and tells Jesse Eisenberg, "It's pulp, but Leonard is the filet of the crime genre." (He's right.)

When EYES WIDE SHUT came out, a friend was writing reviews for a major outlet and saw it at a press screening. He reported back that it was a disaster, telling me that when it was over, one woman turned to her friend and said, "I want to slap Stanley Kubrick." We've come a long way since then!

real cinema

What a goddamn legend. Every big tough conservative masculinity guy has been crying about how terrifying cities are to live in for the past two years and now Trump wants to move back to NYC

When I was a kid and "The Heart of Rock & Roll" by Huey Lewis and the News came on Canadian radio, during the fadeout vamp at the end, Huey would yell "Toronto!" and "Montreal!" I just figured it was some radio-only thing, but I didn't know it was actually released as a beautiful red vinyl 45.

This was an epic moment in television. They decided to make Snuffleupagus real at the advice of child psychologists who said children needed to know their parents would believe them if they told them about someone they knew doing things with them the parents didn’t know

When I watched DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS a few years ago, my immediate thought was, oh, is this where the Coen Brothers got the ending for "The Mortal Remains" in THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS? It feels like something they might have watched as kids that got lodged in their subconscious.

I’ve never heard anything but this from white centrist democrats. Especially the last 20 plus years. Never anything but this.

Bill Hader doing an impression of Oliver Reed explaining the difference between acting on stage & acting on film. Love how he cracks Paul Giamatti up.

Grainy Tom is the new Smooth Ringo.

As a novel, THE THIN MAN is kind of an amazing detective story because Nick Charles does next to no sleuthing in it, he and Nora mostly just go out to restaurants and clubs and run into people who pull them deeper into the mystery. It's incredibly charming.

I just found out today that DEATH WISH director and notorious prick Michael Winner once directed and starred in a series of insurance ads in the UK that were 1) so popular they inspired their own catchphrase, and 2) feel as deranged and ill-conceived as one of his movies. youtu.be/efl5pFTFnBU?...

the single most annoying thing about cigarettes, which are terrible and will kill you, is how fucking cool people can make them look I mean come on

Extremely meta moment at the Revue Cinema last night, seeing GREMLINS 2 on 35mm and having the film *actually* break down.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Wild movie.

“Good game. That was a good game.”

As a Dodgers fan, I literally feel like Sarah Connor at the end of the first Terminator. That’s how good the Blue Jays were. Like we won but I’m so traumatized I’m going to lose custody of my son because I trained him to shoot weapons in Nicaragua and I’ll end up in a max cell at Pescadero

The fact that Mary Hart has been a regular fixture behind home plate is a constant source of amusement in my house.

An actual laugh out loud.

I was trying to figure out who Max Scherzer reminds me of and I think it's this guy.

I was so happy to see him.

I am obsessed with the speaking voice of Buck Martinez.

I ran into a friend on the street today who managed to get the last available seat for one of the final 10pm screenings of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in 70mm IMAX. I asked him if he liked it and he just laughed and said, "I mean, we're so lucky to be alive when PTA is making movies."

It's Finally Time to Give Pizza Its Due

Quite a headline www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Vern is maybe the biggest Parker fan there is, and he's 100% right about the way the character comes across in PLAY DIRTY. The backstory stuff with Parker -- a huge divergence from the cold-blooded, present tense tone of the books -- made me think of this passage from Sidney Lumet's Making Movies.

Man, I love Shane Black, but the more I think about PLAY DIRTY, the less I like it.

what you fail to see mr pope is going to live in my head forever

I just found out today that Russell Vought is yet another member of the Trump Administration who, improbably, is younger than me. (This man is 49.)

The ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER post-screening Q&A that Spielberg did with Paul Thomas Anderson is up and it's very sweet, probably 75% of it is just Spielberg describing cool things that happen in the movie and PTA laughing.