When he is identifying his brother at the morgue, I always watch his hands.

Billy Wilder or Steven Soderbergh

The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

Nazi Gregory Peck being torn apart by Dobermans at the command of a teenaged Hitler clone in Boys from Brazil.

I am not.

I distinctly remember an espresso machine commercial from Asia with Clooney.

This is the same Dave Bautista that didn't want to be known for these kinds of pictures?

Polar Express. First movie in a theater with my son.

Runner-up: driving 60 miles to the midnight show on opening day of Fellowship of the Ring.

All I know is

https://youtu.be/BTZl9KMjbrU

So Eddie Murphy and his wife and their friends were only iffy on Jonah's character because he was a podcaster?

But also, I'm going to go ahead and count belittling the Holocaust because "Jews are doing just fine, aren't they?" as pretty blatant. Your mileage may vary, I guess.

You don't think any of the characters expressed antisemitic views?

Can we also talk about including the Nation of Islam without making fun of it, in a FUCKING COMEDY??? It's not a documentary. Literally a sect of hate and antisemitism.

I didn't like this movie much, but I thought his parents' reaction to the Farrakhan part of that conversation was one of the only non on-the-nose parts of the entire film. I definitely got the message that they were appalled, but scriptwise there's no need for them to specifically call out Nation of Islam chapter and verse for their transgressions.

At a certain point, the film Mother! becomes the best depiction of a bad dream ever.

I took my son to Chicago for his 21st birthday a couple of years ago so that he could have his first beer in an Irish pub I used to go to in Wrigleyville. We drove up from Louisville, and we got off the Dan Ryan, stopped at the end of the ramp, and I glanced out the window to see a $20 bill on the ground. He still has it.

No.

The "twist" in that film was her character lying under oath in order to dismantle the whole circus of rage and heal her community.

Wonder if any of them gave SBC another chance with Grimsby.

I watched The Untouchables in an L.A. area mall theater. After the first scene, when the girl yells at the guy who left his briefcase (bomb) in the store and gets blown to smithereens, one black guy who looked like he was maybe 25 stood up and walked out shouting, "Man, fuck this movie!" To this day, I have no idea what he was expecting.

Never wanted two people to be happy together more than in Secretary.

Both became emotional and each allowed the other time to compose himself. I don't think I'm up for The Whale, but much respect to Fraser. Seems like he put everything he had into it.

I loved it when you could tell how excited Brendan was when he was talking about the Tabasco tour.

EEAAO is, at its heart, a John Cassavetes movie about a family in crisis, and it is weakened by the multiverse element. I have seen it twice, and I respect its craft, but I got almost nothing at all from it emotionally.

One of my favorite line deliveries ever.

This Big Hush by Shriekback, too.

One of my favorite things about some of the Hannibal Lecter films is that characters like this appear pretty often. The whole investigation and analysis system is functional because of people like this that the main characters can depend on.

There were far fewer of these characters featured in later movies once they realized that the grand guignol of Lecter and his crimes was drawing more people to the theater. But leadership, intelligence, competence, and professional discipline and drive are major themes for Thomas Harris, who wrote the books, and there are many of those characters in the novels. I love seeing all of that represented.

Win-Win by the same director would be a nice double feature.